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bookface | 12 years ago | on: Preventing 'layout thrashing'

Wouldn't another solution to this be to have an object that would mimic the dom, performing reads immediately (or reading from its own cache of written attributes), but allowing explicit control over when writes get committed? It would then be easy to have atomic (wrt dom layout) functions.

bookface | 12 years ago | on: iOS 7 “activation required” error on iPhone and iPad

This really screwed me over this time. My developer account expired a few weeks ago and I got worried because I still had the beta installed. I tried upgrading via iTunes, but it said I was up to date, and I assumed that meant that the phone had updated itself to the release version over the air automatically or that I'd forgotten that I already updated manually. And now that phone is bricked until I get back to my computer tomorrow.

bookface | 12 years ago | on: Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices

I had this same experience. In 2010, I decided to buy the Captivate over the iPhone 4 after reading a bunch of reviews online. IIRC, I bought it right when it was released, which almost exactly coincided with the release of Froyo. After four or so months of putting up with a laggy interface, cheap (feeling) build quality, and no software updates in sight, I sold it and finally bought that iPhone 4, which I used for the next 3 years.

Recently, I decided to give Android another try and went with the Galaxy S4 when that came out. I was pleased with how far the OS had come since Eclair, but it still felt less responsive than even my 3-year-old iPhone. As for the build quality, that's my biggest regret in buying a Samsung product again. It's hard to beat the feel of an Apple device, but at least the Nexus 4 and HTC One are trying.

bookface | 12 years ago | on: My Startup Job Interview

Every "bad interview" story that graces the front page of HN has this common theme that the interviewee is an infallible genius who aces every question.

I know there's a bias here (better engineers are probably more likely to blog in the first place and most people would rather write about an experience where they're the "victor"), but it would be nice to read an article from someone acknowledging their own failure just once.

bookface | 12 years ago | on: Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

I know you said that, but I disagree that it has a negligible contribution to security based on the distribution of skill level of potential attackers.

You are definitely right about my leaving the computer alone example. That was pretty absurd.

bookface | 12 years ago | on: Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86?

This was really interesting, but one thing it didn't fully explain was why the fact that ret imm16 was fastpathed would make it a worse choice for this optimization than repz ret. Excuse my noobiness, but can anybody explain that to me?

bookface | 12 years ago | on: Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

I disagree. Maybe if anybody who would ever have physical access to your computer has the technical chops of the average HN commenter, it wouldn't do much for you. However, for somebody leaving their computer alone for a few minutes in a coffee shop or college library, this could definitely deter many opportunists.
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