chrisl99

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by chrisl99 5y ago
I had a 3-LCD projector go wrong in two different ways. Thankfully it was easy to fix, but this information was deeply buried in a forum for home theatre enthusiasts. The manufacturer would tell customers to buy a new one. (Are the panels o
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by chrisl99 7y ago
That is correct, it is just opening Chrome's password manager: await navigator.credentials.get({password:true}) https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/cred... I do think it is odd
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by chrisl99 10y ago
No offence taken. we want the same thing - for Chrome to allow fine grain permissions. Although when I think about it, even a style sheet could be malicious to a degree (e.g. hiding important warnings, or adding misleading text)
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by chrisl99 10y ago
Hello, I'm the author of the extension. It's ok if you don't trust it. I couldn't find any way to ask for a smaller set of permissions. To my knowledge there is no way to specify this in the manifest. (I can't ask f
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by chrisl99 10y ago
JS modules are working in Safari Technology Preview today - so it should be available to everyone soon enough. Pretty simple too, you load your entry point like this - <script type="module" src="main.js"> And then
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by chrisl99 10y ago
The only reason I can think of, is you can use a USB-C-to-Lightning cable and use it as a fast charger for iPad Pro.
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by chrisl99 10y ago
Yes.
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by chrisl99 14y ago
Careful browsing this at work. I saw something that cannot be unseen.
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by chrisl99 18y ago
Does Hacker News have to re-post everything Jeff Atwood writes? Sorry for my ranting.
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by chrisl99 18y ago
One thing I should point out, is that although the 1st edition does have a fair bit of talk about the Internet, (even predicting things like VoIP), Gates uses the phrase "information highway" because he thought the Internet would be supplan
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by chrisl99 18y ago
I have a copy of the first edition of The Road Ahead. Here is the index entry for Internet: Internet, 3-4, 91-100, 91 activities on, 93-97 addresses on, 94 cost of use of, 97-99, 125 e-mail on, 96-97, 124-25 expectations for, 125 foun
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by chrisl99 18y ago
Look at Wordpress (wordpress.org). Their code makes me want to throw up, yet it presents itself quite nicely to the end user.
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by chrisl99 18y ago
The iPhone OS is very, very similar to Mac OS X. The UI is the biggest difference but most of your non-UI code will be similar or identical to OS X code. If you are one of the thousands of devs who aren't accepted in the $99 program, you ca