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When did Chrome get it?

For the longest time, Chrome has had the bad habit of consuming all available CPU when starting with many tabs (a couple of hundred), essentially making your system unusable until it has loaded all tabs.

It's pretty sad, really. Back when Opera 12 was discontinued, this worked well there - tabs were loaded sequentially, but you could still open new tabs while it was doing so. Even now the experience is sub-par in the major browsers (Chrome and Firefox. I can't speak for Edge).

I mentioned Chrome already, but Firefox is also awfully slow to start up with many tabs, even when lazy-loading (i.e. a tab is not loaded until you select it) enabled.

I've yet to try Opera 41, but at least it seems to be a step in the right direction.
I doubt they can do it. We'll see.
You're obviously trying to make a point but I don't really get it, could you try to explain it without the snark?
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Methadone withdrawal isn't fatal. No opioid has fatal withdrawal symptoms. Anyone that tells you that doesn't know what they're talking about or is actively lying to you.
And frankly, it's a lot better that people use pharmaceuticals recreationally. They're of known purity and strength, which makes overdoses less likely, and for opioids, protects the user from long term effects. Most opioids are safe to use basically indefinitely and have few, if any, long term detrimental effects for your average person.

You can't make the claim that drug A is more or less addictive that drug B. Addiction has little to do with the substance used as far as is known and there is no way to measure addictiveness objectively.

Also, methadone is used because it's legal, politically safe, and has a long half-life. The long half-life is useful because the person using it doesn't need to dose as frequently and it lets politicians and addiction treatment professionals pat themselves on the back because they got the patient off of heroin.
Oh, no physical escape key? That's a show stopper. (Already have ctrl mapped to caps lock so re-mapping esc isn't really feasible for me).
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IIRC the main reason indexeddb does not use promises is because promises are required to reject/resolve asynchronously [1]. Indexeddb requires that you manipulate the object stores in a synchronous way from it's event handlers, so it can terminate the transaction after running the event handlers synchronously. It can't do this with promises that will run their resolve handler at best in the next microtask.

It's been a while since I looked into this, but I remember this being my conclusion.

1: https://promisesaplus.com/#point-34
..but at that price and with all the optical problems they seem to solve, a flipscreen is probably not that big of a deal to add.
Bad example: I'd expect prison for theft (the paints aren't re-usable afterwards.)

Better example: borrowing a rular and giving it back, using a company car but paying for the fuel and a service yourself, etc.
I think GP is referring to the ton of lenses you can buy and attach to your DSLR yourself.

As for the sensor, if it's really that good, why nobody put one on a smartphone?
I think this is a badly chosen example because it seems that the paint is tangential to the employee employer relationship just an office supply. Perhaps you could refine and clarify your example and it would be stronger?
Except that so many platforms just don't work well under Windows, and if you use languages like OCaml with OPAM, or other incredible tools like Elixir or Erlang, you can expect hiccups. You can get them working, but you have to do more heavy lifting [0]. In some cases it took the maintainers of major packages years to get them working properly on Windows because of its strange environment compared to most of the rest of the industry, and these tools are often still unstable. Which is why so many developers who choose to use Windows usually have a duel boot or VM into Linux, which is an extra layer of inconvenience a lot of the time.

I used to work on Windows only and had a VM, for 2 years this was my daily workflow. When I finally just switched to Mac, it was amazing how much more time I felt like I had during the day to spend on my real work, how fewer VM issues I had to deal with, and just enjoy working on the native OS.

[0] https://elixirforum.com/t/current-state-of-elixir-on-windows...
Looks like someone failed to change the link (it's now broken), and made the title refer to the wrong blog post.

The original title referred to this one: https://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/10/86-percent-faste...
not this one https://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/10/opera-developer-....
The new blocks are the incentive for the confirmations to be accomplished. There are no "types" of mining, afaik.
This is the idea behind Lightning Network: https://lightning.network/
right, but we already covered that. there is no court order in the world that can compel to you to provide what you do not have. so why is the US a bad place for ZCash to incorporate?
If you deploy more miners the average difficult to mine each block will increase (as for the bitcoin rules) so you are back to square one.
This is actually an important point. Quite a few times I've written something that started as a list comprehension, changed it to a lambda later in the sprint and finally to a loop when the requirements became more detailed. - The real world is unfortunately full of business requirements that think that they are special flowers.
It's disingenious to apply a methodology designed to find out "republican" and "democratic" positions to Wikipedia, and then draw conclusions about how objectively biased the content is, especially since the center in US politics is so right-leaning in the global context.
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For example, try to work with UTF-8 strings - concatenate them, compare their parts.
And it's just one aspect - there is a lot of them.
Northern Ireland has a strange approach.

