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by rictic 12y ago
You're making your argument out of innuendo and rhetorical flourish, which can be used to argue for almost any position. You will have more luck here speaking directly and to the facts, for example: "This year Bill Gates did X whi
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by rictic 12y ago
Yeah, the first paragraph summarized the entire article, which is incredibly respectful of the reader's time. Presumably many sites intentionally leave this out in order to maximize revenue and "engagement."
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by rictic 12y ago
Setting aside catastrophic losses˚ there seem to be roughly two strategies. You can take out insurance on your non-catastrophic items, or you could take the money that you would pay into insurance and instead save / invest it. We shoul
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by rictic 12y ago
Do you expect the insurance company to lose money on your account? Do you expect to beat out the professionals at their game?
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by rictic 12y ago
There's an emerging standard for specifying a hash for a resource, and potentially loading it from one of several locations, so long as it matches the given hash: http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
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by rictic 12y ago
The link to reference material was nice but what I'm hoping to draw attention to is about about tone. Your tone is scornful, judgmental, and aloof. If we worked together and I had a question on a subject of your expertise I might think
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by rictic 12y ago
"it baffles me people don't get pointers nowadays" If you continue to be baffled in the face of consistent evidence then the problem is probably in you rather than in reality (or you're not actually baffled, but instead
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by rictic 12y ago
My (biased ) view on the matter is that this instance is a useful standards are pushed forwards. rel='prefetch' is well trod (some support existed in Firefox <3.5) and part of the HTML5 standard. The browser appears to be given
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by rictic 12y ago
The parent and great-grandparent haven't proposed seizing private property, they're just noticing and drawing attention to waste. The observation is that if we could align incentives such that Bing, Google, OSM, Apple, etc were al
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by rictic 12y ago
I read the parent's post not as reasoning or arguing for a specific policy, but simply observing one of the flaws of capitalism. Capitalism is doing much better than the other existing systems at solving the massive coordination proble
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by rictic 12y ago
Because (the OS|the shell|the server|the point of sale system) is a place known for rock-solid security...
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by rictic 12y ago
I don't see service workers here: http://cdn.polyfill.io/v1/docs/features/ or here https://github.com/Financial-Times/polyfill-service/tree/mas... Emulating service worker
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by rictic 12y ago
Having worked with web components over the past few months, yes this. I can mix and match polymer, x-* elements, brick components etc with ease. I don't have to care how a given component is written or what its dependencies are. It&#x2
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by rictic 12y ago
The advantage of lexical scope over dynamic scope is predictability. You can reliably* read a javascript program and map each variable access to the scope of that variable (so can a compiler, which accounts for no small portion of the speed
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by rictic 12y ago
"A new $scope object from a parent $scope can be treated the same as the new scope inside of a function block because it's how prototypical inheritance works." This seems rather confused. There's lexical scoping with fun
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by rictic 12y ago
The DRM use case of TPM is mostly security theater, as after all that decoding work you still need to send the bits over an interface to speakers / a display, and even if that interface is secured there's no way to determine that
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by rictic 12y ago
Yes.
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by rictic 12y ago
I came in this thread to say that Microsoft are implementing WebRTC, but when I double checked it looks like it's more complicated than that. There's an API that they want, and may have gotten into the spec called the Object RTC A
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by rictic 12y ago
Generators will be on by default (not behind a flag) in Chrome 39, which will be released to stable in the next couple of weeks I believe. https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4959347197083648
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by rictic 12y ago
Yes. The spec includes the option of providing fallback URLs to fetch from, and gives the browser fairly broad freedom (as I read it) to fulfill the request so long as the response data matches the given hash. How this connects up with the
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by rictic 12y ago
http://ipfs.io lets you to reference content in one of two ways. Either an immutable hash of the content or a reference to the public key that's allowed to publish / update an immutable hash of the content. Seems like
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by rictic 12y ago
Emerging standard in that area, subresource integrity: http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/ It's initially just doing the simplest possible thing (making the resource unavailable un
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by rictic 12y ago
Related reading: ipfs, an optionally-authenticated hash-based global filesystem: http://ipfs.io subresource integrity: an emerging web standard whereby you can specify a resource by its hash: http://w3c.github.io&#x2F
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by rictic 12y ago
This seems cool, but I'm a bit confused (background: I've been working with web components and polymer for the past couple of months, but have only read a couple articles on React, apologies if this is a dumb question). This says
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by rictic 12y ago
A bit of an assumption yes, here's my reasoning though. Traceur and Typescript (and perhaps Flow and AtScript) are similar efforts made by different players that require transpilation and are potential visions for a direction javascrip
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by rictic 12y ago
With a little work you can make a single page app that keeps the state preserved in the URL. The reason you try to remove all blocking on network communication is the obvious one: performance.
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by rictic 12y ago
I don't think it's fair to characterize Traceur or TypeScript as plays to put Javascript under their author's control. Both have been useful for developing ES6, which Firefox has also been a leading implementer of. From my pe
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by rictic 12y ago
What do they use then?
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by rictic 12y ago
Huh, that's odd. I just registered a second google account with the same security key and everything seems to have gone fine. I'd recommend filing a bug and/or posting more details here.
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by rictic 12y ago
Unlike usb drives though you don't need to leave this plugged in for more than a couple seconds, which greatly limits the danger of damaging your usb port.

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