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by nishs 10y ago
Yes. But according to wiki.mozilla.org on WebExtensions [0]: We strive for compatibility to make developers lives easier and are participating in a W3C community group to work on a standard. Although Chrome is by no means obligated to, it
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And even more relevant today. Especially after yesterday's fiasco where Chrome doesn't allow installing self-made extensions permanently—forcing you to publish on the Chrome Web Store [0]. There were a few years (2010-2014) when C
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The Magical Number 7: Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information (1956)(psychclassics.yorku.ca)
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I did the same today. If you're converting extensions from Chrome to Firefox, you might like this. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Po...
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Medium has RSS support [0]. Although it has no place in the UI (as far as I know). You could add a link to your RSS feed to the bottom of each post as a workaround, but this is far from ideal. I agree that self-hosting + custom domain is be
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Apologies for the misleading GitHub portion in my previous comment. I agree, Rust is wonderfully maintained on GitHub. That said, Google might consider it easier to work with Gerrit, Rietveld, Gitiles, etc. because they can work with the so
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It would be helpful to read Medium's Terms of Service before you make your decision. Most websites have these conditions, but I've copied the most jarring ones below for what it's worth [0]: > We can remove any content you
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Automation would be a primary reason. Gerrit and Rietveld [1] allow Google to build bots and tooling to land commits, allocate build infrastructure resources for tests, and rollback tree-breaking changes. GitHub would not be quite so hackab
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Here's a guide to porting your Chrome extensions to Firefox, if you're considering making the switch to Firefox. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Po...
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Ever wanted to quickly hack together your own homebrewed extension for Chrome? You've now lost the ability to do so unless you publish to the wretched Chrome Web Store, which allows only for a princely maximum of 20 extensions by defau
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The Ames Room Illusion(psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de)
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Yes. Also defined in author's last paragraph.
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I see Firebase being used often around here to host progressive apps. Is there something that Firebase offers that is conducive to build progressive apps?
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Ask HN: What's the worst zero-day vulnerability you've had to deal with?
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Looking at the single-line input I assumed it was an email address field, not physical address. I feel so dumb.
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Show HN: Medium.com's image zoom in pure JavaScript(github.com)
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Évariste Galois, a major contributor to abstract algebra, had an interesting life. He had participated in the French Revolution of 1830; worked on mathematics while in jail; and died when he was 20 years old as a result of being shot in the
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by nishs 10y ago
Medium.com does something similar (blur the image while waiting for it to load), but it appears they have a <noscript> fallback. <noscript class="js-progressiveMedia-inner"> <img class="progressiveMedia
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by nishs 10y ago
This is great. Is your backend open source? Could you share more about how it compares to mailinabox? [1] [1] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
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The Process Behind the World's First Photograph [video](hrc.utexas.edu)
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Author might have fixed it already, but it looks alright to me on Chrome 55.0.2883.95 / macOS 10.12. http://imgur.com/a/fhDr1
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13247548
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Proposal to get the Creative Commons icons into Unicode(creativecommons.org)
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I'm not challenging your argument, but have you seen Safari Technology Preview [1]? It seems to be under healthy development; for instance, recently it became the first browser to support all ES2015/16/17 features [2]. So it
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Java has a lock-free concurrent skip list in the ConcurrentSkipListMap class [1]. Herlihy et al. claim that existing skip list algorithms (including the Java implementation) are complicated, and instead provide a supposedly faster implement
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UT Austin's multicore computing course had an optional project to benchmark concurrent skip lists or implement faster skip list algorithms. My group aimed to improve element access times by boosting the height of frequently accessed el
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Useless Use of Cat Award (2000)(porkmail.org)
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Principles of designing Go APIs with channels(inconshreveable.com)
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Jerryscript: Super Lightweight JavaScript Runtime for Internet of Things Devices(github.com)
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Show HN: Open source license generator from the command-line(github.com)
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