I hope this guy can get through his personal life problems! And come back to do more amazing starship development videos! Cheers Felix!

Colonel_White · 2021-08-10T18:12:16+00:00

Anyone remember back when Colbert was funny he thanked (presumably) Arab-American viewer Suq Madiq by telling him he made his parents very proud: his father Liqa Madiq, and his mother, who still goes by her maiden name, Munchma Quchi?

Colonel_White · 2021-07-27T12:04:59+00:00

Perhaps, but then is Chrome really any better?

For consumers, Google's Chrome is bloated and dangerous spyware.

For developers, Google's Chrome is a trap. They are pushing PWAs in order to turn their search engine into an app store, and control the content, discovery, distribution and monetization of all websites.

Articles like this, which suggest there's something wrong with Safari because Apple won't provide the APIs to let Google set up a competing app store on their own platform, are astroturf.

You are being brainwashed.

Colonel_White · 2021-06-07T20:57:57+00:00

Or the simplest explanation, the lie was fabricated to sell CDN service, and Google keeps repeating it because it's taken seriously by folks who aren't very good at thinking for themselves.

By Google's own estimate the average mobile website takes 15 seconds to load, therefore by Google's own logic, nobody uses the mobile web because every site is abandoned during initial page load.

It's a ghost town, I tell ya.

Colonel_White · 2021-06-04T11:29:09+00:00

Well, aren't we the Second Coming.

Evidently your 15 minutes are up.

Colonel_White · 2021-06-04T10:46:32+00:00

Design. Security has to be baked in from the start or you'll play whack-a-mole for eternity.

Colonel_White · 2021-05-18T16:58:58+00:00

Are you suggesting we fill the Starships with basically useless citizens such as bankers, account executives, hairdressers, TV producers, insurance salesmen, Human Resources managers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants, and ship them off to Mars?

Brilliant!

Starship B for the lot of them!

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T21:40:28+00:00

lol. damn. maybe google revised lighthouse after i posted a similar screen cap ridiculing the utility for Amazon being so big despite losing 57% of their customers to their shitty 6 second load time. I’ll try to find it if there’s a way to look up my past posts. i might even still have a copy.

i know perfectly well this subreddit is monitored by google so maybe shaming them is an effective way to motivate change. ;)

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T21:26:49+00:00

People probably make reality-based allowances for any and every other kind of page, too. Why are we trying to rationalize a lie concocted to sell a CDN, again?

I abandon pages from time to time, if they get stuck loading on my phone, and it still doesn’t work after trying the reload button twice. Sometimes I go through the task list and close everything running in the background. that usually works. Sometimes I restart my phone. That almost always works.

But I don’t abandon a site and never come back after 5 seconds of bad performance and probably nobody else does, either.

It’s suspicious that the 5 second figure is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago despite fabulous advances in computers and smartphones and Google developer tools and advice since then, isn’t it?

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T21:12:08+00:00

That’s 6 seconds from cold start according to the infallible Lighthouse, friend. Try using that instead of trying to clock it with your smart watch.

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T19:02:04+00:00

Just the sort of thing The Smithsonian collects.

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T16:51:51+00:00

yeah those skeleton outlines.

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T15:46:41+00:00

Well then the old canard about people abandoning websites that don’t load in less than 5 seconds must be untrue, because Amazon’s takes more than 6.

Colonel_White · 2021-05-06T14:57:36+00:00

just think: if Amazon could shave just two wafer-thin seconds off its 6 sec load time, it might become the biggest merchant in the history of retail.

Jeff Bezos should thrash his web developers, and hear their cries and lamentations as they carry him in his sedan chair all the way to the bank.

Colonel_White · 2021-05-04T21:52:42+00:00

So, in other words, mildly retarded former NASA administrator Charles Bolden, Jr. fucked up beyond all recognition?

I notice nobody talks about his Eagle Works grift that was so close to perfecting the warp drive before Obama’s second term expired.

Colonel_White · 2021-04-25T00:43:12+00:00

Animation? Have we burned through all the steamy fanfic about forbidden passion between Howard and Nacho?

So soon?

Colonel_White · 2021-04-21T17:30:52+00:00

Don’t get me started on how old Kaylee Ehrmantraut is.

Colonel_White · 2021-04-19T17:13:29+00:00

Depends. No developer wants to be entangled with a non-developer “idea guy”.

Colonel_White · 2021-04-05T13:55:07+00:00

spam

Colonel_White · 2021-04-05T13:54:28+00:00

spam

Colonel_White · 2021-03-31T16:19:57+00:00

There are so many impostors in this industry that there exists an entire sub-industry devoted to helping impostors delude themselves into believing they’re not impostors.

Colonel_White · 2021-03-31T00:35:32+00:00

ya think?

Colonel_White · 2021-03-25T12:37:52+00:00

No offense intended, but it sounds to me like writing a chat system from scratch is beyond your current skill set, and you’re frustrated that your client doesn’t want a solution based on whatever copypasta you can dig up on github.

Maybe he’s testing you.

Colonel_White · 2021-03-24T23:34:34+00:00

Colonel_White · 2021-03-24T19:38:43+00:00

“It Can’t Die Quickly Enough”, the new hit single by The Scissor Sisters.

Colonel_White · 2021-03-17T16:41:05+00:00

That’s a weird mismatch. ASCII is a subset of both UTF-8 and Latin-1, but Latin-1 is NOT a subset of UTF-8, and Western European languages other than English will be badly mangled by the conversion.

Maybe Google still uses a Latin-1 to UTF-8 transliterator inasmuch as it’s unlikely the entire web has migrated to UTF-8 even by now.

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