lmorchard

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by lmorchard 7y ago
I mean, also computers are hard and this is a thing that's worth getting right by reducing variables and taking it small steps at a time?
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by lmorchard 7y ago
Nope, not correct.
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by lmorchard 7y ago
Frankly, very few people know Mozilla. Many people know Firefox. There's been lots of brand research into this. So, for many years now, "Firefox" has been morphing into a brand that encompasses many online tools beyond the br
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by lmorchard 7y ago
Consider another angle: Mozilla doesn't have experience running a VPN. There are a lot of terrible mistakes to be made there. If Mozilla can secure a good contract with folks who have run a VPN, isn't that a better technical sce
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by lmorchard 7y ago
The VPN tech itself is not the only concern. Localization & payments & legal are also huge concerns beyond the US. This is also aimed at not necessarily tech-savvy folks, so that is also a concern.
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by lmorchard 7y ago
> If I were a systems or c++ dev I'd start my own browser, apparently it's very profitable to do so... If it were that trivial, systems & C++ devs would already be doing it.
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by lmorchard 7y ago
Reads like FUD. From everything I've seen, "Firefox Premium" is not a thing as such. I can't read German, so maybe Chris Beard revealed something different in the interview from what he's been saying in other public
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by lmorchard 7y ago
Yeah, this is a kind of misleading headline. I can't predict the future, but AFAIK there are no plans to launch a paid version of Firefox. There are plans to launch paid subscription services & products in a Firefox brand family. S
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by lmorchard 7y ago
You wrote "But you don’t get to dictate social norms for everyone else." My response of "you don't get to dictate boundaries" refers to that. No assumption there, other than what you've been asserting about soc
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by lmorchard 8y ago
If you don't know a person, you don't know whether or not they find touch invasive. Don't touch them. You don't get to dictate boundaries for everyone else.
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by lmorchard 8y ago
That's commonplace.
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by lmorchard 8y ago
What can be done in the circumstance is this: keep your hands to yourself unless you know for sure. It's not difficult.
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by lmorchard 8y ago
> most people are fine with casual touching That's a nice assumption. Are you sure about that? Have you asked most people? You might find that there are a lot of people who don't actually like it, but who find the consequences
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by lmorchard 8y ago
Or, maybe, what if people kept their hands to themselves so that others didn't need to be on assertive defense against touchy grabby hands? If you know for sure someone welcomes contact from you, then sure go ahead. Otherwise, you&#x27
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by lmorchard 8y ago
> just tell the person Sure, that always works fine. They won't take offense or make it a thing or blow it up and make everything awkward from then after. Of course, I'm being sarcastic. It's usually easier to just eat the
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by lmorchard 8y ago
I was alternating between a Windows desktop gaming PC and a Mac laptop for work since 2001 or so, with periodic hardware upgrades along the way. Finally gave up on the Mac laptop about 3 years ago and haven't been back.
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by lmorchard 8y ago
It's definitely not "terrible as ever" as far as I'm concerned. I've been using Windows since the start and it's fully usable as my daily driver for development these days. Web dev under WSL and building Firefo
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by lmorchard 8y ago
Also I would say that the statement "The DOM is extremely challenging and working to the DOM destroys architecture" is a straw-man here, or at least a red herring. The DOM is not all that challenging. It can be a tedious API, thou
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by lmorchard 8y ago
Calm down, have some dip. This article claims Web Components could replace frontend frameworks. React is a component library often used in a frontend framework. React wraps the DOM with a Virtual DOM that provides a declarative abstraction
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by lmorchard 8y ago
Honestly, that machine is more a "luggable" than a laptop, in the grand tradition that includes Kaypro CP/M and Commodore SX-64 luggables with built-in CRTs.
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by lmorchard 8y ago
See, the problem is being limited to OS X. Windows is good these days. Linux is good too. Or, at least, when I left OS X, it was just as clunky & crashy & inconsistent as everything else. And I realized that all my tools ran elsewhe
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by lmorchard 8y ago
FWIW keyboard failures, lackluster upgrades, and the touchbar that looked gizmo-y but not useful led me to try a Dell XPS laptop a few years ago after nothing but Mac for 15 years. Windows is pretty good these days and nearly all my stuff w
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by lmorchard 8y ago
I'd be surprised if those assumptions are largely true.
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by lmorchard 8y ago
When so much of tech takes place in an open office setting, "don't work at a place that utilizes one" approaches "don't work in tech". And when so much of white collar work in general happens in that setting, i
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by lmorchard 8y ago
Depends on the exact problem definition. This is a small, single-binary server, offering a built-in web UI & API, requiring very little configuration, working with a mobile app for Android phones. Took me 5 minutes to start getting some
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by lmorchard 8y ago
The "standard" would have basically read "link your browser with SQLite v3.x.x or an exact bug-compatible clone". An attempt was made to break down the SQL dialect and exact behavior of that version of SQLite, but the ob
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by lmorchard 8y ago
If memory serves, the internet before 1993 had an official policy via the NSF that all but forbid commercial use. No e-commerce, no advertising, etc. Sure, folks set up trades and conducted private sales via Usenet and whatnot. I think it w
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by lmorchard 9y ago
Erlang makes me break out in facial twitches to this day.
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by lmorchard 10y ago
The irony with your comment is that this is exactly one of the purposes of Test Pilot - to give new features a trial run rather than just "cramming stuff in as default". It's an opt-in experiment, and at the end it's pos
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by lmorchard 10y ago
For what it's worth, that is one of the proposed exit plans for experiments in Test Pilot. If it doesn't look like it would succeed as a built-in feature, spinning it off as an add-on is a possibility if it has enough support from

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