Cheap and Nasty

#1

Post by jhawk28 » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 12:20 PM UTC

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#2

Post by Stiffy » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 1:44 PM UTC

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#3

Post by kabdib » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 1:52 PM UTC

I was at a startup in 94/95 where we made something a lot like protocol buffers, with a multi-platform, multi-language (Java / C++ / COM) API on top of it. Was very friendly -- very JSON-like -- and worked really well, up to tens of thousands of messages a second through then developer-class Pentium boxes.

I think you can still go fast without being nasty. Whether there is money in it is another question.

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#4

Post by Luyt » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

Stiffy wrote: post #2

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

Indeed - but when I clicked the Readability button (it's a FF addon) the site was easy to read.

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#5

Post by VMG » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 4:21 PM UTC

Stiffy wrote: post #2

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

looks fine here (linux chromium 12 w/ adblock)

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#6

Post by Anm » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 5:19 PM UTC

Stiffy wrote: post #2

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

also, very mobile unfriendly

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#7

Post by nas » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 7:12 PM UTC

Another real-world example: SMTP vs QMTP (http://cr.yp.to/proto/qmtp.txt). IMHO, saving space by packing bits is not really so important anymore since nearly every link has high-bandwidth. Reducing latency by reducing round-trips is huge though.

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#8

Post by arethuza » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 7:46 PM UTC

I wonder what ASN.1 is then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#9

Post by ramchip » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 9:01 PM UTC

Stiffy wrote: post #2

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

It's broken on Opera as well. That doesn't make a lot of working browsers...

Re: Cheap and Nasty

#10

Post by staktrace » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 9:15 PM UTC

Luyt wrote: post #4

Stiffy wrote: post #2

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

Indeed - but when I clicked the Readability button (it's a FF addon) the site was easy to read.

Also available as a bookmarklet for other browsers.