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by fbender 9y ago
The only real cost here is processor cycles for increased number of automated tests. You don't even need a part time job to maintain the extra tests (otherwise you'd do something wrong).
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by fbender 9y ago
> There is significant dev time that is spent supporting those configuration mixes that relatively few people will use. The issue I have with this is that too many are looking at percentage/share/ratio only. Yes, percentage mat
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by fbender 9y ago
Burry the cables. Won't protect you from everything, but makes it a bit harder to compromise them. You can even have "cages" around them that alarm a nearby response team of any manipulation. Of course, this adds siginifcant
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by fbender 9y ago
You'll have a hard time starting a company or anything without consulting a lawyer or legal service in Germany. And you won't be taken seriously e.g. by banks etc. Fortunately, cost for legal advice on this matter is significantly
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by fbender 9y ago
In many many cases, there are processes to assess a student's qualification. In general, if you don't have a German degree or did not reach a certain level, you will have to go through a vetting process – except for those studies
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by fbender 10y ago
Some of us just don't have a choice due to laws or export regulations.
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by fbender 10y ago
Speaking as someone who is familiar with some parts of the Firefox architecture or concepts thereof, but not the source code itself: If you were to implement per-container pref overrides, theoretically yes. AFAIK, prefs are global right now
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by fbender 10y ago
Please explain the downvotes. Parent talked about "Chrome Packaged Apps" which are vendor-specific. Instead, I pointed to the cross-browser solution that is recommended by Google and works today.
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by fbender 10y ago
WebWorkers are not a new "feature". The last browser to support it was (on desktop) IE in v10 (4 years ago) and on mobile Android 4.4 (3 years ago). Though that doesn't really matter since you can polyfill it, which obviously
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by fbender 10y ago
> (good multi screen/multi window support, better, good support for complex interactions like shortcuts, ctrl-clicks etc). Totally do-able on the web. It's often the web apps architecture that prevents a good UX, not the browse
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by fbender 10y ago
Yeah the problem is they hired big software companies to develop sub-par software (in terms of being future proof, platform agnostic, and standards-compliant – if there were any standards to begin with) that worked for their needs at that p
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by fbender 10y ago
There quite a few ways around that with async APIs and WebWorkers, even ServiceWorkers now. A lot of devs just don't use them properly. Edit: Did you mean the browser itself could freeze? That's a thing of the past with Firefox be
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by fbender 10y ago
ServiceWorker/Progressive Web Apps is the way to go. Works in any* browser. * Any modern and recent browser, so no Safari support, at least until summer '17.
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by fbender 10y ago
Well, if nobody tests it, the browser doesn't stand a chance because it does not work on many sites. It's a vicious circle …
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by fbender 10y ago
Firefox slowness is often related to some bad-behaving extension (though that improved over time), some AV software hijacking the process (happens far too often and way harder to detect than it should), or some busted profiles with a lot of
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by fbender 10y ago
Did you try the Fx DevEdition? I know of some recent Source Map related changes. If the issue persists (same with the other issues you mention), would you mind filing a bug [1]? [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
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by fbender 10y ago
> I miss the "DOM" tab, that Firebug for Firefox had features had, and I haven't found anywhere else. It's in the Fx DevTools sinve v48 [1]. You may need to enable it though in the DevTools settings. > Sadly, they
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by fbender 10y ago
There's other (read: more efficient) ways to control humidity than using an A/C. Including making buildings more "airtight" so the dampness doesn't leak into the house (as long as you don't open doors/wind
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by fbender 10y ago
Insulation is key. From what houses I've seen in the US vs Europe, the former are mostly wood-based (or similar material) and thin-walled, whereas Europe's houses are often stone- or concrete-based, thicker walls and/or (at l
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by fbender 10y ago
Am I the only one who finds the notion that "the free market will solve this problem" by using the court system (an entity of the state operating on laws passed by the government) at odds?
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by fbender 10y ago
How does TAR mitigate the issues mentioned in the paper? Sincerely curious, my knowledge is limited. AFAICS, XZ can still "corrupt" the TAR stream and you'll need quite a bit of extra error correction to recover from that.
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by fbender 10y ago
Info on Opportunity watching for Schiaparelli EDM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12763583
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by fbender 10y ago
If you miss any necessary APIs, contact the Mozilla folks working on the Firefox implementation of WebExtensions (e.g. via bugzilla.mozilla.org). They are usually pretty reactive to (sensible and well thought out) proposals to extend the AP
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by fbender 10y ago
This is done to reduce the impact of vulnerabilities before a patch is out. Pretty common and sensible procedure.
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by fbender 10y ago
Source? First Google result for "Rust vs Go speed": https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la... Rust seems to perform significantly better on some workloads while Go outperforms it margina
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by fbender 10y ago
Philae was a success. Especially considering they had no clue what they were landing on when designing Philae (the only info they had were a few bright pixels + limited spectroscopic data). Some experiments couldn't be performed as hop
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by fbender 10y ago
If you are referring to browser add-ons (and not Plugins), the future couldn't be brighter: Multiple vendors, including Mozilla and Microsoft, are converging on a "Web Extensions" standard that is based on the Chrome extensio
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by fbender 10y ago
AFAIK, Oppy was in fact watching. Given its abilities it's however unlikely it was able to see something substantial.
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by fbender 10y ago
While it does have "a life support system", this basically means ventilation and some environmental monitoring & control (incl. N2 and maybe O2 for repressurization). It does not mean that it can sustain a vertebrate let alone
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by fbender 10y ago
False. Most probes on Mars are powered by solar. E.g. Opportunity is still going strong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover) ). Other upcoming landers are also solar powered. Mission design dictates whethe

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