thebuccaneer's comments

On: You might not need jQuery

[thebuccaneer]

Would just like to point out that, if you are using a commonly used CDN, jQuery/Zepto will most likely be cached already in the browser.

On: Why JavaScript Is Doomed

[thebuccaneer]

This is a really poor article. It doesn't really explain why JavaScript is doomed. It doesn't explain what's bad about JavaScript... but then he goes on to list some frameworks on top of JS that are awesome. Sorry, but if JS sucked, then how is it possibly to have awesome frameworks derived on top of JS? Surely, those are examples of how cool JS is. And how can you say Node.js is cool, but JS sucks.

Sigh... Besides that this article is a jumbled mess to read, the TL;DR of it would essentially boil down to: "I don't like JavaScript because I don't like the way it looks. It's doomed!"

On: PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed

[thebuccaneer]

I only know 1 person who is actively enthusiastic about Windows 8. Everyone else has been extremely negative about it.

On: PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed

[thebuccaneer]

the only minor issue with that is that flash is a beast and, to watch higher def videos, you need a more powerful machine

[pjmlp → thebuccaneer]

At least on Windows with a proper graphics card, Flash is not a problem.

Not sure about other systems.

On: The Api Paradox

[thebuccaneer]

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On: The Api Paradox

[thebuccaneer]

this begs for a 'no s--t sherlock' comment

[SPSteinbeck → thebuccaneer]

And your response begs for a downvote.

[thebuccaneer → SPSteinbeck]

why? for pointing out that, in 2013, someone had the revelation that if you fish in someone elses pond, be careful... because they might cut off your access?

On: Balancer Battle – Load testing HAproxy, Nginx and ...

[thebuccaneer]

Where is Varnish in this mix?

[GibbyBorn → thebuccaneer]

Varnish is slow as hell, see: http://todsul.com/nginx-varnish

[thebuccaneer → GibbyBorn]

And, yet, running the same test on my own varnish server yields 33k requests/sec with 50 concurrent requests and 28k requests/sec with 200 concurrent requests.

Something tells me that perhaps Tod Sul is doing something wrong.

[GibbyBorn → thebuccaneer]

Absolute numbers are useless. Different hardware will produce different numbers.

[thebuccaneer → GibbyBorn]

http://bit.ly/14XPD3O

On: Server side logging to Chrome console from PHP and...

[thebuccaneer]

Isn't this a bit like FirePHP (except FirePHP has more browser support) ?

[Mahn → thebuccaneer]

Yes, but FirePHP was definitively not available for Chrome when ChromePHP (now Chrome Logger) first came out, and as far as I can see (http://www.firephp.org/) it doesn't officially support it yet.

On: The Next Microsoft

[thebuccaneer]

Eh, the logo also looks like the bit of the blade you snap off on a utility knife. Not sure that's a good image to convey. :p

"If you don't buy our products, someone from Microsoft will cut you."

http://image.made-in-china.com/4f0j00veRTkBUralbh/Utility-Kn...