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by catach 8y ago
At some point that seems to blur into blaming the printing press for propaganda posters.
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by catach 8y ago
Feeds can contain ads, as Daring Fireball's does [0]. Granted, advertisers don't get analytics that way so it's certainly less appealing. [0] https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main
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by catach 8y ago
Sure, as a broad absolutist statement there's plenty of practical, legal, metaphysical holes you could poke in it. Not aware of any anti-user-made RSS laws, though.
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by catach 8y ago
And yet, Reddit.
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by catach 8y ago
Site creators have the freedom to produce what they want, and users likewise have the freedom to consume how they want.
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by catach 8y ago
Related: Firefox still offers an RSS button that you can place in a toolbar. Lights up when a site has a feed available.
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by catach 8y ago
There's datatau.com for data science. I think the tendency is that independent attempts die off.
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by catach 8y ago
Tab hiding [0] is separate from tab strip hiding [1] unfortunately. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP... [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
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by catach 8y ago
> I wonder why they argue that way, when it seems obvious that you need some common ground to start reasoning at all. The compulsion to defend the castle arises despite the foundation of the castle being built on sand. Or: It sure would
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by catach 8y ago
> Given all that has Go really done all that well? My intuition is that the only languages that have grown faster are those that were blessed as "native" for a popular platform. For it's age it seems to be doing really rea
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by catach 8y ago
Indeed. Remember Gnome 2? It's pretty much like that.
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by catach 8y ago
In this particular case, the small team size and the multi-year effort to upgrade the DE to GTK+ 3 is likely a strong contributor.
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by catach 8y ago
On the one hand, the FF webextension API is under continual development [0]. On the other hand, "almost everything" previously possible does not seem not a realistic expectation since it'd mean the ability to change almost
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by catach 8y ago
Sure. And I'd say that for some other use patterns FIFO quickly becomes acceptably predictable, though not maximally. The tradeoff is that pressure to manually edit the list is greatly reduced. Which is also something that matters. My
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by catach 8y ago
That sounds deterministic (last used first shown) but also unpleasantly surprising given your particular use patterns.
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by catach 8y ago
I'm curious why you think that, since I don't see any mass-scale incentive pointing in that direction.
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by catach 8y ago
iOS Firefox is a reskinned WebKit, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS
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by catach 8y ago
Ah right, that context is where I first encountered the idea. Thanks for the reminder.
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by catach 8y ago
Perhaps we feel compelled to assume that the people in charge know what they're doing since the alternative is deeply unsettling.
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by catach 8y ago
No doubt, huge perf improvements for free would have made the transition more compelling. However, what I'm suggesting is that large perf wins are not free. Breaking compatibility too much more could have doomed Python 3. And now that
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by catach 8y ago
I do have to wonder if Tcl would have gained significantly greater mindshare if the syntax had been more Algol-like.
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by catach 8y ago
> but where is this "can do" spirit from mozilla? The mail included both > At some point, we'll likely replace Python code with Rust so the build system is more "pure" and easier to maintain and reason about.
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by catach 8y ago
Perhaps the known opportunities for dramatic perf increases require compatibility breaks and some expressiveness downgrades. That Python 3 transition was a fun time, yeah?
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by catach 8y ago
If those who complain about no-attitudes are insisting that the only acceptable response to anything is "yes", I doubt they'll get far.
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by catach 8y ago
I think it would be highly surprising if anyone invented a new product category at the scale of smartphones any time in the next few decades.
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by catach 8y ago
Seems to me that Rust's current point on the popularity curve suggests that the vast majority of programmers probably don't know much at all about the lang, or even that it exists. Busy people can note that there's plenty of
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by catach 8y ago
On the other hand, browser mouse gestures were awesome for half a decade before smartphones were a thing.
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by catach 8y ago
The gopher isn't going away, though. The last pages of the brand book pdf give guidance on how to use it.
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by catach 8y ago
> What I'd like the OS itself to do is to block by default copy/pasting between apps, with the user agreeing to each combination, with "only once" option available. This made me think. At the cost of learning new key
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by catach 8y ago
And yet, I bet there's at least a few dozen people in the world that would fall in love with such a thing, and get viciously angry if you tried to mess with their workflow.

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