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by quickben 9y ago
Why not? The switch barrier is non existent. Most of the replies in this thread are ideological. Nobody is arguing CSS rendering speed comparisons and such. People use Firefox because they like it. People are irrational but like is huge
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by quickben 9y ago
Then why promote the browser as such? Remove all "we respect privacy" from the advertisement. It's misleading.
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by quickben 9y ago
At a heavy latency cost, and under dubious asumption that regular people control all exit nodes.
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by quickben 9y ago
You can argue it all you want. Whoever is storing that is responsible under the Canadian laws criminally. It's probably the same if not worse in other countries (Germany, etc).
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by quickben 9y ago
So, let me see if I can follow your argument. Because most people don't care, it was decided to implement a feature that is flat out contrary to people caring. Management decisions like this don't exactly inspire confidence about
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by quickben 9y ago
That's different. Netflix is optional. The AdSense and the telemetry discussed aren't.
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by quickben 9y ago
Nah, we'll just switch. If you are trying to become Chrome, we'll just use Chrome. (Firefox+data collection < Chrome not logged in). Edit: I've been with you guys since the beginning, but the line is drawn here.
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by quickben 9y ago
We probably need polymaths more than people writing clickbait headlines for the BBC.
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by quickben 9y ago
Technically we would, but not at the cost of such discrepancy, as it usually had a violent ending in the past. Costing lives and entire countries social stabilities.
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by quickben 9y ago
It is, but one just doesn't replace a proper BTree filesystem with a document database. Just because the author saw a document db, and thought it's cool, without looking at why BTrees won.
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by quickben 9y ago
Like any set of ideas, some of his ideas are brilliant, some are utterly stupid. No need to get rilled up, just take the good and ignore the rest :)
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by quickben 9y ago
The idea sounds like Matadors day job. Everybody want to see the results, rarely who will want to actually be there. How do you incentivise it?
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by quickben 9y ago
They are valid points, but in his case, after a PhD and 3 decades working with people, the phrase ' basic humanity' is a lot more memorable than, '12 things that will define you: here they are'. At some point, the knowle
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by quickben 9y ago
Network effects will sooner be broken by a legal, than a technical solution.
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by quickben 9y ago
For the stuff that works, i.e. electricity as an invention. But if you need to continue innovating, fragmented ecosystem > one entity. Prime example being: what have 7B people invented, vs , what has UN (as their one face) invented.
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by quickben 9y ago
We are in this "decentralized" web, is just that the giants have a habit into buying out anything becoming remotely popular. Think end game capitalism. Capital amalgamation. In fact, any modern corporation will be buying as many s
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by quickben 9y ago
Aquitances :) and yes, I also have FB for people all over the planet. I was just saying more on how we choose who we give our time to, rather than the medium. As for Facebook/Gmail etc. They are fine tools for now, as all other softwar
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by quickben 9y ago
Try what I did. Set do not disturb mode always on. Wife/family go through. The rest, once in a while I'll open and see what tried to get my attention. I'm one. Crap apps with tons of pointless notifications are many. I own th
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by quickben 9y ago
Not going into the 'social media' argument, but I don't think I can have a friend like that. As I've gotten older, my tolerance for bullshit diminished. You don't have to be friend with everybody . If people are su
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by quickben 9y ago
You have tons of well established platform tools that will give you way more power at your fingertips if you wish so. Have you tried QT or Xamarin?
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by quickben 9y ago
The way I'm reading some related discussions, it seems their main problem is being suddenly open to patent lawsuit.
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by quickben 9y ago
It's deeper than that. Say you are a company A, and have product P that uses react. You find out that company B infringed on a patent in your other product Q. You sue B. It turns out B is owned by FB. Your product P is in trouble.
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by quickben 9y ago
"undo send"?
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by quickben 9y ago
:) I'm in the same boat. Built a 1700x with 32gb for my home workstation. Feels lot faster than the 4670k it replaced. I suspect most of that is the ddr4 + another 4 cores + nvme , rather than IPC gains. I like the direction the CPUs m
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by quickben 9y ago
Take the vibration amplitude over time in all three directions. Take first and second derivative per axis. Send that to something mechanical to counter it.
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by quickben 9y ago
Arguing semantics is usually a waste of everybody's time.
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by quickben 9y ago
I have 32GB ram on my home machine because 16GB wasn't enough. I moved to 8 core CPU because 4 weren't enough. StarCraft analogy is far removed from real life user and business cases, all of which pay for the hardware with real mo
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by quickben 9y ago
Latest Intel CPUs got 1-3% faster, not 10%. In any case, that is irrelevant as 14nm and ipc are pretty much maxed out, and from this point on, this is it. Unless CPUs move away from silicone, this is as fast as it gets (save for adding core
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by quickben 9y ago
It's like trying to launch open Facebook or Google after these established the network effects. Although the university base is far smaller, so this will be interesting to observe.
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by quickben 9y ago
Of course, support.google.com opinion on this matter is entirely unbiased :P

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