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Timefire
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Timefire is a personal blog at timepedia.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “On reducing the size of compressed Javascript”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on reducing the size of JavaScript code. The linked post describes transforming JS before gzip compression while keeping its semantics, with an implementation in the GWT source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn."
Most-linked posts?
- On reducing the size of compressed Javascript3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-08-18
- Decentralizing the Web (2008)2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-03-27
- The Traveling Salesman Problem and Javascript Compression2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-22
What Hacker News says?
My own rant on this from 2008 from a different perspective: http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2008/05/decentralizing-web.htm...
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web”Submitted GwtQuake: Taking the Web to the Next Level (HTML5+WebGL Quake) as a story · 102 points
HN discussionI haven't look at the specs deeply, but it would be nice to have a system that did not need any kind of server at all, but the browser itself could be the Persona identity provider. The actual local data needed to pull it off could be replicated (encrypted) to cloud storage so it would work across all your devices and browsers, but the actual profile data itself would never be readable by the servers. I started look…
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “Persona is distributed. Today.”Submitted GWT 2.0: So good it's ridiculous as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSure, but I don't find the social critique very useful either. There are things that Google does, as a corporation, that you can find fault with, technological decisions that may or may not have been influenced by business model. For those, fire away. But the attack on SPDY/HTTP/2.0 because "Google is an advertising company" (which if you actually worked at Google, and knew how people made decisions here, you'd know…
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “HTTP 2.0”Submitted On reducing the size of compressed Javascript as a story · 32 points
HN discussion(Disclaimer: I work at Google). This is going to sound like a humble-brag, but it isn't, I'm trying to give some life advice based on my experience: I have used "CS" algorithmic thinking on multiple projects, I've even used facets of abstract algebra and number theory from my Math degree to further my career and it lifted me out of poverty. Here's an example. A few years ago, I was researching ways to crunch down th…
Comment linking /2009/11/traveling-salesman-problem-and.html
on “Google Tech Dev Guide”Submitted The Traveling Salesman Problem and Javascript Compression as a story · 5 points
HN discussionObligatory self promotion link: http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2008/05/decentralizing-web.htm...
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again”Submitted On Reducing the Size of Compressed Javascript [2009] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFirst of all, the quote, from you, specifically says "open Web" not "open Internet" Secondly, Reader was not killed because of G+. If FriendFeed is finally killed off, will you say it was because Facebook needed the resources and engineers on a competing product? Consumers have moved on to desire the kinds of features that are inherent in services like Facebook, and RSS simply isn't suited to solving the problem of…
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “Expunging Google”Submitted Decentralizing the Web (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been hoping we return to dencentralization for awhile http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2008/05/decentralizing-web.htm... but it seems the economics, bandwidth, and technology currently doesn't favor it. Consider what it would take to do decentralized search with a reasonable latency. Everyone would have to have a copy of Google's index, or at atleast a reasonable chunk of it, or proximity to some mesh node with a…
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “Decentralize All the Things”You might be interested in my work on sorting and clustering code to improve compression efficiency: http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-co...
Comment linking /2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-compressed.html
on “Show HN: Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel”You can see some of the original research I did on this in my old blog post: http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-co... I followed up by researching different clustering metrics including something called LZDIST instead of edit-distance. http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/11/traveling-salesman-pro... I think it works better for GWT than for Closure because GWT's optimizer permits inlining functi…
Comment linking /2009/11/traveling-salesman-problem-and.html
on “Closure Compiler vs Rollup vs Webpack”I've held this basic view of the Web far longer than I've been a Google employee ( http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2008/05/decentralizing-web.htm... ) I wrote one of the first anonymizing proxy servers for the Web ( http://cypherpunks.venona.com/archive/1996/02/msg00885.html ) which was later referenced by others (Ian Goldberg references it here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/privacy-compcon97-www... ) In the…
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “Google Webfonts, the Spy Inside?”First, I don't work on Search, I work on open-source stuff, and this is just my private opinion. Secondly, I am for the idea in theory, I just don't think it is practical to do in a way that adds a lot of value. You also have to worry about the legal/privacy ramifications of funneling everyone's queries out to third party providers, I'm pretty sure that would cause a large blowup. Third, there were already services…
Comment linking /2008/05/decentralizing-web.html
on “It is criminal that Apple gets away with not allowing alternative defaults”A document [1] by Ray Cromwell introduces an aid for JS compression, both theory and implementation [2]. The idea is to transform JS code before compression in a way that, while keeping JS semantics, makes is best possible candidate for the popular gzip deflate compression. ---- [1] http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-co... [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/detail?r=...
Comment linking /2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-compressed.html
on “Compression of JavaScript programs”