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Looks like this is using clang++ instead of clang-cl, which sets almost all of these flags automatically.

bla2on Macron emails leaked by wikileaks

Then why nothing on Trump?

Google has been pushing chrome on their sites for years. Firefox's drop in desktop is recent. So just marketing can't be the explanation.

bla2on The Decline of Marriage

> If people are voluntarily opting out of marriage and family

I'm not married, I'm in a long term committed relationship, I have kids. The article seems to think that being married and having kids is somehow the same. It's not.

bla2on How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox

I wonder how much harder this approach will make compiler updates for them.

bla2on The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography

I don't think there's anything wrong with þ either. It fell out of favor, so it went away. If ß falls out of favor one day that's fine, but at the moment it's part of the language and that's fine too.

bla2on The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography

On Windows, altgr-shift-ß.

bla2on The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography

As a German, I disagree with you. German's not English, even though you might prefer if it was. Others don't. It's fine that it uses the letters it ended up with historically. This change fixes an internal inconsistency, your reply seems fairly irrelevant. It feels like replying to some bugfix in, say, Ruby with something like "I never liked Ruby anyhow".

bla2on Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late

At the peak of JavaScript fatigue in 2013

I don't think JavaScript fatigue peaked in 2013. FTA:

it is quite easy to maintain a large, flexible, well-engineered SPA with React, Vue, or other lightweight JS libraries, even at enterprise companies with large teams.

Vue's initial release was just over three years ago. Other technologies used by enterprise companies has usually proven itself for a decade or two. Articles like this don't help with JavaScript fatigue.

bla2on Google's response to the European Commission fine

Sounds a bit tone deaf. On the other hand, I'm not sure if there's anything else they can do at this point. They've lost the case and the appeal won't change that, but investors would be even unhappier if they didn't even try to appeal.

bla2on Chris Lattner: “Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me”

> Because he doesn't like it there

More likely the other way round.

bla2on David Bonderman Resigns from Uber Board

You have to look at the remark in the context it was made. They were having a meeting where they presumably tried hard to make the point that they're very serious about fixing their culture. This is the only way to _maybe_ keep this believable, even if you feel that "everyday sexism" should be considered harmless.

bla2on Amazon sues former AWS VP over non-compete deal

Certainly makes Amazon a less desirable employer for me.

bla2on Apple Announces Full WebRTC Support in Safari 11

Still only supports proprietary codecs from what I understand. So not "full".

bla2on JSC loves ES6

That's cool, but it feels a bit like making sure your room is tidied up while your house is on fire -- it's not clear it's the most pressing priority.

But webrtc support is cool.

bla2on Human Interface Guidelines

The first thing in the macOS guide covers how apps should behave in fullscreen mode. Most people I know only use fullscreen mode accidentally; family has had problems figuring out how to get out of fullscreen mode after accidentally entering it.

bla2on Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves

It works for me. I'm on mobile and get an AMP page.

bla2on WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

Also written by an (Ex-)Mozillian. Seems like wondering about Firefox's place in the world is currently top-of-mind there :-(

bla2on Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves

1. Click "web" link below story here on HN 2. Click first result on Google

WSJ doesn't paywall if the referrer is Google.

bla2on Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

Sounds like Apple's underinvestment in mobile Safari makes it currently impossible to implement this well in web pages in iOS, and that the AMP team is working with Apple to fix their broken platform. I don't see how this isn't Apple's bug.

bla2on Android O Beta Program

My N build (stock Android on Pixel) has night mode.

bla2on Nvidia Is Building Its Own TensorFlow Processor Unit

Vaporware announcement 2 days before Google I/O...I wonder what Nvidia expects Google to announce.

bla2on Post-Brexit Britain and the UK’s Shrinking Tech Talent Pool

$950 seems very cheap for NYC. Where are you going to live?

bla2on 7 wild predictions Bill Gates has made that could come true

By last count in 2016, the world saw just 37 new cases of polio. That's down from more than 400 in the late 1980s

But the graph's y axis says "thousands". From 400,000 to 37 is a bit more meaningful than from 400 to 37.

bla2on Why I Don't Prepare for Job Interviews

I used to work at Google. I didn't study for the interviews, I just showed up. It went well enough to be hired. I did study CS and know my algorithms and data structures though.

bla2on Google Earth Redesigned

Thanks for the reply. I played with this new version and with Maps's Earth mode for a bit today, and to me they feel identical 3d-eise (except that the new thing only works in chrome, and I like Maps's UI better).

bla2on Google Earth Redesigned

I love that 3d experience you call "crappy". To each their own, I suppose.

bla2on Google Earth Redesigned

I don't know why Google Earth exists. The satellite mode in maps is very good, doesn't depend on PNaCl, and is part of Google Maps, where it makes sense.

bla2on Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups

Sounds like the market is telling startups that early engineers are worth more than 0.1% of stock options.

bla2on Thread Safety Analysis in Clang

In my experience dynamic checkers like https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html tend to work better that static checks.