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What do you mean by “primitives” here?

Qt does do gamma correction when it comes to text rendering.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re... is pretty good data for 2018. You can see that non-consultancy firms like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Faceb…

> UI is a completely separate implementation and shares nothing Not completely true, many "model" part is shared with Chromium code (given the liberal license) while "view" part ca…

In the past, some Opera employees do have commit access to Blink. When I was working on the content layer of Chromium (and some other parts) as an Opera employee I never had commit…

810 stations in Taiwan. While Tesla built a global network.

Jeff Atwood/DHH’s conclusion regarding Speedometer 2 is not completely true according to Filip Pizło ( https://webkit.org/blog/author/fpizlo/ ): https://twitter.com/filpizlo/status…

> This project began by pulling the original “Helvetica” font from my system files, and making a copy of it. From there I opened it in FontForge, which is a brilliant open source f…

Tidbit: Dominic Giampaolo, the creator of BeOS file system, is also behind APFS (he gave a WWDC talk back in 2016: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/701/ ).

Technically Spotify doesn't use Electron, they use a customized version of CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework): $ ls -lh /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/ total 0 drwxr-…

You might want to run it again in 10.13.4 beta :)

This feels exactly like China in 1990s.

Yup, but the surge of iOS and Android quickly brought that to an end, there is almost no OEM deals at mobile. (Still exists at TV/Set-top boxes, but those are not nearly as popular…

When I was working on Opera, the reasons you stated above were also considered as the reason of the quick shrinkage of Opera’s market share at mobile, which eventually brought Oper…

Or you can fly to ARN then OSL, which can be quicker. There used to be OAK OSL non-stop until last October but I guess there is not enough people to keep it sustainable.

> There was a mass of security theatre, X-ray machines at the entrances to some (most?) lines but lots of people were just ignoring the attendants and walking quickly passed the ma…

Agreed. In Beijing/Shanghai I've always preferred subway to Taxi or ridesharing services, except when it's terribly bad weather and I have to talk over 1km or so, or when I carry t…

Which is not really surprising as West Coast and NYC are where most of the Chinese immigrants live.

As someone who lived in Norway in the past few years, I have always wondered why the local banks aren't pushing more for standard contactless payment like [1] instead they develope…

Trolltech (now the Qt Company) did manage to maintain its staff across a few acquisitions and split, some of the most senior staff still remains active at the company. I'd rather s…

SSH tunnel is just too easy for the GFW to detect, it's so unstable that you cannot even browse the web with it. Yes, setting up a VPS provider would be the most common way. There …

Although Norway does have high GDP per capita, http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/highest-... said 99,574 USD is Average annual income. That's unfortunately not tr…