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eiji··on Mozilla in 2013
Try FF on windows 8. It's an abysmal experience. Try to remove Google vom FF Android. Not possible.

I could go on and on.

eiji··on Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
Why is it that you can have a professional website, that tries to sell stuff, and there is no company or address or anything anywhere accessible?

Duet mentions a name, and 23&W has a contact form also, but there is just nothing.

eiji··on Tcl/Tk 8.6 released (now stackless, w/coroutines, tailcalls, and more)
The TIP#257[1] (Tcl Improvement Proposal) explains how rich and thought-out the TclOO component is. Endless possibilities. It's a nice read to learn more about OO-concepts like filters, mixins and meta-classes.

Some might ask how TclOO compares to iTcl's. For one the performance is in another league.[2](Version 0.3)

[1] http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/257

[2] http://wiki.tcl.tk/18152#pagetoc16f40cc9

eiji··on How We Want To Fix Team Chat
I keep seeing this over and over on numerous landing pages: Why do people run ads for other companies? Do you guys get Apple hardware at a discount and must show them in your pictures?

This has nothing to do with being for or against any vendor. It's alienating your users, and you never want to do that. Brands communicate emotions, it's risky to expose yourself to that. Or is that on purpose?

eiji··on The one where I try and explain Surface RT vs. Pro
As a consumer, it's a sad thing to see what Microsoft does with the "Surface Pro", in my view a product that would take the ultrabook segment by storm.

Microsoft obviously has struck some deals with pc producers and committed to hold the product back until after the holiday season. They probably even make more money that way.

It's just a matter of time, until Apple is going to counter the Surface with their own ios/macosx hybrid, which I think is the future. I would not be surprised to see the first hint for this "surface" sometime early next year, after the holidays, and before the actual Surface Pro hits the stores.

Microsoft is betting for Apple to not pull this off so quickly, but if they are wrong, the Windows market share will continue to shrink at an accelerated pace next year.

Microsoft had their shoot this Christmas season to do something bold and go big with Surface RT AND Surface Pro, but they choose to give in with the OEM's.

eiji··on “Nones” on the Rise: One-in-Five U.S. Adults Have No Religious Affiliation
While I think this "coming out" is an intelligent observation, I don't agree with your "first step", discovering what religion (not) has to offer to a person. With that comment I can't upvote the entire statement.

To start with, it probably offers a sense of community. It can also help bridge gaps between different parts of our society. I appreciate the charity work. However, I'm part of the 20%, so I'm standing at the sidelines on this one.

eiji··on How Sacha Greif and Nathan Barry sold $39k worth of eBooks
Very smart, to drive even more sales of both books with a podcast "series" starring both authors. Which one of you came up with that genius idea? Will you cover the podcast in the podcast?
eiji··on TeX Live 2012 released
I have to ask a rhetorical question: What does the version of ubuntu has to do with the version of texlive?
eiji··on Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux
Google is so invested in Flash at this point. Why don't they just take over/buy "Flash" with it's engineers from Adobe? Probably hard to separate them from the Air team and all the other "products" from Adobe.
eiji··on Hands-on: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser
Google stopped innovating the "Browser" for legacy versions of their operating system. Just like Microsoft. However, the Marketshare of legacy Android is still huge, all stuck with the old "Browser".
eiji··on Crowdtilt (YC W12) raises $2.1M
Speaking of which, I would give the female picture on the homepage a minor makeover and tone her down a little.
eiji··on German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
The german police patrols in 2 person teams. You'll never see a single policeman in a car. This changes the dynamic of every confrontation.
eiji··on JavaScript in JavaScript (js.js): smaller, faster, and with demos
I believe this effort came about primarily to provide a safe interp for the Tcl plugin:

http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/

http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/safetcl.html

eiji··on Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking
Probably a stupid question: Does OpenFlow possibly change my home network setup in the future too? Or for a small bussiness? Coffee shops etc.
eiji··on ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data
Phrases like "Kittens will die if you abuse this service" make me uncomfortable. Just replace it with "Privacy & Terms comming soon".

