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by mbrubeck 13y ago
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I'm not sure what the long-term plan will end up being. I personally hope it can find a new direction to grow eventually. (Note: I'm a Mozilla developer but I don't work on Persona or Firefox Accounts.) We use Persona exte
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Hi, I'm a Firefox developer. The Firefox engineering teams have our own more specific goals at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Goals Sadly the maintenance of this wiki page has fallen behind, so goals for curre
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Persona is moving into maintenance mode until/unless it can come up with a better strategy for driving adoption. Some related info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR Both the team and some of the unde
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US Army briefing on OPSEC and social networking [PDF](ia.signal.army.mil)
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Netflix and Net Neutrality(stratechery.com)
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In the guided sessions (as in most other meditative practices I've seen), you're instructed to close your eyes. The imagery is just there to set the stage before and after the meditation; the guidance is audio-only.
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"not rocket science" (the story of monotone and bors)(graydon.livejournal.com)
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Testing Android Accessibility: The Programmers' Perspective(chrishofstader.com)
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Regenerative Candle Forms New Ones As It Melts(psfk.com)
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Is my job in another state?(ismyjobinanotherstate.com)
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30th Anniversary Macintosh(nycresistor.com)
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Big Data(dustin.sallings.org)
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All watch apps in the Pebble App Store are free. There are no purchases in the Pebble App Store. However: It's common for a watch app to require a "companion app" that runs on the phone. The developer can charge for their c
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I did at first, and I am a Mozilla engineer. Mozilla makes heavy use of AWS for running portions of our continuous integration system; the cost is significant: http://oduinn.com/blog/2013/12/13/the-finan
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The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (2012)(acestoohigh.com)
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These are at very different levels. For example, XULRunner itself is partly built on top of (a small portion of) Chromium library code, as noted elsewhere in this discussion.
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As an example of this type of Chromium library re-use, Firefox and Firefox OS use the Chromium ipc library for messaging between the main UI process, plugin processes, and content processes (in Firefox OS or in Firefox with the experimental
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Google’s latest Chrome release tries to replace the Windows 8 desktop(zdnet.com)
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Developing Firefox for Fun and Profit(joshmatthews.net)
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I think it can work, though you have to be careful to avoid conflict with community goals. It seems to work best when the "premium services" involve technical support or custom open source development, rather than closed-source c
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In Firefox, the "media.autoplay.enabled" pref can be used to disable the "autoplay" attribute for the <video> element. (But I think it may still be possible for pages to auto-start videos using JavaScript.)
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"Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015(winsupersite.com)
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"Hack" has been used in this way at MIT for about 50 years, possibly longer than it's been used in the narrower computer-related sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Ins...
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High-DPI, Subpixel Text Positioning, Hinting(docs.google.com)
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The Onion has been in print since 1988, and wasn't online until 1996. Source: The Washington Post [1]. [1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11...
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I think we're already pretty convinced - at least, I am. :) We're just checking to make sure we have consensus; so far I haven't seen any objections.
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Firefox currently disables the 300ms delay only if zooming is disabled (either with user-scalable=no or by setting identical min-zoom and max-zoom). We are discussing whether to follow Chromium's lead and also disable double-tap on pag
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Norway Decided to Digitize All the Norwegian Books(theatlantic.com)
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Even with GPLv2, adding additional restrictions effectively creates a new license -- one that is incompatible with the original GNU GPL, and for which GNU/FSF will not permit you to use the GNU GPL name or preamble. (This is covered i

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