Generally they follow a pre-1963 county-based system in monotonic sequential order but occasionally a profitable prefix arises; recently BIG nnnn where nnnn is integer. So they can reserve the 'nice' ones in the sequence e.g. BIG 1 and sell those on the market. But they don't sell them in advance of sequence.
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Yup, I expected this.
This is sensible but its a lot easier just to make non competes go away entirely.
Yeah I thought that would be posted. Steven Pinker's theories only work if you do things like imagine that we live in a world without slavery...
You can get Chinese phones in the States, but American 4G LTE doesn't work on the radio channels they support.
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There's a mobility premium since this fits in your pocket. Much smaller than an A6300 with pancake lens. You could potentially jog with this in a wildlife refuge, then take bird shots.
I think we can all agree that multiple camera/lenses and smart algorithms, essentially computational photography, is the way to beat the physics of the small sizes of our phones.

However, the article has many words and not a single photo from the said camera, which I found disappointing
No that wouldn't actually fix it. There is a limit to how many transactions can be processed regardless of how many miners are running. Adding more miners doesn't actually increase capacity just the difficulty.
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I didn't know that whiles were less normal than fors.

And though I don't object to for loops in this situation, I really had to puzzle yours out, because of the way your loop pointer is one behind the place of interest.

I believe you when you say it is segfault-free, but again I would have to puzzle at the code to be sure.
Like Linus example, this is just an example too and does not cover or comment on all the issues, so there are still elephants lurking in the shadows, just to name a few:

- Can entry be NULL? (segfault)

- Can head be NULL (list is empty)? (segfault)

Since the Linus example has the apparent precondition that the entry to be removed must be present in the list, there are no segfaults with proper API use. Since your code tries to eliminate that precondition, I'd argue "Remove NULL from the list" and "Remove something from an empty list" is something to expect, but you didn't account for that.

Point being: Don't be overly critical of examples; they are just examples.
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Use private window.
> I don't understand why there's so many people in the comments defending non-competes. They have literally no value to society, or to individual employees.

To go meta for a moment: I think that this sort of statement exposes a flaw that many of us have in debates. It's related to the "argument from ignorance" fallacy, but is not exactly the same thing.

I take it as one of my priors that people at news.yc are intelligence.

When lots of intelligent people argue for X, and X makes no sense at all for you, you should ponder with some real seriousness that perhaps N intelligent people are not insane, but, instead, you are missing something.

In this case, you say "They have literally no value to society".

This is not an argument. This is a conclusion, or an axiom.

Let me explain why I think non-competes are a good thing:

1) deontological: freedom to contract is always a good thing. It is a human right, and government has no legitimate moral power to remove that right from people.

2) Hayekian / information theoretic: I have local knowledge regarding both my costs and my benefits from signing a non-compete contract. Government legislators and bureaucrats, at some great remove, has almost no knowledge of either my costs or benefits.

3) pragmatic (overlaps #2): perhaps I am desperate to break into career field X and would pay almost anything to get in. Or perhaps my skills are much lower than other competitors. What can I offer employers that my peers can not? My willingness to sign a non-compete. Or perhaps I know that I will be moving in three years, and thus a geographic non-compete has no downside to me. Etc.

> you have literally no incentive to support non-competes...There is no rational basis...mystic powers

Your entire approach here is quite arrogant.

Consider, for a moment, that the other people on news.yc are not idiots.
How does any sensor beat the Nikon sensor? They clearly don't, since they are so small.
Smartphones will continue to look the same, until they start to look different.

Blackberry was once a cool phone, and so was the RAZR.

The current form factor emphasizes interaction with software, which I see as a good thing.

Why exactly do you want to have a bezel?
Current Intel production chips have feature sizes of 14nm, that is about 65 silicon atoms wide and they are hoping to release parts with 10nm early next year. Shrinking much below this size and you would think they would start to see reliability problems even if the chip was produced perfectly.

Articles announcing the end of Moore's law have been written since the early 2000's, but this time it really is different.
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So now what happens when a competing firm starts "offering" artificially high salaries just to force the current employer's costs up?
Didnt the whole codebase leak few years ago?
Bitcoin confirmation time unchanged in 10 months

https://blockchain.info/charts/median-confirmation-time?scal...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/59fnry/omg_bitcoin...
Yep, planning for it to be launched in second quarter of next year!
Self-developed solution that gives a hierarchical structure to to-dos, reminders, and related information:

https://nachapp.com

For anything which I can't figure out a way to tie to one of my current goals, a helpful general rule of thumb is that, it may not actually be that important to hold on to. There are of course exceptions, but they're few enough that a nice folder structure on my hard drive can catch the rest.

