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EMRZ commented on “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) twitter.com/TechEmails/st... · Posted by u/5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV

keewee7 · 4 years ago

Microsoft had already established itself as the dominant market player in the early 90s. Bill Gates was the richest person in America by 1992 and the richest in the world by 1995.

The 90s Java hype must really have been otherworldly to make him panic this much.

EMRZ · 4 years ago

It was the battle for "the web" and the sun+netscape partnership was an actual menace to microsoft's activex and vbscript things. There is an espisode the Lex Fridman podcast with Brendan Eich where he talks a little about that specific time.[1]

The "panic" was right imo (only in that specific area) i mean, there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE

EMRZ commented on Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013) urbandictionary.com/defin... · Posted by u/5faulker

France_is_bacon · 4 years ago

Huh...could you give examples of what is not compatible or not comprehensible in California, but not elsewhere?

I'd love to know.

EMRZ · 4 years ago

I mean, it is actually comprehensible but you know, California tech workers live in a monopoly money bubble and they think they know something about how the world works. Also they think that their own "culture" and leftist values are relevant to everywhere in the world even if they cant even point places on a map.

I will get banned if i talk more.

EMRZ commented on Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013) urbandictionary.com/defin... · Posted by u/5faulker

EMRZ · 4 years ago

One thing i noticed is that most of the conversation here feels alien to me.

I think this is because most of the people here are living in California and they seem to have a very particular world view not always compatible or even undertandable for anyone from any other place.

I used to enjoy this website in like, 2015/16 i think, now the topics are not even tech related anymore.

EMRZ commented on Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) svelte.dev/blog/virtual-d... · Posted by u/rob

EMRZ · 4 years ago

For me, it's absolutely hilarious to see the frontend development discussion. They somehow figure the way to go full circle every 6 months.

EMRZ commented on Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? · Posted by u/themantri

EMRZ · 4 years ago

I made this [1] little thing just to change a Commodor Amiga emulator opacity so i could copy some images in Deluxe Paint II or even Deluxe Paint in DOSBox.

Made it in like 20 minutes for that absolutely weird use case. Almost never used it again.

[1] https://github.com/manuk3r/procopac

EMRZ commented on Firefox Release 89.0 mozilla.org/en-US/firefox... · Posted by u/looperhacks

csmpltn · 4 years ago

> "We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use."

Why does the UI change with every single Firefox release? I find myself having to re-adjust every time a new update is shipped.

What's wrong with having a consistent experience that survives for more than 6 months? It's just a URL bar, and a bunch of tabs. Just leave it be already.

EMRZ · 4 years ago

> "We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use."

This usually means we reskinned and somehow ended with it being slower.

Also the whole release notes are UI changes, particulary for mac ?

I wished the only non-chromium browser with active development was.. idk, different?

EMRZ commented on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/jimmy2020

roberto · 5 years ago

It's not censorship, it's free market. These are private companies.

EMRZ · 5 years ago

Wait until Google starts blocking URLs in Chrome and Android to protect you from "harmful" content.

Maybe Facebook can join and block in WhatsApp too.

Hey it's free market, private company product yay!

EMRZ commented on Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? · Posted by u/NoRagrets

EMRZ · 5 years ago

How many of the yes voters took the seasonal flu shot? Genuinely asking

EMRZ commented on Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working eminetra.com.au/people-ca... · Posted by u/benryon

EMRZ · 5 years ago

The less tech any home-use item the best. Keep it simple

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