mod50ack

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   by mod50ack 9y ago

   The idea of the ICO is ridiculous to me. It's nothing but a scam: here's why. I think that there are three ways in which something can have some sort of "value." (1) The object is scarce and has uses --- e.g., gold. No m
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   by mod50ack 9y ago

   LineageOS 13 is the continuation of CM 13. It's Marshmallow, but there are the latest security updates.
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   by mod50ack 9y ago

   Actually a decently hackable box. Stuck N64 and SNES support on it.
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   by mod50ack 9y ago

   It may be useful for historical reconstruction, but this process will never be able to account for the possibilities covered by a real camera. For example, I use cameras to take pictures at sporting events. Google isn't going to be abl
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   BSD users: what BSD(s) do you use and why?

   2 points by mod50ack 10y ago|0 comments
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   by mod50ack 10y ago

   MATE rocks. Although the original wasn't around in 96
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   Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

   331 points by mod50ack 10y ago|868 comments
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   by mod50ack 10y ago

   Bill Joy. Say what you will of what became of Sun, but the guy knew his stuff. Wrote the original vi, plus a whole lot of the rest of BSD, undeniably influential to anybody who uses a NIX system today (whether it be BSD or not)
9. 249.▲
   by mod50ack 11y ago

   I agree with the r/w web, and that was the original vision, but it's not really practical at this point because nobody supports such editing in a standard fashion
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    That should be an option. For example in my experience that kind of thing would be devastating to me
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Speed's a difficult thing to achieve, depending on your setup, how many processes, RAM free, etc
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I agree. I don't know what you mean by a safe language though. I do realize an ideal browser is different for everybody, but I wanted to know what many different people thought was interesting
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Keep a separate UI and backend component and this should be trivial.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Through caching pages? Fetching on the fly?
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Yeah, but that's really a hassle and such a workaround shouldn't be required. And firefox's extensibility is great as usual, but its bloat and the new UI and the ads on the tab pages disillusioned me
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    How so?
17. 257.▲
    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Cool. And of course github at the moment is the best out there for open source. And open source is a must.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    A history tree seems interesting A dev roadmap is just a general program requirement. Not specific to web browsers but good. And you're right about mobile and extensions. There's no need to restrict when you don't have to! Fo
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I've always thought the same. It'd be great to have a browser that allowed fully independent sessions to be running simulataneously
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Anonymity should be a choice, especially at the browser level.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Interesting, I'll be sure to check that one out!
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I agree. There should be three main aspects of a web browser's development team's plan. 1. Stability and Features The browser should be stable and free of major bugs, reasonable feature requests should be fulfilled when fairly tri
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    1. I totally agree with the open source part. Although I use a closed source OS often in everyday life (OS X, so at least it's a *nix) I'm a big fan of Linux (which I use on the side, and way before Windows) although personally I
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I agree, the browser shouldn't contain ads, but an adblocker is also a basically essential extension that many of us use. Myself included. It's basically impossible not to these days.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    Also, I feel like inspiration from the early web browsers should be taken. Tim Berners-Lee's book "Weaving the Web" fascinated me and I think that we can learn from both the current and the oldest designs of browsers.
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    Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

    104 points by mod50ack 11y ago|241 comments
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I almost despise the white and flat color design oriented web. I prefer usable lists to one word per page on white space.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I agree. The basic problem is that things auto-hide a lot of are otherwise non-obvious.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    I always liked FreeBSD, I haven't used it in a while, is the Linux support improving now? Looks to be so. It seems to not be gaining traction though these days.
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    by mod50ack 11y ago

    That would be interesting to see. There's GNUstep and Darling Project, but they're both a bit different.