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by rhelmer 11y ago
I am hoping that Rust will make in-roads into the BSD world, since it interoperates well with C and is much safer by default while not imposing overhead like a managed language+runtime would. It also has very liberal licensing (GCC being GP
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by rhelmer 11y ago
Well one argument is that teen brains are not done developing, and something that has a negligible effect on an adult might not be so for teenagers... even if there are no harmful long-term effects it might interfere with schoolwork or othe
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by rhelmer 11y ago
Websites should not be able to overwrite the clipboard unless the action is user-initiated, from the blog post: The execCommand("cut"/"copy") API is only available during a user-triggered callback, such as a click.
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by rhelmer 11y ago
What do you feel is rough around FFI? Safer, zero-cost bindings to C libraries - what's not to like? :)
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by rhelmer 11y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Multi-process and sandboxing are sorely needed, so is a way to make the surface area available to extensions more stable/safe/secure. Waiting for a whole-cloth Servo-based browser to be totally competiti
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by rhelmer 11y ago
Good points, and I'll respond to the "sunk cost" bit by adding that backwards compatibility is a double-edged sword. My favorite pet example of this is MS versus Apple - the former has historically cared deeply about being ba
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by rhelmer 11y ago
First, see https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/firefox-add-o... 1. these ideas are being announced far in advance of any actual changes 2. firefox devs (see link above) actively want to support cur
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by rhelmer 11y ago
Looks like there's an OSX client in https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad/tree/master/client/osx
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Firefox Add-on Changes(billmccloskey.wordpress.com)
14 points by rhelmer 11y ago|1 comments
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by rhelmer 11y ago
Thought experiments are fun, but I am coming to a different conclusion. I agree that it changes the risk analysis, but I don't think that it's necessarily for the worse. Performance doesn't necessarily improve under pressure,
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by rhelmer 11y ago
> It could be argued that the existence of an OTA mechanism incentivizes lower quality (RTM patches) Is there any evidence of this? I think of automatic updates more like a safety net, or a seat belt. Does the presence of those things ch
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by rhelmer 11y ago
I've used fpm to make rpm and deb packages that simply include a virtualenv, it works ok. One of the significant tradeoffs to this approach is you lose the carefully-crafted tree-of-dependencies that the distros favor, so it makes the
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by rhelmer 11y ago
Can you please cite where you read that proprietary blobs are used? IIRC the Pocket client is open-source, and so is the Hello client (it's basically a webapp that uses WebRTC)
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The Well Tempered API(air.mozilla.org)
3 points by rhelmer 11y ago|0 comments
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Reversible debugging might help more here than snapshots, since it allows you to record a failure and then debug it: http://rr-project.org/
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by rhelmer 12y ago
The site in question is not hosted by Mozilla, but embeds video hosted by vid.ly, which air.mozilla.com also uses. You certainly don't have to go out of your way on my account! If you'd like help with crashes or anything else, let
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by rhelmer 12y ago
I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097572 to track the issue you're seeing with the JS player - I think it's vid.ly not air.mozilla.org that's not working, but it's worth looking into.
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Profile manager UI is still around and used to be easier to get to (there's a command-line option for it now), but it was too easy to accidentally remove profiles and also confusing for people who got into it accidentally. Profilist is
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Certain organic pesticides, which generally take less time to break down in the environment than synthetic and so tend to need larger doses, are allowed on certified organic farms. Also there's a chance of things like E. coli from cont
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by rhelmer 12y ago
I wonder if there'd be less friction to porting a BSD - FreeBSD already uses clang to build the kernel+userland, for instance.
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Mozilla can't provide base images without licensing proprietary software (for the RIL primarily, although there may be others depending on the hardware). Also the focus for Mozilla right now is on providing new low-end hardware and opt
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Intex sells 15,000 Firefox Cloud FX smartphones in 3 days(financialexpress.com)
6 points by rhelmer 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Here is the Mozilla blog on the subject: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/08/25/first-firefox-os-sm... The phone is for sale on snapdeal.com but I am not sure that it's available outside of India
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Apps are built using web technologies like HTML5 and JS - this doesn't mean the phone is "always-connected", the review is incorrect on this point. Some apps are offline, some are only online, many are both. This is just like
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Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone(blogs.wsj.com)
271 points by rhelmer 12y ago|124 comments
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by rhelmer 12y ago
FirefoxOS has lower resource requirements than Android - for example this $25 device has only 128MB of RAM. FxOS (an it's app ecosystem) is still very young (1.3 just came out, and the first release came out at the end of 2012). I&#x
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by rhelmer 12y ago
I wouldn't call FirefoxOS a "thin client" (if that's what you meant) - it has a concept of "packaged apps" in which the app and all its assets are packaged and downloaded to the phone, and loaded from there. Th
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Self-healing cron job(+dependencies) runner(peterbe.com)
1 points by rhelmer 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhelmer 12y ago
Where do you see $70? The article talks about current phones that you can buy right now at that price - those are different from the new $25 phones (which will be sold in India in "the next few months" also according to the articl
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by rhelmer 13y ago
I think the most important factor is that Microsoft puts a ton of effort into backwards compatibility, to make sure that it is always easier/less risk to upgrade Windows (and Office) than to switch to something else. I know that in the

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