Tom Dale, reiterating why AMD is the wrong solution for JavaScript applications:
In my opinion, having to write this out for every file sucks.
And:
If build tools are required anyway, a much simpler solution should fit most developers’ needs.
MG Siegler, regarding Google’s comments that other social networks haven’t shared their data for indexing:
Those other companies can argue that it’s not in their best business interest to open that data. In effect, Google would be forcing them to hurt their business if they were to open the data up.
So, essentially, the “other companies”, such as Twitter and Facebook, will claim it’s not fair that Google can show data from Google+ and not Facebook, when Facebook doesn’t want to share its own data?
Personally, this really excites me. Google has always been useful for un-biased information, but when you wanted to know if a movie was good, or where to eat, you got a bunch of strangers opinions. We all know a friend’s opinion trumps 1,000 strangers.
I hope it will eventually be like this: I want some some good Mexican. Oh look, John and Kevin both recommend La Cantina.1
The algorithm could analyze places that I already like, find my friends that also like those places, and see where else they enjoyed in the same category. ↩
Samsung, regarding upgrading the Galaxy S software to Android 4:
A full update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the GALAXY Tab(7-inch) and GALAXY S is not practicable due to hardware limitations.
This, as the Nexus S (which is the same internal hardware) is running Android 4 right now.
If an OEM were to release less phones a year, but provide excellent support for them for more than a year1, I could strongly recommend to my friends to only buy from them. But I can’t recommend Samsung, since they don’t.
I can only recommend Google’s Nexus brand, now.
Heck, most OEMs hardly support their devices for more than a month. ↩
“Dreamweaver was attempting to be helpful, but the moment it reformatted my code, I threw a fit. YOU TOUCHED MY CODE. Dreamweaver never recovered from that horrendous first impression.
—Michael Lopp
“Few outside the technological field even knew his name, yet his work has impacted every person who has ever touched an electronic device. And I mean that quite literally.
—Gene Yuh on the death of Dennis Ritchie.
John Gruber on the threat of Google:
A different perspective would be that Google is the bigger threat, and that using Apple products is a way to better protect our privacy and personal information.
This was in response to Dave Winer suggesting why he uses Android:
If there is no alternative to iOS then Apple will have exclusive control over what makes it to market. That is a future none of us should want to live in.
I agree that both threats are very real. Which is why I hope neither wins, but that they continue to compete, forcing each other to be less evil.
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches next week, and I’ve long looked forward to this game. I know what I’ll be doing as the year ends.
I was slowly working on an add-on to block social buttons on websites, but I recently just found Ghostery. They have an extension for Chrome and Firefox, and it rocks.
A lot of sites are using widgets more, be it for ads, or these terrible social buttons that have emerged. Besides not wanting to spend time downloading the social buttons that I won’t use, what I hate the most is that they all have this in common: If they lag, they stall the rest of the page.
That’s because they document.write their contents into the page, which prevents all further rendering until they’ve loaded. Don’t do that. Read this from Rich Thornett about how to make your widgets suck less.
My name is Sean McArthur, I'm a web developer at Mozilla, and enjoy JavaScript, Python, Android, writing and Star Wars.
