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by SiVal 8y ago
Likewise. FF turns my 2012 rMBP into a frying pan for any web page with moving content (video, animated GIFs, ads) or just significant JS (Google docs). I would prefer FF, so I keep checking every couple of years, but no improvement. Unusab
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by SiVal 8y ago
This was a status report on multiple, changing features as of two years ago. The people who know best are probably busy building, but I can't help wondering if anyone is able to provide the current status of any of these things.
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by SiVal 8y ago
Any idea why Cox left it out? Is it just a "we intend to add it but haven't gotten to it yet" or "we don't want it because..."?
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by SiVal 8y ago
Sorry I'm late getting back to this, but thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't heard of an online version of LibreOffice, so I'll definitely check it out. I really hope there will be a way to have the benefits of server-based w
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by SiVal 8y ago
Even when they don't kill the service, they can increase its price so dramatically overnight that it may as well have been killed, as many who built a business on Google Maps discovered. When Google makes almost all of its money on adv
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by SiVal 8y ago
I was a C programmer 30 years ago, but we didn't attend C conferences for two reasons: 1) programming languages weren't newsworthy enough to generate much buzz. Hardware was the focus of attention, and things like programming lang
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by SiVal 8y ago
Take a look at this casual statement on the website of the first CPAP supplier that appears in a Google search: "The newest CPAP machines track and store sleep data so you, your insurance company, physician, or employer can follow prog
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by SiVal 8y ago
To find the answer, I would ask, Why are there conferences for other technologies? What are they for? And I think the answer is probably 1) get useful news about recent and upcoming changes and 2) to socialize. I'm going to guess--po
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by SiVal 8y ago
I think you're right for many people, especially those who haven't done much programming and aren't sure they really want to. But whenever I learn a new language (many times over many decades), I want to build lots of small p
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by SiVal 8y ago
I find I can replace just about everything Google makes except for Google Docs & Google Sheets. I wish I could find self-hosted, open-source versions of those, which I would install on my own server. I can just use desktop apps and sync
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by SiVal 8y ago
Unfortunately, Firefox makes my MacBook Pro frying-pan hot whenever a web page is a serious, JavaScript-heavy web app (e.g., Google Docs, Twitter, prob any significant desktop app in web app form) or anything with a lot of moving images (vi
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by SiVal 8y ago
I think "folder" is a more practical name than "directory". Group or fileset or collection, etc., would probably work, too. The problem with directory is that it is describing the implementation instead of the result. Th
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by SiVal 8y ago
The reason Apple cares so much more about iOS than MacOS is vastly increased control. With iOS, they control the hardware from the chips up, the OS, which apps you can run, and via Safari-only access to the internet, even what you can and c
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by SiVal 8y ago
Yes, Google is willing to pretend to know only what you tell them to pretend they know. After Chrome made any login to a Google service also log you in on the browser, I decided to use a non-Google browser for any Google service. I switched
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by SiVal 8y ago
Then imagine what it was like for me, when I hadn't heard anything about it and just by coincidence happened to be out staring at the night sky when that crazy "nebula" erupted right in front of me. Incredible, glowing, rainb
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by SiVal 8y ago
blatantly ignores the obvious intent of questions asked of them The "obvious intent of the questions" is to block his nomination by any means they can come up with, as was made clear months ago by the protest signs printed with
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by SiVal 8y ago
Hey, balladeer, maybe this will help: I often pick something to listen to that I'm really interested in--an audio book, a podcast episode, some music I've started liking--and I make a strict rule that I have to be at least walking
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by SiVal 8y ago
"Community before legal fetishism." This "legal fetishism", otherwise known as the rule of law, is what allows business deals to be made between strangers instead of the traditional "community" limitation of ha
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by SiVal 8y ago
It seems as though the needed escape hatch is a browser that simply CAN'T send info about you back to home base. Firefox might qualify, but I don't know for sure, and I don't want that to be our only option. There's a lo
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by SiVal 8y ago
"Shameless"? So you shamelessly help me, and I'll shamelessly thank you. (It looks interesting, too.)
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by SiVal 8y ago
Yes, but on first glance (without a lot of digging) at the links here, only Pastery seems to be open source (ix.io says it will be...someday), and Pastery (as nice as it is--thanks for that link) is for a different purpose (exchange of code
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by SiVal 8y ago
And the most expensive. Maybe they could get J. Ive to use his best "I'll be your server today" voice and purr about how, "We think you'll agree that this is the most expensive iPhone we've ever made."
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by SiVal 8y ago
Big phones fit in my pockets and in my wife's purse, but not in my kid's pockets. He chose the SE, because it fit his pockets. He's still growing, so we'll probably be able to postpone getting him a new phone until he&#x
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by SiVal 8y ago
This isn't like using Kotlin or Scala in order to use an alternative to the "original" language. The power of TypeScript is that it is designed to be less an alternative programming language per se than a dev tool for JavaScr
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by SiVal 8y ago
I found that a helpful overview, too. I wish there were a carefully written, book-length equivalent that went into enough detail for a person with the basic foundation (basic front-end apps, basic server-side apps, HTTP, ssh/cmd line,
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by SiVal 8y ago
Excel doesn't treat gene data as dates, it treats text input in certain formats as dates unless you tell it not to by explicitly specifying the data type. Scientists have a whole constellation of tools to choose from--various spreadshe
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by SiVal 8y ago
Go tends to be at least as fast as Java with a much smaller memory footprint. It ought to run well on any device that can run Java, which includes a lot of small devices.
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by SiVal 8y ago
I was hoping someone who had researched this issue would answer, but since nobody else is answering at all, I'll offer you an unresearched answer about the ordinary use of the term in the industry. Any Turing-complete language can do a
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by SiVal 8y ago
Or maybe tardigrades seeded Earth with our ancestors. Maybe tardis and tardigrade come from the same ancient language. If so, I for one am ready to serve our diminutive overlords.
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by SiVal 8y ago
Saying that "your website" should be able to "display" its "content" without JS seems to assume (as so many do) that the web is fundamentally a collection of articles (read them, look at the pictures, link to o

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