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by arendtio 6y ago
I am wondering what you are referring to with 'non-chromium' browser market. Typically people don't complain about chromium-based browsers, but about the dominance of Webkit-based browsers (Safari, Chrome, Opera, Edge, etc.)
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by arendtio 6y ago
This answer is wrong on so many levels... I don't know why Apple is allowed to keep other browser engines out of their system, but probably just because the relevant people just don't understand that the Chrome/FF/etc. o
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by arendtio 6y ago
How about providing an explanation for those words? - minimal: limited features set aka either you like it in 10 seconds or you don't - streamlined: good looking?!? - sleek: combination of streamlined and minimal? - simple: IMO even mo
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by arendtio 6y ago
In my opinion, the article misses the point: Security by obscurity might be beneficial, but it is by no means as strong as real security. So the problem is, that people who take the obscurity road, might not care so much about the rest. Sec
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by arendtio 6y ago
I always wonder about rise the hosting costs in the wake of people liking to the Wayback Machine on popular sites. How do you think about it?
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by arendtio 6y ago
One and two read as if STUN and TURN are specific technologies build for WebRTC, but as far as I know, those are just the standard technologies for handling P2P-scenarios with consumer level usability in mind. I think the biggest issue is t
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by arendtio 6y ago
I think the argument is kinda cheap. I mean, there are also those people, who just understand the superficial principles of OOP and struggled to understand some OOP design and therefore don't like it. Simply saying that the people who
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by arendtio 6y ago
Looks amazing and while I would like to enjoy such quality and am willing to pay for the premium plan (in fact I do already), I still can't watch the 4K content even in a world where I accept DRM modules in my browser, because some DRM
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by arendtio 6y ago
I think the problem is, that two things are getting mixed up. First, there are content providers like Facebook or Youtube. Those platforms store the content of their users and if the content can be publicized the content providers have to a
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by arendtio 6y ago
This is not about the browsers, but about the content the server delivers. When you use one of those limited browsers today, you will encounter a lot of broken pages. But if there would be place in the internet where every page would stick
821.
by arendtio 6y ago
I like the linked Egg of Columbus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
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by arendtio 6y ago
I hope you are aware, that this discussion is not about 'destroying children'. It is about the effects of early touch screen usage and if it is beneficial for the development of a child. So the question is if a kid would do better
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by arendtio 6y ago
Exactly what I thought. A few years ago, I was in a hotel where one family gave their kids tablets to watch movies during breakfast. I can hardly imagine that this practice is beneficial for the kids development.
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by arendtio 6y ago
I just hope the variety of movements goes beyond those seen in the video. So far it really looks like a boxing simulator and the repetitiveness of the Kickstarter video doesn't give the impression of an exciting game (you might conside
825.
by arendtio 6y ago
I think is more like the typical outside temperatures in the Netherlands (where Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit lived most of his life): Rarely below -18°C ~ 0°F and rarely above 38°C ~ 100°F
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by arendtio 6y ago
@HN: If you use the word 'degrees' please add F or C to indicate which scale you are referring to. Many here are from the US and would interpret it as degrees Fahrenheit while many others read it as degrees Celsius.
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by arendtio 6y ago
> Wow that is a long README.md file My first thought when I entered the page ;-)
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by arendtio 6y ago
Adoption wouldn't be a problem, if you use just a subset of the current standards.
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by arendtio 6y ago
But then again, you could argue, that URLs are meaningless to people. They are just some weird text and have neither face nor voice. I am not sure what google tries to accomplish with those changes. Somehow it feels like some UX designer ha
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by arendtio 6y ago
Time and time again I wonder how Apple manages to avoid rules/laws which are applicable for all other players in the market. More than a decade ago the EU forced manufacturers of mobile phones to commit to one standard for power plugs.
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by arendtio 6y ago
So why don't they offer both options then?
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by arendtio 6y ago
I wonder why Apple doesn't have a problem with the Orange company. Maybe Apple is just afraid of fighting someone within their own weight class...
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by arendtio 6y ago
My favorite Dilbert of all time ;-)
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by arendtio 6y ago
'Looped in' is a very similar extension and a few years older: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16316374 https://github.com/jdormit/looped-in
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by arendtio 6y ago
I am aware that most wireless headphones use built-in batteries nowadays, but strictly speaking, your argument doesn't relate to wireless headphones, but to products with non-replaceable batteries. The Sennheiser RS180, for example, ha
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by arendtio 6y ago
My Sennheiser RS180 died a few month ago after about 8 years or so. They had normal rechargeable batteries, but it seems it was something else that broke down (the batteries got replaced a few times). For my Sennheiser MB 660 I just replace
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by arendtio 6y ago
So you say, the intent is good, but the execution fails. What is your proposal that serves the same purpose?
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by arendtio 6y ago
What is wrong when something cool like this triggers a response along the lines of 'finally I can get tracked while being in-game'?
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by arendtio 6y ago
I heard, that he though of his scientific achievements much higher than of his poetry. Too bad, as today we think that his poetry was much better than his science ;-)
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by arendtio 6y ago
Reads like recipe for flame wars. Pick any of those topics and you can be sure to find someone with an opposite opinion of your own ;-)

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