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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Then why have the linked page. If it's literally not informative enough than it's just a poorly written press release. Usually marketing pages will include just enough information and imagery to grab your attention. There will
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>I don't want anybody tracking what websites I visit, articles I read or facebook videos I watch. This whole thing is opt-in, is it not? If you don't want to share your information, you simply do not opt-in.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Disclaimer: will be killed in a few months You're thinking of Google. This is Mozilla.
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>Spotify and YouTube That's entertainment or otherwise nonessential, no?
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What type of content? I can't imagine anything necessary would sit behind a paywall given this scenario.
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What are some of those negative effects.
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I could not agree with you more regarding media. And no, not "big media" just media. It's absolutely miserable and has let us all down. I also agree with your point regarding profiteering. This behavior can be observed in man
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by Nicksil 5y ago
I'm curious to hear to objection(s) to working in "pharma" if you have the time.
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>fucking with the DNA This is the first time I've "heard" you curse. I don't know, it was just a little jarring. Not in a bad way. Just... different, I guess. Well done.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593360
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>and the stakes are usually lower. You don't really mean this, do you?
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>1. One build runs everywhere, Windows, Linux, Mac, Chromebook (used a lot in schools), Android, iOS, I even have someone running it on an XBox web browser. This also exists outside of web development (e.g. Qt) >2. No download and ins
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>Good... the industry for developers has been slowly moving in a direction that seems to be trying to turn us into glorified auto mechanics. This is unacceptable. Let's keep supply tight! I'm not sure what this is supposed to m
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True. However, there was also this one posted a day ago with just 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27580941
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>Obviously they're saying(correctly) that the part that isn't true is the part where you said the search results aren't directly from bing. This makes no sense. What I said is still there. I said that Bing is one source us
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by Nicksil 5y ago
I stated >Bing is one of many sources from which duckduckgo derives its results You stated >Not true. I then backed-up my statement with a source. You still haven't made clear what part of my statement was not true.
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>They pretty clearly only talk about instant answers there. You seem to be dismissing instant answers when in-fact those are exactly what the end-user expects; that's search results: Type in a query, get an answer. What am I missing
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Not true. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... >In practice I've found their results to be basically identical to bing and other bing front-ends. This is anecdote. Countering
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>It's funny seeing all these folks nitpicking at Brave but who are fine using Google or Microsoft every day. How do you know this?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27590284
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Bing is one of many sources from which duckduckgo derives its results; kind of like what's going on here with Brave's new search.
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>There's so many counter examples to this though... You work for Google; there may be some bias here. >E.g. Stadia, which a lot of people doubted would be technically possible at all. Technically impossible? Really? I don't
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
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In case I'm not the only one unfamiliar: The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relat
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>so are you saying they have somehow more moral grounds to stand on when it comes to not sharing user data with others given that they see no problem with taking Google data and semi-packaging it as their own in the first place? That isn
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>DDG uses Google's and other search engines' data. DDG does not do their own crawling. >Please do a quick search here on HN and read up on all the previous conversations about privacy and security implications of that before
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>Codes needs "why" comments, not "what" comments. Indeed. While there are exceptions, "what" comments will usually only add noise thus making things more difficult. This isn't necessary: /&#x
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I understood your statement as saying you are not giving up Electron if you found Qt fulfills your requirements (USB). That's was I was questioning: Why continue to use Electron if Qt does all the things you need to do. Perhaps I misun
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How often and to what extent did you build using Qt? Your arguments against using Qt don't align with its actual capabilities. Qt has an extensive API so perhaps you weren't aware Qt possesses such capabilities which would be unde
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>But I'm not giving up my frameworks. Why would you dig your heels in if you've found a superior alternative fulfilling all your requirements?

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