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by cpeterso 3y ago
> I remember cartoon network and movie studios releasing lot more interactive websites for their content in Flash. In fact, quite a few animated TV shows and films were themselves created using Adobe Flash, including new shows in 2024:
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Google will let EU users select which services share their data, thanks to DMA(theverge.com)
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> Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says https://gizmodo.com/google-chrome-users-worth-less-money-coo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959791
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I remember reading a funny eBay user feedback (of a seller, not of me :) that said something like: "F+++++++++ This seller is a scammer." Like you, the user felt that the many plus signs would make the F stronger, i.e. more nega
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Salesforce and Slack to pause all hiring in technology and product(fortune.com)
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Samsung debuts the first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024(engadget.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Great analogy from the post: > There is an episode of Star Trek where a character is for plot reasons trapped in a shrinking parallel universe. As time passes, people she knows one by one just vanish and she is the only one who seems to
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Will gradual typing allow Elixir to implement any new performance optimizations? Adding typing to dynamic languages like Elixir (or Python or Ruby) means developers pay a compile-time cost but still pay a runtime cost for the VM's dyna
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How Well Does Apple's Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) Model Work? (2012)(forbes.com)
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How did the unopened chests affect monster spawning? Did new monsters not spawn near unopened chests? Or did the chests form a protective wall?
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The World of Web Browsers Is in a Bad Way(hackaday.com)
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Also, the suggestions seem to be confused by contractions when swiping, defaulting to "didnt" or "doesnt" even when the list of suggestions includes "didn't" or "doesn't". The lists of sugge
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Type Nine looks awesome! I just bought it. I've become increasingly frustrated with the default iPhone keyboard and looking for something more reliable and deterministic. Your onboarding tutorial was excellent. Much more thorough and p
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I loved Minuum's one-dimensional keyboard! The app disappeared from the iOS App Store, but looks like it still exists for Android in the Google Play Store (last updated in 2017). Did the developer go out of business? http://
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by cpeterso 3y ago
While NeXT wasn't a big commercial success, they were wise to innovate on a boring foundation (Mach/BSD, PostScript, Objective-C) while architecture astronauts working on Taligent, Cairo, and Copland were off reinventing the wheel
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This Year in LLVM (2023)(npopov.com)
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You could allow the user to add secondary email addresses or phone numbers to their account for account recovery, but then any of this becomes the weak link for hacking their account.
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SAGE: The Most Important Computer You've Never Heard Of(getpocket.com)
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I assume these design decisions are all driven by teams juicing business metrics, at the expense of usability. Need to increase the “number of streams initiated” KPI? Trick people into resuming videos they already watched 99% of. The altern
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by cpeterso 3y ago
A similar approach is “bebugging” or fault seeding: purposely adding bugs to measure the effectiveness of your testing and to estimate how many real bugs remain. (Just don’t forget to remove the seeded bugs!) https://en.m.wikiped
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'The computer was sitting in a puddle of mud, with water up to the motherboard'(theregister.com)
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Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 could send 240M PCs to landfills(reuters.com)
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You can report websites that don’t work in Firefox on webcompat.com and Mozilla web developers will test and diagnose the problem. When possible, they attempt to reach web developers at the site (using personal contacts or referrals when of
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I believe tropic interest is calculated locally by the (Google) browser, though it might be repeatable on the Google server side for users syncing their browsing history to a Google account. The Topics API itself only returns up to three to
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TCP for cars
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Do ifdefs Influence the Occurrence of Vulnerabilities? (2016) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
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Windows CE reaches end of life, if not end of sales(theregister.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Exactly. This blog post is really about the difference between “Responsible” and “Accountable“ in a RACI. I jokingly define RACI’s R and A as the person who “Really does the work” and the person whose “Ass in on the line” when the project f
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Sounds like the lesson is to be a go-to person (for knowledge, not doing work for others) but don’t be irreplaceable. Seek to train others so you can scale your influence and you can be promoted without leaving a team or system in a bad pla
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I heard that parts of Microsoft Edge (the pre-Chromium version) were written in a GC-free subset of C#. I don’t know if it used System C#.

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