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by hiou 11y ago
The web is not compatible with the current economic system in place in the US and growing throughout the world. Strong property rights are in direct opposition to decentralization. Unless additional policies similar to net neutrality are i
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by hiou 11y ago
The statement of discussion was > User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else, and they’ve decided that they don’t like it the experience available through the ad-supported web, and so they’re going to do someth
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by hiou 11y ago
If you look at moves made by Apple in the iPhone era it becomes quite clear and does not require bias. - Ban flash. Biggest competition to native apps. - Cripple the iOS web browser just enough that web apps trying to have native style perf
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by hiou 11y ago
> In the last few years, I’ve watched a continuing battle among my friends about which is worse for you: artificial sweeteners or sugar. And now we are going to watch the same thing on this thread. Why are these diet fad bits so popula
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by hiou 11y ago
Exactly, I see this as the same situation as shopping centers and big box retailers. The cost of renovation etc, is not low enough compared to the cost of building a new building in a better location for the current times. On top of that, t
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by hiou 11y ago
Maybe there is something to do with taking on the liability of possible legal action? From what I understand reclassification suits are retroactive. I'm not sure how that works with an acquisition, but I wonder if that had something to
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by hiou 11y ago
I'm sure this has nothing at all to do with certain investors in reddit who run Ycombinator...
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by hiou 11y ago
If Mozilla is going to start including proprietary closed platforms like pocket, what do they offer that Chrome is not? WebKit is much more targeted by web developers so I'm going to have a slightly better experience with Chrome. Witho
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by hiou 11y ago
I understand the hip trend of only thinking about an inept fool who can barely click a link in a browser, but the reality is that a large percentage of Firefox's users are educated users who are concerned about things like openness and
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by hiou 11y ago
I watched a company almost go under(shrank to almost no employees) after exactly what you described. The BFEDs(including the CTO) refused to update their skills and the company tools/stack and the company was beaten out by competitors.
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by hiou 11y ago
Maybe I didn't word my question correctly. I was wondering why you actively chose to repeatedly ignore my issue with including a closed platform by default. I repeatedly stated that this was my main issue and that the UX was an aside t
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The reality is if you are not concerned about trust, openness etc Chrome/Webkit is currently going to give you a better end user experience. With Mozilla losing the moral high ground, my reasons for using it over Chrome and especially
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by hiou 11y ago
Is there a specific reason you chose to ignore my repeated statements of what I believe is the real and most important issue with the addition and only address UX?
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That is an argument in favor of increasing adoption of a feature most users would decline if they were presented with the choice. If that is truly considered appropriate behavior by Mozilla at this point, I think we're getting to the t
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by hiou 11y ago
Talking about UX studies here probably isn't relevant as the issue here is very much about inclusion of a closed source 3rd party data collection service included by default to an open source browser provided by a non-profit with a mis
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When I first heard about this all I could think was "Wow, Mozilla must be having some really serious money concerns right now" I've been a huge Mozilla fan for a long time(I'm typing this on my Firefox OS phone) but this
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by hiou 11y ago
Reddit isn't a single community site. Its what ning thought it could be.
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I imagine it's a lot easier to just have the cash and power to swap out those who threw their hearts out on the line. Big pictures obscure the small pictures of the lives caught in the meat grinder of the march of capital. Becoming a V
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by hiou 11y ago
As far as I am aware the Medallion fund is not in any way publicly available. I believe it's an exclusive fund to a small number of investors who are involved directly with Renaissance. It would make a lot of sense to it's success
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I think part of it has to do with the fact that web development is a very large and diverse field. It's very possible that the types of projects you work on do not require a different approach. For example a web application with a larg
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by hiou 11y ago
I hesitate to bring up extreme cases, but the relationship between social darwinism and the rise of the nazi party make many people, including myself, very hesitant to speak about differences in sex etc. Not because we deny their existence,
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by hiou 11y ago
I could not disagree more. What you are describing is craft and not art. Not to say that one is in any way better or more valuable, only that once something has a firm set of "particular effects or experiences" it have moved on fr
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Indeed national averages during that period trend similarly. http://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/birth-rates-chart-200...
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by hiou 11y ago
When is HN going to get a penalty filter for all these health fad/craze links? They just bring out all the crazies and the articles are typically inconclusive at best and opinionated and divisive at worst.
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But it has succeeded in being a viable desktop for software development for the web. I wouldn't call that a complete failure on the desktop.
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> As recently as 2010, back when Steve Jobs famously skewered Flash while declaring that HTML5 is the future, Apple was a fierce web partisan. Web partisan or just trying to eliminate the biggest cross platform competition to native a
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I would see if you can upgrade your gmail to a paid account and then contact their support. Free accounts get very little attention but paid accounts will get you to a real person eventually.
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I think it's because it sets a poor first impression or creates inaccurate expectations. It may cause a feeling of letdown once you get in the door and see what you will actually be doing. Once, I had a position where the interview pro
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> presumably unpaid What would give you the idea that they are not paid?
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The whole thing between Taylor Swift and Apple is so obviously staged. The fact that this was done over Twitter, the most shareable possible format, the "Love, Apple" bit the wording of all of it. The need for Apple to position it

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