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Seems like the link opens a different page from the original ? Original Link : https://media.netflix.com/en/tech-blog/linux-performance-ana...

You can obviously append extra details separately,but if someone gave you a 100 page list which contains every possible detail of every item.Then would you read it? Would you use a dictionary which contained everything etymology to usage and derivations on the same section for each and every word?

EDIT : And yes that is definitely not a rule I would enforce on someone else,but it is a 'guideline' i enforce on myself while reading/making lists

I agree with you on several parts,And there have actually been some decent attempts which i regularly use [1],[2]. I find it fascinating how people use Github to maintain curated lists. But I find list-making as an art in itself.It requires the curator to be able assimilate information in bite sized packets which are informative enough. As a rule,I feel that the size of each list item should inversely proportional to the size of the list. Collaborated and community curated lists are a god-send. Stack-Overflow also maintains really good lists/community articles.

But then think about the lists which are a single person's hardwork or maybe a group of people being paid to do so. A list need not necessarily be objective and can also provide the curator's views. This can be good or bad dependent on breadth of the curators knowledge. Lists(like really well written articles) are often the result of extensive data analysis which is why lists like those provided by WSJ and WGSN[3] are paid/exclusive services.

[1]:https://github.com/wasabeef/awesome-android-ui [2]:https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios [3]:http://www.wgsn.com/en/

And I agree with you. I was not even talking about rebuilding.Its more of.Like imagine if you were asked to make up http handling code from scratch in every project.If you were asked to ignore things like Jquery Ajax or Angular or any other such libraries which are designed to make your work easier and no matter how much you do you can never test the robustness of your private library compared to these. My Point essentially is: I do not want to reinvent the wheel every time.There are a large number of wheels in todays FOSS world.When I can concentrate on the things that matter like stream lining the business logic better,Why should is spend time trying to make framework level code work.

To summarize: You do not need to always rebuild or always stay with legacy code.You need to adapt and determine where would you spend more of your development effort.I cannot spend 80% of my time solving problems that the world has already solved

But the AJAX spec says that if the the request type is GET,the body/data is set to null[1] or am I reading it wrong.

[1]:http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#dom-xmlhttprequest-send

I've had to face the most horrible people with the most horrible requests.One of them being a request to "Send a payload with a Get request" . I spent nearly 2 months of my life convincing them this was not possible.I understand maintaining a high quality of code.But a major part of the reason for using archaic/available-for-the-past-10-years technology is 2 fold: 1.The HPBs do not want to/cannot learn anything new lest they need to one day code in those languages 2.They do not want to risk 'wasting time' of the sub-ordinates on learning something new which would benificial compared to actually doing the work needed.

Another third situation that I would agree with: Clients sometimes really do not like to trust new technology.An age old anecdote is always brought ; "Why fix what is working?"

I guess this would be similar to the Samsung/Apple patent wars which happened?I guess that explains why no-one else tried making anything similar.

Wow.I never gave much thought to Apple's magnetic connector till.The battery box does look like an ugly hack.But what I dont get is.Its magnets attracting.What and exactly what have they patented?

And now the site seems to have messed up.

It does not seem to be working for me. It does not reflect logic changes and I thought it was only for UI,however that also had no effect.Am I doing something wrong?

Its funny how the iPhone often gets used for its sensors/functionalities for far flung use cases. I wonder if an android phone would be capable of this.

And the connected product site[1]. [1]:http://xrapid.com/

They apparently started small, But this has been happening for more than a year now[1],[2]? I wonder if there have been any repercussions yet :

[1]:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-java... [2]:http://gizmodo.com/comcast-is-injecting-ads-right-into-web-p...

As a dev,this interests me too.I just like buying low end phones to figure out their cost reduction/optimization techniques and figuring out how normal apps would survive on them. Although ,I think comparing it to the first iPhone is unfair.

> A Turing tarpit (or Turing tar-pit) is any programming language or computer interface that allows for flexibility in function but is difficult to learn and use because it offers little or no support for common tasks.

Which common task could you not perform with Lisp?And if you are stressing on the `Little or no support`,then thats true any of the lesser popular languages isn't it?

On reading the article,You realise how many of the features are heavily dependent on the chromium project.Considering Safari's penchant for incorporating new features,I do not see this working on iOS anytime soon.

Or to quote Uncle Ben > "With Great power comes great responsibility" ?

For an android developer who has been trying hard to understand lisp,this is amazing.Swank seems a bit unstable(the readme says so too).

Don't we have enough cross platform dev kits anyways?I fail to see the need for so many more platforms.The state of the ART/DVM is going to become like that of the JVM. Maybe as devices become more powerful,it would be capable of handling such needs.But why would you want to develop such apps which you would have to wait till the native platforms release updates which are then ported to these platforms.Android updates happen every 3 months.Maintaining evergreen apps in such cycles is a task in itself.

I understand the evolution of Javascript based frameworks considering the large number of developers available.But now days you have to spend more time learning a framework in comparison to developing something with it.

The only feature which seemed to grab my attention was :

> Can I update my app over the network, outside of the Play Store? Yes. On Android, you can update your app over the network (via HTTP), without first publishing to the Play Store. This can be useful because it doesn’t bother the user with a notification, ensures your users are on the latest version, makes it easier to run A/B experiments, and more.

This would be extremely useful. But I think there would be a catch to this too.I am actually tired of seeing new frameworks come up everyday,especially orgs like Google.

And for the first time I see something on HN after i saw it on Facebook.

I didn't realize this till you put it up.But does this have any effect on your workflow?

Works on FF,but not chrome.That's interesting

EDIT: well there you go : Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'toLowerCase' of undefined

EDIT2: a relevant bug[1] and it even suggests a work around.

[1]:http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/15220

chrome apparently does not have event.key ; you could try event.keyCode or event.keyIdentifier

Why does clicking on the link redirect me to the same wired article?

I have no contribution in it .Its by Koushik Dutta , Koush[1].YOu should check out his other projects too.I use his apps on a regular basis.

[1]:http://koush.com/

Why cannot photographs be simply for the reason of memories?Not everyone person who clicks them uses them for blog posts and aims for maximum number of shares. If I like particular moment,I would like to click a picture a of it.I would like the picture to be my own ,because I would have a descriptive commentary in my head for the picture.A single location being photographed 'too much' is really not an issue which needs solving does it.I like the use-case which requires the parent's permission for a child's picture.

But apart from that,I see this feature being exploited quite a fair bit.

PS : I am not trying to add destructive comments here.But imagine going on a 20k vacation with a 5k camera being told you are not allowed to click a picture.

This[1] page shows that it already exists?

[1]:http://wpcurve.com/slack-integrations/

Completely off topic,but can anyone point me to any google-related post which has not crossed 500 pts?

Isnt this how the Amazon App store would work on the kindles? Instead of one free app a day,you have several apps free.

Am i the only one who is fascinated by the choice of: -the website name -the about section -the contact email id ?

Yes I feel that a lot of times.But what I am trying to make myself understand: -What you said,there are a lot of of amazing stuff going.The mind prefers vacillating compared to singular focus.So if you are trying to get into any one of them,where do I jump into? -The more you get intimidated by all that good stuff going on the more chances that you are going to not focus on a singular thing which could (just maybe) be the place where you become one of those famous ones. -Internet fame is as volatile as it could get.Take Flappy Bird for example. Dong Nguyen was one of those insta-fames .That lasted for a week?

Back to the age old cliche(or atleast a form of it that i remember). ~Do not chase success.Chase your goal and success(fame,debates and all those) will follow .

I know how lame it sounds.But ask any of those people sitting up there.It works.