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by barryvan 5y ago
I suspect they will buckle -- but only partially, with an allowlist of browsers blessed with this ability. This will quiet the noise, but will also make it harder for small and innovative browsers to compete, as I doubt Microsoft will build
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'This is just no way to live': what it's like delivering parcels for Amazon(abc.net.au)
3 points by barryvan 5y ago|0 comments
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by barryvan 5y ago
Hmm, that would certainly be a solution. However, I'm a little dubious as to how this would work in practice. The current signage can be thrown on the back of a truck, bashed about, subjected to dirt and weather, and is really easy to
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by barryvan 5y ago
How would that work where streets signs _do_ change suddenly? A couple of examples I see every day are roadworks (new fixed signage for the duration of the works, or even a person flipping a sign between "stop" and "slow&quot
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by barryvan 5y ago
...except that Microsoft makes freely available Windows 10 virtual machine images for testing. [1] Apple expects you to buy a device (several if you need to test multiple iOS and iPadOS versions) or pay a third-party, BriwserStack, which is
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by barryvan 5y ago
Mazda got this right more recently by completely ditching touchscreens in favour of physical knobs and buttons. They've even been able to move the screen further away so that it's at a more comfortable focal distance -- less time
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by barryvan 5y ago
One exciting thing in Fx89B -- and which you can see right here on HN! -- is that unstyled form fields have had a bit of a facelift. The text area I'm typing in right now, for example, looks much cleaner with clearer focus styles and s
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by barryvan 6y ago
For what it's worth, WA doesn't allow these sorts of clubs or pokies -- and we seem to be doing quite well, thank you. :P I would prefer to see these sorts of clubs outlawed, and gambling only allowed to take place in licensed cas
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by barryvan 6y ago
Thanks! I've updated the post with more links. :) CDBaby and Distrokid have a different model. Distrokid is effectively subscription based, with unlimited uploads of singles and albums as long as you keep up with your payments. CDBaby,
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by barryvan 6y ago
I write in a variety of styles -- from classical to EDM to ambient to I don't know what to call it. :D I use (and recommend) DistroKid for distribution, so my music is in all the normal places -- YouTube, Spotify, Apple, ... https:&#x
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by barryvan 6y ago
I think the biggest improvement this will have is in keeping things tidy and facilitating reuse. Yes, recursion is nice, but I suspect that it's not going to see much use compared to just replacing repeated formulas with simple functio
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by barryvan 6y ago
If you're able to get hold of it, there's an Australian show called "The Gruen Transfer" (in later years, just "Gruen") which analyses advertising and similar in contexts akin to the Gruen Effect.
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Slow Website(slowww.ml)
1 points by barryvan 6y ago|0 comments
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by barryvan 6y ago
This is very unfortunate, because in my experience the cloud offerings for JIRA and Confluence are orders of magnitude slower and more resource intensive, and BitBucket Cloud is very feature poor and workflow-compromised in comparison to it
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by barryvan 6y ago
This seems quite concerning to me. It opens the door for Google to ship features without ever standardising -- or _intending_ to standardise -- them. I understand that it's only meant to be used in exceptional circumstances, but it fee
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Origin trials in Chrome don't necessarily have a breakage period any more(twitter.com)
1 points by barryvan 6y ago|1 comments
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Why Software Sucks (2005)(scottberkun.com)
2 points by barryvan 6y ago|0 comments
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by barryvan 6y ago
I'd probably use numbering for the references, and use the array of symbols* available for footnotes -- given that most pages shouldn't have more than a handful of footnotes, and you can restart your symbol order on each page. Tha
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by barryvan 6y ago
Footnotes _are_ great when done right, but I have to say that inline citations are incredibly frustrating as a reader, because they're harder to skip over. A footnote marker is small enough that your eye can continue over it, whereas a
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by barryvan 6y ago
This seems to be a mixture of the "collections" feature from Firefox Mobile (Beta/Preview) and Firefox's container tabs, but without the security / isolation benefits. From what I can tell, the main benefit seems to
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by barryvan 7y ago
It does! https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/no-notifications/
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by barryvan 7y ago
School timetabling is one of those areas which can become a rabbit-hole very quickly. Here in Australia, at least, you have to contend with student subject preferences -- so you end up having constraints around, for example, the number of t
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Mozilla and BMZ to Open Up Voice Technology for African Languages(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by barryvan 7y ago|0 comments
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by barryvan 7y ago
I suspect that it's because Firefox makes extensive use of "private" Apple APIs to be able to efficiently render on the platform, and Apple doesn't allow such uses for apps distributed through the app store. Similar issu
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by barryvan 7y ago
The correct way to prevent this would be to constrain the input and validate it on output -- so that users cannot enter anything that's not a hex value, and Slack won't send back anything that's not a hex value in the theme.
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by barryvan 7y ago
Developer edition definitely gets regular updates, fwiw.
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Why a Middle Eastern business can't just tow an iceberg from Antarctica(mobile.abc.net.au)
1 points by barryvan 7y ago|0 comments
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by barryvan 7y ago
They are! Around five years ago I wrote a CSS minifier (creatively called CSSMin, available on GitHub, and still in use at the company I work for) which rewrote the CSS to optimise gzip compression. Although it never really took off, I thin
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Android Browser Choice Screen in Europe(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by barryvan 7y ago|0 comments
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Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser(hacks.mozilla.org)
390 points by barryvan 7y ago|112 comments

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