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Notice how you automatically assume that the person pointing out bigotry is in the oppressed minority. This is not always the case. If you expect a Christian on a site full of athe…

I was not proposing censorship. Reddit, as well as slashdot, HN, digg, etc. have a community process developed with the intent that the best comments make it to the top. The struct…

I read reddit, but I would never buy a gold account. The site has too much hate speech, and it is hard to support that financially. Between the misogyny and the atheist anti-Christ…

I might go back to Firefox when it no longer consumes gigabytes of RAM after a few hours of operation. Until then, I'm with Chrome. I don't care about speed as much -- so long as i…

I've seen swarms of employees get screwed in ways similar to this. It's not uncommon in Silicon Valley.

I kinda wish Google had better versioning in their infrastructure. While I used neither of these products, their disappearance makes me reluctant to adopt Google products for any c…

I am aware of the current opportunities. I think you (and most people here) underestimate what the "old web" could imagine, though. We had all sort of ideas for agents that would g…

Which only works for pre-intended uses, or standards that have substantial market share. Again, read the literature on agents from the nineties, and see how diverse a technology tr…

I'd love to see that extension. If you write it, I will use it. I use Chrome too, so it should work here. As to what should and shouldn't be part of the browser -- the way to figur…

I'm glad. Thank you for taking the time to read and understand. Hacker News is starting to go down the decline that hit reddit 2 years ago, where people don't bother to try to unde…

Did you read what I wrote? I mentioned Google Maps as one of the two places I found AJAX useful. The applications on my mom's PC do have much better UI standardization than the web…

> You mean bookmarks? Add a scroll %, assuming they're not nice enough to use anchor tags / IDs meaningfully, and you're golden. Bookmarks in books work okay. You move them. Book m…

Not just scraping. Any sort of non-human parsing of web pages. Look at the 1990s literature on web agents for lots of applications.

The Google Spider grabs pages from other servers. That's a web client. It's a web client that was easy to write when Google was started, but is almost impossible to write today. If…

No. I haven't. I've noticed maybe 1 or 2 web apps I want to use (Google Docs and Google Maps). Beyond that, I don't see anything that couldn't be delivered more effectively without…

15 years ago, I could reasonably write a search engine. Myself. 1 person. In a few weeks (modulo bandwidth and server farm). I write a program that grabs a web page, and reads out …

Google is a big organization in the business of developing web software. Most organizations are in other businesses. If I'm running a construction company, it doesn't make sense to…

As a web user, I'm not grateful. I don't think having more pixel-perfect control or slightly faster JavaScript makes the web any better. All websites look slightly better, but the …

This is what really irks me about Google Apps. You don't have any control over this kind of thing. They can (and do) yank the rug out from under you whenever they feel like it. A w…

Your math is weak. You should go back and study.

Anyone know of the equivalent of Stroustrup for Python? If anyone's not familiar with Stroustrup, his book on C++ explains the language in-depth, and gives clear rationales for the…

He's an exceptionally good communicator and has very strong soft skills, and applies them to self-promotion. He's also good at politics (as in convincing crowds of people -- not so…

I'm not sure if I trust much be ESR. He's extremely eloquent, so what he writes always sounds convincing. In practice, he's a pretty bad developer, or at least he was at the time h…

My experience has been the opposite. Best employees aren't desperate to work for you. They're gainfully employed, and you have to poach them. No one I know who is productive would …

You are correct -- there are a few exceptions, and the Playstation was definitely one. Therein lies the difference: 1960-1985: Sony is the gold standard for quality 1995-2010: Sony…