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by jakub_g 6y ago
There's some risk there indeed, but there would be also big anti-monopoly scrutiny risk from Google's side doing that if they indirectly kill alternative browsers. Right now there's some kind of equilibrium by having alternat
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by jakub_g 6y ago
And source code helpfully found by some other commenters: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/browser/ext...
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Curiously, they've also had that issue and wrote a dedicated tool to clean up unreachable code after old A/B tests: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/uber-piranha-unreachable-... I also know it f
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Nice check. I guess they relaxed a bit since Apple raised the app size limits :) (sorry for the snark in the previous post)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I noticed BTW the same for written text (code comments, wiki docs, blogs etc.) - when I re-read code comments I wrote a month later, I almost always find ambiguities, sometimes missing the larger point in the details etc. Written stuff is h
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by jakub_g 6y ago
If you click the link OP posted and read the previous thread you will see they can "easily" do ass . They already spent millions in engineering time to cut the app size as the company existence literally depended on it when Apple
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Under "developer" section there's a link with dev focused changelog https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel... Note also that release schedule is now 4 weeks instead o
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by jakub_g 6y ago
2^50 meets the definition of "complex", if you ask me
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by jakub_g 6y ago
There was a viral tongue-in-cheek tweet this month "how to prevent scrolling in Safari when..."? 1. Buy Zillow. Destroy the company. 2. Redirect your website to zillow.com (it was more fun that what I wrote) https://git
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by jakub_g 6y ago
https://independenttrader.pl/ is a non-mainstream blog about investing, economy etc. I don't agree with the author on many subjects and views, but it's interesting to read and think about them sometimes. They do v
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by jakub_g 6y ago
There's a similar thing in France called "60 Millions de consommateurs": https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/... which is great, but I think DE and FR are way ahead compar
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Defaults matter.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
For some context: Firefox for Android, which shipped a few months back, was a rewrite from scratch, with new browsing engine (development of "old Firefox" was halted and there were no releases for >1 year). Due to this, it init
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by jakub_g 6y ago
She was harassed pretty hard in a very sexist way on some 4chan-like discussion boards. If you're very interested in details, you can scroll through her Twitter few months back.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
It's not true, at least until the only allowed engine on iOS is Safari. And it's the Safari, not Firefox, who sets the lowest bar feature-wise and in dev experience for several years already.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
We sometimes play fun multiplayer games online (+zoom for talking) 1) https://garticphone.com/en 2) Among Us ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innersloth... )
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Apart from the business model: No one ever takes time to write positive reviews of big businesses on third-party sites out of good heart. By default only people who have something to complain about go there. (I know this first-hand based on
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by jakub_g 6y ago
FWIW (at least in tech industry), apparently the automated filtering systems are a myth spread by companies who make money on the promise to optimize your resume to get past the filter. https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/
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by jakub_g 6y ago
FYI desktop Firefox has "Zoom Text Only" feature. View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only On mobile: all browsers have "force enable zoom" + test scaling in accessibility settings; Additionally Opera supports reflow
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Ask HN: Is the systemic risk on stock market getting too high?
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by jakub_g 6y ago
https://workadventu.re You have a virtual office and when you approach someone on the map, it creates adhoc webrtc conference. You can have up to 4 people meetings this way. You can create a custom map of your own office to make
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Ask HN: Who's hiring remote summer interns?
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by jakub_g 6y ago
1) For serving you a language version it's generally IP-based. The services like MaxMind update their DBs regularly because IP<>country assignments are not constant. (It's a bit of show in case of mobile IPs, like I'm i
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Like the parent said, typically it works like: - browser ships a feature X - they decide that X shouldn't be allowed in incognito (or that incognito mode returns fewer values, has lower quotas, uses different implementation that is slo
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by jakub_g 6y ago
The takeover sounds weird at first, but https://www.opera.com/gx is actually probably a good idea. Mainstream browsers like Chrome are generic those days and believe they deserve 100% CPU, RAM and network. Innovation in UI&
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Well, assuming your project really takes off and you do have $1M, you could live (half a year +1 day) in country 1, and the remaining (half a year -1 day) in your country each year. You'd pay what, 10-15k per year in extra rent in the
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I don't have a good comparison since I don't use Chrome on desktop much apart from development. But for me Firefox + containers + ublock origin is good enough for 98% websites. For the 2% of websites that serve 20 MB of JavaScript
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As already discussed in many places, it's not possible to reach US/SV levels of salary in Europe due to differences in the model of society, taxation etc. Note however that US companies in Europe pay definitely above the market. S
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Durov wrote his thoughts on monetization lately here: https://t.me/durov/142
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Durov recently announced they will smart monetizing through ads, but only in "channels" of people with huge subscriber count (which generates a lot of costs). Channels are 1:N public broadcasts, a bit like Twitter.

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