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by davb 10y ago
Chrome has chrome:flags but it's not as useful (mostly about turning ON new experimental features than restoring established behaviour). And with both cases, you can't rely on it being there at the next mi or update..
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by davb 10y ago
They really don't like preferences. I remember before Chrome's new preferences page it seemed to have many more options. I called them out on a few important ones disappearing and the answer was always "Not many people use th
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by davb 10y ago
They say 0.04% of page views are a result of pressing backspace. 0.04% sounds small but imagine how many page views per month there are, globally, with Chrome. That's. Significant number. Backspace sure is an unusual navigation choice
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by davb 10y ago
It's a shame to see that they used the goodwill of security-conscious cryptonerds to gain a foothold on the market only to, effectively, say "We're now targeting enterprise and government who can afford to pay for third party
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by davb 10y ago
> With all due respect, countries without decent Internet infrastructure are unlikely to be places where there are plenty of people with the spare cash to blow on a console. I think you underestimate the woeful state of broadband in many
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by davb 10y ago
Oh absolutely, and that's the way it is with the 3DS. But keep in mind that Nintendo home consoles have always been the favoured split-screen multiplayer - they're the consoles you play when your friends come round (and they work
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by davb 10y ago
I very much doubt it. They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world). Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they&#
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by davb 10y ago
> Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc. This might be about to change with Nintendo's upcoming NX system rumoured to use ROM cartridges rathe
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by davb 10y ago
Probably not too badly if we took a phased approach. 1 - Establish a new, consistent filesystem hierarchy. New code should use the new hierarchy. Move the legacy stuff to the new hierarchy and symlink the old locations to avoid breakage. 2
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by davb 10y ago
That's really interesting, I didn't know that. Does anyone know what the timescale is for phasing out paper? I seen that the website mentions parallel issuance for a period - in the last year I've visited Munich and Paris and
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by davb 10y ago
This raises an interesting point for visually impaired people. Sure, once you separate the banknotes and other paper, UK notes can be differentiated by their dimensions. But it might result in some confusion if similarly sized and textured
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by davb 10y ago
With a plan to introduce more denominations in the near term [1] [2] [1] http://www.rbs.com/news/2016/april/new-p5-and-p10-polymer-no... [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland
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by davb 10y ago
I just wish they didn't kill RoboVM. I get the warm and fuzzies when something big is open sourced just like everyone else. Then I snap back to reality and remember that it's ultimately the same organisation that close-sourced Rob
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by davb 10y ago
Agreed. I expect that if it was opt-in most people wouldn't take the active step to do so. And if given a choice on first-run, a large proportion of users would choose to disable the analytics reporting. Making it opt-out seems deceitf
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by davb 10y ago
Which is actually a really interesting idea. Network interface level VPNs are great in certain situations . For instance, when using untrusted WiFi networks I'll connect to my VPS VPN hosted in the US or my UK RasPI VPN. But when I wa
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by davb 11y ago
I'm not entirely sure how many people are actively contributing to BugVM. Perhaps it's gone a little under-loved in the last six months since forking. That might explain the lack of solid marketing and documentation. I imagine the
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by davb 11y ago
I've just been directed to http://bugvm.com - an open source fork of RoboVM from before they closed their source in October 2015.
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by davb 11y ago
Absolutely. I'd love to see the "new Microsoft" step up and say "Under our stewardship, one of our acquisitions has abandoned a vital and heavily relied upon product. We're going to give it back to the community to
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by davb 11y ago
The relatively mature iOS support was one main reasons I chose to develop my game using libGDX (which relies on RoboVM). Luckily I've not started my iOS build yet (and am currently Android-only) but this has wrecked my plan going forwa
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by davb 11y ago
I agree with your comment, but I think it will be easier to pass this right now with some wide exemptions and potentially expand it somewhere down the line.
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The US is targeting 'burner phones' in the wake of Europe's terrorist attacks(businessinsider.com)
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by davb 11y ago
> Do you block images, css, and other stuff that doesn't pertain to the content at hand? No. In many cases, the styles and images are content that I'd actually like to see. In some cases, sure - I'd eagerly jump right back
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by davb 11y ago
There's a difference between using tools like Piwik (which still burden the browser with additional HTTP requests), and logging the relevant data in the application or server code itself (Apache/nginx logs, or writing your own con
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by davb 11y ago
I find it interesting that a lot of content producers have feel entitled to users' participation in analytics at all. Sure, it may be frustrating when a user blocks tracking tools (especially self hosted ones) but that's the their
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by davb 11y ago
Some other useful resources for sounds (all free) are http://freesound.org , http://freemusicarchive.org , and the tools BFXR and CFXR (for generating sounds).
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by davb 11y ago
I moved from Glasgow to Aberdeen (and stayed there for a decade) and it was noticeable how differently they treat that word. Even in situations where swear words were flying, breaking out "cunt" would put pause to the conversation
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by davb 11y ago
Aren't the cables run with a bit of slack for just this reason?
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by davb 11y ago
> You can just disable javascript And break an increasing number of websites. What I'm suggesting is a platform where this isn't even a thing. I open my client and I'm guaranteed that all services on the network won't
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by davb 11y ago
I'd love to go back to the days where I didn't have to endure the 20+ external scripts (mostly ads, analytics, social and "optimization") that some crappy dev has crammed into their markup, just to read an article or bro
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by davb 11y ago
Could someone explain how FIDO 2.0 fits in with U2F and UAF? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how the pieces go together. Does FIDO 2.0 make the existing U2F and UAF specs obsolete? Is there any documentation explaining this (

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