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Would it go away if there was less of it?

Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?

Why isn't HTTP going away?

Where is the 16ms hardwired latency in the browser coming from?

Finally, someone gets it. Thank you!

> we have to migrate everything to javascript

Why?

What I really want is the whole browser to go away.

ACID correct distributed transactions are possible. Google's F1 paper shows how: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Very, very painful problems are very, very valuable.

Compose didn't offer only RethinkDB. It offered many other databases as well.

I wish they had added transactions. It seems like such an important feature.

Does RethinkDB not support transactions? I thought it did.

Did RethinkDB spend $8M in 3 years?

I wish RethinkDB had published a performance benchmark against Hadoop. It'd be enough to show the world how ahead of its times RethinkDB is.

I also wish I knew what RethinkDB's investors are thinking.

Sentences are creations. Does this mean every sentence we write on HN or say to each other by default is closed and needs a license?

Another gem

> My belief is that the inexperienced, interested person will outperform the experienced, uninterested person over time.

> I did customer support by myself until we had 250,000 users

It's good to know what the limit to customer support can be. Don't say customer support doesn't scale.

Is hot reloading that big of a problem?

I'm trying to be an objective observer here.

My text classification software marked the third line as the most authentic, most truthful line.

Huh.

There's a huge discussion in this thread on tabs being slow, which made me wonder: is it necessary for browsers to have tabs?

Windows desktop apps work great without tabs. Could life be better without tabs?

Why isn't Tesla doing this?

In the "Top of the World" graph in the article, there's a dip for Saudi Arabia. Does anyone know why?

If both Allo users have responses recommended by the app, who's chatting with each other -- the users or the apps?

> the programmer ends up with less to specify

I don't see how this can be true. Wouldn't there be less to specify if the programmer didn't have to specify types at all?

> I am not a fan of app-generators

Does a compiler count as a kind of app-generator?

This doesn't sound like the full explanation about the security problems of Java applets. It sounds more like a JIT bug. One can fix the JIT to check for out of bounds errors.

What's the real reason Java applets were insecure?

> Languages don't scale.

Why not?

Why are Legos popular? Is it because they're like containers?

I didn't know this, thanks! It looks like one can have composition after all. http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/Self-4.0-UI-Framework.pdf

You're missing something like this: https://www.monetdb.org/

Mmm I don't know. Self looks like yet another overdesigned thing at 100k+ lines of code that doesn't compile. After 3 mins on the site, I can't figure out the main thing it does.

Sure, the adaptive compilation is nice, and message sends and type inference, but how well do the UIs work?

It's sort of cool to see Urs Hölzle and Craig Chambers in the papers section.

http://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/urs-thesis.pdf

Can anyone summarize these six big economic ideas?

Maybe I should read the code behind Smalltalk. I'm glad the day isn't over.