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Awesome poem. #twitter - Benjamin Kudria

"I knew once a guy who was an upper manager of a company selling antivirus software to clueless computer users who just want to use their computers. Well, the guy was making around $110k/year just sitting in his office playing WoW. I guess you do not even need a degree for that!" - Benjamin Kudria

"Because violently attacking someone and then robbing them is exactly the same thing as sex between two consenting adults." - Benjamin Kudria

Aaah, this chart is so misleading! Can we see the standard deviation in addition to the average? #twitter - Benjamin Kudria

Lazy bear is lazy. #twitter - Benjamin Kudria

This seems like a dumb experiment. What were they hoping for - little magic yeast robot cells? - Benjamin Kudria

I'm amazed that people like this get jobs. #twitter - Benjamin Kudria

I think Apple will claim any such app "appears to much like" the built-in app. - Benjamin Kudria

Deaf parents don't shout at their kids. :( - Benjamin Kudria

The Light Side Of The Force alternative to the Das Keyboard. - Benjamin Kudria

P =? NP "remains open"? This is not news. - Benjamin Kudria

Wow. - Benjamin Kudria

"Have you ever read Wordpress' code? Have you tried writing plugins for it?" - Benjamin Kudria

"It is? How? Does C magically complain when you call return more than once?" - Benjamin Kudria

My cellphone comes with an amp, some really nice speakers, a light rack, and plugs into the wall. - Benjamin Kudria

East Germans made jokes. - Benjamin Kudria

That explains a lot. - Benjamin Kudria

That explains a lot. - Benjamin Kudria

Yes! I hate vegetables too! - Benjamin Kudria

"Rape seemed like the next logical step." - Benjamin Kudria

"Agreed. To clarify, a systematic problem is a problem that exhibits the properties of a system, a systemic problem is a problem with the system." - Benjamin Kudria

Brilliant - but why did Palm go half-way? Can developers specify their own App URL, and host everything themselves? - Benjamin Kudria

Palm? It would, if they knew what was good for them. Do you think Apple hiring hundreds of App store reviewers, maintaining distribution servers, dealing with bad press and irate developers, and trying to police their corner of the Internet is really worth the somewhat-uniform mediocre quality of the App Store? Would the shareholders agree? - Benjamin Kudria

"*sob*" - Benjamin Kudria

"Yeah, Native Client is pretty cool, but it's doing something slightly different. NaCL delivers completely compiled program that executes in a (somewhat secure) sandbox, a la the Java Applet model, but without the bytecode that lets you do JIT. It doesn't execute in the context of the browser and page, so, no DOM access, etc. In fact, the only "web"-y part of it is the distribution. (also, there are some serious security concerns that don't have any easy solution: http://code.google.com/p...)" - Benjamin Kudria

A color XKCD?! - Benjamin Kudria

A color XKCD?! - Benjamin Kudria

Brilliant. - Benjamin Kudria

Brilliant. - Benjamin Kudria

"> Its scripted in the sense that it is provided in a text file, from which the code is interpreted (or otherwise compiled) at run time. You take an enormous performance hit by doing this. You can't send class bytecode, for instance, or construct a large class base other than what is loaded - in javascript - via an html file. As for sending an "external file", I presume you are talking about linking to it via an html tag. No difference, in fact you take another performance hit by having to download another (text based) javascript file to be interpreted. > > Refute away! So, "scripted" means the program is delivered in source form, rather than direct binary, whether machine or virtual machine code. Good point, but "scripted" hardly sounds like a good term for this. Anyway, you make a good point. There really is no reason that a web program *needs* to be delivered in source form, it's just been done that way historically because it's simple to do. I'd love to see a project that compares..." - Benjamin Kudria

"I know! Let's conduct an experiment! No other way to find out!" - Benjamin Kudria

"Sire, you are severely misinformed: > javascript is scripted, embedded in html. Not very conducive to client side applications development Explain to me what "scripted" means in technical terms and I can refute it for you. JS *can* be embedded in HTML, but for large applications, it is most commonly shipped in an external file. > you can't do multimedia with javascript (I don't think anyway) Many don't now, but <canvas>, <video>, and <audio> in HTM5 aim to change this. > you can't do graphics or enhanced visuals (you need flash for this.) See above. It's not entirely impossible with what we have today, either. > you limited to what your browser can render (gecko, V8, etc.) Gecko is a rendering engine, and you can tell it to render anything, especially with <canvas> - it's not really limited in any meaningful sense. V8 is a JS VM - it doesn't render anything, it compiles and executes Javascript. > you have limited if any access to os-level APIs. So? This is "web 2.0" we're talking..." - Benjamin Kudria

These tips are all top-notch. A company that did all these would be a very attractive company to work for. - Benjamin Kudria

OMG Alien. - Benjamin Kudria