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by ozten 12y ago
Amazing write up and really great work. I don't think Trello's brand is emphasized enough. It was a #1 goal, but there is no mention of the app name in any screenshot (unless I missed one). Do people need to know which app they ar
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by ozten 12y ago
So the "frank" system, which he uses throughout the presentation is real enough to browse the internet and author active essays in. It is written in 1000x less code than Powerpoint running on Windows 7.
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by ozten 12y ago
Slate development goes back many years. Perhaps sometimes you've got to let the field lay fallow for a season, before that next big burst of inspiration.
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Porch launches iOS app to connect homeowners with pros(techcrunch.com)
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by ozten 12y ago
> but [helmets] also make motorist treat you differently. The biggest threats from cars in my experience is when the driver doesn't know you are there.
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by ozten 12y ago
The voice is Alan Kay who lead the invention of the modern day Desktop computer / GUI. The system is probably a prototype of the Dynabook, a laptop / tablet for children. The code is Smalltalk which Alan and team created while inv
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by ozten 12y ago
Yep. The first store is scheduled to open next Tuesday http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023970923_potlicense...
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by ozten 12y ago
Firefox 30, Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 enabled, Ubuntu 14.10 - I see the flash dialog, but am unable to allow access to my microphone. Why not use getUserMedia({audio:true}) instead?
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by ozten 12y ago
> and you need to post 10 messages a day Showing a captcha each time, for a repetitive task would be a horrible UX decision.
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by ozten 12y ago
Google cannot innovate with Chrome for iOS the way they have innovated on other OSes. All iOS browsers are competing only on the UI layer. Fixing missing web standards or inventing new ones is not possible.
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by ozten 12y ago
Firefox for Android is very popular and highly rated in the Google play store. The browsers that are in the Apple App store are handicapped by legal limitations, which are not present on other, more open operating systems.
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by ozten 12y ago
FirefoxOS will host Safari / Chrome apps, before iOS will allow a Firefox. Open FTW.
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by ozten 12y ago
Yes. wfwalker said it best here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/testing-your-native-androi... "We share your frustration with the tradeoffs we have to make on Android regarding security versus openness, as
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by ozten 12y ago
If there is enough demand, we'd love to build that. It takes quite a bit of security resources to manage the developer's signing keys properly, which is why it didn't make it into 1.0.
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by ozten 12y ago
Our goal with Firefox OS APIs is to create open web standards for the sensors / capabilities on mobile devices. FxOS is a demonstration of new open web APIs, not a new platform to lock people in. Web standardization takes time and Chro
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by ozten 12y ago
I work on the service and CLI, so I'm probably wrong... but I think we're incrementally fixing these. See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/testing-your-native-androi... for an example
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by ozten 12y ago
It is a very different way of thinking about programming, but immutable inputs remove a whole class of bugs that can happen. It is analogous to global variables. We know they are bad, because any other piece of code can change them and brea
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by ozten 12y ago
"Lifelong control of your networked personal data" is ironically offline for me. Here is the Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P_L5IWO...
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by ozten 12y ago
I had to re-submit 4 times before it saved successfully. Their EJB prints SQL back to you. Wonderful. to retry: Hit back, confirm, submit again.
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by ozten 12y ago
Read that as PedoPanda, because Pedo Bear[1] has scared my subconscious. Might not be an issue with the general population. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedobear
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by ozten 12y ago
Many local governments have given exclusive rights to a single private company. I wish that opinion editorial had some data to backup it's assertions.
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by ozten 12y ago
The point is to put the slippery slope argument into context. Mozilla had made the sandbox very explicit and divorced form the rest of the content in the DOM.
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by ozten 12y ago
Mozilla is working very hard to limit the DRM to Video. This matches what has happened in practice over the years. Ads and entertainment have been packaged up in Flash with DRM. EME paves that cowpath.
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by ozten 13y ago
I love my distros, but I always install critical apps from upstream, like Firefox, NodeJS, note keeping apps, etc.
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by ozten 13y ago
> Where the hell is my forward button? Forward button appears after you click the back button. It is only shown when it could be used. This and many other improvements reduce visual noise based on analysis of how frequently people used d
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by ozten 13y ago
Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland in 1963, would be one. It allows one to draw CAD drawings, convert drawn letters into labels, etc in a more natural way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
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by ozten 13y ago
At Mindcamp in 2009 we had a session to try to figure out how/why to use Wave. We tried to use Wave to facilitate said conversation. In my opinion, it was a wash. Wave had amazing technology and perhaps a "before it's time&qu
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Firefoxos Dogfooding Tips(ozten.com)
1 points by ozten 13y ago|0 comments
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by ozten 13y ago
If you have a hard time overcoming your gut reaction to this proposal, I'd recommend the book Debt: the first 5000 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_first_5000_Years
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by ozten 13y ago
https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/listings/

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