[nolok]

> FB App is 114MB in size, but loading this page in Chrome will use a good 450MB, idk how they managed that.

Comparing the size of the binary with the size of the memory used by the live program is apples to oranges. The two metrics don't have any correlation whatsoever.

[coldtea]

He doesn't compare the size of the binary with the size "of the memory used by the live program".

He compared the size of the binary with the size (in Chrome's memory) of the idiot's webpage complaining about it.

Which he obviously knows is Apples to Oranges, but it's still fun to know and illuminating (the guy blames FB for being too careless with their app size but is too stupid to watch for his web post's size).

[jafitc]

I love how easily some ppl on HN call someone an idiot. Way to encourage people to share.

I found it interesting even if my browser ate 260 whatever MB of memory. Doesn't make him an idiot, just a little bit lazy about optimizing his blog (which is not used by millions like the Facebook app)

It seems none of the cool kids with lean blogs managed to post this stuff or get it on HN. I'd love to read their articles about it, but hey, they don't seem to exist.

[coldtea]

>I love how easily some ppl on HN call someone an idiot. Way to encourage people to share.

We live in the "social sharing age". People even share what they had for lunch. If anything, people should be encouraged to share LESS or more meaninful stuff only.

>It seems none of the cool kids with lean blogs managed to post this stuff or get it on HN. I'd love to read their articles about it, but hey, they don't seem to exist.

Serving something you want to read doesn't mean there should be no criticism for serving it in a bad way.

If you had only one chinese restaurant in your city, one that served bad food, would it make sense not to complain for their good quality because "other restaurants don't serve noodles at all"?

[jafitc]

> Serving something you want to read doesn't mean there should be no criticism for serving it in a bad way.

There's criticism of serving something in a bad way, and then there is calling someone an "idiot".

Should we instantly call every single person an idiot for making a mistake?

I wouldn't say that the food was bad here, it was just a bit cold.

> We live in the "social sharing age". People even share what they had for lunch. If anything, people should be encouraged to share LESS or more meaninful stuff only.

This is off topic, but I don't think people should share less. If you are bothered by it, you should read less. Maybe we should have better tools for filtering. But information is everything, something as banal as "I had a bad day" has value. Tracking social sentiment for example.

[coldtea]

>There's criticism of serving something in a bad way, and then there is calling someone an "idiot".

True.

>Should we instantly call every single person an idiot for making a mistake?

No, but what if they do that first by pointing fingers at the stupid FB devs?

>This is off topic, but I don't think people should share less. If you are bothered by it, you should read less.

This still leaves the problem of an overproduction of pointless stuff, which aside from the ecological issues and time wasted by those producing it, also makes deciding "what to read" among the avalance of BS more difficult.