Pacabel

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by Pacabel 12y ago
They aren't "weird" design choices. Most of them are just plain bad design choices.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Desktop apps won't have a "comeback" for a lot of us. There have always been questions about the viability of these sorts of online services. So we did the smart thing, and never put our data and apps at risk to begin with. W
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Ubiquity should not be an excuse for the promotion of what is, by all objective measures, a rather poor programming language. This is especially true when it's an environment where there are numerous other languages available, and they
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't see why codereflection needs to spell it out. The problems with npm, and JavaScript in general, are quite apparent to anyone who has used them. And if you haven't used them, a quick search engine search will turn up this i
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by Pacabel 12y ago
What benefit does this approach bring? It reminds me of Chrome OS and Firefox OS. These all are based upon the Linux kernel, so they could potentially offer a very rich user experience like so many more traditional Linux distributions do. Y
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I'd say it's even less capable. Shared hosting providers typically allow the use of Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, Lua and sometimes other languages for CGI scripts. From what I can tell, this service limits you to Lua only.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Python 3 was never "in limbo". From the very start its goals were clear. Yes, it took some time to implement them, but this was done rather efficiently and quickly. Unless you were using one of a handful of libraries that didn&#x2
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by Pacabel 12y ago
But it also doesn't offer many of the benefits and much of the functionality that Scala offers. A familiar C-like syntax, static typing, and so on are very important for a lot of Scala's users.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's really absurd when people call Python 3 a "disaster". There was nothing disastrous about it. In fact, hindsight shows us that it was actually a very good path to take. Python 3 didn't negatively affect Python 2 or e
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Emotion is totally irrelevant here. I don't "hate" Firefox OS, nor do I "like" Firefox OS. It's just a tool, so I give it an objective, unemotional analysis. That analysis shows that it lacks the features and f
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The reality is that customers just don't want to use Firefox OS. Even with Amazon's support, it would still be very inferior in many ways to Android and iOS, and even to some of the other less-popular mobile OSes that are already
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by Pacabel 12y ago
These sorts of arguments or claims aren't very convincing, or don't appear to hold true in practice. The claim that the development of Firefox OS is somehow more "open" is very suspect. Even if the source code is publicl
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by Pacabel 12y ago
A large or well-known company merely using a programming language, and maybe even contributing back to it and its community, isn't the same as the company truly supporting or championing it. What you describe is very different from, sa
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Is Rust CI really the best evidence to use in this case? When I last looked at it, probably 40% to 50% of the projects listed had builds that were in the "failing" or "error" statuses. That indicates that one or more of
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by Pacabel 12y ago
When it comes to Rust, there's no stable version of the language at this point. There's no stable version of the standard libraries. There's no reliable production-grade compiler available. As the Rust home page itself states
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by Pacabel 12y ago
What makes you so sure that there was ever only one memory leak? What makes you so sure that one or more new ones haven't been introduced since then? I've seen and heard a lot of reports from many different Firefox users about Fir
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by Pacabel 12y ago
This is absurd. So rdxm is a "shill" merely because he or she pointed out some very real and important issues surrounding this sort of technology, and then also pointed out the fact that established players are best prepared to ha
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Based on the comments here and those that appear under the article, people in general are not at all impressed by these ideas. I don't think the hatred is as universal as it is for, say, Australis, but it's close enough that it sh
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think your understanding of the history of computing is flawed. As somebody who lived through the events you mentioned as an adult working in industry, I can assure you that the sentiment you believe was felt was actually not felt. Mouse
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, Chrome on Android does appear to be broken in a similar way. I'm not sure about Safari on iOS, though. Regardless, two or even three of them being broken in the same way doesn't mean that they aren't broken. The state of
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Are you suggesting that the updates themselves never introduce new security flaws?
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by Pacabel 12y ago
You make a very good point. That sensible and effective approach has become yet another victim of the failed quest to "improve the user experience" by throwing away or changing stuff that was working perfectly fine before. The new
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by Pacabel 12y ago
yarou obviously didn't say that they should focus everyone only on reducing Firefox's memory usage and performance problems. I'm not sure how you mistakenly got that impression, because that's clearly not what that comme
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It may just be a thought experiment at this point, but I think it's pretty clear now that all of the major browsers are unfortunately headed in this direction. This rush to target "more simple Internet users" hasn't gone
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by Pacabel 12y ago
You do realize that the submission discussion doesn't have to pertain solely to what was in the linked to article, right? The topic is Firefox OS. Anything having to do with Firefox OS is worth discussing, and is perfectly valid discus
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That behavior of Firefox on Android is just plain stupid and broken, even when it's working. It's another great example of how the Firefox developers have added in functionality that just makes the browsing experience less efficie
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Firefox OS doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's facing some very strong competition from Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and numerous other mobile operating systems and platforms. It makes absolutely no sense to consider Firefox OS by its
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I've been seeing these ultra-defensive "Are you an astro turfer or are you just really angry at Mozilla for some reason?"-style responses more and more from the Mozilla community lately, especially when somebody has raised so
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Like I said, please put your political correctness to the side so that we can discuss this like adults. What is an alternative term that conveys the exact same concept that was discussed earlier, but without being deemed "offensive&quo
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by Pacabel 12y ago
No, to be the person on the receiving end of such a manufactured or deceiving message. Although, now that you mention it, spending good money on something so pathetic is kind of distasteful, too. If somebody truly can't think of what t

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