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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by Zev on Monday September 07, 2009 @10:20PM (#810141)
Flash means that it takes up 25% of my CPU simply by having the virtue of being opened in a tab.
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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by sosuke on Monday September 07, 2009 @11:27PM (#810213)
Seriously? That sounds odd I'm running the latest version of Flash in Firefox and it is using between 0-6% CPU with 8 tabs open including this Flash chart.
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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by catch23 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @05:16AM (#810554)
Flash only works well in windows, it's crap on all other operating systems.
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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by DTrejo on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @12:09AM (#810249)
you're already looking at HN, it's not like you're really gonna need that 25 for anything else right?
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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by jrockway on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:32AM (#810337)
If he's using a laptop, he's now burning significantly more power. 4 hours of battery life at idle can easily become 30 minutes at a constant 25% CPU load.
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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by Zev on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:50PM (#811481)
you're already looking at HN, it's not like you're really gonna need that 25 for anything else right?

Actually, I did need that 25% for something else. Was waiting for code to finish compiling (well, for Clang's Static Analyzer to finish running). It takes more then a few minutes to run on a sizable project.

Plus, as jrockway pointed out, it absolutely kills battery life, and I'm on a laptop.

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Re:Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com by mooted on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @12:27AM (#810270)
Not for me, or anyone at my office.
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