Notice how you automatically assume that the person pointing out bigotry is in the oppressed minority. This is not always the case. If you expect a Christian on a site full of atheists to have to be thick-skinned, then…
I was not proposing censorship. Reddit, as well as slashdot, HN, digg, etc. have a community process developed with the intent that the best comments make it to the top. The structure of that process determines what…
I might go back to Firefox when it no longer consumes gigabytes of RAM after a few hours of operation. Until then, I'm with Chrome. I don't care about speed as much -- so long as it's reliable, and doesn't grind the…
I've seen swarms of employees get screwed in ways similar to this. It's not uncommon in Silicon Valley.
I kinda wish Google had better versioning in their infrastructure. While I used neither of these products, their disappearance makes me reluctant to adopt Google products for any core infrastructure. If I buy a program…
I am aware of the current opportunities. I think you (and most people here) underestimate what the "old web" could imagine, though. We had all sort of ideas for agents that would go out and grab and analyze data for us…
Which only works for pre-intended uses, or standards that have substantial market share. Again, read the literature on agents from the nineties, and see how diverse a technology tree was killed....
I'd love to see that extension. If you write it, I will use it. I use Chrome too, so it should work here. As to what should and shouldn't be part of the browser -- the way to figure that out is experimentation and…
I'm glad. Thank you for taking the time to read and understand. Hacker News is starting to go down the decline that hit reddit 2 years ago, where people don't bother to try to understand different viewpoints, and just…
> You mean bookmarks? Add a scroll %, assuming they're not nice enough to use anchor tags / IDs meaningfully, and you're golden. Bookmarks in books work okay. You move them. Book marks in browsers don't. You have to…
Not just scraping. Any sort of non-human parsing of web pages. Look at the 1990s literature on web agents for lots of applications.
The Google Spider grabs pages from other servers. That's a web client. It's a web client that was easy to write when Google was started, but is almost impossible to write today. If search engines hadn't been invented 20…
No. I haven't. I've noticed maybe 1 or 2 web apps I want to use (Google Docs and Google Maps). Beyond that, I don't see anything that couldn't be delivered more effectively without JavaScript that I want or need.…
15 years ago, I could reasonably write a search engine. Myself. 1 person. In a few weeks (modulo bandwidth and server farm). I write a program that grabs a web page, and reads out keywords. Today, if I grab a web page,…
Google is a big organization in the business of developing web software. Most organizations are in other businesses. If I'm running a construction company, it doesn't make sense to have IT consultants come in each time…
As a web user, I'm not grateful. I don't think having more pixel-perfect control or slightly faster JavaScript makes the web any better. All websites look slightly better, but the client side dies a little bit every…
This is what really irks me about Google Apps. You don't have any control over this kind of thing. They can (and do) yank the rug out from under you whenever they feel like it. A while back, they forcibly transitioned…
Your math is weak. You should go back and study.
Anyone know of the equivalent of Stroustrup for Python? If anyone's not familiar with Stroustrup, his book on C++ explains the language in-depth, and gives clear rationales for the design decisions made, so you…
He's an exceptionally good communicator and has very strong soft skills, and applies them to self-promotion. He's also good at politics (as in convincing crowds of people -- not so much at interacting and making…
I'm not sure if I trust much be ESR. He's extremely eloquent, so what he writes always sounds convincing. In practice, he's a pretty bad developer, or at least he was at the time he wrote most of his stuff (at the time,…
My experience has been the opposite. Best employees aren't desperate to work for you. They're gainfully employed, and you have to poach them. No one I know who is productive would give up this much time to something.…
You are correct -- there are a few exceptions, and the Playstation was definitely one. Therein lies the difference: 1960-1985: Sony is the gold standard for quality 1995-2010: Sony makes crap, with a few exceptions Out…
Oh come now. Their products mostly suck. Their support sucks. The Playstation, they did okay on, only now it turns out that if you bought one, crooks have your personal information. They cut corners on consumer…
I would call this a huge leap backwards. It is the first version of Debian or Ubuntu in 15 years that doesn't work. Wireless broke. Wired broke. Unity caused windows to randomly turn white. No obvious way to turn off…
Notice how you automatically assume that the person pointing out bigotry is in the oppressed minority. This is not always the case. If you expect a Christian on a site full of atheists to have to be thick-skinned, then…
I was not proposing censorship. Reddit, as well as slashdot, HN, digg, etc. have a community process developed with the intent that the best comments make it to the top. The structure of that process determines what…
I might go back to Firefox when it no longer consumes gigabytes of RAM after a few hours of operation. Until then, I'm with Chrome. I don't care about speed as much -- so long as it's reliable, and doesn't grind the…
I've seen swarms of employees get screwed in ways similar to this. It's not uncommon in Silicon Valley.
