isaacaggrey

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WebAssembly(blog.mozilla.org)
26 points by isaacaggrey 11y ago|0 comments
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by isaacaggrey 12y ago
In Scrum, speed and efficiency are traded for predictability and consistency (whether or not those trade-offs are worth it is another conversation). It's worth noting that I agree with your point and also don't believe Scrum is a
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by isaacaggrey 12y ago
Any time a sprint commitment must be broken the decision rests on the team's product manager who is best (or _should_ be best) suited to understanding the tradeoff between sprint completion and a potential emergency bug situation. If t
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by isaacaggrey 12y ago
> Java SDK Hardly. See Joda Time (it only took 10 years for java.time to catch up) and Apache Commons (the situation is much better now, but who hasn't turned to Apache Commons due to shortcomings in Java's standard library?).
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by isaacaggrey 12y ago
Great work, yegg! I like the direction this is headed. Perhaps for the header, it can collapse/hide the row with "Meanings | Images | Videos | Products" under the search bar until you scroll back to the top to make it a bit l
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
You're talking semantics. Sure, the branding is non-free (you can't distribute the same version obviously), but your four freedoms aren't diminished in any way [1]. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> That was a joke ;) I found your article interesting in light of the popular traffic piece you mentioned, but ending it with jokey suggestions after a fairly serious analysis doesn't really make it clear if you're joking or no
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
It seems that W3Fools has changed recently since it was popularized in 2011, but the page used to have a very lengthy list about the recommended bad practices or flat out inaccuracies of W3Schools.
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> I get that Chrome added a JIT javascript compiler, but hasn't Firefox since added that in response? In addition to what @ergo14 said, Firefox had a JIT compiler called SpiderMonkey before Chrome was even released [1]. With that sa
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
Fair enough. :) As I said in my original post, if DDG's privacy is not a selling point for someone, then I agree with you; bangs are hardly a reason to stick with DDG.
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> I would gladly trade that for the additional mental steps of deciding which service to search and what the bang shortcut is for that service. There are hardly any mental steps plural, if any mental step at all. Give it a try and see if
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> I think we have indeed seen Firefox go from approximately 30% share at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 down to less than 20% today. I don't disagree that Firefox lost marketshare over the past 3 years. Interestingly enough,
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
Using bangs, you can skip a step. I suppose if you're using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" in your URL bar I suppose there is little difference. However, I find there is a bit more effort when you get outside the simp
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> Firefox's declining market share over this period is very good evidence The only evidence we have is that Google's marketing team has been very effective at advertising Chrome. :-P > Many of us long-time Firefox users ha
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> because you either need to use a 3rd party repo or some AUR wrapper to auto-update the aur package. The other option is to `chown` the package directory, and Nightly will handle auto-updating. I only run on a 1 Mbit connection and I ha
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> Note that DuckDuckGo doesn't use Diffie-Hellman for its key exchange, Source?
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
> but [Google seems] to be doing amazing work behind the scenes to get the incumbents on board with free codecs. Huh? By not nuking H.264 support in Chrome like they publicly promised they did anything but get the rest of the industry
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
It appears their client is open source, but I agree that they are not open source in the expected way (i.e., can't self-host): http://blog.filerock.com/2012/12/were-going-open-source/
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
FWIW, repeating 'ab' 8 times as a password gives 'centuries' worth of crack time (i.e., 'abababababababab'). (I am very impressed by the password checker though; it's difficult to cover all scenarios)
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by isaacaggrey 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's because they are demo versions (and my experiences echoes esrauch's), but every rich text editor you listed except YUI Editor actually does _not_ map the Tab key to insert a tabstop or spaces. [1]: http://ckeditor.com/
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
What is Solve for X? Solve for X is in collaboration with TED, MIT Technology Review, Singularity University, X PRIZE Foundation, GE Focus Forward, and the ASU Center for Science and Imagination to provide a forum to encourage and amplify t
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/15.0/releasenotes/
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
> Except in practice you have both factors on the phone What do you mean by this? I'm not doubting you, but I'm still a bit confused -- currently taking a Security course, so I'm a newbie in the field. Do you mean that if the phone is c
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
> compromising the phone (2nd factor for the general public) allow compromising both passwords and the authenticator Unless I've misunderstood how 2-factor authentication works, this is misinformation. The entire point of 2-factor authe
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
For users, HTTPS Everywhere is a must: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Also, by using DuckDuckGo [1] over HTTPS you get the same ruleset in HTTPS Everywhere [2] even if you don't have the extension installed. [1] https://duckduckgo.
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
That's not entirely fair. If you're not logged into Facebook, you still have to log in there as well. As huragok said, once you're past set up, it is just click, password, and go as far as I can tell. However, I'm not arguing against that a
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
> Secondly, I'm surprised the FSF is using a service that has anything to do with proprietary, closed source, non-free software. Where does FSF's post say anything about FSF using proprietary software? As far as I can tell, the post is
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by isaacaggrey 14y ago
> Leave your computer for a second or accidentally forget to log off at the library or apple store? If you left your computer, then you have bigger issues to worry about (i.e., it being stolen, searching through your emails for CC info,
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by isaacaggrey 15y ago
As floatingatoll said [1], BrowserID is the protocol, Persona is Mozilla's implementation of the protocol [2]. [1] http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=3739315 [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.d...