I continue to read unprofessional things like that in the startup environment. I'd say leave the humor to your customers. Just my opinion. People always talk about "scaling". A phrase like that does not.

eiji··on [dead]
Google's main purpose is search. How can it rank pages without access to facebook? Every share or like is a stab to the heart of google.
eiji··on Uses of git
Allowed uses of git?

Maybe someone can shed some light on that aspect, and the webpage should too.

Every time when I see "GNU GPL" I just turn around and think it's not worth the trouble.

eiji··on 16-Year-Old MIT Admit Sends Her Admission Letter Into Space & Films the Journey
I wait for the day one of those "space" experiments by some high-school student (and his parents) ends up crashing a jet engine or lands on a windshield of a van going 80 miles/hour.

It's all fun until reality and hits you right in the face and you pay for your YouTube video for the rest of your life. Is it likely to happen? No, but that wont save you afterwards.

eiji··on I don't think you browse like I do
There is one IE9 feature that I miss in Chrome or Firefox:

"Preserve Favorites website data" under Delete Browsing History.

With that I can delete all cookies after a session but my logins stay active. And I don't need an extension for it. Every browser should support that. And the OS integration of IE9 on windows 7 is superior to the competition.

eiji··on Show HN: Our 5 month project Airtime for Email
A real "About Us" section would be nice. No marketing unit is going to do business with two twitter accounts.

And IMHO don't use twitter accounts with your position on SOPA. 95% of your customers don't care or don't (want to) know.

eiji··on Sites that pushed JavaScript to the limit
I think "Linux in your browser" was the limit in 2011:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

eiji··on The Browser Cold War
I find it interesting that Safari is not picking up with all the success they have recently.

And these plots should start to show more clearly what's going on in the mobile and desktop browser-space. I assume this plot (page 2) does not show mobile at all.

eiji··on Google Chrome 16 Released
All my devices? What about Android?

I still need an app from some stranger to get sync working.

eiji··on A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier
Downvote for what? Bad character?

To design is shop is not about math or throughput, it's all about psychology. You don't want lines to move fast, you just want them to appear like moving fast.

My point is merely that self-checkout is not only about speed, it's about personal comfort too.

eiji··on A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier
Self-checkouts are not just about speed. They also appeal to specific kind of people.

I use them because I don't want to interact with someone just to get some groceries. I know, it's kind of sad, but I don't want to say 'Hi' and 'Thank you' and I don't want 5 bags when 2 would suffice and don't want to explain that, so I just do it myself.

eiji··on MemShrink progress report, week 23
I don't see silent updates in FF10 yet. True silent ones are only possible if you move the install into the Roaming area, otherwise win7 with resonable security settings will ask for confirmation.

From what I know, IT-departments don't like that.

eiji··on Google Bar: The next stage in Google redesign
The 'new' toolbar is higher than the black one, taking up more space, every site seems to transition to those sticking toolbars that do not go away when I scroll down. It's not about content anymore, it's about navigation and sharing. The toolbars from 10 years ago you could actually deinstall, this one unavoidable.

And this 'save a click' argument is just silly. Hover still means you have to target two points.

What's is funny though, the Google-bar at the bottom would at least make sense on a chromebook, but at the top they always suck, because contrary to an OS taskbar, they don't provide an invinite mouse target because of the Tab-bar.

eiji··on The SurveyMonkey killer.
Templates / Thanks-Page / Powered by PopSurvey points to example.com

I wouldn't say killer, but good luck anyway.

eiji··on Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
It's not the IE/Chrome squeeze I'm concerned about. Webkit(Safari, Silk, Chrome) and IE are the only players on their mobile platforms, that's what makes me sad. FF on Android is so far behind webkit, I wonder if they will ever catch up, or rather, if they should even try.
eiji··on Apprenticeships - Employers Must Get Past Degree Snobbery
As a fellow german, but not a Fachinformatiker, I suspect colleagues without a degree still have a hard time to work their way up into more advanced management roles or just into the higher income brackets. I wish that would not be the case though.

What I find intriguing, although I'm surrounded by "Programmers", almost no CS! We have physicist, mechanical engineers, mathematicians, historians and english majors even.

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