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by gcp 10y ago
This is correct at least for Firefox. The new Container Tabs feature works similarly: it splits cookies.
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by gcp 10y ago
The "Most common misconceptions about Private Browsing" part is actually misleading for Firefox users, because that does apply Tracking Protection in private browsing mode. So some of the top misconceptions aren't, at least
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by gcp 10y ago
The USA banned the European Champion in Taekwondo from entering (he's originally from Iran), thereby barring him from the US Open. (It's an interesting story: his brother was actually a suicide bomber. Nevertheless he himself di
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by gcp 10y ago
It's going to be really funny when you discover PulseAudio, ha, ha...ha...
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by gcp 10y ago
What does Java have? (Don't say Android, it was popular before that.)
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by gcp 10y ago
Wasn't in Germany, but I'd be surprised if you wouldn't find similar "initiatives" over there. It's a common EU disease.
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by gcp 10y ago
But those people are such a tiny niche as to not be worth worrying about. I don't disagree with your assessment, but one reason why there's enthusiasm for Rust is that this niche hasn't had any real alternatives (save maybe
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by gcp 10y ago
You both "deal with it" and there's task forces that look at the tests that fail most often, and try to find someone with the skills to investigate.
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by gcp 10y ago
You can't easily, you have to debug them. Debugging intermittent test failures is hard, and you have no guarantee you're actually improving much tangible things despite the time invested in them. It just sucks.
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by gcp 10y ago
Well, if I Google the name, the first 10 hits look like spam sites set up to promote it. That's a reason not to go that route, IMHO.
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by gcp 10y ago
Don't worry, your government representative has some good ideas to improve the startup landscape and internet companies! You'll get a 40% corporate tax deduction for the first 4 years if you crowdfund. There are, of course, specif
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by gcp 10y ago
I'm not sure. If you're taught that's how languages work, maybe it feels normal. The first language you learn influences a lot of your thinking. I started with QBASIC :-(
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by gcp 10y ago
I believe the difference is that you can no longer build without Rust. The original post in that thread talks about requiring it being the default - those are not the same.
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by gcp 10y ago
The build itself is stable. The testsuites, not so much. The problem is that written testcases sometimes unwillingly rely on timing or races. When you have thousands and thousands of tests, as Firefox has, there's a reasonably likelyho
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by gcp 10y ago
Of course nothing whatsoever changed in the web ecosystem since 1998.
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by gcp 10y ago
if you have world-class tech guys working for you then don't support them, just tie them up in contracts, and when they leave and become successful you can sue them to get 25% of whatever they made, at zero risk to you. He was free t
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by gcp 10y ago
It's called due diligence. The fact that Facebook didn't do it was a factor in the trial.
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by gcp 10y ago
It's not clear whether Carmack was actually the one to get that fine, sounds like it was Iribe.
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by gcp 10y ago
Thing is as long as web engines evolve you can't have this. There was a moment say 3 or 4 years ago when some people, including key jQuery devs, were saying that Firefox should just switch to WebKit and that would solve web development
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by gcp 10y ago
These things are somewhat self-reinforcing. Many sites feel slower with Firefox because they've been developed on Chrome and avoid the slower sides of Chrome, yet won't take advantage of the paths in Firefox that are faster than C
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by gcp 10y ago
It only works if your browser claims to be Chrome. (That's how you can get it working in Firefox, too)
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by gcp 10y ago
The Edge and Firefox teams already spend large amounts of time being bug-compatible with Chrome so websites, especially mobile ones, continue to work. That time would be better spent elsewhere. (Note that Brave doesn't have its own eng
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by gcp 10y ago
Does this mean we'll get even more notifications on Windows 10?
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by gcp 10y ago
Apple doesn't use ARM designs. Their own A10 leaves the ARM designs far behind. They just use the architecture.
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by gcp 10y ago
The Transmeta guys actually ended up releasing Project Denver (Tegra) for NVIDIA.
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by gcp 10y ago
Apple already invented that ARM already offered this (A7+A15|A17, A53+A57|A72|A73), and Android phones have been using the design for years.
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by gcp 10y ago
Only in theory. In practice the existing base of software in the App Store would cause compatibility issues. Intel based Android devices have an ARM emulator on board (libhoudini) and claim to be ARM when querying the store, in order to not
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by gcp 10y ago
Harder to defend against timing attacks in JS, which are exactly some of the strongest attacks against modern cryptosystems.
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by gcp 10y ago
I guess the problem there is client support. The server still has to scale in the same way when legacy clients are connected, too.
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Microsoft Edge Preview Adds WebRTC Support(blogs.windows.com)
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