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 Just making sure. I've been accused of being pot-like in the past.
TTFN - Kent
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I'd never say that about you as far as you know.
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This is a major feature release, accumulating about 5 months of development. Most improvements seem to be under-the-hood performance improvements, optimizations and better compatibility. "In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead."
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Now if they'd only post actual before/after benchmarks instead of the extremely vague "upto 20% performance gains". Comparing with MS's implementation would be a bonus.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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With the 1.2 release, the Dart team continues its commitment to regular, compatible updates to our core runtime and tools. This release includes improved debugging, faster networking, and Angular support in the Editor.
Who is actually using Dart, and what do you think?
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I used it to write a side-scrolling game as an exercise. Seems very nice to use and the dev cycle is much better than traditional JS. I don't hold out much hope for its use outside Chrome though (except by compile to JS), which seems a shame - having a browser hosted VM (Dartium) is much better experience.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With Spritz[^]
Quote: Reading is inherently time consuming because your eyes have to move from word to word and line to line. Traditional reading also consumes huge amounts of physical space on a page or screen, which limits reading effectiveness on small displays. Scrolling, pinching, and resizing a reading area doesn’t fix the problem and only frustrates people. Now, with compact text streaming from Spritz, content can be streamed one word at a time, without forcing your eyes to spend time moving around the page.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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So, what are they really offering?
Wikipedia Article which has a section on reading rates.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Seems to be a chunk of JS and an API. How they will monetize that escapes me though. Especially in light of free options like Spreeder[^] or Beeline[^]
TTFN - Kent
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I believe there is an upcoming Android app.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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FWIW I had no trouble with the fastest option on the page, 500WPM; but as a 60-80 page/hour (mass market fiction paperback books) reader I'm already in that general speed bucket so I don't think it really says anything.
On the other hand, that demo felt more like the keyword hunting I do when looking for something than reading for comprehension; and while I can go several times faster doing that my retention levels are much lower.
On the gripping hand I really would be interested in trying a demo at 1000 WPM and doing a comprehension test afterwards.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: On the gripping hand
I see you're a "Mote in God's Eye" fan. Great book and the second two, too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Great! There are still people in this world who know that reading is more than knowing the alphabet.
But when the text to be read has no content, what do you want to retain for comprehension?
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Developers and managers share some of the silliest answers to technical interview questions that they’ve heard - or given "Visual Basic is a perfectly capable language for writing system-level tools"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Visual Basic is a perfectly capable language for writing system-level tools"
Yes, in the same way that a boat is a capable sea-level tool.
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Quote:
Me: How do you kill a zombie?
Candidate: With a chainsaw?
Seems like a perfectly sensible answer to me. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, he should have gotten the job. Unless they were looking for "headshot", but any solution good enough for Ash is good enough for me.
TTFN - Kent
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Don't forget the double-tap. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Twice now Apple has bypassed Snow Leopard when it patched newer editions I think I've heard this story somewhere else
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Wow, supporting an OS for a total of 4.5 years - that really sucks.
I guess Apple really don't give an elephant for their desktop users any more. And some MS users are still complaining about XP being retired after, what, 13 years.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A diverse set of real-world Java benchmarks shows Google is fastest, Azure is slowest, and Amazon is priciest I put my money on the altocumulus lenticularis
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As insecure as passwords generally are, they're not going away anytime soon. Every year you have more and more passwords to deal with, and every year they get easier and easier to break. You need a strategy. 1235 <- There, saved you the trouble of reading
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I can't read green text on black. Maybe that's a security feature.
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Yeah, that was mighty-dog horrid. I ended up using an extension to change the colour scheme just so I didn't go blind.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Or to write your passwords down on a piece of paper and secure that piece of paper.
Yeah, that's the strategy I use nowadays. If only I could decipher my hand-writing... That's a level of extra security I actually don't need.
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