I've been using Pinboard for a while as a bookmark list, but find the lack of any structure beyond tags a bit limiting. Just feels like I'm dumping links for the sake of it and will never really end up referring to them again.
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Would it be possible for someone to deliver the 'death blow' to Bitcoin right now, by DDOS-ing the network or flooding it with even more transactions, including invalid ones ?
Actually, I find the double pointer version easier to understand, and incidentally it is also the way always wrote this in C. And I pitied the pascal programmers who had to use the original version.

'Simplify so a fool can understand your code, and you will have fools editing it.'
Sorry, which market was that? The most generous reading is that the smartphone market has been flat.

2015-2016 has been really tough on most of Apple's smartphone competitors, it's been a moving window and it affected some sooner than Apple, but most of the incumbents have suffered.

Xiaomi's revenue was down 38% over the summer.

Samsung is doing better compared to 2015 which was a down year, but who knows what's going to happen after the Note 7 fiasco.

Lenovo was down 19% in the first half of 2016.

Huawei, Oppo and Vivo have done well in terms of capturing market share, but their earnings have been extremely dismal in comparison to Apple's, each of their smartphone revenues is closer to Apple's profit than its revenue numbers.

Is the goal of growth to make money or to own marketshare?

That's been one of the long running questions but if you look at who is in the top 5 smartphone companies over the last 5-7 years, Apple and Samsung are pretty much the only two that have stuck around, so long-term seeking of marketshare in the absence of profits hasn't seemed to pay off all that well.
The first with a good enough implementation and actually used by a significant number of people.

See GUI, multimedia, multitouch, etc
Especially for music that's in the public domain.
It is not exactly the same though. &nbsp; is a non-breaking space, which means the browser will keep the elements together on the same line. With a normal space the elements could be rendered on seperate lines.
It's a really really interesting idea - I'm looking forward to see how it turns out. If it really is as good as claimed (and actually makes it to market), I'll almost certainly buy one. However, I'll be buying one in addition to my existing DSLR equipment, not as a replacement.

The tech as presented in this article isn't really competing with DSLRs so much, as with m4/3 systems and things like the sony A7R series. The real reason for paying the size, weight and cost penalty of a DSLR these days is focus performance, near-zero lag and extreme flexibility - none of which this is going to be able to duplicate.
For example, with my DSLR, 500mm lens and large tripod I can capture the exact moment a bird dives into a river to spear a fish, perfectly frozen in time. That's simply not possible with this system, and extremely difficult with m4/3 and other small-sized equivalents.
So no, it's not going to outperform DSLRs. It might be a useful addition to your camera equipment, though.
I like the idea of cryptocurrency, but I have some doubts about the longevity of Bitcoin. As Bitcoin grows, there is a greater need for mining. However, as Bitcoin grows, the returns for mining diminish.
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I've had transactions waiting for 8 hours now for a confimation. And some more new ones this morning for 3 hours now without a single confirmation.

All of these contains the default fees added by the clients and which were sufficient last month.

I was trying to demonstrate bitcoin to some friends last night. They made wallets and I tried to transfer some coin to them. After an hour they were saying it would have been quicker to drive to the ATM and get cash. I doubt they'll look at bitcoin again now.

This needs fixing and this needs fixing quickly. Waiting half an hour for a few confirmations used to be a problem that needed fixing. Waiting hours will quickly kill bitcoin.
"A wounded man is not an agnostic - he just has different questions, arising out of his wound." - Merton.
Some workers will switch to the competing firm, causing pay disparity within that firm, which in turn might cause decreased worker productivity or brain drain.
Yep, another company reneges on fiber. There's no more FIOS, and now this.

It's off to create a half-assed, wireless cop-out. And the U.S. stays in the past.
To me the analogy doesn't work.

The skateboard has unlimited possibilities. I've never seen anyone pull of a 360 degree kickflip in a car.

To suggest a scooter is an evolution of the skateboard is just crazy. Anyone who has ever turned up to a skatepark on a scooter knows the shame of finding out instantly that scooters are just not cool.

Perhaps they should apply the same thinking in their consultancy.
Thanks! I can always use another good documentary.

In return, I can recommend The KGB, The Computer, and Me, based on the excellent book The Cuckoo's Egg.

