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721.
by emn13 8y ago
Aka such a shame Google Wave was cancelled.
722.
by emn13 8y ago
What did you switch to?
723.
by emn13 8y ago
Are you basing this on the huge costs for pocket? I use pocket; it's better than nothing. Also: if it weren't for pocket, FF would have some difficulty competing with Googles suggestions, which are pretty OK, really, and definite
724.
by emn13 8y ago
As a user that did use Live bookmarks I would be pretty pissed off if anyone merely by my usage counted me as an excuse to keep supporting that nonsense. I use pocket now - lightly. It's still heck of a lot better than live bookmarks
725.
by emn13 8y ago
Would the you of many years ago that first started using firefox similarly have objected to an easter egg? I still don't have any problems with easter eggs. Give me back my whimsy.
726.
by emn13 8y ago
Monopolies suck - perhaps they'll be broken open someday, but it doesn't appear to be soon.
727.
by emn13 8y ago
So if you were to write software or publish it, or deploy it, or even merely use it as part of your process to provide some other service to users, do you think it's reasonable to report each and every vulnerability? Keep in might that
728.
by emn13 8y ago
There is a qualitative difference between an internally discovered vulnerability - presumably by somebody with lots of access, knowledge, and the ability to verify their hypotheses - and an externally discovered vulnerability. Furthermore,
729.
by emn13 8y ago
Google does not have (or claims not to have) that kind of logging beyond the short term; not enough to cover even a small fraction of the vulnerability period.
730.
by emn13 8y ago
For another perspective on this: although I totally agree with what you say, there's also the side of the story where in people love to blame others for failings. When greece plunges into crisis; people blame politions, blame the EU -
731.
by emn13 8y ago
Na, I don't think Russia played into this all that much. Excessive ambition, overzealous idealism, and internal politics were much more relevant. Don't forget that when these decisions were made Russia wasn't perceived to b
732.
by emn13 8y ago
Somewhat aside: it's a bit of a shame the netherlands gets the blame in these tax-dodging stories, because the issue is actually that laws differ between countries (i.e. countries with laws identical to the netherlands aren't vuln
733.
by emn13 8y ago
You could choose not to publish the tally (or do you mean for votes that are required to be unanimous?), or agree beforehand not to disclose detailed-enough tallies to draw this conclusion (e.g. report only that 2 or fewer nay's were v
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by emn13 8y ago
It's faster? Simpler? Conversely, why would you choose one of those alternatives? (I don't actually think there aren't any reasons to do so, mind you, but I can well imagine that if you really KISS, well - even at impressive
735.
by emn13 8y ago
Sure, typically yes. It's not necessary - interoperable APIs exist, and for underdogs they're even attractive as a selling point - but market leaders tend not to play by those rules.
736.
by emn13 8y ago
Since API's aren't standardized and conversion from one product to another likely requires development work and probably impacts your usage in some way even then - the barriers to switching are high enough that the availability of
737.
by emn13 8y ago
I'd say it's the opposite: the US system is quite rigid and micromanages how society builds. Limiting the power of government to regulate only broader, more overlapping categories is quite the opposite of socialism in the US sens
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by emn13 8y ago
Almost anything can land you in prison for years, nowadays. But that doesn't mean there's no difference in impact. Gentoo can count themselves as extraordinarily lucky precisely because there is a difference, between getting h
739.
by emn13 8y ago
That's a great example! It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for (well, except that it's probably going to be niche, at least for a while?) Still - good example.
740.
by emn13 8y ago
I'm a little skeptical about the costs complexity of an external program. You may not need to support all those C compilers, but at least you have the choice. And C is extremely mature and stable. If you're generating code, yo
741.
by emn13 8y ago
Safari's last-layer used LLVM until 2016; it's switched to a custom JIT since then (ref: https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler... ). Since you have some experience - do you think sh
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by emn13 8y ago
LLVM clearly wasn't designed for JIT. Don't let those letters "VM" confuse you; it's more like a machine abstraction than a virtual machine. And even that is far from water-tight. But that doesn't mean you ca
743.
by emn13 8y ago
The real consequence would likely be that such buttons could not use iframes anymore. Which would probably be good thing anyhow - in the long run.
744.
by emn13 8y ago
I can't say I'm enthused by reddit-on-mobile. I stick to the desktop version. No idea if I'm alone in that...
745.
by emn13 8y ago
Facebook effectively sells data. It simply doesn't sell raw dumps. The distinction isn't a minor one, but in this context it doesn't much matter. Reddit is unlikely to have the kind of quality data that facebook has to sell
746.
by emn13 9y ago
Hey, it's aspirational ;-).
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by emn13 9y ago
So, that's the bad-stuff perspective. But transactions in actual DB's show it doesn't have to be that way, and transaction isolation is likely to be easier in a language than a DB because you typically communicate via a fair
748.
by emn13 9y ago
Nothing wrong with being cautious, especially with something as foundational as a language feature. It's quite hard to remove a feature that turns out to have unforeseen indirect consequences.
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by emn13 9y ago
Total speculation: but I seriously doubt that Fuchsia is specifically for chromeOS. The whole point of decent, efficient, simple, non-bug-prone APIs is that you probably want to implement pretty much everything on it. Simplicity and low-o
750.
by emn13 9y ago
dots-don't-matter isn't sufficient to fix this issue - any other canonicalization issues would surfacea as the same problem. That might include casing, unicode issues, the `+irrelevantsuffix` stuff, and probably more, including p

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