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by zelly 6y ago
Emacs has been able to do this for a very very long time
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by zelly 6y ago
In the case of languages the chicken and the egg problem has been solved. Looking at every major PL with widespread adoption, the common theme is that was chosen by a big company (the chicken) as a natively-supported language for their plat
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by zelly 6y ago
Bing integrates with AMP and serves pages from their own AMP cache as well. Maybe DuckDuckGo doesn't, but that's on them. Your content is absolutely not at the mercy of the one search engine unless you decide G is the only search
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by zelly 6y ago
CPU mining is notoriously unprofitable. If you got every single Firefox-running desktop to mine Monero or some other coin that can be CPU mined, you'd be lucky to break a couple thousand dollars a year. This would be at the expense of
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by zelly 6y ago
AMP is a subset of HTML and JavaScript which can be safely rendered server-side and runs fast on mobile phones. I find it ironic that the pro-Mozilla neckbeards who typically complain about bloated JavaScript websites also complain about AM
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by zelly 6y ago
Rust web browser gets axed in an incomplete state, most likely never to be completed. "I know, I'll start another Rust web browser"
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by zelly 6y ago
I don't they'd ever deprecate Objective-C when so much of their internal software and the biggest apps are still 100% Objective-C. Objective-C support is a good counter-example to Apple supposedly deprecating things.
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by zelly 6y ago
You can't version control whatever binary format InDesign uses. Markup languages benefit from precision, readability from an editor, easy integration with other tools.
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by zelly 6y ago
W3C would cease to be necessary if there were just one browser. That'd be it, end of history, the WWW would now be a Google product served over a Google developed binary protocol (QUIC).
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by zelly 6y ago
Firefox has a lot of telemetry built into the default install. It has Pocket, everything you type into the search bar gets sent to Google by default, phones home to Mozilla by default, I could go on. Ungoogled Chromium doesn't do any o
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by zelly 6y ago
Plus privacy is a switch. It can be turned on or off. s/google.com/127.0.0.1 and so on. Making a fast browser takes many developer-decades.
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by zelly 6y ago
ArchWiki[1] is a counterexample to the notion that the community cannot write good technical documentation. It is actually much better written and more thorough than MDN, but it's also concerning a topic that attracts many hobbyists. T
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by zelly 6y ago
As experienced developers they will find new jobs somehow. But it won't be to work on Servo. > Microsoft has better alignment with free web than Facebook or Google. Microsoft gave up on browsers a long time ago. If someone would wan
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by zelly 6y ago
It's quite usable as-is. Not sure why it hasn't gotten much attention. It's more privacy oriented than Firefox and is faster than Firefox. I have been using it on desktop Linux for years. I tried Brave and Firefox, but they b
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by zelly 6y ago
Related idea: https://www.aestheticodes.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW39Mt5kscQ But this is probably better because it uses natively supported QR codes.
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by zelly 6y ago
Both of those choices have huge costs. SPARK may cost you actual money to use. It also takes longer to develop because of the large amount of safety checks. It is suitable for writing code that runs on nuclear missiles. But you may not actu
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by zelly 6y ago
This is also a reason more companies don't go into open source or target the GNU/Linux desktop. Whenever you do something that slightly disagrees with the Richard Stallman philosophy, or god forbid charge for software, they will f
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by zelly 6y ago
Microsoft has Rust bindings for WinRT and I think some internal tools at Azure. But Microsoft has a long history of creating programming languages for every niche, so they'll probably make one in the tradition of Rust. https:/&#x
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by zelly 6y ago
Even if they won it would have been a one-time settlement. That would give them a couple months of runway. And that'd be the last money they ever see, unless Microsoft would throw them a bone with a Bing deal. You can't undo histo
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by zelly 6y ago
The opportunities to start businesses like that are shrinking every day, by design, by the way that search engines are supposed to work. There is more content produced every day, some of it very good, and there can only be one (1) first pag
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by zelly 6y ago
The reason that has been said outside of the tech circle is because it doesn't really apply to big tech, whose stock prices just hit a new all-time-high a few days ago. We can debate the reasons why that is or whether it's a good
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by zelly 6y ago
If they could use a different, off-the-shelf rendering engine ( cough Blink cough ) that's actually faster and battle-tested, then they aren't losing anything at all. I've been hearing about Servo for years but nothing&#x27
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by zelly 6y ago
I've said on here for years that Mozilla will only be remembered for Rust and they should double down on that (to the exclusion of FF if necessary) and people got mad. It's their only product people are enthusiastic about, the onl
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by zelly 6y ago
WebKit, Swift, LLVM, that's it really. Relative to marketcap, Apple open sources the least, probably even less than Oracle, Intel, and friends. Swift and LLVM benefit from being open source--it would actually be unusable if it weren&#x
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by zelly 6y ago
If you depend on SEO for traffic you will go extinct one way or another. Even if you don't get black swaned by an update. SEO is a really an outdated strategy for getting traffic, something that used to be popular in the 2000s when jus
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by zelly 6y ago
To be fair std::unordered_map is one of the slowest hash tables in any programming language.
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by zelly 6y ago
Refer to the rule about measuring first. It's a pessimisation because N may not even be large enough to overcome the slowdown from a hash table's cache misses. You can always profile and fix it later.
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by zelly 6y ago
> STORE YOUR TIMESTAMPS IN UTC. NOT US Pacific or any other local timezone. What difference does it make if the timestamp includes the timezone? The UTC value can be recovered. In some applications the timezone is useful e.g. when intrad
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by zelly 6y ago
So what does this mean for Rust? Is there any other company dedicated to maintaining it, not just using it?
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by zelly 6y ago
I really wish there were a Blazor for Java or Rust or anything other than C# really.

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