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by epoch1970 10y ago
While some progress is being made, it worries me that it's taking so long to get this functionality into the release versions. I'm not suggesting it should be rushed out, of course. But the Electrolysis efforts date back to 2009,
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by epoch1970 10y ago
$75,000 is still about 2 times the cost of a brand new traditional luxury car. It's about 3 to 4 times the cost of a brand new lower-end or mid-range car. It's 10 to 20 times the cost of a used car. Maybe $75,000 isn't as una
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by epoch1970 10y ago
Might inflation due to quantitative easing, for example, be at least partially responsible for the higher valuations we see today?
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by epoch1970 11y ago
What worries me is that, rightly or wrongly, there are an increasing number of people who are disappointed with the direction that Mozilla has taken itself lately. While Mozilla once received almost universal praise, I'm starting to se
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by epoch1970 11y ago
What kind of ads aren't "predatory in their nature"? The only kind I can think of is uncompensated word-of-mouth recommendations based on prior good experiences. But I don't really consider that "advertising",
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Yes, I read that comment. I was providing evidence to back up that claim, in case you did not notice.
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by epoch1970 11y ago
At the very top of the Go web site it used to prominently say "a systems programming language" [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20091112094121/http://golang.org...
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by epoch1970 11y ago
> If we agree that ads are bad, why not just ban them altogether and replace them with one single directory of stuff and stuff providers where customer would go to when he needs some stuff. That's exactly what has happened. Web brow
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I wouldn't say it's innovative, given the existence of companies like AllAdvantage [1] or ePIPO [2] well over a decade ago. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage [2] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by epoch1970 11y ago
One thing I like about Slashdot is that the comments there often represent a much wider set of opinions and a greater diversity of thought than are found here or at reddit. That does often mean that more of the comments might be seen as neg
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I don't think the author is alone in having problems with Ubuntu and Debian. There are numerous forums, mailing lists, bug trackers, and so forth which are full of reports of people encountering problems like the author describes. Many
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by epoch1970 11y ago
How is a 6 MB file, with only 34,000 lines, considered "large" these days? Smartphones from a couple of years ago already had multi-core, multi-GHz processors, and 2 GB or more of RAM. A 6 MB file would fit into memory well over a
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by epoch1970 11y ago
> Except a non-commercial identity provider would be wonderful. We've had that all along. It's called email. It's decentralized. There are already numerous free providers. There are already numerous commercial providers. Y
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Firefox improving and evolving. And I really don't care if Firefox is or isn't using XUL. As a user, that's quite irrelevant to me. However, as a user of Firefox, I am weary about
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Is there a list somewhere of which extensions have been deemed "important"? As far as I'm concerned, every single Firefox extension I currently use is important, regardless of what Mozilla thinks of their importance. I also h
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I think at this point that the Firefox brand has been tarnished, unfortunately. For many average users, the term "Firefox" reminds them of the slow browser they used to use before switching to Chrome. For more advanced users, the
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by epoch1970 11y ago
The social aspect can't be ignored. Football is typically held up as the quintessential American sport in many regions of the country. Those who don't proclaim their interest or love for it do so at the risk of being seen as outsi
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by epoch1970 11y ago
> The OS they've created is flexible enough to go on a completely different device, where as I don't think android belongs many places outside of phones and tablets. I'm confused by this claim. Doesn't Firefox OS use
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by epoch1970 11y ago
> It's also about integrating with ecosystems, so that each IoT device isn't an island of itself, but can join a bigger picture. So why is JavaScript critical for this? C, C++, Go, and pretty much every other language out there
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by epoch1970 11y ago
With Microsoft's recent push to make technologies like the .NET CLR, C#, ASP.NET, and so on available on non-Windows platforms (such as Linux and OS X), this does become a factor for a great many more developers. On one hand, we can ch
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Tk was only ever feasible for very simple, often throw-away, UIs, and not much more than that. Tk can't be compared to Qt or the other full-featured UI toolkits that exist.
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by epoch1970 11y ago
That's not the kind of innovation that users want, nor is it the kind that they truly benefit from. In general, users don't want any ads at all showing in their browser. They don't want them as part of web pages, they don&#x2
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Developers of large JavaScript codebases have come to realize that class-based OO is exactly what they need. Prototype OO sounds interesting in theory, but in practice it tends to not be what's needed. Projects that use it end up tryin
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by epoch1970 11y ago
They could have done such experimentation in an unreleased fork of the browser. Or if they needed wider testing, they could have released this separate, experimental branch and clearly labeled it so that people would know what they were get
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by epoch1970 11y ago
That misses the point. People don't want to have to turn off ads. They don't want them there in the first place.
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I'd prefer to not have these "discovery mechanisms" exist in my browser at all. If I want said functionality, I should be able to install it using a browser extension. Unless I opt in like that, my computer's resources s
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I think that's the sort of distinction that most people just don't care about. They aren't against ads because of how their personal data may be collected or used, especially when this happens without their knowledge. They&#x
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I've had very good experiences with the OpenBSD and the FreeBSD communities, too. As long as you do your homework and the answer you seek isn't in the documentation or FAQs, they'll go to the ends of the earth to help you out
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by epoch1970 11y ago
That's a poor example for the documentation to use. In a case like that, kebab notation leads to visual ambiguity when reading code, especially within an expression performing math operations. It becomes harder, at a glance, to tell if
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I get a sense that the hype surrounding Rust has fallen away rather quickly since its 1.0 release around half a year ago. I won't speculate on why that is, but for a language that was poised to become very popular very quickly, we&#x27

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