Aldo_MX

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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
> Node works fantastically on Windows. I beg to differ 1. npm install gulp 2. try to delete the node_modules folder 3. waste time fighting windows' legacy stuff (260 max path length in almost everything: explorer, cmd, git bash, e
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I personally am glad that gaming on the Mac never really took off like on Windows, considering Apple sells a 2k USD "PRO" laptop that doesn't even include a proper video card...
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I remember reading a while ago about a virtual GPU with RemoteFx[1], I have no idea how it works though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteFX
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the last time I checked it included the client, anyway, you usually don't mount a server with windows home.
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Content creators usually tweak their content to increase their metrics, whether those metrics translate in more engagement is different.
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> Why would you assume that someone buying Office for Mac is more familiar with Office for Windows than the Mac they own that they want to run Office on? Because Windows had like 90% of the market share?
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> Yet you don't see anyone changing those. Except for (guess who?) Chromium... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=255
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My experience in Android is a different one, I'm using a FF fork (Adblock Browser) and my mobile life has never been better. Unfortunately outside America the mobile web is a malvertising minefield, and the malvertisers target the carr
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No, we are talking about the architecture of the browsers in areas where there is significant impact (ie. UI Responsiveness), this has nothing to do with extensions. In Chrome when you load a JS-intensive website (ex. Facebook) you can swit
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> Is it? If you suggest the opposite, you don't do web development or live in the early 2000's. > Across the board they are entitled to make that decision for every user? Saying "every" is an exaggeration, since se
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You talk as if you knew the terms of their deal and corroborated that Google asked to target every browser, in my experience these kind of deals are offered as "all-or-nothing", so having Firefox or Opera targeted were a side effe
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Applies to ... Windows 8.1 with Bing I'm perplexed that a windows version "with Bing" exist...
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So does Intel and many other "trusted" vendors, we all know about the power of default values. As I said, people shouldn't be upset at Google, installing Chrome was a significant improvement, or would you rather see IE8 still
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I wouldn't claim firebug was "far superior", unless "far superior" is a synonym of bloated. Since their inception the dev tools were minimalistic (just the DOM Inspector and a JS Console), currently the Dev Tools of
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Google's not at fault; Adobe, Oracle, and every other greedy software vendor are.
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UI Responsiveness probably, any perception of speed is lost if loading a website freezes the entire browser for several msecs.
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> You absolutely cannot easily reproduce a proper Flash experience in JavaScript, or Canvas. Didn't Adobe Animate[1] (the successor of Flash) allow you to convert a .fla file to Canvas (or WebGL)? [1] https://helpx.adobe.
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> Firefox does have global freezes That's precisely the issue, it doesn't matter if Firefox just freezes for 250ms, it's enough to be perceptible and annoy me.
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love and hate are the same sentiment, but with opposing directions
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someone else is going to cry because the coder is dead and the code is unreadable
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*yet
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well, the programs are faster to develop
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The problem is that "importance and priority" are pretty much subjective terms, for example, for many people Hello or Pocket were everything but a priority.
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Leaving the cynicism and hyperbole aside, what bothers me are not the e-mails, but the double-sided stance of Firefox as a project, in feature-parity bugs we get the draconian speech of "oh no, we must follow the standards strictly, it
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Fine print: CCing a bug doesn't mean it will be addressed in a timely manner, it may take 10 years[1] but in the meantime you'll receive 2,147,483,647 mails of other people "me too"-ing and discussing about the bug. [1]
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They still need willingness from their manufacturer...
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Older discussions: 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8701228 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7455727
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I used `dull patent` as a synonym of `stupid patent`[1], so you are right with the meaning you inferred. [1] https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month
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Yes, unfortunately it didn't allow me to run Windows software (ex. design, video, 3d modelling or audio software, games, office, etc.), because Cinnamon is a Desktop Environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Personally I prefer MATE since it's a
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RoboVM was forked, the fork is named BugVM[1], and it's currently maintained. [1] http://bugvm.com/

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