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Well ambient brightness matters, but actually analog cinema projectors use a frame rate of 48 fps (they "flick" every movie frame twice), so it's still way above 30fps. Plus, with …

"30 fps flicker" - that's not a CRT, it doesn't flicker , because unlike CRTs, a flat display doesn't have a ray refreshing the display top to bottom. And 30 fps on a CRT wouldn't …

> "The more CEOs are paid, the worse the firm does over the next three years, as far as stock performance and even accounting performance" Yeah well this entire study is invalidate…

I don't get it, you can't read anything out of a ByteBuffer, except a bunch of bytes. You can't map 1:1 any more complicated in-memory structure to that buffer, or am I wrong?

Yes, judge me based on my account age, because you have half a year history of making "hostile" comments, and I have just half a day. Outstanding work, detective. Here's a medal.

Actors.

The problem with FlatBuffers and Cap'n Proto is that while in-memory rep matching serialization formats are much faster (infinitely faster as Cap'n Proto says tongue in cheek) for …

> "The most well known simulator to any Android developer is probably (and ironically) the one that iOS developers use from Apple." I get it. Ironically Google didn't copy Apple fo…

Nope, all engineers have been re-assigned to making ubuntu.com responsive and blogging incessantly about it. Phones and operating systems will have to wait.

This article is all over the place. First of all calling it "JavaScript cryptography" only to immediately correct itself "oh, we mean browser client-side scripted cryptography, not…

Part of being an intelligent person is the ability to make the best call based on all available information. There's no general rule. I'll just say that fast iteration is key. You …

I don't know. The top two most frustrating things I encounter on modern web sites are: "infinite" scrolling effects & badly done responsive designs. While adaptive UI can be done r…

They do user testing.

I'm sure you can make your trivial point about the intricacies of web design without having to piggyback on Jonathan Ive's interview. For the record, a lot of the UI prototyping at…