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by brlewis 7y ago
> That extended web use is of no good to them if users are doing so at non-Google properties Extended web use is often punctuated by google searches, even if a lot of the engagement happens on non-Google properties. If slowness causes pe
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Change it to "Ant Block", offer a paid "Ant Block Pro" so that the name is used in commerce, and register a trademark.
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by brlewis 7y ago
You could make use of features that work in Firefox but don't yet work in Chrome, such as SVG favicons and position: sticky (Chrome supports but only on th elements) There's probably a way to compile a list of such features from c
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Alternate motivation: People stay engaged on the web more when pages are faster. One thing that makes pages faster is a faster browser. When people stay engaged on the web more, Google makes more money. Chrome's initial big selling poi
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by brlewis 7y ago
Hi. I work near the infrastructure and I care about its presence or lack thereof. Fortunately the oppressively loud, reverberating steel structure is no longer a fact of life. When I walk through that area I am literally no longer in its sh
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>an afterthought achieved by applying layers and layers of security ducktape This is where you're missing the fundamental nature of the issue in this article. The sensible security model is there by default. An additional layer is a
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by brlewis 7y ago
Here's the tl;dr app.use(cors()); defaults to Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * If you know how CORS works, you already know that even if the resource is on localhost, it's open to any web page, including not on localhost. You
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by brlewis 7y ago
I do think big media have a lot of power to influence elections, but I'm not ready to give up on democracy yet. Also, it's only possible for me to abdicate the responsibility of one voter, not all of us.
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I skimmed the first 6 pages here: https://web.stanford.edu/group/peacejustice/Gelderloos-Failu... It seems he's arguing that a diversity of tactics is more effective than nonviolence alone. Chenoweth's m
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by brlewis 7y ago
I wrote an essay about communicating to stakeholders the value of paying down tech debt. If I wrote it over again I'd amplify the section called "Later". https://medium.com/@brlewis/fighting-technical-deb
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A huge performance impact is a shiny thing that is easy to show outsiders and get them excited about. There is no dirty accounting here.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Mostly curious. I have an old photo sharing site and was wondering what kinds of integrations are possible.
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Is an API on your roadmap?
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I fully admit to my comment being wishful thinking.
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You don't think more funding gives them more power?
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I think the situation is bad enough now that you should boycott your local "guy" even though it's possible that all his drugs come from humane, sustainable sources.
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I really wish Americans would boycott drugs from Mexican cartels. How bad does an industry have to get before there's enough outrage for a boycott?
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by brlewis 7y ago
How many times do you think step 3 has to be repeated before they're no longer able to claim good faith? More on this topic: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/responding-dmca-take...
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by brlewis 7y ago
>I didn't expect it to be the most accurate sleep tracker I work for Fitbit. I don't speak for Fitbit, but in my opinion you should expect it to be the most accurate sleep tracker, and if it isn't you should contact cust
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Thanks. CBS seems much better than the NYT on this. Quote: These factors are first divided into three categories: neighborhood environment, family environment and high school environment. Each of the three categories has five sub-indicators
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The article is ambiguous: >adding an “adversity score” to the test results Does this mean an additional number is going to be supplied alongside the individual test scores and overall score, or that the overall score will be a sum that i
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Can you please link to the College Board's list of criteria? In the article I could only find two examples out of 15.
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Not a stupid question...it's the central question here. Unix time is set up to allow programmers to assume every day has the same number of seconds. Is this the best approach, or would it have been better to try to educate everyone not
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>I assume that these obsolete functions and operators still linger for backward compatibility? If so how do you avoid them? This. If there isn't a linter that bombs out on those things that used to be standard PHP, modern PHP is a n
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by brlewis 7y ago
English has evolved more in England than in New England the past few hundred years. From what I've heard New England accents are closer to what English accents used to be than modern English accents are. Perhaps lox fell out of use in
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>Presumably, that’s a license to do whatever we want with it without consequence. Thank you for making this outrageous assumption explicit. It drives me crazy when people leave it as an unstated assumption.
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>The same way they found out before ads From vendors shouting out a list of their wares in a physical marketplace? >the same way people that block all ads find out From friends who don't block ads? How will this work?
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How about a column named x_no_wait_y declares a column named y, but if a column named x exists it's renamed?
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>If you need a down migration, take a backup before running your up migrations. Aren't you missing some steps? Or does your db back up schema structure and data separately? 1. Make sure nobody can insert/update/delete
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The last couple of bleeding-edge features I looked at were SVG favicons and position: sticky. Firefox is ahead of Chrome for both of these.

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