...look at the Gotthard base tunnel, made by not so boring people who really know how to build tunnels. Trains can go 200km/h in that tunnel btw.. Price was roughly 200 million US$ per mile (not 1 billion as Musk claimed).
I had good and bad experiences. Once a Mozilla developer got out of his way to make sure that a bugfix would make it into the next release. That was absolutely outstanding.. At another occasion some dickhead told me that my test case was stupid, so he saw no reason to fix the bug. Luckily another developer stepped in and raised the priority of the bug.
Have you ever written a bug report for any browsers? There are currently two types of development communities:
1. Chrome and Firefox: You write a bug report and someone will take a look. There will probably be a short discussion and your bug may get fixed or there is a reason why it won't be fixed. I wrote a but report last week for Chrome and the bug got fixed within two days. The current Chrome Canary build already contains the bugfix. Filing bug reports for these browsers is fun, because the development community works.
2. Edge and Safari: You write a bug report and nobody gives a sh&t. I wrote a bunch of bug reports for WebKit and the feedback was exactly zero. Nothing. Not even a confirmation that the bug is valid (or invalid). And of course the bugs are still in there and they are getting more and more, because the development community is broken.
So no, Edge and Safari are the new Internet Explorer, they suck and they will continue to suck. Chrome is almost years ahead, and the distance will grow. Mozilla has the right attitude and is trying hard to catch up with Chrome. I hope they will succeed, because otherwise we will be left only with Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi, which are all based on Chromium.
This. In 2018 the standard programming language for the web should be something better than Javascript.
But you have to admit, it somehow feels cool, once you know it. Try programming Euclid's algorithm in a single line in another language. In Javascript you can do it like this:
var xyGcd = function gcd(a,b){ return b ? gcd(b, a%b) : a; }(x, y);
I do not understand why Apple neglects Safari's development so much. It is years behind Chrome, and the only reason why it's market share is still that high is probably that iOS users simply have no alternative.
If you ever tried to get involved into the development process of webkit you will soon understand why Safari has become the worst browser around. I posted a couple of bug reports over the last few months and the reaction I got was zero, absolutely nothing. During the same period I wrote some bug reports for Chromium and Firefox, and about half of the bugs were fixed, on the others there usually was a brief discussion. Screw webkit, I will no longer write bug reports because it obviously is just a waste of time.
Putting your opinion straight into the headline and calling it news, that's how you do it. No fucking around, not even pretending to report neutrally. Love that kind of journalism.
The are totally pumped for the new Huawei phone. I do not know much about this, because I use my phone only for making phone calls, but Huawei seems to be the most attractive brand among their peer group. Of course they will not get it, as I will not shell out 1000€ for a phone, because I am neither moneybags nor a moron.
Thanks, that was my first take, too. But I tested this on three computers, two laptops and a gaming pc, Windows 10 and Windows 7, and the results were similar. There is an issue on bugzilla, opened five moths ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
My guess is that his is just hard and difficult work, and in the Mozilla team there are not too many developers who can do this.
Firefox has come a long way performance wise. Flexbox layout has been improved dramatically, and lot's of other performance improvements were implemented.
But there are still some major performance issues, and somehow I get the feeling that the Mozilla developers get a bit carried away with implementing new and exciting stuff instead of making the existing functionality really good.
If you are running Windows you may want to run the following test with hardware performance enabled and disabled, and compare the displayed frame rates.
On my machine hardware acceleration reduces the frame rate at least by a factor 4(!). This is not what I understand by "acceleration". Please, Mozilla devs, this can't be what you had in mind when you introduced hardware acceleration.
Does this even matter anymore in management decisions? Maybe I am old-fashined, but back in the old days a product (like the Walkman) became successful because it provided a certain value for the customer.
He spent his money is such great and geeky ways, I often thought that if I was that rich I would be living exactly his lifestyle. RIP Paul Allen, you left this world much too early.
I would really like to know what rain does to the radars. Once I tried to create a simple burglar alarm system that could see through walls using a small radar element. It seemed to work well. Until it started raining, when suddenly the system was seeing burglars everywhere.
Not only this, since it only shreddered the paper half, it can still be used as wall art, showing the process of the first ever self destructing art. Therefore the price should be much higher now than before shreddering.
I would hope so. Because I got news for you: Even real programmers do not know everything and tend to forget stuff, but they know where to look things up. And maybe that was the purpose of linking to Wikipedia, to teach you how to use the Internet.
Here is an example of my work yesterday.
- For a webapp I had to find the greatest common divider for the width and height of an image. Had no idea how to do that, so I searched stackoverflow for "greatest common divider javascript" and found this helpful answer.
- One of the comments links to the Euclidean algorithm on Wikipedia, so I followed the link to understand the algorithm behind the solution.
- Finally I came up with this wondeful one-liner for my specific case: var whGcd = function gcd(a,b){ return b ? gcd(b, a%b) : a; }(width, height);
That's how I work. Lot's of Wikipedia links involved.
Where is that comment when you need it? That spammer has been posting the comment all over the place for weeks, but once it could contribute to the discussion it's missing.
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...look at the Gotthard base tunnel, made by not so boring people who really know how to build tunnels. Trains can go 200km/h in that tunnel btw.. Price was roughly 200 million US$ per mile (not 1 billion as Musk claimed).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I had good and bad experiences. Once a Mozilla developer got out of his way to make sure that a bugfix would make it into the next release. That was absolutely outstanding.. At another occasion some dickhead told me that my test case was stupid, so he saw no reason to fix the bug. Luckily another developer stepped in and raised the priority of the bug.
