Return Styles: Pseud0ch, Terminal, Valhalla, NES, Geocities, Blue Moon. Entire thread

Why browsers are bloated

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-27 0:20

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

Name: Anonymous 2014-11-21 23:40

>>311
I'm not cudder, just so you know.

Do you consider [personal project] to be "knowledge about yourself"?
Yes. Any material about yourself online can be viewed and interpreted. A possible employer could look at my online work and come to some irrational conclusion and place judgement. Like if I do functional programming in my free time, then I must be one of those crazy haskellers that will want to change the company's code to be pure. Or I don't know how to program imperitively. These are trivial. At worst I become a target of investigation and police acuse my open source software of being ``illegal hacking tools''. Fuck them.

What the hell?!
Why do you care anyways? It's none of your business what I do with my free time.

Why the hell don't you just start contributing anonymously, without letting people know it's you?
If people want to find out who you are they'll analyze what you've posted. See the attempts on Satoshi (bitcoin). If I contribute to a project anonymously, I have to isolate all ideas and methods used in that project. If I accidentally reuse an identifying technique in another project directly associated with me, I'm linked to it. Coding conventions like spacing and variable names are also an issue, but easier to deal with.

Why the hell don't you just start contributing anonymously, without letting people know it's you?
Why would I? Give me a reason that makes it worth the hassle.

Newer Posts