kiriakasis

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by kiriakasis 8y ago
I think that was an intentionally terrible response meant to illustrate the efficacy of the list.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Finding the means necessary to an accomplishment is in itself an accomplishment. If their work was to search for perfect samples then the accomplishment was finding them. If their work was in calibration then the samples are just a mean. Ma
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
No, this is supporting direct feedback. How can mozzila know which features are useful in your opinion? how should they know that you wanted [feature X]? Maybe they are also in the wrong if the telemetry is excessive, but the alternative is
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Which can be worth it depending on what you trade it for. I really liked the tab group feature but the new extension API is vastly more secure and can (probably) be extended to allow for most addons. At Mozzila they need to prioritize many
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
> which meant the browser never crashed if a single website misbehaved I might have faulty memory, but this is not some minor detail. It is world changing. For young teenager me, Chrome had a vastly better UX than both IE and Firefox whe
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Others have noted ambiguous character, but an equally important factor was to avoid swear words in all the languages that use the Latin alphabet (or have a latinized form like Russian, Chinese and others) It is almost impossible to make wor
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
> for English speaker. Almost all English speaker do not need these codes. Also the complexity of the implementation is not trivial.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
> This feels like an accidentally arrogant, Western-centric way of looking at addresses nope, many places simply do not have addresses. many places do not have streets. And unless you can find a more global addressing format that does no
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
I imagine that you wanted to put focus on "second-class", but if we focus on "everything" we would have a compelling argument for lat/lon as a base for a transmission format.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
no, having check digits means that some code corresponds to no location and are syntactically wrong.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
but Youtube also has very low quality suggestions, so in practice it ends up proposing the same topics over and over again. And god forbid you watch anything political.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
From the original description "detriment of the larger institution" might be inappropriate. After all he gave more than 25 other people a chance to publish. And if we assume that some of those experiment involved master students t
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Which is part of the reason for Microsoft switch. To bring new life to the desktop via vastly better electron performance. Which can be seen as the best and worst of both world at the same time. For sure we live in interesting times.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
For most uses they are a long-lived incognito session.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Disagree. It can be a push for web developers and amateur site-buildign-people-that-have-not-that-much-interest-in-the-web-shenanigans to use google-approved APIs. Not by promoting google as better but by simply promoting a view of google-w
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
In my experience it is the google search app that is extremely slow (android on a underpowered nokia 6) I installed duckduckgo search because google hangs my device for a few second every 5-6 keypresses
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
The problem is also that you must make the game advantageous to all party involved So if you allow a prison to run for profit you must devise incentives that allows the prison a certain "guaranteed" profit. What is hard is not jus
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
regarding the duckduckgo study there is a bit more to say. Their methodology was pretty flawed and to top it all they also results "positive" to this kind of analysis. This does not implies that google does not track incognito use
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
> browser that by default will self-configure the intranet to be inaccessible. Maybe I am not up to date, but Mozzilla has always been explicit that it would not be activated by default (and that one way of activating it would have the s
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
so is silicon, yet it is expensive.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
If you distrust them both for sure you should prefer keeping them in competition.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
But that is not the point. Chromium is a very very nice browser and it is better for everyone (Chromium included) is it is not the only one.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Because it is not about edge being worse or too expensive, is in good part about having electron apps run better and with more battery efficiency. so the choice is to either implement the whole v8 API on their engine or use v8.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
"You’re teaching them the world is full of interesting things to discover. You’re showing them how to be passionate and look for that ephemeral sense of quality in everything they do." "Good coders don’t just get something to
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
I don't know your life but I suspect that more than programming you leaned "advanced use of computers". I both believe that this is really valuable and that "just programming" non a good subject for kids. By this I
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
I feel that distinguishing tracking and bubbling is important. Essentially with my limited knowledge I would say that if "generic search engine" does not profile you individually and uses only the information you provide in a sing
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
A good part of their claim against google was that some results were unique and not local. But their definition of local was based on "local domains" which would exclude content on national sites with place specific news. I do bel
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Too much advertising that mimic as search results. Sometimes even with the same title as the page you know you are looking for.
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
Anecdotically my experience in Italy is that everyone and their dog have WhatsApp, if you go into the over 50 many have WhatsApp and not an email (or at least never check it)
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by kiriakasis 8y ago
As the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right.

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