bobajeff

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by bobajeff 9y ago
Oh, that's way less exciting than what I was thinking. Thank you Mr. Bee for that bubble burst.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
This still leaves open speculation for why Google developers are working on Swift.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
But then they'd have the same issue they had with Yahoo. Where users would be put off by the default not being Google. They are clearly trying hard with this release to get back users now.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
The deal before the Yahoo one made Google the default everywhere (even China and Russia and other places where Google wasn't the best search engine). I don't work there so I don't know if they could've gotten the same am
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by bobajeff 9y ago
Perhaps the most significant news in this release. "As part of our focus on user experience and performance in Firefox Quantum, Google will also become our new default search provider in the United States and Canada."
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I wonder when the Android version of Firefox will be updated to 57.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I'm excited for all of the ports of C++ projects the web will get. For example imagine being able to run a full self hosted C++ compiler itself from a browser on any device with a browser.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I like Amazon Prime Video's exclusives but their service as it is now shows videos you have to purchase seperate to view. Contrast that with Netflix where if the videos not available on streaming you can usually get it in the mail as a
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by bobajeff 9y ago
Google has an incentive to name competitors because they have a monopoly. Which regulators like to observe. Microsoft did the same when they were investigated.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
The poster above was claiming to not have trouble "finding a good competitor" to Google's services. I simply asked if they found one to Google's most synonymous service: search.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
Somehow, I doubt Google is worrying about the next move that DuckDuckGo will make in competition with them.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
You've found a good competitor to Google search?
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by bobajeff 9y ago
Well, most of them were suspended but I believe there were still a few that were active at the time.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
This is very cool it runs on my phone. I can't interface very much with it but it runs. It's only a matter of time before a good photo editor or digital paint application is ported to the web. Then it's just a matter of makin
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by bobajeff 9y ago
A search engine is many things in a giant package. Most wholesale search companies have a database text/images and algorithm data that is in the terabytes if not more. They also have many servers for fast and efficient processing o
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I have the same experience I feel like Google is becoming less and less useful for finding things. There have been several times where I tried to find things I've come across before and Google was no help. However it's still the b
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Bing still makes up a large portion of their results. I remember reading some official stats at some point that their own crawler was such a miniscule part of the results that in effect you were just basically using a m
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by bobajeff 9y ago
It works on my phone's browser (which is a fork of Chrome for Android). No crashes. I even have 34 tabs open.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
The vocal response you get on the internet when you ask why any product is failing is usually some variation of: "It failed because the company/developers didn't do things I wanted!" However, I believe the truth is less
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I like searx myself. To bad I can't get the search suggestions to work in the address bar. Also, I wish there was an app to run it off of your phone. It would be nice to not have to use a public instance.
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Broadcom Explores Deal to Buy Chipmaker Qualcomm(bloomberg.com)
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by bobajeff 9y ago
If Microsoft plans on using it to get users on to their services then they'll need way more users than they are getting. Otherwise why invest the money in building one?
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I think Mozilla is already cutting projects because they know their next search deal won't be as lucrative as their previous ones. Software development costs money. Edge came out in 2015 if it doesn't have inertia yet then you hav
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by bobajeff 9y ago
Sure that's how it is today but what if Mozilla runs out of funds? Say they fail to get a lucrative search deal after the current one ends while Pocket fails to pick up the slack. What if Microsoft doesn't ever get a significant n
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I think trying to fight a browser engine monoculture is a lost cause. There is no money in building browser engines and it costs a lot of time and money to create one from scratch. The only reason Mozilla and Microsoft still use their own e
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Google and MediaTek Announce GMS Express – Pre-Certified Android Builds(xda-developers.com)
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by bobajeff 9y ago
Startup time and crashes seem to be a problem on mine. I compiled my own vscode though so that might have something to do with it. Still use it exclusively as my C++ IDE with the help of clangd. Would love a native easy to use editor with g
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I have...
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by bobajeff 9y ago
I still haven't learned how to use a build system yet. For me it's just way easier to put the individual build commands in a .sh file and run it.
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by bobajeff 9y ago
> I doubt very much Ubuntu has made python3 /usr/bin/python, since the official recommendation of the Python project is to not do that. Tell that to Arch. :(

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