mattbasta

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by mattbasta 11y ago
They tried making it scarier. They even tried adding a timer so you couldn't just blindly click the install button.
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by mattbasta 11y ago
For the same reason Facebook puts a big loud warning in the developer console. People will follow any instructions they're given. "Press ctrl+shift+I and paste this in the box and you'll get a free puppy" "Put this
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by mattbasta 11y ago
> Mozilla was in the best position to pursue FFOS in the purest possible manner Well, maybe philosophically, but they didn't have enough influence, money, or manpower to actually make it successful. The first version of FXOS shipped
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by mattbasta 11y ago
Do GG accusations actually matter anymore? Does anyone still care besides the people actually making the accusations?
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by mattbasta 11y ago
This was my immediate reaction. A few small plants aren't going to "clean up" a canal.
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by mattbasta 11y ago
This is excellent, honestly. We recently moved a few billion requests each month behind CloudFlare and our metrics show that our median user (in terms of load time) had their assets loaded almost 40% faster. It's also worth noting that
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by mattbasta 11y ago
I think you're forgetting how good the web was ten years ago.
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by mattbasta 11y ago
"Immune to viruses in spreadsheet files." I find this claim dubious.
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by mattbasta 11y ago
Nah. https://twitter.com/robots.txt They blocked robots on their marketing pages.
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by mattbasta 11y ago
I really love this. When I was young, I was really excited to learn to play the piano. The biggest problem I had was being able to read the sheet music. It was incredibly difficult for me to read and understand the notes for both hands at t
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by mattbasta 13y ago
Alright kids, hug it out
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by mattbasta 13y ago
1. They don't want you to talk to other people 2. Good exercise 3. Mastery of efficiency is praised 4. Stable job Seriously, where does the line start?
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by mattbasta 13y ago
Unfortunately, yes. Every mom-and-pop PHP-based website that was done by a teenager in the last 15 years probably still does this at some level. There are also plenty of old web servers out there that look for those headers to decide how to
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by mattbasta 13y ago
There's a CSRF token in the form, but deleting it doesn't seem to cause the search to fail.
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by mattbasta 13y ago
1. He's complaining about bugs in IE7 that "weren't fixed until IE8" Seriously? It's 2013, the modern web runs on IE9 and up. If you're still building for IE7 support, then you have no idea what the consensus of the web dev community is. Go
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Show HN: My fake tech news podcast(informeddiscussion.com)
3 points by mattbasta 13y ago|0 comments
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by mattbasta 14y ago
My project is waiting for your pull requests! https://github.com/mattbasta/areweequalyet
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Show HN: Are we equal yet? (same-sex marriage in the US)(areweequalyet.org)
11 points by mattbasta 14y ago|3 comments
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by mattbasta 14y ago
The only thing that turns me off to a product more than a poor website is poor English in the documentation. If English isn't your primary language, PLEASE get someone that speaks it fluently to either write your docs, translate your docs,