JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It was like that when Firefox first appeared as well. The solution was to email the webmasters and say, "your website doesn't work in Firefox. The URL is <url>, the browser version is <version>, and the operating syste
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Example: self-destructing cookies automatically clears localStorage in Firefox after closing a tab (unless you toggle the setting on a per-site basis). I don't think Chrome can do that, even with its cookie destroying add-ons. When I o
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> "Firefox has advanced privacy controls, but so does Chrome." Actually, Firefox has better tools for that.
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The title is a bit much. "...you won't believe how this one trick will change your life." :)
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't meditate, but I've found it useful to take some mornings or afternoons and go for 5-10 mile walks. I usually take a small notebook and some pens to write down ideas. If I don't have the notebook, I can still take note
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
The original story reminded me of this site: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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If you're using Firefox, click "Reading view" (the book icon). In Chrome the Pocket extension should work.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
You can add this bookmarklet to the Firefox or Chrom[e|ium] bookmarks bar to remove it with one click: javascript:document.getElementsByClassName('js-stickyFooter')[0].remove();
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Firefox for Android -- you can install extensions to block extra JS.
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I haven't tried it yet, but this looks interesting too: https://posativ.org/isso/
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> "Oh, crap, it’s on Medium." A general suggestion for programming blogs: instead of Medium, try using something like Hexo[1] or Hugo[2] and deploy for free on Github Pages or Netlify. Publishing content is as easy as `hexo dep
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I wonder if it's a referrer check. `if referrer == 'facebook': display_ads()`. That way the original viewer doesn't see the ad-filled page, but anyone clicking on the Facebook link does.
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You're quoting a guy from 40 years ago (1976) and making a slippery slope argument. Here is some more information on the Brady Campaign: "In November 2008, Brady president Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
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That comment sounds a bit polarized. I've never heard anyone in the US advocate banning all guns. I generally hear two perspectives from people: 1. the view that people should be allowed to buy guns after background checks and mandator
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Org mode format is great. Pandoc works with all of those formats, including org mode. http://pandoc.org/
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Who rallies for "abstinence only" for guns in the US? Asking for background checks is more like arguing for safe sex.
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See also: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider... "Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski already recreated the Google AMP demo page without the Google AMP JavaScript and, unsurprising
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
One more comment about it: This post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14536679 ) is an example of how AMP works. Someone has shared a link on HN. It's an AMP link, but I'm reading it on my laptop, and it'
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I think that most people who are opposed to AMP aren't against it for personal reasons as much as for what it does to the open WWW. If you give up your long-term freedoms for perceived short-term personal convenience, you will end up i
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Republishing copyrighted content on another domain without permission is copyright infringement. I don't know if Google's terms allow their republishing of copyrighted content via AMP, but most people in charge of those decisions
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> Can anyone explain the reason why people think its ethically bad? There is also some discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518985 And more links in these articles: https://www.theregis
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> if you are bothered by their attempts to safeguard their income stream from competitors who have a much easier time curating their own walled garden, you should cease using Google Search on Mobile. You're making excuses for Google
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Choosing which separate media outlets to read gives far more control than leaving it up to one company, Facebook. This extension is great: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
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"Open source" in that context is a meaninless buzzword. It is not "open" when giant companies appify your content in their walled gardens, even if you can read part of the code.
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> It is true that all the news results are AMPed, but there was certainly a time when not everyone was onboard yet Not everyone is on board. Many sites don't want AMPified pages. Google takes AMP pages and puts a giant "back&qu
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On the example you mentioned, clicking the 3-dot "hamburger" is an example of the easing that I referred to. The menu drops out like it's needlessly spilling out of the side of the component. The user is already looking where
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I suspect that my opinion about Material Design will be unpopular, but I think that using MD is a bad idea. - There is too much animation. Too many websites are starting to look like they are covered with animated Flash banner ads, and that
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AMP isn't really about speed -- it's about the appification of the open WWW. The correct way to fix these problems would be to teach people how to make their sites faster rather than enforce restrictions on how they create and mon
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Your content gets served on Google.com domain with a giant "back" button at the top that takes users back to Google rather than deeper into your site. It also creates restrictions on what you can publish and how you can monetize.
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I'm generally skeptical about instant pill solutions. Food is fuel, not a recreational drug. If you don't eat the right fuel, there will be problems, even if you don't gain weight. I don't think that there is a way aroun

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