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by mook 6y ago
I'm surprised anyone still does. Unfortunately that was deeply tied into the Mozilla stack, and they didn't want to be a platform vendor, so just running an old version isn't really tenable. (To bring things back on topic, I
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by mook 6y ago
I realized a couple months back that Google sheets supports using xpath to scrape web pages. So now I have a "spreadsheet" scraping a page to see when a model of laptop goes on sale. Seems to work; at least, whenever I go double c
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by mook 6y ago
Linux package managers (that I'm aware of) tend to dislike keeping multiple versions of development headers around, though; they have no issues keeping multiple versions of the libraries themselves. That seems relevant in a discussion
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by mook 6y ago
Related complaint, the standard library taking structs as input is kind of annoying. I'm specifically thinking of net.Dialer having a net.Resolver, where that's a struct and not an interface, so it's difficult to sub in custo
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by mook 6y ago
(I also use Containerise) In my experience that had better support for per-eTLD temporary containers, so that each site can have its own, and the data can be discarded relatively soon. I also have more permanent containers for things that I
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by mook 6y ago
It seems reasonable to assume more money = better in replying to a comment that brings up the monetary amount in the second sentence? If they have their own clinic to enjoy life better, great, but in that case trying to compare revenues do
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by mook 6y ago
Unsolicited advice, please feel free to ignore; hopefully you'll be okay with it: Bug fixes tend to not need justification (since the maintainers presumably already agreed), but new features depend on the maintainers agreeing that they
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by mook 6y ago
I believe a better comparison would be Comcast also having a Netflix competitor… let's call it Xfinity Stream. And then they make Netflix have extra costs (say, having plans that have low monthly bandwidth caps that limit how much you
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by mook 6y ago
I was under the impression that at least the CRT part was fine to modify. At least, Firefox used to ship a custom version with jemalloc, I think (with the necessary patches checked in as ed scripts so that they could avoid having the origin
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by mook 6y ago
> that said, I think consumers would prefer subscriptions if they understood how it aligned incentives. Actually, I think subscriptions misaligns incentives. With subscriptions, it becomes important for the vendors to keep releasing upda
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by mook 6y ago
Alt+Left/Right navigating through history has been in IE since at least IE4. I don't recall if it worked before then, and trying to look up ~25 year old documentation is somewhat difficult (especially since it would have shipped i
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by mook 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if, at Google's scale, something or other is disrupted all the time. I think I'd prefer a status page that reflected that, or even no status page at all with an explanation, rather than a lying one, th
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by mook 6y ago
> They had a niche for deep dives and original content, but I wonder how viable that really is in 2020. LWN.net seems to have excellent in depth original content; they get linked here occasionally. Perhaps that's an indication that
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by mook 6y ago
My understanding was that when a repo is deleted one of its forks will be chosen to become the root instead; however if the parent repo is taken down (via DMCA etc.) then all its forks are also removed.
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by mook 6y ago
I don't think it's that it got lost, but rather that a lot more money got into open source development. While I was at school I was really interested in hacking on Mozilla, where they were espousing ideals about meritocracy. After
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by mook 6y ago
At least having a deprecation warning in the docs would be nice. Doing it compile time doesn't seem like the kind of thing golang would do; that seems like a thing external linters might have in that ecosystem (and likely already does)
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by mook 6y ago
Fennec (the old Firefox for Android) was, as far as I'm aware, a different codebase compared to Fenix (the new one). As in, Fennec was hosted on hg.mozilla.org using the same source tree as desktop Firefox, and Fenix is hosted on GitHu
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by mook 6y ago
FWIW, Uniqlo does indeed resize for the North American market; a large on Asia is not the same as a large in America. At least, that was the case for some of the items I've encountered.
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by mook 6y ago
> One question I have as a user - what is an acceptable grace period for coming up with an equivalent replacement when you take an API away? Done correctly, the replacement should have already been there for one release before the deprec
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by mook 6y ago
FWIW, Google Assistant can now use custom list apps (and Keep is an option), so "ok google, add cheese to the shopping list" is a thing again. Under assistant settings, it's in the Services / Notes & Lists heading.
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by mook 6y ago
As far as I can tell, https://give.thunderbird.net/ actually goes to the organization in charge of maintaining the software. It's not tax deductible or anything, but nor does it (appear to) go to other uses like advoc
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by mook 6y ago
Brendan Eich was a decent CTO, as far as I could tell from the outside; while I disagreed with him on some technical details (e.g. single threaded everything didn't seem that great), at least he seemed to be able to justify his decisio
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by mook 6y ago
I thought they _originally_ intended for servo to perhaps someday be its own thing; I had this impression specifically because I think they had at some point aspirations for servo to have a stable embedding API (to let other applications us
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by mook 6y ago
It's also possible the new landlords internally drove out the tenant to not have to deal with the hassle of having a tenant. This could make sense if they wanted the building as a store of value and didn't care about the rental in
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by mook 6y ago
Given that the list of serial numbers are non-consecutive (and one of them in a run of consecutive numbers went to a vendor in Austria per the article linked elsewhere in the comments), perhaps they're only recalling the ones that went
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by mook 6y ago
I believe it's because the ribbon is context-sensitive. What shows up depends on what has focus, and that makes it harder for retention, similar to how Office 2000 has automatically hidden menu items that ended up being confusing.
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by mook 6y ago
Cannot seems rather strong. I haven't been paying very much attention, but I was under the impression that Postgres doesn't have a dictator?
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by mook 6y ago
I kind of like the ability to have comments, though. The tools I've worked with have issues round-tripping them though ASTs.
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by mook 6y ago
As usual, LWN has a great article on it that is much more approachable than raw LKML: https://lwn.net/Articles/821817/
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by mook 6y ago
Rubocop is a linter, so it tends to have an easier time: it only needs to process input that is already correct, though it might have style issues. It doesn't need to do anything that might change the meaning of your program. Inserting

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