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by doublec 13y ago
And Firefox OS. And Android. With Linux being enabled soon. Mac is being worked on.
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by doublec 13y ago
There's also the "Featherweight Firefox" browser model in Coq http://www.the-inconsistency-principle.com/upenn//browser-mo...
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by doublec 13y ago
The faucet funds, presumably including the EFF donations, were used to refund pools that had blocks orphaned in the recent blockchain fork: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156641.0
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by doublec 13y ago
Have you got the wrong browser there? Chrome supports H.264 fine.
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by doublec 13y ago
Bitcoin has also suffered from an overflow bug, requiring a fork to fix it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
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by doublec 13y ago
Another approach is to have compile time checking of overflow or bounded numbers. There's been discussion about the utility of this on the Rust list recently and I wrote up some of my experience with languages that let you do checking: htt
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by doublec 13y ago
It doesn't matter how many confirmations you wait for if the attacker has >=51%. The attack looks like this: 1) Attacker starts mining a fork offline (ie. doesn't publish blocks) 2) Attacker sends payment to merchant but does not includ
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by doublec 13y ago
It runs ok on a Nexus S http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-ne...
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by doublec 13y ago
You wouldn't write a conditional like that, you'd do: 10 < [ "less than 10" ] [ "greater than 10" ] if This is pretty easy to read. If the boolean condition is true, run the first quotation, if it is false, run the second. The
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by doublec 13y ago
For those looking for "Why Factor" material you might like to look at some of Manfred von Thun's writings on the Joy programming language [1]. Joy is similar to Factor and Manfred wrote a lot of theory on the "why" of concatenative programm
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by doublec 13y ago
Factor used to run on ARM [1]. Back then Windows Mobile only had 64MB of ram and it wasn't quite enough to do anything useful in Factor. I used to run a video sharing website written in Factor [2], sadly the server crashed a few weeks ago a
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by doublec 13y ago
The 'extra' directory basically acts as a package manager. The "Batteries Included" approach Factor uses here makes it much more likely that libraries work out of the box. This was very useful in the early days of Factor when language and b
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by doublec 14y ago
The FileHandle API does what you want - read/write access to an IndexedDB file at any location. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/FileHandle
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by doublec 14y ago
Maybe Site5 should ask better security questions then. If they want users to enter what is effectively a password for "Mother's maiden name" they should just ask for a security password.
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by doublec 14y ago
Nightly builds of Firefox are starting to get support for the Web Audio API, hidden behind a pref 'media.webaudio.enabled', which can be set in 'about:config'. At some point when it's considered more useable someone will blog about it and t
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by doublec 14y ago
Mega only de-dup the encrypted result of the file. This means only files from the same user are de-duped. Given that this is likely to be rare, in practice de-dup doesn't happen.
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by doublec 14y ago
Oh, very nice, thanks!
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by doublec 14y ago
The main point of the web audio api is for procedural generation of sounds rather than playing of pre-computed buffers or files. This is why "new Audio('effect.wav')" isn't a real alternative to it.
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by doublec 14y ago
The Google proposal was more full featured than the Mozilla Audio Data API. It provided more functionality baked in vs having to implement it in JS. This was considered important for mobile devices. Mozilla countered with another proposal,
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by doublec 14y ago
Clamato, also from Avi Bryant, is an interesting approach to in browser development: https://bitbucket.org/avibryant/clamato/wiki/Home
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by doublec 14y ago
Webapps can look at using some of the newer HTML features for offline capability and caching. There's the HTML App Cache [1] and IndexedDB [2] for example. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Using_the_appl... [2] https://h
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SVG In OpenType: A New Approach To SVG Fonts(robert.ocallahan.org)
2 points by doublec 14y ago|0 comments
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by doublec 14y ago
Netflix, along with Google and Microsoft, are working on a specification to enable playback of encrypted and protected content. I'd imagine this is what they're hoping will come about to work around the anti-flash/silverlight/java technolog
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by doublec 14y ago
Mega are using the file-system-api: http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/ It hasn't been widely implemented and may be due for change: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012OctDe...
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by doublec 14y ago
Chrome still supports MP4 as far as I know. They mentioned dropping support a couple of years ago but didn't. Firefox is getting MP4 support. Firefox OS and Firefox for Android on some devices has it already. Support on some versions of Win
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by doublec 14y ago
The reality is that with the time pressures to get Firefox OS running and working on the devices intended to be released there has been very little resource to supported other hardware. At some point this may change but it's really up to th
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by doublec 14y ago
The defined subset included the particular codecs that would only be supported. Implementers who got on the WebM train agreed to VP8 and Vorbis. They may not be keen to do VP9 or Opus. There's no "have to be implemented" for these two forma
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by doublec 14y ago
Integrating Opus and/or VP9 into WebM removes one of the selling points they used to promote the format. WebM wasn't supposed to be a generic container format holding different codecs. It was specifically tied to Vorbis/VP8 to ensure everyo
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An introduction to using pointers safely in the ATS programming language(bluishcoder.co.nz)
2 points by doublec 14y ago|0 comments
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by doublec 14y ago
MP3 and H.264 should play fine on Firefox OS if the device vendor includes hardware support for it. The initial devices do support this as far as I know. Firefox for Android for some devices also supports MP3 and H.264 now. Desktop support

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