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throwaway32 · on Oct 2, 2011

no, because people usually fence in their yards, from one, or both sides.

throwaway32 · on Oct 2, 2011

dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already is.

uriel · on Oct 3, 2011

If anything Go has become simpler and has removed crud since it was introduced.

And that is precisely what gives me hope, Go is going against the trend of almost every other language.

throwaway32 · on Sept 30, 2011

the real goal of free Google Analytics is to get people to place the javascript tracking snippet on their webpages so they can collect data for Ads and now paying customers.

throwaway32 · on Sept 30, 2011

If we project even further chrome will have 200% market share, imagine the results of that!

throwaway32 · on Sept 30, 2011

I doubt many sites are going to bother with all the complexity of implementing and utilizing SPDY when only chrome supports it. To see significant advantage with SPDY vs something like long-polling you need to build your app around it, and if you need to support long-polling methods anyways, not very many sites are going to bother.

nl · on Sept 30, 2011

I think you are confusing SPDY[1] with WebSockets[2]. SPDY is Google's experimental replacement for HTTP. You don't build your app around it at all - from the application layer it should be mostly invisible.

SPDY can be implemented as an Apache module[3] which could be used only when the browser supports it.

It is true that WebSockets replace long polling, but there are plenty of libraries that abstract the differences out nicely.

[1] http://www.chromium.org/spdy [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket [3] http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/

dangoor · on Sept 30, 2011

FWIW, someone is working on an implementation for Firefox. There was just a blog post on HN the other day about it.

throwaway32 · on Sept 30, 2011

just because you know somebody's name, doesn't make them honest either, if it did politics would be a whole different ballgame.

true_religion · on Sept 30, 2011

It does mean that their lies can be tagged back against them.

A name, a "real name" has a certain irrevocability to it.

throwaway32 · on Sept 29, 2011

well perhaps somewhat understandable, why should i be happy with an inferior interface because of it? This falls very squarely in the category of "not my problem, but you just made it my problem anyways"

I see this as part of a big trend towards software and software designers that think they know what you want better than you do, and its an endless source of frustration for me, and im sure many others.

throwaway32 · on Sept 27, 2011

"These concerns aren't real, not because Facebook isn't collecting information but because everyone is collecting information"

So Facebook isn't acting counter to your interests because everyone is acting counter to your interests?

throwaway32 · on Sept 26, 2011

whats humorous is that Strunk and White use the passive voice in their recommendation to not use it!

throwaway32 · on Sept 26, 2011

>BSD is losing its ground against Linux (and Windows).

why is that important? why do the BSDs have to be gaining on Linux to be a viable, useful system. If your entire goal becomes "competing" with Linux, you miss the entire point many people chose a BSD to begin with, a stable, well thought out, usable system. The ZFS integration clusterfuck with freeBSD pretty clearly shows the results of trying to rush things so they are somehow better than linux.

Merging all the BSDs together to "fight" Linux is stupid and shortsighted, the OpenBSD philosophy is about more than security tweaked defaults for freebsd, its an entire process from conception of a new program, to implementation, to maintenance of the code. If you try to reduce it to a common codebase, it is just going to be freebsd + tweaks, which negates the entire reason people want to use OpenBSD to begin with.

hello_moto · on Sept 26, 2011

You might be right. The problem with software I suppose: if it grows, there will be pain. If it doesn't, well, let's just hope it won't stall and die quietly.

I don't mean to compete or fight against Linux in that sense. I suppose I just want to see more things happening in BSD land (Amazon instances, VirtualBox, native Java) but if that happens, could potentially disturb the stability of *BSD itself.

And yes, I do know (a bit) the principal behind OpenBSD that may not work well with other BSDs. Different goals that lead to different software development process.