I kinda wish Google had better versioning in their infrastructure. While I used neither of these products, their disappearance makes me reluctant to adopt Google products for any core infrastructure. If I buy a program…
I am aware of the current opportunities. I think you (and most people here) underestimate what the "old web" could imagine, though. We had all sort of ideas for agents that would go out and grab and analyze data for us…
Which only works for pre-intended uses, or standards that have substantial market share. Again, read the literature on agents from the nineties, and see how diverse a technology tree was killed....
I'd love to see that extension. If you write it, I will use it. I use Chrome too, so it should work here. As to what should and shouldn't be part of the browser -- the way to figure that out is experimentation and…
I'm glad. Thank you for taking the time to read and understand. Hacker News is starting to go down the decline that hit reddit 2 years ago, where people don't bother to try to understand different viewpoints, and just…
> You mean bookmarks? Add a scroll %, assuming they're not nice enough to use anchor tags / IDs meaningfully, and you're golden. Bookmarks in books work okay. You move them. Book marks in browsers don't. You have to…
Not just scraping. Any sort of non-human parsing of web pages. Look at the 1990s literature on web agents for lots of applications.
The Google Spider grabs pages from other servers. That's a web client. It's a web client that was easy to write when Google was started, but is almost impossible to write today. If search engines hadn't been invented 20…
No. I haven't. I've noticed maybe 1 or 2 web apps I want to use (Google Docs and Google Maps). Beyond that, I don't see anything that couldn't be delivered more effectively without JavaScript that I want or need.…
15 years ago, I could reasonably write a search engine. Myself. 1 person. In a few weeks (modulo bandwidth and server farm). I write a program that grabs a web page, and reads out keywords. Today, if I grab a web page,…
Google is a big organization in the business of developing web software. Most organizations are in other businesses. If I'm running a construction company, it doesn't make sense to have IT consultants come in each time…
As a web user, I'm not grateful. I don't think having more pixel-perfect control or slightly faster JavaScript makes the web any better. All websites look slightly better, but the client side dies a little bit every…
This is what really irks me about Google Apps. You don't have any control over this kind of thing. They can (and do) yank the rug out from under you whenever they feel like it. A while back, they forcibly transitioned…
Your math is weak. You should go back and study.
Anyone know of the equivalent of Stroustrup for Python? If anyone's not familiar with Stroustrup, his book on C++ explains the language in-depth, and gives clear rationales for the design decisions made, so you…
He's an exceptionally good communicator and has very strong soft skills, and applies them to self-promotion. He's also good at politics (as in convincing crowds of people -- not so much at interacting and making…
I'm not sure if I trust much be ESR. He's extremely eloquent, so what he writes always sounds convincing. In practice, he's a pretty bad developer, or at least he was at the time he wrote most of his stuff (at the time,…
My experience has been the opposite. Best employees aren't desperate to work for you. They're gainfully employed, and you have to poach them. No one I know who is productive would give up this much time to something.…
You are correct -- there are a few exceptions, and the Playstation was definitely one. Therein lies the difference: 1960-1985: Sony is the gold standard for quality 1995-2010: Sony makes crap, with a few exceptions Out…
Oh come now. Their products mostly suck. Their support sucks. The Playstation, they did okay on, only now it turns out that if you bought one, crooks have your personal information. They cut corners on consumer…
I would call this a huge leap backwards. It is the first version of Debian or Ubuntu in 15 years that doesn't work. Wireless broke. Wired broke. Unity caused windows to randomly turn white. No obvious way to turn off…