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codinghorroron Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good

It's not 40% faster at "almost all other benchmarks". In Geekbench 4 single core, it's about 15% faster, and in many other benchmarks about the same. That's why the official guidance from Apple is that the XS should be 15% faster. Having seen the other low level benchmarks, I was really surprised when I saw the Speedometer results..

codinghorroron Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good

JS perf has tightly tracked single threaded CPU perf for a long, long time -- as long as I can remember. That said, it is certainly possible memory speed is also a factor, see https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

codinghorroron Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good

As I said in my reply to that, it could also be in combination with the much faster memory / caches on A12 -- see https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

codinghorroron Ask HN: What do you struggle with?

At this point? Sanity.

codinghorroron Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

Welcome to The Strategy Tax

codinghorroron Classic 1984 video game Robot Odyssey available online

oh my goooosh this is amazing. See: https://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you... and specifically http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/01/rob...

codinghorroron I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

I wouldn't say I care about it on HN but it is a site topic (programming) that is relevant to my career, so it aligns with my interests. Reddit is just.. irrelevant.. to basically everything. It's fine for entertainment at best.

codinghorroron I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

I can't imagine a world where anyone would care about their Reddit account karma. I periodically destroy any Reddit account I have to use as a matter of online hygiene.

(and yes, I destroyed the account I did an AMA on a while back as well.)

codinghorroron AMD Reveals Threadripper 2: Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh

it's still true, the sweet spot just moved to 2 cores instead of 1

codinghorroron Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT

> It's the Rails convenience stuff which slows things down massively.

Yeah no kidding.. https://samsaffron.com/archive/2018/06/01/an-analysis-of-mem...

codinghorroron The end of Iridium flares?

You may not have gotten an offer, but you do get something else of incalculable value: my upvote!

codinghorroron The “Run Less Software” philosophy

that's right and instead you should outsource them to us

codinghorroron Stack Overflow Culture

Also note that the pattern of splitting into experts and newbies is common in the SE engine, look at English vs. English Learners and Math vs. Mathoverflow. You are correct.

codinghorroron Stack Overflow Culture

> I wish I could see the actual comments from others that irritated Rob but it seems like I can't find his SO profile. (Did Rob Conery delete his SO profile?[1])

You and me both. Rob emailed me about this and I asked him the same thing.

Criticism without actual examples is not actionable. Also one person’s pot-ah-to is often another person’s poh-tah-to if you know what I mean.

codinghorroron Stack Overflow Culture

Downvotes do cost 1 rep already. They have for almost a decade now.

codinghorroron Stack Overflow Culture

I completely agree that anonymous downvotes are an unfettered negative _in systems of discussion and opinion_.

codinghorroron Stack Overflow Culture

We hadn’t quite figured out that opinions and discussion questions were not a good fit in the early days.

codinghorroron Stack Overflow Culture

Stack Overflow is for facts, data, and science. Head over to Quora to see how the other path turned out.

codinghorroron Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

It is wildly inaccurate to call HN or Reddit “strong moderation” — the tooling alone is abysmally bad, plus Reddit can’t put the “post anything you want as long as it is not literally illegal” genie back in the bottle so easily after a decade.

codinghorroron Getting free of toxic tech culture

For example here https://wpengine-careers.com — seems way more representative of the “average developer” job than Google. Getting in to Google is elite, like making the NBA, and they have extreme barriers to entry.

I don’t think I could get a job at Google, for example; I would not pass their intensive multi-week screening process. I wouldn’t even try.

codinghorroron Getting free of toxic tech culture

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...

For web developers, it's 34%, which is roughly the same as dentists.

Computer "science" is kinda BS as a field.

codinghorroron Leap: An Online Community for Women

> Then you invite in to the community people who have been socialised as men, have grown up as men, have spent most of their professional lives as men and who have often contributed to exactly the kind of working environment that makes womens' lives difficult as tech workers. That's defeating the whole point of a "community where the core culture [will be] set by women".

Thank you for bringing this up, I had many of the same thoughts but it was not my place to say it. I think it is important, though.

codinghorroron The browser “Brave” loads major news sites 2x – 8x faster

This is completely credible if it has built in adblocking.

codinghorroron Killing Off Wasabi (2015)

Still dead!

codinghorroron So Close

Look up the marshmallow experiment.

codinghorroron Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

Well, sort of, but it is a complex, slippery slope and easiest to just avoid the realm of opinion altogether.

codinghorroron Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

Anywhere but Stack Overflow. It is a great big Internet!

codinghorroron Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

Completely incorrect. You can edit answers as an anonymous user and have been able to since.. 2010-ish?

codinghorroron Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

Completely incorrect, you can answer any question as a brand new user. As another commenter pointed out, maybe you meant commenting? Which isn’t answering the question, but leaving a post-it note on an existing answer or question.

codinghorroron Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

The people who are dissatisfied invariably ask opinion based questions. That is not what Stack Overflow is for. Sure, there is always more than one way to do it, and any good SO question often has three solid viable answers — but if there are dozens? hundreds? .. it’s no longer a question, but a bikeshed type discussion.