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by jjgod 6y ago
What do you mean by “primitives” here?
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by jjgod 7y ago
Qt does do gamma correction when it comes to text rendering.
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by jjgod 7y ago
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re... is pretty good data for 2018. You can see that non-consultancy firms like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook all have appro
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by jjgod 8y ago
> UI is a completely separate implementation and shares nothing Not completely true, many "model" part is shared with Chromium code (given the liberal license) while "view" part can be different.
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by jjgod 8y ago
In the past, some Opera employees do have commit access to Blink. When I was working on the content layer of Chromium (and some other parts) as an Opera employee I never had commit access, though I do get bug editing access (which is for tr
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by jjgod 8y ago
810 stations in Taiwan. While Tesla built a global network.
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by jjgod 8y ago
Jeff Atwood/DHH’s conclusion regarding Speedometer 2 is not completely true according to Filip Pizło ( https://webkit.org/blog/author/fpizlo/ ): https://twitter.com/filpizlo/status&#x2
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by jjgod 8y ago
> This project began by pulling the original “Helvetica” font from my system files, and making a copy of it. From there I opened it in FontForge, which is a brilliant open source font editor. Pretty sure the license won’t allow you to do
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by jjgod 8y ago
Tidbit: Dominic Giampaolo, the creator of BeOS file system, is also behind APFS (he gave a WWDC talk back in 2016: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/701/ ).
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by jjgod 9y ago
Technically Spotify doesn't use Electron, they use a customized version of CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework): $ ls -lh /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 jjgod s
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by jjgod 9y ago
You might want to run it again in 10.13.4 beta :)
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by jjgod 9y ago
This feels exactly like China in 1990s.
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by jjgod 9y ago
Yup, but the surge of iOS and Android quickly brought that to an end, there is almost no OEM deals at mobile. (Still exists at TV/Set-top boxes, but those are not nearly as popular.)
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by jjgod 9y ago
When I was working on Opera, the reasons you stated above were also considered as the reason of the quick shrinkage of Opera’s market share at mobile, which eventually brought Opera to its downfall. Firefox is at a similar position here bec
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by jjgod 9y ago
Or you can fly to ARN then OSL, which can be quicker. There used to be OAK <-> OSL non-stop until last October but I guess there is not enough people to keep it sustainable.
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by jjgod 9y ago
> There was a mass of security theatre, X-ray machines at the entrances to some (most?) lines but lots of people were just ignoring the attendants and walking quickly passed the machines without having their bags checked. Yes, that’s the
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by jjgod 10y ago
Agreed. In Beijing/Shanghai I've always preferred subway to Taxi or ridesharing services, except when it's terribly bad weather and I have to talk over 1km or so, or when I carry tons of luggages.
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by jjgod 10y ago
Which is not really surprising as West Coast and NYC are where most of the Chinese immigrants live.
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by jjgod 10y ago
As someone who lived in Norway in the past few years, I have always wondered why the local banks aren't pushing more for standard contactless payment like [1] instead they developed several competing QR code based solutions like Vipps
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Cashless Britain advances as contactless and debit cards thrive(theguardian.com)
3 points by jjgod 10y ago|1 comments
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by jjgod 11y ago
Trolltech (now the Qt Company) did manage to maintain its staff across a few acquisitions and split, some of the most senior staff still remains active at the company. I'd rather say this is not just Opera side has moved on, many peopl
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by jjgod 11y ago
SSH tunnel is just too easy for the GFW to detect, it's so unstable that you cannot even browse the web with it. Yes, setting up a VPS provider would be the most common way. There are Shadowsocks implementations that supports multiple
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by jjgod 12y ago
Although Norway does have high GDP per capita, http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/highest-... said 99,574 USD is Average annual income. That's unfortunately not true according to http:/