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by ngokevin 8y ago
There’s not much work on a pure Servo browser beyond experiment. They’ve just various uplifted Servo bits like webrenderer and stylo into Gecko.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Not sure where the rebound is, the trending numbers show a strong decline even since the article. It’s even more bleak when you factor in mobile.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
It’s unfortunately already been the case. Mozilla’s money comes directly from Google and Google has had the heavy hand over all web standards decisions for years now.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Even greater in the US, from 50M to 40M.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
There's also https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity showing similar declines in the US market.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Oh, interesting. 50 million to 40 million MAUs in the US since Mar 17, seems to match up.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
It was quite a bit different then. IE was in the "first mover" batch. Chrome is the "last mover". It was easy to knock out the first mover as things had stalled yet there was still lots of innovation to be done. But brow
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by ngokevin 8y ago
I'd kinda agree. As described in Zero to One, to convince shift users to adopt, you need a product that is an order of magnitude superior to the incumbent. Incremental changes or parity mostly won't cut it. A browser would have to
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by ngokevin 8y ago
It is pretty fast for me. Although there is some vested interest, although indirectly. Decisions are still tied to money, which is why Google has traditionally been the default search engine in Firefox.
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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%(netmarketshare.com)
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by ngokevin 8y ago
It's still falling even after the Quantum push. It's dipped under 5% total market share and under 9% on desktop. Losing a percentage point every several months.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Nothing really to do with VR itself. If anything VR is more favorable for an indie developer as there are less titles on the stores and a more fervent / willing base of users (for desktop VR users), and more room to be creative with in
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by ngokevin 8y ago
People should remap it anyways. The escape key is the farthest away key, yet it's the most frequently used key. I have it to `jj`.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
You hold a needle with fingers, but you also need to handle it up, down, left, right and rotate it pitch, roll, yaw. Lot more analog than pressing fixed buttons.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
No. I mentioned "I think that's totally okay" and natural. My main point was only that Mozilla Corporation behaves as a corporation, internally and externally, not a non-profit foundation. They do have an external-facing miss
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by ngokevin 8y ago
I agree Mozilla is a corporation, despite its marketing and brand efforts, everything else is very corporate. It started out as a foundation with corporation-as-necessity, but no longer the case. They are able to distance themselves from ad
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by ngokevin 8y ago
That reinforces the article though. "You take on a challenging project and make a mistake through lack of experience or poor judgment" The student thought they were doing good, but they did not ask someone to call for help due to
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Wish the URLs were a bit cleaner (short hashes, no subdomains, no GH path), but I get that JSDelivr is not catered just for GitHub.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Well, Mozilla's revenue is also 99.9% ads. It just comes indirectly from search engines.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Would it be fair to say similar scandals have happened in actual sports (PEDs, judge corruption)? Cheating is often caught and corrected in the speedrunning community.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Not true from my point of view, people have the same criticisms of their government as you'd see in any other country. Chinese people aren't like brainwashed.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
We have a VR-only browser on launched on SteamVR (Vive) / Oculus Store (Rift). Relevant to HN, we went through a recent YC batch. Still early but focused on 6DOF headsets, and ignoring 2D for now. http://store.steampowered.c
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Going through school also helps you build a network and gives to access to peer groups that will have you learning a lot quicker and be exposed to new things.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Over a 2+ year old product that is about to release a next version. At this stage, price is not a big deal. It's not close to consumer targeting. At least Microsoft gives some out to developers.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Side-note that Hololens is over two years old, and a second iteration is coming.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
It's back to back days...back to back to back if you count Alumni Demo Day where all startups go in one day.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
I've eaten at MAC'D in SF, we had two people on one plate, and still had leftovers.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Though grinding fresh and having high quality ingredients doesn't need the giant robotic arm, which serves only to move the cups around.
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Is CafeX just a gimmick, given there have been simple vending machines that can brew and make coffee?
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by ngokevin 8y ago
Budget airlines fly with a fleet of modern airplanes, maybe even more modern than larger airlines. Is there any evidence of increased risk of safety?

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