bumblebird

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by bumblebird 17y ago
Last time I measured, on a largely firefox userbase, adBlock was used by about 6%. Not enough really to bother about. I'd expect the number who use NoScript to be 1-2% if that. Note this is out of a mainly firefox userbase. For the general
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by bumblebird 17y ago
<script> oldalert = window.alert; window.alert = function() {}; </script> <script src="http://json.org/json.js"></script> <script> window.alert = oldalert; </script>
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by bumblebird 17y ago
That's why you would use it where available, instead of targeting. if (browser.supportsWebSocket) useWebSocket(); else useComet();
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Sure. I was more meaning that they may not be easy to monetize once they click through to your website.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
If you care about IE6 these days, and aren't selling to corporate users forced to use it, then you're doing something wrong. Also, you can just enable it when it's available, and fallback to comet etc when it's not.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
The bidding seems like a complete lottery. What may work well one day, may completely fail the next. You could be throwing money away. It's a sort of interesting idea, but completely impossible to calculate ROI etc before you spend. Also, W
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Also they all run adblock etc.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Does the WebSocket spec allow for gzip/deflating streams as well? I can't see anywhere if it does or not.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
How is my above comment defending it? :/ I actually extremely rarely use any js libs. I'd rather just do it myself. And no I'm nothing to do with the project.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
There's some pretty sluggish websites out there due to poor use of js libs. Browse them on a phone or netbook and it all adds up. You'd certainly manipulate hundreds of DOM elements at a time, consider say a twitter stream, where each post
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by bumblebird 17y ago
>> "The jQuery example, from the beginning, was creating DOM elements from HTML strings, while RightJS was wrapping the document.createElement API. This is not the same thing and you cannot learn anything from comparing apples to or
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by bumblebird 17y ago
To see if it performs better for their particular use case? You know, choosing something based on how well it fits the problem?
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by bumblebird 17y ago
It depends on your use case. I don't think you should be against something just because you have a solution you assume is the best it can be.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Write your own specific tests if you suspect bias. I doubt there is any real bias though, js libs have different aims. Some aim to have complete browser support at the expense of speed+size, some assume a certain level of browser, and so co
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by bumblebird 17y ago
It depends what your writing, and your target market. Most people using webapps/modern websites are doing so with good recent browsers.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
So if everyone is to have access to 'firehose', why did ms+goog pay for it? :/
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by bumblebird 17y ago
What is wrong with you HN? "Getting out of hand" relates to the rate of change. Not a single data point.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
This may be a niche problem, but I found an interesting bug in chrome yesterday. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357 Basically, if you do a redirect (30x) then the referrer isn't set. This means that a number of things
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Cool, but you can't say "it's getting out of hand" from a single data point.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
What startup mentality. Where? When did it start getting out of hand? Some data needed there me thinks.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
It's not the same. Beer has an effect on your liver, your general health, wallet etc. Sure, everything in moderation, but if you enjoy something, do it. If you suddenly realize that you had neglected something/someone else, then that's anot
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I don't know anyone who is 'addicted'. I know people who put in 14 hour days because they genuinely just enjoy it. I'm one of them. You always have to try and get a good balance between work and family, but I don't think the article really
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I don't quite understand why this recent trend has started, but things are showing up on HN that were on Reddit a few days ago. 3 days ago in this case. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ab8jt/googles_ce... It's like a very slow
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I would have thought though that 160 years when studying climate, is absolutely nothing.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
'on record' is a pretty useless measure. It's a way to make a story more sensational than it is. You see it in tabloid newspapers often: Headline: "Man eats biggest fish ever recorded!!!" Small print: 'records on biggest fish eaten by human
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by bumblebird 17y ago
That study, is absolute BS. Complete and utter BS. Try and make an 'error' in the phrase 'public static void'. See how well it compiles if you mistype 'public' as 'pubic'. If you're not able to read the code well, then that's one thing (Lea
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by bumblebird 17y ago
See I read those two code snippets exactly the same. The 'verbose' one, I read as ...println("Hello, world!")... Perhaps I'm not normal, but I 'see' those code snippets to be identical in terms of code. Lets face it, we're never going to be
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by bumblebird 17y ago
In the realm of programming, I consider 'word' to mean a unit of code. I agree though, it's perhaps not the best word to use. Use what you enjoy using though. But please don't buy the FUD about verbosity.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
That's why I said "Agree to disagree". If I'm looking at code, the "public static void" doesn't detract from readability at all. I would much rather see "public static void" than some new 'less verbose' &$%||foo|| stuff I have to look u
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by bumblebird 17y ago
See my description below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982368

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