This is a common windows problem.

On Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:17:09 PM UTC-5, Cedric Greevey wrote:
>
> [meta, but about something apparently triggered by the message, from this 
> thread, that I'm quoting]
>
> Why did reading this post cause gmail to go bonkers? I saw this thread had 
> new articles since earlier today, brought it up, and read the previous 
> message, then just after I'd scrolled down to this one, leaned back, and 
> started reading it the browser just suddenly began spinning on its own and 
> navigated by itself. Apparently about 10 seconds after I sat back 
> *something* input a click on the little down-triangle in the upper right 
> corner of the page and then clicked "sign out" because it went to the gmail 
> login page. And a second or so before that the chat thingy at the left 
> crashed as a popup there distracted me by appearing suddenly and saying 
> something like "Oops, problem connecting to chat".
>
> I don't like having my stuff suddenly go spinning out of control like 
> that. I wasn't touching the keyboard or the mouse at the time. The browser 
> should not have done anything but sit there patiently displaying this page 
> until *I* *CHOSE* to navigate away from it. If there is something in your 
> message that hijacks the browsers of people reading it, then I would like 
> you to know that I consider such a thing to be extremely poor etiquette and 
> in extremely poor taste. Do not do it again. If it was not that particular 
> message then I'd like to know what *did* reach into *MY* computer and start 
> issuing instructions on *MY* behalf *without* *MY* permission, and how to 
> stop that from ever happening again. This is *MY* copy of Firefox and it 
> goes where *I* say it does, when *I* say it does it, and not a moment 
> sooner. Is that absofrickinglutely clear? That is non-negotiable. Anyone 
> who willfully violates this edict *will* be added to my spam filter and I 
> will not see any future post by that author. Is *that* clear?
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:21 AM, t x <txre...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   * This is the time I've heard "the one who's feeding the channel is the 
>> one in charge of closing it" -- previously, my channel code was fairly 
>> ad-hoc and agressive (since I need to kill many (go-loop [msg (<! ... )] 
>> (when msg ...)) blocks).
>>
>>   * I still feel this breaks the "conveyor belt" metaphor -- when a 
>> conveyor belt shuts down, it's understandable that we after we take what's 
>> on the belt, in future takes, we get nothing.
>>
>>   However, when putting items on a stopped conveyor belt, messages should 
>> not just *poof* vanish into the void. :-)
>>
>>   * This existing semantics makes debugging annoying (perhaps this is due 
>> to my lack of skill). When something should be happening, and nothing is 
>> happening, I'm basically going around hunting for "where did I do a put on 
>> a closed channel", whereas if it threw an exception of some form, it'd be 
>> easier to handle then this "silent fail."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak) <
>> m...@kotka.de <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> probably the idea is, that the one who's feeding the channel is the one 
>>> in charge of closing it. After all, they know when there is no more input 
>>> available. Do you have a use case where this problem manifests? Or is that 
>>> just a vague fear that it might happen?
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Meikel
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