I can also recommend all of the documentaries done by Jason Scott (Get Lamp, BBS: The Documentary, Going Cardboard (although he only edited that: He's director on the rest), and DEFCON: The Documentary)
I'm sure it does. The more times someone mentions "enterprise" the less likely I am to buy whatever they're selling.

If you want to go all in on the enterprise UI for the web, you go for SAP UI5 (https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com). I mean even the URL looks enterprisy.
You can have both, so that escape is triggered when you tap caps lock, and ctrl is triggered when you hold caps lock. I followed this article to set it up on my MacBook http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...
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Very cool that you've shipped! Are you doing this fulltime?

(re pinboard: I'm using pocket as my over-powered bookmark list. It reformats all pages for easier reading, also on mobile, and you get to tag everything. With the pro version it also does full-text indexing)
Increase your transaction fees, get them confirmed faster.

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
I wouldn't be surprised if it's also used to make fn+` = Esc, fn+1 = F1 etc

That's how my filco Minila & other 60% keyboards implement the F keys, and IMO it's an improvement. [though... I do flip the ` key to be ESC by default]
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> Bitcoin confirmation time unchanged in 10 months

That's the problem with logarithmic scales; it's easy to make one that looks like it's showing something different.

Try taking a look at average and median times when the scale is flipped to linear:

https://blockchain.info/charts/median-confirmation-time?days...

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?daysAve...

Both highlight quite a spike in recent days.
I don't understand a few things about Google fiber ever as a long term viable business unit inside Alphabet as a whole. As you mentioned in the thread, and I agree with the sentiment, Access succeeds by forcing others to take action. For example, bidding on wireless spectrum for get open access.

But does Google really want to be the one left holding the hot potato in situation like this? Does Google have any success/relevant experience in running a business like a residential ISP? Even established telcos like Verizon can't grow wireline very much.

You mention AirBnB and Uber as successes but those legal battles aren't over yet, with examples such as Austin/Uber and NY/AirBnB just recently. Also I think the value provided by Uber/AirBnB is much larger then Google fiber, which is to serve like 6 US cities with marginally faster internet that most websites can't even take advantage of.

Also I find your statement "they'll go right up to the boundary of what the law allows" as disingenuously painting Google as helpless & innocent. Google has gone to court for a variety of things they felt were worth it for their business
1) Anti-poaching
2) Google books scanning
3) Youtube copyright
4) Oracle Java

Whether or not you believe they were in the right or the wrong, they are a massive multinational corporation who are capable of arguing for their business interests in court. Whether Fiber was ever important enough for Google as a long term real business unit is what I question. They put 4.5 billion on the line for spectrum open access, I don't see the same time of commitment applied to Fiber at all.

Basically what I'm asking what was the successful longterm outcome for fiber if not a quiet drawdown like this? For Google to really be a large US ISP?
1. Don't make bad arguments just because you think someone's position is insulting. (As my point 2 noted, it was a flawed example.) If nothing else, you're not helping your cause...

2. bleachedsleet argument needs that intelligence is very correlated with rationality. Sadly, the correlation is probably quite far from 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/the-differe...

(Regarding 2: For instance, there is mental disease. For another, if you raise children with one specific set of answers and they don't see any criticism of those answers, you can make most of them believe in anything all their life. Including creationism.)
Digital medium format is basically dead; the Canon 5DS (51MP) killed it. Why would you pay ten times the money to get the same resolution but also have to shell out ten times the expense for every lens, with ~no resale value, rental, repair or second hand market, and higher weight and bulk to boot? You arguably get slightly higher dynamic range, but bracketing solves that in 90% of cases.
I don't buy for one second that anything not covered by trade secrets, patents, or nda ought to be protected. You bought the employees labor for a finite duration not the contents of their skull.

Intellectual property is a bit of a misnomer it has very little in common with property of the standard sort and the burden falls upon you to explain why we ought to create greater artificial scarcity for imaginary property.
I am using Linux on a white Macbook from 2008 with an SSD.
I still get OS updates, and while not a beast, it does a decent job for what I need (code editing, browsing).
As others have said "mining" is really not a good name for what is happening. What the miners are really doing is the work that is necessary to confirm and secure the transactions.

When they do that, if they are the first miner to come up with the values required to confirm the transaction they are allowed to add a transaction of their own which "transfers" some bitcoins from "nowhere" to them, thus getting rewarded for their work. it is this that incentivizes people to "mine" but it's not the purpose.
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The idea is that Bitcoin will become more valuable as it grows because of deflation.