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by gcp 8y ago
YouTube is requiring them to switch to monetized That's just what "The Machine" says and may not be the intended policy, even if it is now the effective one.
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by gcp 8y ago
Pretty much the entire WWW is being shaped and controlled by this group. "Open Web" my ass. In reality, "they" couldn't even ship Array.prototype.flatten because a few sites won't update MooTools. What you de
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by gcp 8y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14 "GA also doesn't track IPs or store PII within the tool."
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by gcp 8y ago
Mostly they won't be able to send mailings around. Data portability and such are likely a much bigger hassle. Those are actual features you need to implement now if you stored PII.
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by gcp 8y ago
Thank you, I did not know this.
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by gcp 8y ago
Thing is if everything puts up a big notice "YOU MUST AGREE TO BE TRACKED AND SOLD TO USE OUR SERVICE" then people will just click that.
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by gcp 8y ago
It would seem that having to be GDPR compliant would dis-proportionally favor large companies with a lot of lawyers and engineers to implement the needed features company-wide. If this is not working out for Google, perhaps it's becaus
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by gcp 8y ago
I wonder what the longer term consequences are. OK, sure it's nice that right now every site or company I ever had any interaction with no longer feels like they can keep my email on file to continuously spam me. But this state won&#x2
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by gcp 8y ago
God yes. Especially because it's so often ENTIRELY AND UTTERLY WRONG.
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by gcp 8y ago
Browser vendors can't clean up User-Agent because the websites sniff it and break if it's "wrong" (for any random value of wrong). I'm sure there's a Bugzilla bug about the "X11; Linux x86_64" in the
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by gcp 8y ago
Microsoft...is becoming a good citizen of the technology community By displaying deceptive ads about competitors in their flagship product? Get out.
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by gcp 8y ago
slow web page loads on mobile devices Mostly slow because they need to display a lot of...Google Ads?
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by gcp 8y ago
The problem is that they push "standards" but the implementation of the standards often does not function as written. Typically standard bodies avoid this by requiring two independent implementations, but the market situation real
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by gcp 9y ago
"You can’t change the tax status of your Google Cloud Platform billing account." I think this is what tripped me up before. I closed my business years ago but it was completely impossible to get Google to fix this. Now it fixed it
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by gcp 9y ago
Are you thinking of WebSQL? I don't remember a SQLite interface client-side in any browser. Well, yes and no. The whole problem with WebSQL was that it effectively meant using SQLite and never anything else that wasn't completel
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by gcp 9y ago
IndexedDB may be backed by SQLite. I think it likely is in Firefox?
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by gcp 9y ago
Interestingly, GCP now appears to be available to individuals in Europe. It wasn't like that before, no idea when that policy got changed. Before, GCP wasn't even a consideration compared to AWS (which always handled that).
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by gcp 9y ago
ARM, like other RISC architectures MIPS and PowerPC, has a fixed instruction size of 32 bits. This is a good design decision So good that they got rid of it in their new chips.
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by gcp 9y ago
wxWidgets wins because of native widgets, a handier license, and no moc etc requirements. I think Qt wins in all other domains though. Documentation, extensiveness and quality of the non-GUI stuff, etc. But not having native widgets kinda s
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by gcp 9y ago
...and this attitude causes quite a bit of them to not be reproducible even when people try with the same resources.
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by gcp 9y ago
At least in computer chess such experiments were typically demonstrated by winning the World Championship. (And sometimes they failed...cough Deep Blue cough)
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by gcp 9y ago
You can convert winning percentages to centipawns, so that's not a problem.
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by gcp 9y ago
There are too many details missing for the results to be reproducible. Does it even qualify as a tech demo if the result only exists in DeepMind's lab?
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by gcp 9y ago
I mean there were 2 more years left in the deal IIRC? (2014-2019). 750M more or less probably means quite a bit to Firefox development. If it gets killed in the marketplace before the money ever shows up, getting it then might be a bit late
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by gcp 9y ago
Your comments about Stockfish, Komodo etc are entirely subjective. "It's pretty well regarded". No it's not. You can't disconnect the search part from the discussion, as the search selectivity is ALSO learned by the
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by gcp 9y ago
The problem is that it isn't entirely clear whether this produces equal quality results. You might end up on a lower optimization plateau.
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by gcp 9y ago
Could also go bankrupt before the suit is decided. ( cough Netscape cough )
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by gcp 9y ago
please counter with facts I already did. Much of the stuff you mentioned has always been enabled and had nothing to do with telemetry. This is most obvious with the update checks. And yes, you DO need to send information to know which add
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by gcp 9y ago
I'm objecting to the fact that you are calling this a change and that it supposedly collects more data. My understanding is that it is the opposite . Much of the stuff that you list is the update check and the update checks for
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by gcp 9y ago
For sure. But he doesn't go into any details where he think the advantage would lie, which I think conflicts with calling it a "major weakness".

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