JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I comment about smartphones all the time, including at the top of this thread. :)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Society needs to figure out if that should be illegal. It's the secret manipulation of people's reality to get them to do things that are against the interests of their wallets and health. Very few people would consent to that if
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
There are interesting reasons why companies expend a lot of resources on free stuff for programmers. If it didn't have a beneficial effect, they wouldn't do it.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Programmers should consider the implications of their actions. Using Facebook's libraries support Facebook. If you don't want to support Facebook, you should prefer alternatives to their libraries whenever possible. - React -&gt
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I think it's unlikely that Facebook added the PATENTS file in order to make things easier for other companies and not for self-interest. It's an explicit patent revocation, not just grant. If I'm not mistaken, there was backl
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If they had changed the license when the community asked, that would have been listening to the community, but they didn't. Changing the license because people are leaving the project only shows that FB cares about itself.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I like Google, but they are really losing their way with things like AMP and Material Design (accessibility). People need to speak up or we won't have a truly open WWW much longer.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Does Bing host the pages on their own servers? Hosting your content on their servers could be a motivation for joining. If Google is going to appify your websites on their own servers, then Microsoft doesn't want to be left out. They c
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> If you squinted your eyes and tilted your head just right you could see a "good for the web" angle with faster mobile pages. AMP is much slower if you don't allow your browser to load JavaScript from 3rd party sources. I
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, then walled garden and/or broken things. Emails should not include any JavaScript. It would give anyone a way to send immediately executing code into your inbox. CSS animation in email is already bad enough
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I didn't look closely, but give it a try. I counted about 8 seconds, and there is some CSS in AMP pages that says `8s`, so it's probably the CSS. If I click on an AMP link (usually only via HN), and I get a blank page without any
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
There are many companies that try to force you to load external resources in an HTML version by putting the content in images. The same thing could happen with AMP, where only an AMP version contains the actual content.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If you block JS from loading from CDNs on AMP pages it literally takes 8 seconds to load the AMP page.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
The possibility that email content could change after receiving a message is worrying. Is there going to be a way to reject AMP emails? I won't accept any emails that require loading JavaScript or content from CDNs. If other email pr
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish -- then walled garden.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Marketing emails use giant images to push the text content below the fold, because they want to entice the user to enable images. Images need to be enabled to track opens.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
AMP is terrible for the Web too.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Download Firefox for Android. It's the only mobile browser I know of that lets you install extensions.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Looks great. I would try it if I didn't already use Org Mode capture templates. In Emacs you can hit `C-c c` and then choose a template (`n` for "note template" in my system). Then write your note in the box that appears (wit
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
You came out ahead -- you are not a user of Facebook, which is far more productive than being a user of Facebook.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's hard to believe that patents are given for very obvious ideas that many people must have thought about independently. I've had similar ideas (only not based specifically on location), and wouldn't consider them patentabl
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Yes, that's the problem that needs solving.
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Smartphones Dull Your Mental Performance – Even When They're Off(curiosity.com)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I agree -- people shouldn't have to learn all of that. If the system were designed better, then there would be no need. Right now, it's open season on people who don't understand how things work (and even on many people who d
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
There is no reply link on your comment, so I'll reply here. Fake news was a huge issue before the election. People I know were discussing it daily. Of course the Democratic Party talked about it after the election. What else would be e
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
The more devices you add (giving a larger number of unknown entities access to information about you), the higher the risks. Also, the solution to the smartphone problem isn't just to passively accept defeat. That will allow the proble
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Probably for the reason I mentioned.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
They only have a vague sense, but they don't understand the direct consequences of specific actions. There's also a belief in the false idea that, "they already have all of my data, so there is nothing I can do about it.&quot
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
There were many articles about it before that. It was a constant topic of conversation in some circles. The reason the Trends chart jumps after the election is because that's when the larger public learned about what is going on, and p
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
A Google search based on date (pre-election) will quickly disprove your claim.

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