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by frik 9y ago
With Firefox 57, the UI changed to look almost identical to Chrome. The tabs are now boxy, not round anymore. The hamburger menu changed from the useful big box with big icons to a long menu that looks 99% like Chrome incl the unusual page
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by frik 9y ago
or Webkit/Blink. But good that they explained. Forking is a common strategy on Github, if one has no write access, to submit a pull request.
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by frik 9y ago
> We use Redis to send task (update / discovery) to our crawlers. Some kind of queue implemented with Redis? How does it work?
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by frik 9y ago
14" notebook with mate display, works great. Local dev web server. Good IDE with good language support. Keep as much as possible offline. A problem is the unreliable 3G/4G connection and the onboard WiFi isn't that reliable a
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by frik 9y ago
> iPhones shove updates down your throats as a user It doesn't, you don't have to update iOS. You can keep an older version. The same with Android. The only difference is that AppStore won't serve you older app-versions th
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by frik 9y ago
Thanks a lot! I increased it to 50, it Works great. Please remove the UI restriction with the next release.
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by frik 9y ago
I recently attended a marketing conf, and Electric Arts employees were so pround of ripping of so called whales and their gamification and gambling features in their new Triple-A games. They guys I spoke with had no clue about games, they
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by frik 9y ago
Most bikes in US and Western Europe are made in China. Then they get shipped in parts to US and Western Europe and the bikes are assembled there. Often enough such small tasks count to label it made in xy. Only smaller volumn hand made prem
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by frik 9y ago
Firefox 56 is actually pretty good. It's now fast again. I am using a fresh new profile. Please let me increase "content process count" higher than 7. Chrome opens hundreds of child-processes (no problem at all on my PC). And
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by frik 9y ago
Transferring files locally is still an unsolved problem. Bluetooth is cumbersome and slow, WiFi would be better, but something like AirDrop for non Apple devices would be great. For SD-cards, many Android smartphones can be used to read it.
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by frik 9y ago
The problem is 1) bicycles are made in Asia (for decades) for their market (we just import it), 2) so a lot of different manufacturers, 3) stealing bikes isn't such a big problem in e.g. China, 4) expensive gear catches of thiefs, a bi
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by frik 9y ago
only 56fps for 900k particles, expected steady 60fps
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by frik 9y ago
Apple new HQ looks great, I visited when it was almost finished earlier this year. Some design elements look great, but are probably hard to keep clean, and functionality might suffered a bit, and some elements surface reflect too much sun
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by frik 9y ago
Thanks for the hints!
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by frik 9y ago
> This looks very interesting. You might be the right person to ask about something related Hi Craig, do you know an app/code that can split the audio/transcript based on persons? Detect different persons in a podcast and group
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by frik 9y ago
WebSQL when? @Firefox devs: please add WebSQL support. Now that you lost the IndexedDB devs who voted against WebSQL, it's rather time. Mind you, NoSQL and NewSQL nowadays coexist next to each other. Safari and Chrome based browsers (9
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by frik 9y ago
GNOME and KDE destroyed their former community, such stupid decisions over and over again. Changing directions, etc. Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were great, then both went downhill. Ubuntu w Unity 7 and Ubuntu MATE are great, but standard GNOME3 is g
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by frik 9y ago
Facebook changed the UI so many times between 2007 and 2012 that I stopped using it. They were known for the salami tactic - after each community outcry, media reported it and FB revered it back just to baby-step-adding it back in with much
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by frik 9y ago
CuneiForm was a close competitor to Abbyy that got open sourced, both were Russian companies. CuneiForm OCR is certainly better to Tesseract OCR. The open source Windows version is feature complete and very similar to Abbyy though it compil
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by frik 9y ago
Heise.de has been covering the whole Munich Limux project from the early days to the corruption and lobbies that lead ultimately to the demise. https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/LiMux-Aus-Muenchen-e... Basic
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by frik 9y ago
The 1969 photos are from the smaller American Falls. What the world knows as the Niagara Falls, is the Horseshoe Falls. Horseshoe Falls, also known as Canadian Falls, is the largest of the three waterfalls which collectively form Niagara Fa
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by frik 9y ago
Its editor component "Monaco" is the single reason that TypeScript exists. TypeScript was created in conjunction with (or for) this first project, of course the editor was first used in other parts of MS, and only later was also i
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by frik 9y ago
RE example "rocket-rides" Can someone translate the example "rocket-rides-unified" code for non-Ruby coders can read it too? (preferable to a C-like syntax language like Node.js, PHP, Go or Java) https://git
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by frik 9y ago
> "Same shape" are you kidding me? maybe it has kind of similar shape at best and looks quite alien design, looks uncomfortable and very "gamer", doesn't look like a normal mouse for office use while MX500/M
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by frik 9y ago
Logitech is one of these hardware companies that don't care anymore about their customers, the other is Microsoft. I would like to buy new Logitech mouse and keyboard, yet the discontinued the very popular (and best) Logitech MX500&#x2
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by frik 9y ago
Does Prometheus 2 still use the unmaintained charting library "flot charts" ? http://www.flotcharts.org/ No commits since 2014. Unfortunately, because it's a great chart library (actually probably the best fr
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by frik 9y ago
From reading their "how it works", so basically "partition" plus use of index?
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by frik 9y ago
Please add also relational databases incl MySQL and Postgres (both work great for time series) and Cassandra itself. While also kairosdb, heroic, blueblood, hawkula are based on Cassandra, it can be used for time series as well.
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by frik 9y ago
I personally would select a dynamically typed language (preferable with C-like syntax) like JS/PHP/Lua/etc over a statically typed one for web server projects most of the time. Only for specific high performance web server us
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by frik 9y ago
Unfortunately (according to Wikipedia) like DuckDuckGo, also Qwant is mainly a meta search engine, meaning the are using Bing & Yandex and have only a small scale own web crawler. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwa

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