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by bengoodger 8mo ago
Seeing the comments here talking about ancient codebases got me wistful for when Chromium was new and everything seemed possible. That triggered a flash of feeling extremely old realizing we broke ground on this codebase 20 years ago this y
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by bengoodger 9mo ago
United seems to like to hang onto extremely old airplanes even as the number of these disruptions mount. We can argue how statistically they're safer etc but these events are extremely unsettling and disruptive for passengers and frank
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by bengoodger 11mo ago
I too have nostalgia for a time when prices were reasonable, politicians didn't philander and children respected their elders. And yet here we are :-) For what it's worth, despite it being /en vogue/ to rag on Google, th
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by bengoodger 11mo ago
Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine? The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform. The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that giv
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by bengoodger 2y ago
Incognito clearly states how it works every time you start it, including what it doesn't protect against. If we're saying that developers can't clearly and obviously state how things work, and are instead bound by however peo
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by bengoodger 2y ago
netscape.public.mozilla.* The hierarchy there was basically a reflection of the company's browser team org chart. You could find a group for every team working on the browser where many of them were having their regular technical conve
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by bengoodger 2y ago
I'm about a half hour into this, and listening to Marc talk about newsgroups brings strong pangs of nostalgia. These days I'm a bit of a greybeard (salt-n-pepper beard?) of web browsing, but I remember getting started in the late
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by bengoodger 4y ago
Have a BMW X5 with this auto-steer nonsense and have had several incidents where it's abruptly turned the wheel, where if I weren't grabbing it it would have caused an accident. Ended up disabling the assistant system.
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by bengoodger 6y ago
Most Americans don't travel abroad. Those that are accustomed to frequent travel for business or leisure are acutely aware of the current situation because it's already blown up their year.
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by bengoodger 7y ago
Quality can be worse in a long-time cycle project: - Engineers are motivated to slam their feature in, because if they miss the train the next one's not for 12 months. - You get one moment per year to connect with your customers &
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by bengoodger 7y ago
Is anyone concerned that even in the face of re-training, that two aircraft could find themselves in this position within the first year of operations? Let's say you were on one of these aircraft and the pilots were able to recover. Ho
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by bengoodger 9y ago
It takes special effort to configure a variable width font in a code editor. I have to wonder if they do this to troll observant people like you :p
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by bengoodger 10y ago
One maybe interesting anecdote. May 2015, a few Chrome old timers reacting to the complexity of the code, decided we should try and build something new. This is nothing new for me personally (having worked on Netscape, Firefox and Chrome, a
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by bengoodger 10y ago
Chrome team co-founder/engineer/etc. here. Glad you found it useful! Some components like our net stack are particularly cleanly factored. Others have more room for improvement. I would say that at the beginning of the project (20
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by bengoodger 10y ago
Throw some potato chips on there.
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by bengoodger 10y ago
This seems kind of crazy to me. Why not just treat the touch strip as a second display? That would seem to afford a smoother integration.
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by bengoodger 10y ago
My house is nearly 120 feet wide end to end, split across three levels. My wife & I use IM/SMS to communicate from the extremities. The struggle is real.
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by bengoodger 10y ago
Have you seen the latest Civic? It's far less conventional looking than past generations. Electric car styling must reflect a desire from the target audience of small city cars, otherwise there wouldn't be a trend towards this aes
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by bengoodger 10y ago
I look forward to someone discovering a line of discourse that'll de-antagonize the legions of Sanders supporters writing hateful comments across the internet. It is truly sick.
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by bengoodger 11y ago
I've owned three cars with automatic cruise control for the past decade. This isn't exactly new technology, perhaps only at this price point. The first car I had with this, an '06 Infiniti, was only able to slow to a crawl, n
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by bengoodger 11y ago
I know most consumers don't really care about this stuff until it bites them, but products like this are supposedly (I guess) marketed to consumers who care about security. I think it's worth it to be skeptical of claims made by a
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by bengoodger 11y ago
I don't know if this is the case, but I definitely understand how it could happen. Chrome's Incognito mode has the exact behavior of not supporting things like session restore and closed tab reopening. It's kind of annoying f
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by bengoodger 11y ago
IMO it's foolish to think the laptop form factor is going anywhere, barring a fundamental shift in UX. Anything that requires productivity, e.g. content creation, is better done with a keyboard and some kind of instrument more precise
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by bengoodger 11y ago
Funny story. I wanted to buy a cheap iPad for my son. I could have got one from Amazon but after hearing so many stories about scams or refurb devices or devices with someone else's state on it I decided not to deal with that headache
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by bengoodger 11y ago
To some extent. But we have a diversity of architecture in California, we're not all adobe mission huts and mid century modern homes. Old Palo Alto for example has a preponderance of 1920s/30s Tudor Revival homes, which really des
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by bengoodger 11y ago
The irony is that a van will often handle better than a SUV with a car based platform and a lower center of gravity. My wife has a BMW X5 and it drives like a piece of industrial farm equipment. We also own a Honda Odyssey which IMO handles
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by bengoodger 11y ago
The lack of good data is really frustrating. The EPA adjusted the formula for mileage a few years ago which made things slightly better but I never come close to hitting the results in my car. Observed economy is related to personal circums
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by bengoodger 11y ago
While we acknowledge some people might think they want this feature, it's been something we've been unexcited about helping them with it for the reasons stated. Having the ability to quickly deploy security fixes is fundamental to
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by bengoodger 11y ago
Many but not all things can be usefully parallelized. The build, and most unit tests and integration tests can, though we struggle with the latter where real hardware is required. Some performance tests are also run on real hardware. This d
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by bengoodger 11y ago
Gramps was my first manager @ Netscape when I was hired after contributing patches through Mozilla. He is wickedly funny as were a lot of the rest of the people that worked there. One of these days I need to write down some of my recollecti

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