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by Quai 7y ago
Such impressive work, in so many ways. The amount of knowledge and expertise you guys brought to the project is immense!
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by Quai 7y ago
I really enjoy this guys videos. The refreshing level of details. Great, geeky, humor. I especially enjoyed his "rants" about the design of a old toaster, and traffic lights, of all things.
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by Quai 7y ago
Obligatory comment about Opera: Afaik, the video pop out feature was published in Opera 37, May 2016, a few months before it was added to Safari.
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by Quai 7y ago
I, for one, want to know Rick's story... How was the day he got famous internally in Wacom, just because some XML that no one was meant to see..
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by Quai 7y ago
So, there are hardware in phone whos job is to recognize trigger words and phrases like "Hello Google" , "Alexa" and "Siri" and wake up the phone so it can listen to the users request. They probably have limite
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by Quai 7y ago
Statistics. We wanted to know how different campaigns worked, how the user retention from different partners was, and also benchmark how well the autoupdate system worked. While I worked for Opera this was strictly for internal use, and a v
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by Quai 7y ago
The same ex-opera people was the master minds behind the netinstaller tracking :) I was not implying that Opera is any more adware/malware than any other software.
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by Quai 7y ago
This was implemented way before Opera changed ownership, and as far as I can see from the outside, not much has changed in this code. The main difference I see, is that they have removed the source IP from the JSON. So, if any, they are tra
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by Quai 7y ago
Did you know that every Opera install on windows and mac using the net-installer gets a uniquely modified exe or zip file with information about the download so that Opera can track where/why a browser was downloaded? On windows they m
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by Quai 7y ago
And that's where Opera failed. Marketing. It was much more than just "host some files from your browser"; if was a full ecosystem with a "app-store" and technology that made it work behind NATs etc. IMHO, the thing
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by Quai 8y ago
If you want to make German look bad, sure, but a "better" translation of car insurance would be Autoversicherung. I mean, "car insurance" is much better than "motor vehicle liability insurance" too.. ;-)
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by Quai 8y ago
I was involved in implementing the first browser-to-browser, and browser-to-mobile sync. Opera Link (codename Pangea) was my first really large project in the company, and while desktop team had multiple persons working on the feature, the
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by Quai 8y ago
It's not unheard-of; https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/spysat-and-shuttle-...
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by Quai 9y ago
Man, I love personalities like Cliff Stoll's! I mean, if a person can make reverse polish notation sounds like the most interesting thing you have ever learned, they are worth listening to!
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by Quai 9y ago
You mean something like the Clipper chip[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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by Quai 9y ago
Tell that to the MongoDB-gang.. "Mongo" is a norwegian/swedish(?) slang for a retarted person. It's derived from the word "mongoloid" which was an person with Downs or a similar syndrome. The latter word is not
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by Quai 10y ago
Facebook does something similar with SSH-access to their infrastructure. https://code.facebook.com/posts/365787980419535/scalable-and...
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by Quai 10y ago
The BS-factor is high on this one.. "An ideal single-photon source has yet to be created." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_source Still, detection of single particles has been hinted to during the
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by Quai 10y ago
I'm sorry to tell you that your Opera Link (not to be confused with Opera Sync, the syncing platform for the new products) has already been deleted. Opera stopped providing the Opera Link service December last year. The servers has bee
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by Quai 10y ago
The developer stream is public, and so is the exact build they used[1]. [1] http://get.opera.com/pub/opera-developer/39.0.2248.0/
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by Quai 10y ago
You might argue that not rendering ads is a valid method to save battery.
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by Quai 10y ago
I have had to replace the screen on my M3800 twice now in one year (it develops two shadowy lines on the screen), and there are some other issues that I don't like; The "sound card" had an bug that makes it give off a quite n
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by Quai 11y ago
First three norwegian cities I looked up was given the wrong name. (Plesund (should be Ålesund), Bodi (Bodø) and Tdnsberg (Tønsberg)). So, I think it is safe to say that there are encoding issues in the data set.
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by Quai 11y ago
Yngve worked serveral years for Opera Software, and had a major role in both our TLS implementation and general security. On side note; I envy the employees of Vivaldi, since they are now getting Yngves famous chocolate cake. (He used to b
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by Quai 12y ago
I favor "ping 2130706433" ;)
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by Quai 12y ago
APM is powered by a 8 bit controller.
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by Quai 12y ago
Isn't it a bit late to predict that NOW!?.. :P I really enjoyed books like "Rendezvous with Rama". It isn't often that books written about the future in the 70's still are as mesmerizing today.
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by Quai 12y ago
It might seem far-fetch, but Electroconvulsive therapy[1] are still used to treat severe depression even today. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
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by Quai 12y ago
"Sorry, your browser doesn’t support our live video stream." My browser supports live video just fine. It's -your- streaming software that lacks support for my browser. This illustrates why I never have, and never will own a
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by Quai 12y ago
Ref. map #3 and why Norway was the first country to join ARPANET: "Tracing the origins of the Internet in this country, it turns out that Norway was the first non-english speaking country on the net. It also turns out that the reason f

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