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by niftich 10y ago
This. The relevant Chromium issue report is here [1], and it's been open for years. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24690
902.
by niftich 10y ago
Spreadsheets are the poor man's data processing pipeline; they ship with a wealth of numeric and data munging functions and give you an easy-to-understand visual representation of your datastore. You can use them to crunch numbers and
903.
by niftich 10y ago
The first question is: why? What do you hope to gain? Edit: are you looking to transition off of a stack in which which you have less expertise to a stack you have more expertise in, or embark on a rewrite in an effort to reduce technical d
904.
by niftich 10y ago
The GameCube was also late to the market in North America: it was the last console to release, a year after PS2 (which had a fully-functional DVD player to boot, though it wasn't as dominant of a coup as the PS3's Blu-ray) and a f
905.
by niftich 10y ago
They've been moved here: https://twitter.com/potus44 This was orchestrated ahead of time [1], posted to HN here [2]. [1] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital.
906.
by niftich 10y ago
This will be the big showdown between Nintendo's internal worldview (and marketing), vs. the public perception. Nintendo insists and markets the Switch as a home console, but there is a real danger that people will perceive it as a q
907.
by niftich 10y ago
With first-party games coming to an end, the Wii U's underwhelming run is essentially over. The dynasty of related PowerPC processors starting from the GameCube has come to a close; other consoles switched off of much more custom and h
908.
by niftich 10y ago
The day before, Discord did high-quality a write-up on why they chose Cassandra [1], and now this post hits explaining how one of the world's most popular and trafficked service has engineered their infrastructure; it's like a dre
909.
by niftich 10y ago
I think this comment raises a very good point and I struggle to see sure why it's proving so unpopular so far. It's true that the submitted blog post doesn't expand the CSP initialism -- this has been acknowledged as an overs
910.
by niftich 10y ago
A very detailed post which talks about their collaboration with security consulting firm Cure53 to identify various fairly novel exfiltration techniques, and attempt to adjust their Content-Security-Policy or some aspect of their applicatio
911.
by niftich 10y ago
Not the parent, but the linked material is more foundational than the subject matter raised in the post. There is in fact an appreciable lack of good, battle-tested, non-secret, sometimes-but-not-necessarily anecdotal public info about the
912.
by niftich 10y ago
This is article lies at the holy trinity of clickbait-(and-switch), alarmist bullshit, and a potential for actual investigative journalism being passed up. Meitu does request a puzzling array of permissions [1], most of which are clearly no
913.
by niftich 10y ago
These kinds of write-ups offer valuable insight into a popular project's requirements and decision-making, and are some of the most instructive resources one can find: these show not only the kinds of challenges one has to face at scal
914.
by niftich 10y ago
This isn't much of a leap -- it's the difference between an independent and a dependent variable, of which in these situations, most people have a good intuitive notion of. Given a disruptive event that happened to the person and
915.
by niftich 10y ago
In full candor, all of the above.
916.
by niftich 10y ago
Your local elected representatives or lawmakers in the governing council or legislature. It may also benefit to seek out and contact an interest group or lobbying organization that furthers the cause you promote.
917.
by niftich 10y ago
API Blueprint was an okay format that has largely lost out on a broad consensus of vendor support out to Swagger (since renamed to "OpenAPI"). RAML has undergone a similar, though less dramatic fate, and Swagger's rebranding
918.
by niftich 10y ago
And now with them having become an online-only warehouse club [1] with Prime, there is even less reason to switch away. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_club
919.
by niftich 10y ago
In short: I propose that Uber's long-term business model is to win lucrative government contracts and absorb subsidies, by operating a transportation network big and elastic enough to meet criteria and provide the requisite level-of-se
920.
by niftich 10y ago
Let's forget about aviation flag carriers and the 'orthodox' legacy US airlines for a moment. How do 'low-cost' airlines make any money, especially in Europe where they advertise fares for paltry amounts? Even with
921.
by niftich 10y ago
Huh, interesting. I once responded to speculation that Google would buy Twitter by saying [1] they'd be better off neutering Twitter's ad network and data mining ambitions that were largely buoyed by Fabric and Crashlytics, and no
922.
by niftich 10y ago
I think that a fair amount of people share your views. Some time ago I articulated [1] that I find that Mozilla has to appeal to three very different groups of people, and its efforts to appeal to one are met with disdain from the others. T
923.
by niftich 10y ago
If your target market is enterprises who are willing and able to pay, isn't it paramount to get into some market analysis firm's ranking quickly as a "leader", like Gartner's Magic Quadrant? On this very busy Quadra
924.
by niftich 10y ago
I happen to disagree with you despite perceiving the video itself much the same. I don't consider myself to be someone to whom peppy tribal drumbeat, bright neon colors, and fairly generic messages alluding to multiculturality and bett
925.
by niftich 10y ago
It's not anti-intellectualism -- it's complete and utter lack of knowledge transfer, coupled with young people's spirit being dampened by established practices that are 50% reasonable, 50% bullshit. This, piled on with subtle
926.
by niftich 10y ago
But is it cross-platform (Win32, Windows UWP, OS X, multiple linuxes, iOS, Android) and most of that same code works on the web? It's okay to bemoan Electron for being bloated but multiple balls have been dropped by OS and platform mak
927.
by niftich 10y ago
Market timing, excitement (some of which later turns into hype), mindshare, and marketing make for a difficult combo to beat. The post-mortem covered addressed market timing and hinted at the rest, but is reluctant to call out MongoDB'
928.
by niftich 10y ago
Schema-less data always sounds good in the beginning until you actually try to use that data. Then you end up encoding all the validation and data munging logic into whatever process reads from it. An internally-schema'd database just
929.
by niftich 10y ago
Guice is not dead, and its Github shows healthy activity. I've used it a few years back before JSR-330 existed, and your two choices of DI were Guice or Spring. At the time, we didn't want to pull in Spring (crazy, right?) so we w
930.
by niftich 10y ago
Support. Notwithstanding more widely accepted benefits of support like a direct line to the product's experts and in some cases, developers, big orgs are political tinderboxes and you're always one bad downtime away from an intern

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