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by mehrzad 14y ago
I agree but I feel like the backfire issue is never brought up. If Bing becomes default, would less techy users just switch back to Chrome? I hope not.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
If I have something natively running on my computer, it's mine now. I don't like to pay for it more than once. This is what goes in my and users' minds, most likely.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Remember: the ISPs are only the messengers; the IP holders are the only ones sending messages. I remember reading on 4chan (possibly fake, but still interesting) where a guy was called up by his ISP who said that someone on his network down
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Yep, I use FF Nightly and Pocket's bookmarklet, noticed that the bookmarklet broke in this new version, and notified Pocket Support.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Unfortunately most users are annoyed by services like Heyzap and Openfeint. Ironically, Game Center seems to get out of the way the best, but is still pretty superfluous for a default app on a mobile operating system.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Why? So they can run all the indies out of business?
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm just a stupid teenager. We seem to have this discussion too much. Startup culture is business culture. Hacker culture (making and breaking) to me almost seems diametrically opposed to startup culture (making and selling). St
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by mehrzad 14y ago
This is Alienware we're talking about.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
My problem with the Webkit monopoly was that it made it harder to use a FOSS browser. Webkit Nightly and Chromium are both nightly browsers which isn't good for the majority of people. Firefox is FOSS, but if Webkit took over, it would be h
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by mehrzad 14y ago
It really is nice to use proprietary protocols for every form of communication. /s
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by mehrzad 14y ago
I actually asked him why he uses those terms. He says it's because he refuses to use their marketing terms and he gets to poke fun at the companies as well.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Can Firefox Nightly be supported too? I couldn't tell if it worked.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
>better for consumers than OS X or Windows I didn't mean to imply that. I just said it looks nicer, but I guess it doesn't appeal to some people. I like a desktop-style workflow more than a mobile one, but I guess it may be worse for no
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by mehrzad 14y ago
>Wow, that's by far the best looking Linux distro I've seen Have you seen any Window Manager only (without Desktop Environment) desktops? They're very nice, even nicer than OS X or Windows. Examples: http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/03/28/3B
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Pretty sure it means: It doesn't have to go through Mozilla's servers; anyone can set up their own instance and work with the other ones.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
You're fighting the Good Fight, though I personally think it's fine to use the Play Store. You use FF Nightly?
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by mehrzad 14y ago
or r/musicnews. Music lovers are also used to reading blogs. Just things to keep in mind.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
1 tip for making a good app: gamify as little as possible. Users don't want to feel rewarded for something that's probably wasting their time. They want to know that the action itself is useful. If your app can't do that, how will you retai
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by mehrzad 14y ago
I think "[x]." returning a certain character when 7<x<256 is pretty strange. There's probably a reason for this, but I'm pretty new to the language.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Surprised to not see Erlang there.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Or make a Stylish script and share with others.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
I'm loving that any mozilla.org post reaches the frontpage easily. Nightly is the best browser I've used.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
FWIW, I set up a tutorial for my friends for IRC. If you explain it simply enough, it will work. I have 25+ of my friends on it now, most of whom not knowing what IRC was.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Yeah I realized I might consider it if it's OSS.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Even if a certain service has more features, I prefer to use the one based on open protocols, and in this case, IRC.
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by mehrzad 14y ago
I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox (and occasionally Webkit Nightly, and I have Chromium installed)
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by mehrzad 14y ago
You can't know until he open sources it!
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Well, I don't think it'll stay this way, though I'm grateful for it. If everyone who used Firefox donated a dollar...
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by mehrzad 14y ago
I've always been wary of the online programming sites like codecademy and the like, because when I did Rails for Zombies I realized it never shows you how to set up an actual Rails application nor how Git and Heroku work. Are all the tutori
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by mehrzad 14y ago
Well, it seems to be creating growing support for Mozilla and the FSF, which I think/hope we can get behind. A bunch of people disagree with the FSF though.

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