HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ofbriggs

11 karma · joined March 29, 2016

submissionscomments
ofbriggs··on Ask HN: Why do some hardware only have proprietary drivers?
There have been efforts at least from AMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

For recent cards, it makes more sense for these companies to tend on the side of not giving out competitive information, hence their NDA processes for developers.

ofbriggs··on Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers
> Adults don't need to write down a code of conduct, because they adhere to an unwritten code of conduct. Children whinge, 'you shouldn't do that, because this says not to!'; adults don't do that, because they know that they oughtn't — and they refrain from associating with others who do. Children want their clique to gang up on the people they don't like; adults simply walk away from those people.

Because no adult has ever harassed another in a programming community? I would love it if everyone behaved politely and courteously, however this is not currently what is happening in some projects. Having a CoC is merely a preventative measure to curb bad behavior for those who can't self-police.

ofbriggs··on Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds
Currently firefox is blocked by this, and some other related APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectio...

Once dom.select_events.enabled defaults to true, we'll be able to polyfill most of the other missing APIs.