HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

dgesang

222 karma · joined October 7, 2012

submissionscomments
dgesang··on SourceTree for Windows beta
Are there any features in SourceTree that TortoiseHg does not provide?
dgesang··on Opera moves to WebKit
Hm, I didn't say a word about time.
dgesang··on Opera moves to WebKit

    While only >10%-share browsers can be worth commercially developing for
That's one problem: many web developers program for browsers, not standards.

    In other words, ideally, there would be a "polyculture" in innovation and experimentation,
    that would constantly funnel into a "monoculture" in actual final standards.
Yes, and IMHO that is what happens to browser rendering engines atm. Everyone agrees/complies to one technology and by doing so it becomes a de facto standard. Then new approaches for new problems can be taken from there, without reinventing the wheel. But this also creates room for alternatives to rise, so we are back to multiculturism. :)

E.g. replacing JS with some other language would be such a new alternative. Open-Source-Lua-Presto, imagine that! ;)

dgesang··on Opera moves to WebKit
IMHO that would only be true if you consider 'web developers' as 'users' of technologies. Actual 'end-users' usually don't care what technology was used, as long as they can use the website/tool without any hassle.
dgesang··on Opera moves to WebKit
After reading some comments here I come to the conclusion that (too) many web developers are just a bunch of opportunistic ignorant hypocrites. On the one hand they repeatedly state that constantly expanding variety of HTML9 technologies[1] is THE best thing that could have ever happen to the Internet and that there is nothing worse than mono culture. On the other hand they do not seem to be willing to even consider testing their webapps with a browser with a market share below 10%, because it's just not that important, and embrace the overall greatness of Chrome/Webkit and that it should be the only browser we should develop for/with.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206211

dgesang··on 300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit
1. No arguments, just option.

2. Herd-mind might apply for Chrome-Hipsters, but Opera is far from being mainstream. Sadly.

3. I'd love to have Opera as my default browser everywhere, but it just doesn't work that easily for me. Maybe you can share me your weird/unusual insights on how to apply a default browser for the entires win7 system, including all applications?

4. You must be doing something horribly wrong. I DO MISSION CRITICAL WORK WITH OPERA - all day long - for many many years.

5. Shame on you for creating a fake account. You deserve to be downvoted.

6. tl;dr is supposed to be _above_ the content.

dgesang··on Web Development: A Crazy World
> As for Oracle, not much can redeem them.

If anything. :)

> I wish Adobe would let it die already.

I know many here can't accept the truth that Flash had, has and will have its place on the Internet. There was a need for such a technology and there still is. I will be here for another 5-15 years or so, so we should make the best out of it instead of screaming 'DIE ALREADY'. But as always, there is plenty of room for improvements. :)

FYI: Adobe donated Flex to the ASF a while ago and the mailing list is already the most active on ASF. It is actively developed and people are quite motivated.

dgesang··on Web Development: A Crazy World
> Imagine is Adobe, Oracle or MS had won the Flash/Flex, Java or ActiveX battles, where would we have been today?

I don't know what 'would have been', but I know that we would not be where we are today (in a positive sense) without those companies and the many many technologies and products they have provided us with (even though some of them can only serve as bad examples).

dgesang··on Web Development: A Crazy World
Reminds me of this: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SteveFulton/20120926/178364/N...
dgesang··on HTML5 Game Development
I use Chromium, FF and Opera, but each for a specific purpose.

Opera: General browsing/research with dozens of tabs. It's so stable you can have it run for several days and don't need to worry about performance, everything runs smoothly, always. When it comes to stability, Opera is the Debian of browsers. ;) Also it has the easiest/best implementation of incognito mode. There are many other reason, but it's best to try it out for yourself. Not just one day or two, but several months.

FF: For development, debugging, testing and some other stuff. I prefer to use it for some darker corners of the web and websites I don't trust, as No-Script is the most advanced script blocker available.

Chromium (in specific Comodo Dragon): Almost the same as FF, but in addition I have to use it to keep track of all the cutting-edge HTML5 stuff. Sad story behind this is that many web-developers don't care about standards and only test there sites with FF/Chromium.

I like them all, I'm not an ideologist, every tool has its purpose. But Opera suits my needs the most.

What I don't like are ignorant web developers!

dgesang··on HTML5 Game Development
No Opera support. Sucks.
dgesang··on Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet
Thanks for another great example why 'HTML5' is not (yet) an alternative to Flash when it comes to vector performance and games.
dgesang··on Warning to YC applicants: We're going to restart HN tonight
Wow, there really seams to be an addon for everything, even if they make a simple thing more complicated. Why don't you just copy your post before you hit the 'submit' button? Easier, faster, better?!

FWIW: Use Ditto if you don't want to lose the previous buffer content.

dgesang··on Free TrueCrypt Hard Drive Password Cracking
Can't wait to see some dox released where someone actually used this one. :)
dgesang··on I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
No it is not enough, but it could be worse. And for most regions in the world IT IS worse.

Stop implying such bullshit into others statement. All I said was that in those countries people treat foreigners much worse. I didn't justify or judge either side.

dgesang··on I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
> Chances are the kid's asking the question because the parent or another adult equates a head scarf with terrorism.

So either the parents or even the kid itself is brainwashed by poorly spinned U.S. TV.

> NONE OF WHICH IS THE LEAST FUCKING BIT OKAY, EITHER!

Ofc, stop screaming, I didn't said it was.

dgesang··on I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
The latter was said by a child, so it's not even worth talking about. The mother acted wrongly, not the child.

But lets twist it, only without the masquerade: Imagine 'Ela' is on holiday in the Near East and wears a tank top. Don't you think that people would 'look funny at her'? She also might get molested for not being dressed properly. Local women even get stoned for that.

dgesang··on Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org
... and then again php isn't good for anything anymore http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
dgesang··on Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org
Nice to see that someone is actually trying to bring some order to the current HTML5 chaos: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SteveFulton/20120926/178364/N...
dgesang··on Adobe's Source Code Pro Font
Here is another nice comparison of 24 monospace fonts in one picture: http://hostpicturefree.com/images/prograpup.png
← PreviousPage 5 of 5