nullymcnull's comments

Your app is only slow now if you are blocking its content and/or most basic usability on the loading of external trackers - a lame yet increasingly common practice that needs to stop.

According to the article, they're only delaying these resources when loaded dynamically or async - so developers should be able to "fix" this by loading tracking scripts synchronously, which is what they are effectively doing already if this new FF behavior causes any noticeable impact.

It's hard to feel much sympathy for devs who have _explicitly_ prioritized the sending of their users' info to external parties, over their sites being baseline usable.

This is not an "HN-ism". It is not proper to use quotation marks when paraphrasing. Doing so is explicitly attributing words to someone that they did not say.

> not how writing or paraphrasing works anywhere else

That's simply false. If you want to use Reddit et al as your standard reference on the use of language and punctuation, have at it. But you can't reasonably expect every other forum to use that lowest common denominator. Railing against simple, longstanding house rules like this is just pointless contrarianism.

There are some very good points here, but letting the junior go ahead and use Perl (or any language / platform that the company doesn't generally use or support, and that there's no overwhelming benefit to taking on for one small improvement), just to avoid discouraging them and helping them grow? Definitely not.

I do realize that part of becoming a senior engineer is being able to make and learn from mistakes like this - that sometimes loose/absent leadership is the crucible that makes them. But at this point the hypothetical senior is allowing unnecessary complexity into things, it's verging on outright dereliction of their bigger picture duty to keep things reasonably homogenous and maintainable. Mentoring juniors into seniors is something that a good senior engineer should spend quality time on, no doubt, but it's far from their primary function - and you certainly don't let your system descend into unmaintainable multiplatform anarchy for the sake of doing so in an optimally non-discouraging way. There's still always going to be a lot of blocking of dumb ideas - it comes with the territory, and not all ideas are salvageable - it's harsh but sometimes you need to hear that to grow, too.

Not every junior is a senior waiting to blossom, either - some are just solidly junior and not really equipped with the curiosity or drive to progress no matter what you do. Yes, there's room for bias to seep in here, but still, there's little sense in trying to make seniors out of devs who just aren't cut out for it (some of whom are still solidly dependable pairs of hands for day to day code slinging).

If you had read the article beyond a few paragraphs, you would have realized that McCain introduced no such section to the bill in question. You're definitely part of the problem to have read that and taken it away as fact.

The article is illustrating a much deeper level of fucked up - the fact that Brietbart and other media outlets are singling out SpaceX here and misrepresenting the facts to demonize them, while turning a blind eye to the real pork - deeply entrenched interests like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, who've been siphoning billions out of government on space tech for decades. If anything, SpaceX has been disrupting the status quo there, opening the door to real market competition, in the long run reducing costs to taxpayers. The entrenched interests under threat are almost certainly behind these strangely framed (and outright dishonest) hit pieces.

Drives ideally stay in a server machines until they die in a data center, and maybe even typically.. but MS could hardly only take into consideration what was 'typical' when it comes to things like this. And he's writing about engineering decisions made over 15 years ago here - around 1998 it certainly was more common to move hard drives around between machines. I probably did this at least 100 times just working for one company for a couple of years.

That said, it would still be one hell of a weird edge case to need to take a drive out of an x86 Win2k server, drop it into an Alpha Win2k server, and still care about its contents (vs wiping it for a newly provisioned host). But when you are writing OS filesystems, you have to care about edge cases... especially edge cases that may apply to thousands of racks worth of machines.

> The justification that hard drives need to work everywhere is a little weird. Most drives stay in their host machine until they die.

The article was pretty clear that the context they had in mind for this requirement was servers in a data center, not your home machine:

> Without that requirement, a hard drive might be usable only on the system that created it, which would create a major obstacle for data centers (not to mention data recovery).

Keep in mind they still thought they'd be targeting Alpha processors as late as the Win2K RC's.

Even on Chrome desktop, if you turn on Mobile emulation and switch it to appear to be any Android device w/ phone display size, it fails in the same way - yet switch it to 'iPhone 5' or 'iPhone 6' and the same compact layout works fine. They're pointlessly sniffing and special-casing 'Android' user-agents and botching it completely.

Yes, by setting the MN_NO_HEAP_EXECUTION flag in the Mach header..

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Thing is, Debian is already effectively (since Ubuntu) a Linux distro that's supposed to be for us. People who want a nice desktop experience go with Ubuntu, people who want a server reach for Debian.

If the higher ups at Debian really think they're going to be a player in desktop and are making decisions along those lines, then they must be seriously oblivious to the niche that Debian has actually settled into post-Ubuntu.

Broken since Beta 4 and they still didn't manage to fix it before release. Apple is seriously asleep at the wheel on Safari iOS.

If it is not patently obvious to you that broad ramblings about how "human lives have value", "lethal force is not an acceptable way to resolve conflict", "James Bond fantasy" to "primitive Social Darwinism" (and on and on) have next to no relevance to a discussion about Cloudflare's Keyless SSL implementation, of all things, then I don't know how anybody could ever get through to you to help you understand.

> Friendly reminder that EVERY REQUEST you make with it enabled, will be passed through Google its filters.

Perhaps you should actually fact-check such assumptions before passing them along as "friendly reminders"?

The same activists who effectively just won the revolution are occupying the former president's residence, and have it open to the public. Journalists are everywhere. Said activists have the support of the military and the police and society at large. There's just no danger whatsoever of a raid, they can afford to be open. The thugs already lost.

> This includes the thousands of people who are beheaded each year by the Mexican/Colombian cartels, which, if you look at it this way, can be blamed on the US government's 'criminalization of victimless drug use'.

Why should it not be blamed on the criminalization of victimless drug use? Where would the cartels get the immense capital with which to terrorize whole provinces and take on state actors, if not for those highly lucrative drugs - their profitably grossly inflated by their illegality? If our societies would stop burying their heads in the sand over the issue of drugs and the immense demand for them (which remains remarkably static no matter how many billions are spent on 'war' against them), the cartels wouldn't have much left to fight over.

Oddly, you're the second person to have misspelled it as "investing" when quoting it on this thread. Is this like a rogue / rouge thing that people get commonly tripped up on?

Wow. Can he really be completely oblivious to the fact that this approach is going to bring the hammer of doom down upon them?

"In my day, we lived and loved with so much more depth of feeling. Not like these kids today with their [x]'s and their [y]'s."

Have read a bit of the intro material, but I'm still not grokking what makes Kafka fundamentally different from ActiveMQ / Apollo. Can anyone sum up where and why one might need Kafka?

What an embarrassment this whole subthread is. Starting with the bizarre suggestion that jews have some sort of special moral responsibility to intervene in any major human rights catastrophe, because the holocaust = a huge human rights catastrophe?

These kind of train wrecks are inevitable when people post stuff like this to HN. Dogma vs Dogma.