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by weland 13y ago
> The web has been full of applications since the beginning, no? There was no golden age of pure document sharing. So much of the web throughout its history has been CGI, ASP, JSP, ad hoc setups to provide dynamic sites. Session cookies,
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by weland 13y ago
This has been on my mind, too, for a long time. Many applications don't fit the semantic framework of the WWW anyway; why not call it a day and fork it? This way the web app crowd will be able to do their somethingJS magic without worr
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by weland 13y ago
> If anything, the people who benefit the most are those who _can't_ afford massive forward deployed CDN networks, large servers, and fat network pipes. You win some, you lose some. The benefit of cutting down on some infrastructure
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by weland 13y ago
> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience: Google made the headlines of a fairly popular article (I think it was featured recently) with dropping that after empirica
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by weland 13y ago
Nah, the lesson I was thinking about was taught earlier, in the days of AWT. Back then, Java was fairly slow, and the garbage collector was not as sophisticated as today. When the GC started collecting, you knew .
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by weland 13y ago
> There are real dollar costs to our overall quality of life from society's health self abuse expense. Excuse the graphic image, but a car accident is generally walk away or dead, while health care for the long term unhealthy keeps
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by weland 13y ago
> Per-pass performance gets worse. Overall performance gets better, because fewer passes need to be made. Yes, but what the users will see is that, instead of his application occasionally "feeling funny" every five minutes or s
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by weland 13y ago
> Mobile web apps are slow because they're secure, precisely for the reason that they cannot examine or manipulate underlying system memory. By that logic, they'd better start writing OpenSSH in JavaScript, unless they want to
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by weland 13y ago
> As the author mentions, once you get to 3x-6x more physical ram than what you absolutely need, the garbage collector no longer slows down your device - in fact, it speeds it up. So I'm not sure that this is really that big a probl
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by weland 13y ago
This is actually a very interesting post, and the first one of this level of documentation I've seen in a while. I also actually agree with most of the author's points. That being said, I think there's a big elephant in the r
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by weland 13y ago
On the other hand, when it comes to alcohol and, to some extent, tobacco, one can at least make the plea that most of the damage isn't external. I can't kill anyone other than myself if I drink too much, whereas if I'm speedi
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by weland 13y ago
As an European resident, I definitely agree to your assessment. By intuition, I'd say an important role is played by the fact that some European countries, members of EU even, are also NATO members, but I find it somewhat difficult to
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by weland 13y ago
No, really. India was hardly "on track" to becoming an industrialized nation roughly a hundred years before industry happened. Furthermore, India was actually the first Asian country with a modern textile industry, in the 1850s --
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by weland 13y ago
> or have to justify reasons for its decisions. Whoa. What kind of a tribunal is that? This is dystopian beyond words. Even in the fifties, the most outrageous, crime-filed years of communism, the People's Tribunals still justified
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by weland 13y ago
Interesting. Thanks!
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by weland 13y ago
Fair enough :-). Can you install Unity on anything else other than Ubuntu though? I'm really not flaimbaiting, I swear. I actually used Ubunt 4.10 a long time ago (come to think of it, hell, I can't bleieve it's been almost n
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by weland 13y ago
The War on Terror is very much like the invisible dragon in the closet. I can almost picture the discussion: Me: Ok, ok, so you're at war. Is this a civil war? This Other Guy: No, no it isn't. M: Ok, so you are at war with someon
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by weland 13y ago
Whereas the means of storage are different, don't be so quick to dismiss the comparison based on the purposes of the two organizations. In official/propaganda terms, Stasi was depicted by the German state much in the same way that
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by weland 13y ago
> I quitted Ubuntu because the latest versions of Unity uses 3D acceleration that consumes a lot of battery in a VM. I didn't find a solution for it (except using it natively). I don't use Ubuntu, but I have to ask -- why did y
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by weland 13y ago
I think that's perfectly acceptable, really. The presentation layer is where much of the user experience is clustered, and correct use of the displayed language is part of it. A grammar mistake is as much a bug as a misplaced button is
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by weland 13y ago
> They even included things like grammar errors in the review. The review had grammar errors? Or they pointed out your application has grammar errors?
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by weland 13y ago
It's quite a gift for embedded systems. It's very convenient to have a self-contained solution for a web interface, rather than drag an interpreter and a web server on an already crowded rootfs. Plus, you can get the benefit of st
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by weland 13y ago
To be fair, I'm not really looking forward to an interview, but thanks! I really think your book is a nice idea, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who could offer far more enlightening information than me. I'll send you
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by weland 13y ago
Iceland does have about 800 additional years of parliamentary experience, they probably managed to get it right eventually :-).
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by weland 13y ago
I sometimes wonder if this isn't an insult uttered in a moment of jealousy. Like when the unachieving youngsters reasure themselves that their more successful counterparts may have better school grades or better chances of employment,
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by weland 13y ago
I think we both know that's not what I was referring to. It's stuff like this one (PhoneGap, but really, it's like this almost everywhere): <a href='#' class="button header-button header-button-left"&gt
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by weland 13y ago
Web solutions also require specific devices and web browsers, really; I can't think of a single jaw-dropping JS demo around here that didn't meet with several complaints related to it simply not working under certain browsers (and
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by weland 13y ago
If they start it, count me in.
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by weland 13y ago
> now it's the "global workforce" I know this is highly anecdotical in nature, but perhaps there's some useful information to it :-). I'm part of the "global workforce"; I don't live in the US, b
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by weland 13y ago
Not necessarily. 1 bit + time also gives you PWM.

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