Have you ever written a bug report for any browsers? There are currently two types of development communities:
1. Chrome and Firefox: You write a bug report and someone will take a look. There will probably be a short discussion and your bug may get fixed or there is a reason why it won't be fixed. I wrote a but report last week for Chrome and the bug got fixed within two days. The current Chrome Canary build already contains the bugfix. Filing bug reports for these browsers is fun, because the development community works.
2. Edge and Safari: You write a bug report and nobody gives a sh&t. I wrote a bunch of bug reports for WebKit and the feedback was exactly zero. Nothing. Not even a confirmation that the bug is valid (or invalid). And of course the bugs are still in there and they are getting more and more, because the development community is broken.
So no, Edge and Safari are the new Internet Explorer, they suck and they will continue to suck. Chrome is almost years ahead, and the distance will grow. Mozilla has the right attitude and is trying hard to catch up with Chrome. I hope they will succeed, because otherwise we will be left only with Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi, which are all based on Chromium.
And if that doesn't help there will be outrage. That will show em.
nuff said
Nice. I did not know there are other cool languages on the market :)
This. In 2018 the standard programming language for the web should be something better than Javascript.
But you have to admit, it somehow feels cool, once you know it. Try programming Euclid's algorithm in a single line in another language. In Javascript you can do it like this:
var xyGcd = function gcd(a,b){ return b ? gcd(b, a%b) : a; }(x, y);
.
I do not understand why Apple neglects Safari's development so much. It is years behind Chrome, and the only reason why it's market share is still that high is probably that iOS users simply have no alternative.
If you ever tried to get involved into the development process of webkit you will soon understand why Safari has become the worst browser around. I posted a couple of bug reports over the last few months and the reaction I got was zero, absolutely nothing. During the same period I wrote some bug reports for Chromium and Firefox, and about half of the bugs were fixed, on the others there usually was a brief discussion. Screw webkit, I will no longer write bug reports because it obviously is just a waste of time.
Putting your opinion straight into the headline and calling it news, that's how you do it. No fucking around, not even pretending to report neutrally. Love that kind of journalism.
I think I just wet my pants.
The are totally pumped for the new Huawei phone. I do not know much about this, because I use my phone only for making phone calls, but Huawei seems to be the most attractive brand among their peer group. Of course they will not get it, as I will not shell out 1000€ for a phone, because I am neither moneybags nor a moron.
Thanks, that was my first take, too. But I tested this on three computers, two laptops and a gaming pc, Windows 10 and Windows 7, and the results were similar. There is an issue on bugzilla, opened five moths ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
My guess is that his is just hard and difficult work, and in the Mozilla team there are not too many developers who can do this.
Firefox has come a long way performance wise. Flexbox layout has been improved dramatically, and lot's of other performance improvements were implemented.
But there are still some major performance issues, and somehow I get the feeling that the Mozilla developers get a bit carried away with implementing new and exciting stuff instead of making the existing functionality really good.
If you are running Windows you may want to run the following test with hardware performance enabled and disabled, and compare the displayed frame rates.
Performance test: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/wY...
On my machine hardware acceleration reduces the frame rate at least by a factor 4(!). This is not what I understand by "acceleration". Please, Mozilla devs, this can't be what you had in mind when you introduced hardware acceleration.
Because that would be outrageous.
That's the only thing that you could ever rely on. And it will be the only thing until the end of time.
Russians deployed some space mirrors before in their Znamya mission:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Znamya 2.5 had a bit of a tragic ending as the mirror got ripped by the antenna of the satellite that deployed it.
Does this even matter anymore in management decisions? Maybe I am old-fashined, but back in the old days a product (like the Walkman) became successful because it provided a certain value for the customer.
Thanks, if comments were editable on slashdot I would correct that.
He spent his money is such great and geeky ways, I often thought that if I was that rich I would be living exactly his lifestyle. RIP Paul Allen, you left this world much too early.
I would really like to know what rain does to the radars. Once I tried to create a simple burglar alarm system that could see through walls using a small radar element. It seemed to work well. Until it started raining, when suddenly the system was seeing burglars everywhere.
Not only this, since it only shreddered the paper half, it can still be used as wall art, showing the process of the first ever self destructing art. Therefore the price should be much higher now than before shreddering.
If a razor can have seven blades, there is no reason to only have five cameras on a smartphone.
https://www.amazon.com/Dorco-P...
I would hope so. Because I got news for you: Even real programmers do not know everything and tend to forget stuff, but they know where to look things up. And maybe that was the purpose of linking to Wikipedia, to teach you how to use the Internet.
Here is an example of my work yesterday.
- For a webapp I had to find the greatest common divider for the width and height of an image. Had no idea how to do that, so I searched stackoverflow for "greatest common divider javascript" and found this helpful answer.
- One of the comments links to the Euclidean algorithm on Wikipedia, so I followed the link to understand the algorithm behind the solution.
- Finally I came up with this wondeful one-liner for my specific case:
var whGcd = function gcd(a,b){ return b ? gcd(b, a%b) : a; }(width, height);
That's how I work. Lot's of Wikipedia links involved.
Hotdog or no hotdog, understand? It's science.
Where is that comment when you need it? That spammer has been posting the comment all over the place for weeks, but once it could contribute to the discussion it's missing.