Right. But that doesn't mean the performance of Flash was bad for what it was doing. Or that it was worse than the performance of doing the same thing in modern HTML+CSS now.
The default, and by far the most common, output from Flash had significantly slower click-to-response and for network latency and for rendering than HTML+CSS is today. You remembering a few optimised instances does not change the reality that Flash was bad.
You're still comparing Flash on twenty year old hardware to HTML+CSS on modern hardware.
Pascal/Delphi - especially in the educational context. Crazy fast compiler so doesn't frustrate trial & erroring students, decent type system without the wildness of say rust and all the basic programming building blocks you want students to grasp are present without language specific funkiness.
Check out Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/) an open-source spiritual successor to Delhi's development environment.
Flickr - that was the future of photo storage, sharing, discovery. What was the bookmarks social tool called from 00’s? I loved it and it fell off the earth. You could save your bookmarks, “publish” them to the community, share etc.. What ever happened to those build your own homepage apps like startpage (I think)? I always thought those would take off
>- XHTML. [...] Would it kill people to have to close their tags properly? XHTML appeals to the intuition that there should be a Strict Right Way To Do Things ... but you can't use that unforgiving framework for web documents that are widely shared. The "real world" has 2 types of file formats: (1) file types where consumers cannot contact/control/punish the authors (open-loop) : HTML, pdf, zip, csv, etc. The common…
The problem is that group (1) results in a nightmarish race-to-the-bottom. File creators have zero incentive to create spec-compliant files, because there's no penalty for creating corrupted files. In practice this means a large proportion of documents are going to end up corrupt. Does it open in Chrome? Great, ship it! The file format is no longer the specification, but it has now become a wild guess at whatever wei…
You’re right, but even standards bodies aren’t enough. At the end of the day, it’s always about what the dominant market leader will accept. The standard just gives your bitching about the corrupted files some abstract moral authority, but that’s about it.
yup, losing 0.000087% year-over-year so in 865 billion years it’ll be dead :)
That was probably me, when I stopped using Google Search some years ago. :-) Got tired of the ads, the blog spam, and AI-generated content crap floating to the top of their results page.
Kagi has been a great replacement for me. Less blogspam I've found, plus it doesn't give me AI results unless I explicitly tell it I want AI results by adding a "?" to the end of my query.
Kuro5hin https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin I was a hold out on smartphones for a while and I used to print out k5 articles to read while afk... Just such an amazing collection of people sharing ideas and communal moderation, editing and up voting. I learned about so many wierd and wonderful things from that site.
Are there any spiritual successors?
For me the progression was Slashdot -> Kuro5hin -> HN.
A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…
> Google Chromecast: Wait, they killed Chromecast? I did not know that until I started writing this.. They have something called Google TV Streamer now, so for me it's more of a rebrand than really killing a product.
Except Google TV isn't the same. You can cast to it, but it's more akin to a Roku - it comes with a remote and has "channels" you install.