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by mook 8y ago
> Coca cola apparently originally was written in Chinese such that it meant "bite the frog." Sales improved after they modified it such that it meant "happiness in the mouth." I've always been confused by that, a
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by mook 8y ago
The biggest problem for me is loading an external script (hosted by Google), plus CSS rules to hide the content until a timeout if that script doesn't load. It literally makes the pages load slower for me (but will never show up in the
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by mook 8y ago
Does Microsoft still count as a major browser vendor, given that they'll be shipping a blink-based browser? Of course, the same thing might be said back when Chrome was using Webkit too… and I think it was.
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by mook 8y ago
I'm mostly like you, except I've seen where DoH (or rather the equivalent DNS control) can go wrong on my local network. I have a NAS, and did not set up the manufacturer's optional global DNS routing (because why the heck sh
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by mook 8y ago
Alternative possibility (that I just made up on the spot): the people who get to choose what language to work in, ignoring the popularity of the language (and therefore how easy they are to replace) are already in very senior positions. Mor
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by mook 8y ago
On the other hand, being a contractor also means you don't need to be as invested into the maintainability. If it gets too bad you can simply stop working on that project. You don't need to select for solutions for the long term.
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by mook 8y ago
Would you actually buy it if it ran _anything_ other than Android (say, somebody somehow managed to ship a new phone running Symbian)? Or do you actually have a preferred OS? Actually just curious to see if you're specifically avoiding
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by mook 8y ago
It's sad; I remember that one of the things that was supposed to come out of Servo was a stable embedding interface. Of course, that's cancelled now… I can't help but wonder from time to time what would be using Gecko now if
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by mook 8y ago
I'm disappointed that the fact it will break things only got a mention, and yet the browsers are pushing for using DoH via cloud providers. My NAS isn't externally resolvable; after all, it's not externally reachable either.
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by mook 8y ago
Why can't middlemen still exist, just without the individual targeting? Can't sites still self-report their categories (so that, say, a dog grooming site would say they should get dog ads)?
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by mook 8y ago
That seems perfectly reasonable for unstable software in heavy development, which Rust might very well be. Unfortunately that also means it shouldn't be used as part of anything stable, which makes using it in Firefox a terrible idea.
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by mook 8y ago
Are they giving a stake to the government, or to the government officials? Because the latter is just plain corruption, and to be honest isn't very surprising anywhere.
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by mook 8y ago
It's not indicting 300,000+ people, it's one person: the chairman of Samsung Electronics for not having set a culture where blatant lying results in negative repercussions.
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by mook 8y ago
Wouldn't the bank still know your full purchase history (since they know what numbers are tied to you)? So they'd in fact get a leg up on the competition, who get a more distorted view?
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by mook 8y ago
It's possible that automation is better for the average human, but worse for the median human. It's probably better for the environment, in terms of shipping.
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by mook 8y ago
Perhaps it's a regional thing, but professional cooks seem to be more often male when I notice them. In particular, I'm thinking of small husband/wife shops where the wife is likely to be the waiter/cashier/etc. (Al
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by mook 8y ago
They can't block it because it costs them nothing; there's no incentive to get them to build the capability. Currently it works like old school (physical, postal) mail -- the sender writes something on the envelope that says who t
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by mook 8y ago
What usually ends catching my attention is bikes filtering to the front, starting faster after the red light (possibly because they're watching the light closer), and getting ahead of the cars in the lane. Then once they're ahead,
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by mook 8y ago
As an occasional driver (I take the transit more), yes please take up the whole lane; is safer for both sides. If I find you too slow I can overtake you when safe (either in a different lane or in the opposing lane when safe). Essentially,
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by mook 8y ago
I have vague recollecting of FirefoxOS being like that, where the underlying layer (gonk?) was Android-derived. They certainly didn't go for an Android-compatible app layer though.
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by mook 8y ago
roc did, supposedly, in late 2007. See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-hi... It dates from back when Mozilla seemed to be losing quickly, and actually rebranding Chrome (with their own ch
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by mook 8y ago
Sounds like a job for git bundle. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle
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by mook 8y ago
There's actually a bunch of sites that are similarly broken; if any script fails to load (including, yes, analytics) nothing works. That was why I originally started using uBlock origin… it had a thing to shim in that, as opposed to uM
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by mook 8y ago
I think it really went downhill earlier than that; somewhere around 4 was when they stopped trying to work with the ecosystem and just started blocking things instead. Perhaps I've accidentally got rose-tinted glasses on though…
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by mook 8y ago
I wonder how Gmail as it originally came out (during the invite-only stage) compares to Gmail now? That already had a lot of the functionality (but not, say, chat). Of course, it's rather difficult to go back in time to measure the ol
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by mook 8y ago
It has previously happened, in the special case of repos GitHub removed (like DMCAed ones). That is a different case from the original repo owner removing it voluntarily.
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by mook 8y ago
> Apple has 100% market share in the iOS market. And Linux has 100% market share in the desktop Linux market. But it probably doesn't count as a monopoly. I do believe the significant market share of Apple smartphones is an issue, b
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by mook 8y ago
> You couldn't, until Firefox 59. Before that, protocol handlers were not allowed to handle links to Dat/IPFS resources [0]. You could, kind of, before Firefox 57 (or at least, at some point). Implementing nsIProtocolHandler&#x
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by mook 8y ago
Wouldn't the sensible repercussion in that case be the bus driver gets fired for terrible performance?
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by mook 8y ago
But the versioning guarantees are _exactly_ why having them in the stdlib would be good for me as a user; it means I'd be able to have code that keeps working, but have new improvements available. It's totally fine to decide to ma

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