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by petilon 8y ago
If Microsoft can get people to stop downloading Chrome on Windows then the new Edge may soon have higher market share than Chrome. At that point Microsoft can wrest control of Chromium from Google just like Google wrested control of Webkit
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Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’(theverge.com)
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by petilon 8y ago
So React added isReactComponent to Component class but the author doesn't explain why they couldn't just check for render() method. It works in this React-like library: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder&
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by petilon 8y ago
Speaking of deceptive practices, has anyone noticed that Chrome's "Allow Chrome sign-in" option does not do anything? Regardless of the state of this option, when you sign into Gmail, you are also signing into Chrome. This op
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by petilon 8y ago
I would like to see a similar list for Apple. I think Apple's list would be shorter, because Apple releases fewer products.
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I see skeuomorphism as an excellent idea. The human mind is built to build models... We are constantly building models of the world and predicting how that world will work. When you have a digital world that has no rules where every time yo
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by petilon 8y ago
If a template engine is all you need here's the simplest: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder used by apps such as https://circles.app
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by petilon 8y ago
To me, Gmail Classic is this original look: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/priority1.... I loved the "Original Classic". Every update since has worsened the look & feel.
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by petilon 8y ago
> HTML attributes are not great for data transfer (string serialization for everything). You can JSX (as first introduced by React) to pass objects to Web Components. See: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
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by petilon 8y ago
Speaking of 'trust demolition', here's how Google has demolished my trust: In Chrome they have added a new option: "Allow Chrome sign-in". It appears to be a placebo. Even if it is turned off, if you sign in to Gmai
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by petilon 8y ago
These visas are intended to expand our economy, create jobs and ensure that the US remains a technological and economic superpower. Country of birth has no bearing on an immigrant's ability to contribute to these goals. If it makes sen
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by petilon 8y ago
This is because of racial quotas (or per-country quotas) that exist for green cards. More here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/05/21/will-... This quota should be removed.
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by petilon 8y ago
I don't like Google reading my email either. But I still use Gmail because I can search 20 years of my emails (including ones I imported from Yahoo mail) instantly. It is surprising no one has mentioned search in this discussion.
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by petilon 8y ago
>> this is one of those things that the market should decide. The market can only decide when consumers are fully informed of the charges before they purchase the ticket. If Expedia modifies their web site to ask if you have baggage
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by petilon 8y ago
What prevents a counterfeiter from copying the barcode?
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I was shocked when I stumbled on this. All of my purchases, have been scraped from my emails, including every line item, where I purchased these items from and so on. If they are scraping this from my emails without my permission, what else
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See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations(support.google.com)
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Because the feature is ON by default. Naive users will not know to turn it off. That doesn't mean they don't care about privacy.
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by petilon 8y ago
Here's an example C# pseudocode to illustrate the problem with not having checked exceptions: Programmer A writes this C# code: class A { public static void startFoo() { if (/* Foo is not installed */)
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by petilon 8y ago
Having programmed extensively in Java, C# and C++ I can say with confidence that checked exceptions is the most important thing missing in C++ and C#. Around the time C# was released there was a lot of debate around the topic of checked vs
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AI Can Recognize Images. But Can It Understand This Headline?(wired.com)
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If immigrants are depressing salaries, how do you explain $120,000 (base + stock + bonus) for fresh graduates, paid by Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc? https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/05/heres-how
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by petilon 8y ago
>> which would offer the poorest half of India health insurance to apply toward private hospitals This is a terrible idea. Did they learn nothing from the failure of Health Care in the United States? When insurance pays for everythi
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This why EU has a "right to be forgotten" law. The US needs a similar law.
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by petilon 8y ago
The charity in this case is Silicon Valley Community Foundation. They may not be aware of any secret deals made between the donor and the recipient. The charity just gives money to whoever the donor directs them to give to. The fact that th
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by petilon 8y ago
>> You don't get it back. Yes, you can get it back. All the donor has to do is find a recipient who agrees to buy goods or services from his/her company for above-market prices, in exchange for receiving the donation. It&#
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by petilon 8y ago
If the donor's identity is kept hidden then abuses such as "quid pro quo" donations become possible (See https://www.classy.org/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-quid... ) i.e., the donor could make an ar
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by petilon 8y ago
> How is this any different from a person directly donating $X dollars You have to disclose the recipient of the donation to IRS. That's the difference. These "Donor Advised Funds" apparently don't have to report di
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> allowing them control of where they donate They are also not required to disclose how the charitable dollars are spent. You don't see the problem here? How do we, as taxpayers, know the money is even being spent for real charita
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This only works for simple cases. Where this breaks down is when you have to inspect the current state of the DOM before deciding what changes to make to it. Example: scroll an element into view if it is not already visible. More examples:

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