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by mstade 9y ago
FWIW I posted[1] in the Flash EOL thread the other day that an Adobe employee told me years ago that licensing issues were the main hindrance to open sourcing the Flash player. (Another HN user who said they used to work for Adobe seems to
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by mstade 9y ago
That's right, but it incidentally also meant google saw it fit to highjack backspace to not mean go back in any browser when on google.com, and just use it to remove characters from the search box, regardless of whether or not it&#x2
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by mstade 9y ago
Does this mean we can regain the backspace-to-go-back that's been everywhere since forever, but was killed by Chrome because of instant search?
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by mstade 9y ago
Someone from Adobe once told me the main reason holding back open sourcing the player was licensing. Apparently the player consists of quite a bit of licensed technology that Adobe obviously couldn't open up, and some of these are so c
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by mstade 9y ago
Yeah, very cool! Doing `cat picture.jpg` made me realize I kind of want this in my shell.
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by mstade 9y ago
I'm struggling to see how what you're saying is the opposite of what I'm saying – bleeding gums are bad, period. You can be brushing every day and still have bleeding gums, probably because your brush is too hard but possib
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by mstade 9y ago
Bleeding gums are NOT a good thing. Bleeding gums may be a sign of inflammation, gingivitis, which ultimately could lead to loss of teeth if untreated. Always go with the softest brush you can find, to spare your gums, and also try not to u
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by mstade 9y ago
I never saw it for apps, only music.
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by mstade 9y ago
Better yet: automatic comma insertion! (I'm only half joking.)
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by mstade 9y ago
I've been on Fastmail going on a year now, and spam was my biggest worry coming from gmail. But honestly I don't think I've received any spam in my inbox at all since doing the switch, and only occasionally had to check the s
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by mstade 9y ago
I understand the reasons why async/await is designed the way it is, but I still think it is backwards. Really if you wanted to truly make async programming approachable, you should make it transparent. What I mean by this is that ins
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by mstade 9y ago
This is great, now I can ditch my UK Three SIM that I've had for years simply because they implemented a "feel at home" kind of policy long ago, where roaming within the EU is free. There was always a data limit, and you can&
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by mstade 9y ago
But the regulation only applies to roaming so it doesn't really affect calls made from your home country to another EU country, which can still be much more than a typical local call.
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by mstade 9y ago
And this is why you only ever use credit cards from reputable providers with a proven customer satisfaction track record. I had uber pulling all sorts of shenanigans against my Amex a few months ago, and instead of dealing with Uber's
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by mstade 9y ago
The verdict comments on this page are golden. I especially like the NYTimes verdict: > Verdict: Failing… to not work. Sad! Delicious.
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It's worth mentioning though that there's often not a 100% feature parity between iOS versions on different devices, typically because of hardware changes. These even applies to devices of the same generation, e.g. iPhone 7 and iP
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A myriad? Really?
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by mstade 9y ago
> Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone. Do you know who Nils Bohlin was? If not, I guess you don't need three point seat belts in your car. Maybe I'm being facetious, but this
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by mstade 9y ago
This is the first paragraph that shows up when seeing the site in mobile safari: > I know people are going to ask me a lot of questions about why I started this company. Why didn’t I just travel the world, ride my motorcycle, tinker with
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by mstade 9y ago
It bothers me somewhat that they say this is standardized, but not by whom. Is the idea that Yarn should fall in line or is it a case of https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
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by mstade 9y ago
Something like IPFS could perhaps be used for this. I think the biggest issue is probably access control. I.e. just releasing packages addressed by content isn't enough, because people generally depend on @whatever/left-pad and no
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by mstade 9y ago
I think it's called the Osborne effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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by mstade 9y ago
It really does depend, yeah. I've been eyeing the Volvo S90 since they came out, so I went to their concept store in Stockholm around Christmas time last year and put together a configuration that seemed nice. Estimated delivery date o
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by mstade 9y ago
I'd love to read this.
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by mstade 9y ago
> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? This is anecdata but among my friends, e-mail addresses and phone numbers tend to change more often than their Facebook profiles. I know people all over the worl
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by mstade 9y ago
Me and a colleague would go for at least one but often times multiple walks per day. Sometimes just to shoot the breeze but more often than not it was to discuss some work we were doing or the conversation ended up there anyway. The walks w
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by mstade 9y ago
Sweden. I love it, but it's my home country so I'm biased. I lived in the U.K. for about five years.
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by mstade 9y ago
See, you've obviously put significant thought into this, even to the point of building a model. Most people I know, they buy a place because they need a place to live. They also tell themselves that buying a place is a great way to gro
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by mstade 9y ago
Every day there are news coming out of the U.K. that just makes me even happier that I left it. This is no exception.
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by mstade 9y ago
That's great, thanks for sharing!

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