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by noibl 14y ago
According to the channel on freenode, full, up-to-date, and prefix-free flexbox support is on track to be enabled in the stable version of Firefox that is released exactly 12 weeks from tomorrow.
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by noibl 14y ago
Very nice. If it had a key handler to collapse the current comment with all replies[1], then I think it would be heaven. (Helps with long tangent threads at the top of the comment page.) I know, this should be a pull request... Edit: BTW, I
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by noibl 14y ago
I know I said I was done but since you keep harping on the point, I'll just leave this here: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/... It shows global PC sales flat since the start of 2010. The iPad debuted in April
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by noibl 14y ago
> I thought that Christmas was supposed to be about spending time with loved ones, not about blowing thousands of dollars on unnecessary gifts. Did you really? I guess that means you don't have kids. > Has anyone stopped to consider
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by noibl 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying. In the context of not addressing the question over Greenwald's credibility it looked sarcastic to me. You see, it's very confusing if you express appreciation for something that seems to contradict your point but then
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by noibl 14y ago
That's OK. Sneering non-responses are also informative.
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by noibl 14y ago
> moves the goalposts to suggest Obama abandoned that objective by casting a yea vote that indemnified telcos for (a) lawful surveillance (b) conducted under the color of an entirely new statute in (c) a bill that mostly consisted of ne
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by noibl 14y ago
> What claims have I made that are false? You said they're growing. They're shrinking. I'm out.
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by noibl 14y ago
It's not desktop Windows. It's Windows. See my posts re declining PC sales for why this would matter (hint: people are getting work done on devices). Then we can fall back to the argument that consumer PCs aren't really important anyway.
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by noibl 14y ago
I guess you missed the part where demand for this hugely anticipated OS release is looking decidedly weak?[0][1][2] (I love that after telling one person they don't know what they're talking about, while making obviously false claims yourse
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by noibl 14y ago
> the rate of PC shipments is still increasing. Gartner and IDC: PC shipments tumbled over 8 percent in Q3 [1] That's the second consecutive quarter of negative global growth.[2] >> The consumer PC market has cratered since the
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by noibl 14y ago
Regarding sales as opposed to usage: Windows once held an overwhelming lead in 2008 with about 70 percent of the OS market, Forrester found in estimating overall personal computing device sales by OS. By 2012, that market share had shrunk
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by noibl 14y ago
While the Tuskegee experiment followed the natural progression of syphilis in those already infected, in Guatemala [US Public Health Service] doctors deliberately infected healthy people (having just defeated the Nazis). http://en.wikipe
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by noibl 14y ago
Other [denaturing formulas] used bitter-tasting compounds that were less lethal, designed to make the alcohol taste so awful that it became undrinkable. This approach was also applied to non-industrial alcohol products, leading to another
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by noibl 14y ago
Sorry but to me the overuse of gold just says 'You can be Donald Trump.' I understand the idea behind it but the contrast between the designs highlights a problem with this kind of project: lack of input. Exec's current design makes the who
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by noibl 14y ago
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/11/seo-the-inconveni... Sweet.io: why?
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by noibl 14y ago
Thanks. Your response to the issue reflects well on your organisation (imho). I'm making a note here: 'huge success'.
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by noibl 14y ago
> (long story) I hope I'm not being a dick by commenting on this but the subthread is getting fairly long with 'me too's. Can you give any kind of explanation as to what's been going wrong? Also, this is the first I've heard about Game
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by noibl 14y ago
> If we legislate 3D printing to prevent weapon manufacture, we run directly counter to the idea of "Print anything you need at home!". It's not necessary to refer specifically to the means of manufacture. Homemade weapons are already r
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by noibl 14y ago
> http://parley.co Excellent writeup. It really helps when the conversation is steered away from terms like 'amendment', 'advertisers', 'enforcement', 'criminality' and steered back to the central idea of recovering and safeguarding a
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by noibl 14y ago
You said '(be it Outlook, your phone, or the web-mail host )'. I was just providing a relevant historical example to support your point. (Lavabit does have a webmail interface.) FWIW, the Hushmail ex-CEO seems to strongly agree with you on
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by noibl 14y ago
> alter the binary that interfaces the client Which, in case it's not clear, is exactly what Hushmail did/does. http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/pgp-creator...
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by noibl 14y ago
Just wanted to say thanks to you and your contributers over the years. I always thought 24 articles in 24 days was a very ambitious idea but somehow you guys always deliver the magic. I'm not the target audience for this article either so i
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by noibl 14y ago
Right, right. Or! We could stop redefining common words and agree that 'pay' is a verb in the present tense. (Please don't kill me.)
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by noibl 14y ago
> A question can be one we consistently pay attention to without being in the top 10. Sure, but the query was about "pay most attention to". I wonder if hacking the YC app process via PR stunt became too obvious an answer to the quest
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by noibl 14y ago
> It's kinda weird to me as many in the UK wouldn't be particularly accepting of that sort of age gap now, particularly not for casual sexual liaisons. The age of consent for homosexual male sex was lowered to 18 in 1994 - that means th
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by noibl 14y ago
> Given that [the existence of r/4chan is met with scorn on 4chan], it would seem that r/4chan is composed entirely of people who don't actually browse 4chan! Non-sequitur (really a classic syllogistic fallacy if you consider who does t
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by noibl 14y ago
> But Traditional Chinese Medicine and Homeopathic Oncology are not treatments; they operate under fraudulent principles - they are, at best, Lifestyle interventions The foundational principles of traditional medicine (Chinese, Ayurvedi
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by noibl 14y ago
Thanks, now I get it. Having a UI cue when you're on the DDG website is a good idea.
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by noibl 14y ago
Wait, 'one-click'? In Firefox if I click the dropdown on the search field, then click 'Manage Search Engines' I get a dialog in which can be found a link to 'Get more search engines...'. Clicking that opens an add-ons store tab with the 'Se

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