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by dmitriid 4y ago
On that page it says that media source was implemented in 2014, on year before Firefox and Edge. I guess in your world "every other browser" is Chrome. And, sure enough, there are some parts of the API that are only implemented
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Chrome-only non-standards that even Mozilla is against. Oh. And Web Midi? The moment Firefox implemented it they discovered its used for fingerprinting, and Chrome allows it by default: https://twitter.com/denschub/stat
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> in which Apple reintroduces an extremely competitive Safari for Windows in order to counteract the Blink (Chrome, Edge) hegemony And they are going to compete against Google's search, gmail, youtube (and their respective apps forc
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> And we should build for the reasonable good future, & show whats possible. Android is 70% worldwide market share. Chrome is 80%. What's stopping you from showing us this good future? Where are these glorious web apps?
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> The upshot is that we might have closer-to-native experiences for websites on iOS Strange. Android is 70% market share. Chrome is something like 80% market share (all playforms). Where are these glorious "closer to native web apps
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> If they try that they'll just get forked. "just" Will they also "just" fork search monopoly, and web's most visited properties like youtube? > Indeed we already have Edge as a well-maintained fork. Inde
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Apple and Mozilla did a lot to restrict the scope of third-party cookies: isolation, partitioning etc. It's hard to change them without breaking most of the web.
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> web APIs (firefox and chrome usually implement these before Safari does) What you meant to say: Chrome implements its own non-standards against strenuous objections if both Firefox and Safari.
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That's why Google's apps ask you in which browser to open links, with Chrome being the first, and default, choice. And conveniently "forgetting" the user choice. Don't forget about Google search which will push Chro
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> I think it would be more accurate to say his companies are doing great work. SpaceX? Undoubtedly Tesla? Very very arguably. Even though it did kickstart the modern EV era, it is now propelled by lies, deflection and bullshit All others
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Molly White https://blog.mollywhite.net/
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> Freelancers usually don't have the financial means to open offshore companies. So, "people in countries with high inflation"... is immediately reduced to just "freelancers". I struggle to imagine how freelancer
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No true cryptoscotsman
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So they don't use cryptocurrencies per se. They pay people in us dollars aka fiat. Same as companies using offshore bank accounts for the same purpose, or paying out cash in envelopes. People getting paid in USDC of course still need
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Ah yes. The well-known stability of crypto... with value swings that put most volatile currencies to shame.
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very few countries are as bad as crypto
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Documentation should have includes and transcludes (?) where you can include a part of a different document that stays in sync with the original doc.
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At any point in life I keep in touch regularly with about 40-50 people. Most of them are from outside work. Because "but you spend 8 hours with them every day" is not true for most people. I now work with completely different peop
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Then you keep in touch with them. But... I no longer "spend 8 hours in the office with them". I spend 8 hours in the office with a completely different set of people. See? Your friends will inevitably be outside the office
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> Once working, you spend 8h a day with a group of people. Until they, or you: - quit and move to another company in 2-3 years - move to another department in the company - get fired Then what?
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People keep pointing this out as if this made a grain of difference.
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How relevant are those PRs to the actual development of the product? That is, fixing minor bugs or translation strings vs adding new web APIs etc.?
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> Users do not necessarily care if the application looks pixel perfect They do care. They just don't know the words "pixel perfect". However, everything is an improvement over the standard state of corporate UIs
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It's open source the way Chrome is open source: the source is there, but the development is ~100% by Google
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Because, as I said above, it's a very complex problem :) I honestly don't know much about recommendations (and what I know I probably cannot tell). But there's definitely continuous work done on them. But it can also be hampe
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> At some point I saw speculation that the idea is to turn twitter into some sort of super-app like wechat. If that is true then it makes sense to button down loose "ecosystem" thingies that were setup during a more innocent an
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Everything that Twitter is right now is built on top of third-party innovations in the space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640515 Twitter's own app is a third-party acquisition.
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They were acquired by Spotify, and there's been some work done by/for Spotify since then. I'm not at liberty to say what, sadly, as I work for Spotify. I think I can say that one of the main challenges is running this analysi
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Categorising music is surprisingly different. See this paper from https://everynoise.com/ : https://everynoise.com/EverynoiseIntro.pdf IIRC they try to classify music on 17 different points/features. W
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> So, the people are not at fault in these situations imo. In 2022 elections year one of the largest parties in Sweden (Moderaterna) had "more cameras and surveillance on our streets" as one of their big campaign points, includ

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