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by asadkn 7y ago
It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced. Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleas
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by asadkn 7y ago
No PWAs, no proper service workers, no native lazyload, no WebP, always lagging behind with more buggy implementation of almost everything. Can't blame people who call it the new IE6/8.
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Common food additive found to affect gut microbiota(frontiersin.org)
4 points by asadkn 7y ago|2 comments
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by asadkn 7y ago
I agree, this doesn't sound "everyone": https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/the_basics/full... Apple music is available in another 59 countries that Spotify is not.
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by asadkn 7y ago
This is very cool. One feature I'd like is the market share report that caniuse has for each listing. I currently rely on https://emailclientmarketshare.com/ (by Litmus) for this but if someone's aware of a better
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by asadkn 7y ago
If you're a tab hoarder, Chrome does seem to have gotten worse in the last year. Usually the GPU process. Even if your tabs are all inactive, killed by something like Great Discarder, the GPU process continues to use a lot of RAM (2GB
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Brain Molecule Identified as Key in Anxiety Model(ucdavis.edu)
2 points by asadkn 7y ago|0 comments
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by asadkn 7y ago
It's just sad that enormous amount of developer resources are being wasted into a tech which should have been used for the standard web instead. It's not just the developer hours put into the AMP project itself. Thanks to all the
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by asadkn 7y ago
For all the bashing GitLab gets, personally, I want GitLab to survive and keep competing at some level with GitHub. Should GitHub dominate the market and gobble up competition, we all know how it goes for its parent company.
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by asadkn 7y ago
The most it resembles is the San Francisco font (Apple's default system font) which itself was inspired from Helvetica and DIN. Personally I liked this font much better than the other opensource alternatives, especially with the number
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by asadkn 7y ago
There's bias for good looks. And cosmetic/health industry spends billions of dollars on marketing to re-enforce and further strengthen the bias. So is it any surprise people would want to game it to get a better chance of success.
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by asadkn 7y ago
Except for trackpad and a decent MacOS, nothing really. Low quality hardware, increasingly subpar battery life on newer MBPs, battery swellings too common. The hardware issues are common, but PR damage control teams, stakeholders, and fans
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by asadkn 7y ago
Maybe relatively, but not really. Wouldn't call a device with poor thermals, and a throttling device "great". Nor do the constantly swelling low quality batteries make it great.
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by asadkn 7y ago
Which is really odd that I have never experienced or seen it in the older laptops. Perhaps it's a fairly new thing in the increasingly common thin form factor (Apple or otherwise but I haven't heard much of others).
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by asadkn 7y ago
That's uncalled for. No need to blame the victim. A laptop going into flames is generally a manufacturer's fault. If one were to damage the machine through fault of their own, they wouldn't demand a replacement.
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by asadkn 7y ago
I believe with the recent recall, Apple's doing the bare minimum in a PR damage control. A lot more batteries have to be affected than they're letting in. My MBP mid-2015 has swollen batteries twice in 3.5 years. Now I have to pay
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by asadkn 7y ago
This is possibly what triggered it - MBP in flames: https://twitter.com/whitepanda/status/1133847982317723648
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by asadkn 7y ago
I was expecting ~$250 from what I had read on internet. But I suppose it's the same in places where there's no official Apple presence - we have these 3rd party "authorized service providers". Or perhaps it's someth
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by asadkn 7y ago
I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2015, bought in 2015 and had (a) swollen battery (b) green pixel on screen (c) bad sectors on SSD, in early 2017 - that's just 1.5 years. Got everything replaced after under Apple Care in late 2017 as they woul
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by asadkn 7y ago
Had struggled with this for 8+ years with usually 200+ tabs open, even started coding my own extension for this. And tried at least 30 extensions. Finally settled on https://workona.com/ . It's not exactly perfect and
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by asadkn 7y ago
There are several type of people of course and there's no correct answer. And for good personal reasons usually. A lot of asocial introverts are likely to have an issue with open plan offices but might do just fine in a private office
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by asadkn 7y ago
> If it were, developers would not be flocking en masse towards SPAs and the like. Argumentum ad populum. That's not an indicator of something being better. I do like using the modern SPA frameworks for well, (web)apps but I strongl
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by asadkn 7y ago
I didn't really believe the post was truthful but then I saw "Adsense" ads at end of the post. On a serious note, there's social pressure in monetizing everything you do - the common assumption is you either have ulterio
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Twenty Minutes of Nature Lowers Stress Hormones(frontiersin.org)
4 points by asadkn 8y ago|0 comments
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by asadkn 8y ago
Which is why I stated it's a tangent about BlueHost and I definitely don't agree with disabling other plugins. However, I believe it's perfectly valid to disable a forced plugin. If a host forced enabled an almost hidden plug
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by asadkn 8y ago
On a tangent, let's talk BlueHost. While the call to host switch is malicious, almost every developer in WordPress world will agree BlueHost, and their parent company with all their 50+ hosting companies, are utter garbage. The only re
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by asadkn 8y ago
Depends on general confidence level and how mission critical your deployed software is. For instance, I will always prefer to run PHP, Ruby or Python on Linux servers. But on the client side, I have faith in Electron Apps to run cross-platf
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by asadkn 8y ago
Speaking of not understanding the users while redesigning, anyone remember Digg? Digg's downfall started with a redesign: https://www.fastcompany.com/1690829/digg-redesigns-loses-mor...
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Switching to Firefox, Concerned with UBlock Origin Changes(reddit.com)
56 points by asadkn 8y ago|20 comments
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by asadkn 8y ago
This won't be very HN favorite view, but I will say it anyways, I enjoy using Facebook and don't find it affecting my productivity. Not everyone uses Facebook the same way though. I have no family on Facebook, very few friends. I

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