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by dave2000 10y ago
It would appear that "what it is" is "not good enough", and that the sort of functionality and control over behaviour an layout is so hard to achieve on the browser that it's just not possible for any reasonably com
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by dave2000 10y ago
I thought the attraction of web development was that you just write something once and it works on all browsers. If you have to write it 8 times then what's the attraction? Often people show me "tech demos", by which they app
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by dave2000 10y ago
That's because the web is a terrible platform to develop for - because it's essentially a text-with-graphics platform with about 20 million different extensions, standards and so on to deal with. So the choices are: 1) deal with
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by dave2000 10y ago
> Nobody is arguing these things CAN'T be done, just that > it's too much effort on the web, They're saying it shouldn't be done, or that it's possible and if you can't do it you're a lame developer
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by dave2000 10y ago
They specialise in the most popular mobile operating system, the most popular search engine and one of if not the most popular browsers. If they provide for instant apps, people will use instant apps.
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by dave2000 10y ago
I can't imagine ever surfing the internet without blocking ads, javascript and cookies. There's just nothing to evaluate other than which plugin to perform those tasks. "self-destructing cookies", on the desktop, lets yo
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by dave2000 10y ago
You're surfing without noscript, ublock origin and self-destructing cookies?
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by dave2000 10y ago
"Anyone else find the idea of a central party with absolute control over what addon you are allowed to run more of a concern than the bigots having their own extension?" Not at all. It's their software and their app store.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Open source would be nice. So I can, you know, check it's not dodgy.
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by dave2000 10y ago
With a Nexus you're trusting Google with a lot more info than Samsung could hope to obtain. So if this isn't about legality then I'm not sure what it is. Presumably Samsung aren't storing your email credentials so they
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by dave2000 10y ago
Plus a copy of all the EULAs you consented to with Samsung when you used their phone and software.
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by dave2000 10y ago
And that it actually works?
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by dave2000 10y ago
A puzzling article; starts of saying there's no pattern, then shows a pattern. In the hope that people who know more about primes that me (this will not be unlikely) are reading this: How hard have people looked for pattern visually?
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by dave2000 10y ago
> I left the country fascinated by the experience of a > population living under authoritarian military rule, It's not as simple as that. They are a democracy, with regular elections. They're just punctuated with military
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by dave2000 10y ago
I've never heard of him but I do know that there's been noone at any point in history who has been any good at predicting the future, even the very near future, so you can take anything he/anyone says with a large pinch of sa
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by dave2000 10y ago
The point of this data is to understand why planes crash (or how were hijacked) so that design faults, defects and crew procedures can be altered to prevent them happening again.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't see or don't recognize any ads. Is this just because you're using the app whereas I'm using a browser with an ad blocker? Or do you see ads more when you poke around looking
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by dave2000 10y ago
You can't blame college admissions staff for trying it on, but no.
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by dave2000 10y ago
I read about "facebook's motives" and other companies motives, and suspicions about this and that in the media and I think - why do people bother? Companies like Facebook and Google and Apple have billions of users and 99.99
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by dave2000 10y ago
Your move, Social Text. It's worth looking for Chomsky speaking about post-modernism on youtube (or transcripts). Very amusing.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Well he changed his mind more often and quickly than you can say "magical thinking". Still, better to seem certain when speaking to investors, developers and other get-rich-quick types.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Anyone vaguely skilled can reverse engineer an android app. Modern versions of android (ie Android 6, which I appreciate only 0.0001% of android users actually have) let you control which permissions an app can use.
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by dave2000 10y ago
You can argue all you want "how they're destroying the web, but the fact is they can purchase cheap traffic and remonetize it for gain. That's the definition of arbitrage" People don't have a problem with arbitrage.
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by dave2000 10y ago
I think I'm supposed to enable JavaScript for this site to make the tedious cookie warning which covers half the screen go away.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Blackberry, eh? Good choice! How's the Psion Revo support coming along?
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by dave2000 10y ago
With signed content. Assuming you have a side channel for a one time joining process (email, SMS, real life etc) where you get a single use token/password etc you swap public keys and sign/encrypt all messages using it.
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by dave2000 10y ago
I thought the whole point of css was to separate content from presentation. But it only seems to be used for reskinning sites and - occasionally - for producing a "printer view". I suppose I could pretend to be a printer. But c
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by dave2000 10y ago
I use that and noscript so I'm guessing it's the latter.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Quite. I clicked without checking and it was the world's emptiest webpage. Why are Forbes links accepted here? What's the rationale behind not banning them?
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by dave2000 10y ago
RSS is odd. Unloved by many, killed by Google, but there's still no better way of getting notified that a rarely (or perhaps not so rarely if you have endless time to read "internet stuff") updated site has something new to

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