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901.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Since there's no "right" answer for version numbers, it's hard to answer questions like this. If the developers feel that 2.0 is a good number for their new release, then who are we to argue with them? (And why should we care in the first
902.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
> This hardly seems to justify a leap from 1.3. Audacity uses even/odd version numbering for stable/unstable release branches, like the Linux kernel once did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Odd-number... So when A
903.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
It sure has been a long time, hasn't it? Audacity 2.0 has been in development since 2005 (in form of the "unstable" 1.3.x series)! haberman and I first met when I started contributing to Audacity more than a decade ago. Later he helped me
904.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Mozilla is working on performance, and shipping improvements in every release. Here are pointers to some of the performance improvements in Firefox 11: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/firefox-11-is-smal... Check out https://
905.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Well, the Firefox dev tools team also shipped the new Web Console and JavaScript Scratchpad in recent releases [1] and has been improving them rapidly. They've already landed much of the back-end code for the new JS debugger protocol [2] w
906.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
In fact, even if Mozilla did pay a non-royalty-free patent license to include the codecs in Firefox, that license would probably be incompatible with the GPL/LGPL, meaning it would no longer be possible to distribute Firefox under its curre
907.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Also: * Adobe announced two years ago that Flash would support WebM, but it never happened. (And since then they have stopped updating Flash for mobile platforms, and for non-Chrome browsers on Linux.)
908.
Developing an HTML5 space shooter(hacks.mozilla.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
909.
How Google set a trap for Pwn2Own exploit team(zdnet.com)
5 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
910.
IE 9 is second browser to fall at pwn2own contest(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
911.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
SPDY has been enabled by default in Chrome for a while. SPDY is enabled by default in Firefox 13, currently on the nightly channel. In Firefox 11 (beta channel) or 12 (aurora channel) [2] it can be enabled with a hidden preference [3]. Aft
912.
Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages(prog21.dadgum.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
913.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Try the device-width media query. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/Media_queries http://mediaqueri.es/
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A Better Way of Learning(daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
4 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
915.
HTTPS Everywhere 2, and the Decentralized SSL Observatory(eff.org)
8 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
916.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Bills passed by Congress and enacted into law are literally signed by the President; somewhere there is a physical piece of paper that Obama marked with a pen -- except in a few cases where it was a robotic pen: http://content.usatoday.
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Boot to Gecko: the OS(joshcarpenter.ca)
4 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
918.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Issue filed and pull request sent. Thanks for the bug report, instakill! :) https://github.com/toolness/collusion/pull/67
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Company That Issued Bogus Takedown of TechDirt Post Says It Was All A Mistake(techdirt.com)
34 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|17 comments
920.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
It sounds like you have reinvented the original (1999) Napster client. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
921.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
From the very first bullet point, on average Amazon prime members "increase their purchases on Amazon from $400 a year to $900 a year."
922.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Though, to be clear, it should be easy to write a single app that works as both a Chrome app and a B2G/Firefox app, as long as you use APIs that work across both environments. (Chrome apps can access non-web-accessible APIs, but they don
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France's new drunk driving legislation - every car to carry a breathalyzer(gizmag.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
924.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
"Losing" was the wrong word there. They are spending $11 to acquire $500 of increased business. Even with a 3% profit margin, that's a net gain.
925.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Angry Birds uses the Web Audio API for sound, with Flash as a fallback for browsers that don't support that API: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2012/01/angry-birds-chr...
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Telefónica working with Mozilla to build open Web-centric smartphone(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
927.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Of course this single post does not "get to the deepest consequences," but you really have to look at it as a small piece of the much larger ongoing conversation at Less Wrong. For example, your last question is better answered by the disc
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Get Curious(lesswrong.com)
76 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|7 comments
929.
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Motorola and Microsoft are using the same tactics. Both are trying to get injunctions against alleged infringing products: "In legal proceedings on both sides of the Atlantic, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft take its products off
930.
Microsoft to Google: Please Don’t Use Patents to Kill Video on the Web(blogs.technet.com)
34 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|45 comments

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