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by mbrubeck 12y ago
> Please show documentation where Apple refused to license under W3C patent policy. Sure. From the TE-PAG report, Apple expressly excluded its Touch Events patent claims from the W3C patent policy: Patent Advisory Groups are for
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yes, that is true.
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IE11 for Windows Phone supports Touch Events; IE11 for Windows desktop does not. (It's true that at the time of that email, neither did.) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/07/31/the-
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Also worth noting, for those who don't already know, that Apple has not participated in any of the W3C efforts to standardize Pointer Events or Touch Events. In fact, Apple worked to hinder the standardization and implementation of T
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You could make the same counter-argument about Facebook and Twitter. If you really think they're interchangeable, that just tells me that you don't value the things that many of their users do. Edit: Downvoted your original comme
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> Even if I used Twitter, it wouldn't be hard to just go find all the same people on Facebook or whatever and follow them there. The fact that Twitter overlaps with other services like Facebook doesn't mean it's not valuab
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> some weird term somebody started using to denote simulation. The OED lists the following definition with examples going back almost 60 years: "model, v. 10. trans a. To devise a (usually mathematical) model or simplified descr
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Criticism and Ineffective Feedback(kateheddleston.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The non-Safari visits from Mac + iOS are actually 5.4% of all visits, or about about 21% of Mac + iOS visits. (5.4% / 25.8% = 20.9%)
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The author could instead have used only abstract mathematical language (like "a configuration space with a basis of cardinality 4" and "parameter s defined by s = ..."), but this would be accessible to fewer readers.
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Yeah, I started to look through OpenJDK commit history to get a better sense of the proportions here, but I haven't gotten far enough to have any useful data.
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A large number of the Java CVEs you're thinking of are bugs in the Oracle JVM, meaning they are bugs in C++ code, which is not in a memory-safe language.
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> All of the major browser engines are open-source. In a world where Internet Explorer is not a major browser.
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In the early days, Uber's slogan was “everyone’s private driver” while Lyft was “your friend with a car.” Uber's marketing was aimed at recreating the experience of a private chauffeur (which in certain older times would have be
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Firefox for Android is not vulnerable to FREAK, and is one of the few ways to get a modern, supported browser engine on older Android devices.
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...where there is still only one post from an Apple or Apple employee blog in the past 6 months.
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Detecting and exploiting path-relative stylesheet import vulnerabilities(blog.portswigger.net)
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It's a phone accessory. It lets you see and respond to things like SMS messages, caller ID, calendar reminders, etc. without taking your phone out of your pocket. Kind of a small thing, but actually pretty handy when you're walki
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Getting on Point with W3C Pointer Events(blog.jquery.com)
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For me, being able to operate the buttons by feel is a key feature, and I find it pretty easy to do on my original Pebble. It's useful for controlling music playback or dismissing alarms without having to look at the watch. I agree th
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yes, the original Pebble works with any standard 22m band.
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Yes. According to Patrick McManus (owner of Gecko's networking stack), 9% of Firefox requests are already using HTTP/2 with the draft implementation enabled for Google (and now Twitter). With Google alone, HTTP/2 usage is a
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Click-to-play in Firefox at least is a security feature. It's enabled automatically for known-insecure plugins like old versions of Java and Flash. You can enable it manually by setting a plugin to "Ask to activate" in the
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What If We Lost the Sky?(op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com)
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When you're manipulating things with a mouse and keyboard, maybe not. When you're directly scrolling/dragging/pressing things with your fingers on a touch screen, jank and latency and frame rate make a huge difference i
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That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes: > 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto (Note: I'm not call
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The article says that Superfish "injects third-party ads on Google searches." Does that include https://encrypted.google.com/ in Chrome and Firefox, or do key pinning and HSTS preloading successfully prevent th
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HTTP/2 is Live in Firefox(bitsup.blogspot.com)
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Yes. The research culture that produced Haskell, for example, is far from the "shipping culture" that produced JavaScript 1.0, and yet: > let x = 0/0 > x NaN > x == x False > :type x
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Sentinelese people(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments

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