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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think that they've already voluntarily given up control over the destiny of Firefox, in a sense. By imitating Chrome so closely these past few years, we haven't seen any real innovation out of Mozilla. They've been followin
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What is it that makes you think that the reception of Australis was "very positive"? I'd consider the reception of a software product update to merely be "positive" if there was generally praise, basically no negati
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Are you really suggesting that people can't have second or even third careers? A 40-year-old who got into web design after a lengthy career in print media design, if not some totally unrelated field, is often no more experienced than a
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Like I said in an earlier comment, age has very little to do with this. "Hipsters" can pretty much be any age. It's more the "hipster" mindset and attitude that's the problem. This attitude involves fashion and
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It depends on who you are, and how you use the browser. Maybe the Chrome UI is good for somebody with a tiny screen and a near-complete lack of technical ability. But for people with large monitors and the need to push a web browser hard, t
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No, not at all. It isn't really about age. I've dealt with "hipsters" in their 40s and 50s who've come up with very bad UI designs. Likewise, many of the managers or executives advocating for these redesigns are in
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I'm always very hesitant to rely on fallbacks like that. They tend to go unmaintained, at best, but usually just get removed after some period of time. There's the slight possibility that it might be different in this case, given
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What you're saying is absolutely correct. I actually had to use Bing Maps today to look up some directions because the new version of Google Maps was pretty much unusable. As for why UX disasters like this can happen, I think it genera
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Do the "principles" in your case revolve around openness, freedom, and so forth? I've heard a lot of people use such ideals when advocating for Firefox OS, but I just don't see it all holding true in practice. Firefox OS
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"Native" is not a marketing term, and we shouldn't pretend that it is. It has a very specific definition in this context, and this definition requires that the application be represented in a form that's directly executa
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I'm sorry, that's incorrect. "Native apps" are ones that have been compiled down to machine code that's directly executable on whatever CPU or CPUs might be provided by the device in question. Ahead-of-time compilat
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The Smalltalk developer experience may in some ways be one of the better parts of Smalltalk, but at the same time it's also one of the worst. Getting tied into a particular environment often made it awkward, if not practically impossib
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That's rarely a productive question to ask. It's just a slight variation on the totally unhelpful "Why don't you fix the bug yourself?" response that's sometimes given to people reporting a problem with an open
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That's total nonsense. Binaries (or shared libraries they depend on) can be and are updated, on all sorts of systems. In many cases it's as simple as overwriting the existing binary with the updated version. Heck, the runtimes you
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by Pacabel 12y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with questioning something that somebody has worked on. In fact, such questioning should be encouraged. Good ideas and creators will be able to withstand such scrutiny without any problems at all. Bad o
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That's what I was thinking, too. That's merely around 13,000 messages per second per core. Rates like that weren't all that impressive on low end server hardware a decade ago, so I'd hope that it's even less impress
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GCC's traction is mainly due to it being, for a very long time, the most complete and widely-ported open source compiler system available. Its competitors tended to be expensive commercial options, or comparatively limited open source
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Perhaps we need to take a second look at where the "lambasting" first took place. It was well, well before this recent OpenSSL incident. For many years now, the security community taken as a whole has very vocally stated, "Ne
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The very poor contrast doesn't help the situation, either.
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Are you currently seeing that option somewhere? I looked in the settings, but I did not see it there, and I do not see any other way to disable that functionality.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Could this be a feature that is disabled by default, but that can be easily enabled if a user does wish to use it? I don't know the best way to do this, but I'm thinking a checkbox somewhere near the search bar, or perhaps a prefi
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Most sensible people see that it's a bad idea, and they can see this today (if not yesterday). This isn't the kind of thing that requires hindsight to see that it's a bad idea through and through. If anything should be questi
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If a person or organization says that they're going to do something, even if it's qualified as only being "planned", it is indeed a promise to act. Reputable people and organizations who make such statements will then pr
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While the existing approach may have its flaws, the wholesale removal of valuable information and functionality from the browser UI very likely isn't the right fix, either. In my opinion, this is up there with the removal of the URL pr
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A big part of the problem is that while there are competing browsers, we just don't see any real competition these days. Firefox and IE have started copying Chrome in appearance and philosophy. Opera is now based on the same code. Safa
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Not only is it explicitly stated, but it's done so in the very first sentence.
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Many of the best programmers I've ever worked with have absolutely no code on GitHub. Why is that? It's because they're using their talents and abilities in industry, solving real problems, in positions where they're obl
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We've seen other, similar, widely-used platforms lose prominence rather quickly. SourceForge and Google Code are two such examples (both of which also support Git these days). I see no reason why GitHub would be immune from such forces
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I wouldn't exactly call Haskell "popular". It isn't as obscure as some programming languages, but realistically, it sees comparatively little use in practice. And Haskell predates Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java and C#. I
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A fair amount. I used ML and Haskell in the 1990s in an academic setting, and have since used Haskell, Erlang, and Scala at various times while in industry. And I've tried out a number of other functional languages out of interest, as

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