damnyou

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by damnyou 9y ago
Using any sort of application downloaded from the internet gives users a false sense of security.
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by damnyou 9y ago
I hope you've thought very carefully about your threat model when you say you don't autoupdate. For most people your advice is quite plainly wrong. Most people should have everything on autoupdate.
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by damnyou 9y ago
And re-check them after every update? And trust that Mozilla won't randomly distribute a backdoor to 1/n of users? The means you're suggesting aren't possible to implement for most people today. If you care about real-wo
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by damnyou 9y ago
Tgis is not true The extension base is not the same. Firefox 57 will have tree style tabs, for example.
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by damnyou 9y ago
The web developer base is far more interesting and relevant to Mozilla's mission than the extension developer base, and Quantum is the only shot Mozilla has at regaining mindshare there. Looks like it's working, though.
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by damnyou 9y ago
The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
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by damnyou 9y ago
Merge commits are bad because they add unnecessary complexity. Your software is already complex enough. Why add complexity to your commit logs and your overall development process? A linear history is easy to manage and easy to understand.
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by damnyou 9y ago
Developers rarely push directly to master in large organizations. Instead, a CI pipeline verifies your code passes tests and then pushes to master. There are trade-offs here around "semantic merge conflicts", but they happen rarel
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by damnyou 9y ago
This is called trunk-based development, and it is the only development model that scales to thousands of engineers in one repository.
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by damnyou 9y ago
It covers everyone on US soil, including unauthorized immigrants.
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by damnyou 9y ago
Both Facebook and Twitter use BitTorrent to deploy binaries onto production machines.
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by damnyou 9y ago
The architects probably don't have much control over the marketing. They're each doing their jobs.
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by damnyou 9y ago
No, they got the order to make something that looks like GoL. They tried it out, realized it didn't look great, then looked for what most people who don't have a CS degree would consider similar enough and also looked nice. This s
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by damnyou 9y ago
Maybe they tested both and found one more aesthetically pleasing? Maybe Game of Life simply doesn't produce patterns as interesting as Rule 30? With GoL you can only show one generation. Maybe they were going for the randomness that ru
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by damnyou 9y ago
Do you really, really, really think the architects didn't do their homework? Can you think of no other possible explanation they went with rule 30 and not GoL?