protobluffers

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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   But why have a huge complex browser in the first place? Do people really get much satisfaction from HTML gimmicks? Are they more interested in media (images, audio, video)? Let's say you want to watch video. Download the video using a pr
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   s/clone/revised version/
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   "CRIME works only when both the browser and server support TLS compression or SPDY" If it would make more sense, then s/protocol/implementation/g or whatever you need to do to make sense of this. How ever you choose to frame it, the targets
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   I agree with you mostly. Although you are comparing Go to a language with manual memory management, not another GC language, like Lua (sorry to keep using that example). A question: What is your idea of "something significant"? Go seems li
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   Check out the "iPhone backup shootout" under Related Articles. Hilarious!
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   The more abstraction you shove down the programmer's throat, the less he will understand what's really going on behind the scenes. Eventually the abstractions become more of an impediment than a panacea, e.g. when you try to do simple thin
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   I think Lua is still the most simple and easiest in this regard. And Lua is embeddable. Everyone is striving for concurrency as a language feature but sometimes it seems like a solution looking for a problem. What is it that you _cannot_
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   by protobluffers 14y ago

   I never liked SPDY to begin with. It always seemed to be gratuitously promoting a "new" protocol when many of the speed gains can be had from simply paying better attention to existing protocols, e.g. using pipelining for multiple resource