Hacker News: MartinThomahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MartinThomaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:43:02 +0000<![CDATA[What every developer should know about time]]>Article URL: https://zenodo.org/record/1443533

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]]>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:40:46 +0000https://zenodo.org/record/1443533MartinThomahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795736https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795736<![CDATA[New comment by MartinThoma in "Browsers"]]>> For example, they recently added a hidden empty div over YouTube videos that causes our hardware acceleration fast-path to bail

Correlation does not imply causation: Yes, it might be true that companies make changes to their products that break stuff somewhere else. But to claim that it is done intentionally is very far fetched. Especially when you have to support so many different environments, it is close to impossible to thoroughly check all of them. Demanding that the performance is good even goes one step further than just demanding the service works.

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