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   by roryisok 9y ago

   One difference (Don't know if its a benefit) is that it uses a common runtime. Two qbrt apps would use the same installed version of Firefox Nightly, so app download sizes would be smaller. If you read these electron threads this is
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   Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime(mykzilla.org)

   165 points by roryisok 9y ago|92 comments
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I would second this. I visit stack overflow multiple times a day always from a search result.
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I wrote one a simple php script to pull in some rss feeds and present. It also loads a link by get request and strips out ads and other unwanted junk. Nothing special, but it does the job
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Sublime is definitely the king of start times. Vscode feels like more like a full IDE though
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I got downvoted for saying this last time but I think that was only on mac
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   My first instinct is to say I recycle, I buy my electricity from green providers, I reuse, buy second hand, work from home, eat veggie regularly etc. I do all of these things, but they are grossly outweighed by me simply existing. No matter
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   ok, maybe "so many" is a little bit of an exaggeration. WeWorkRemotely.com lists 72 programming jobs at the moment, and 16 of those mention ruby and/or rails. That's about 20% of the jobs.
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   oops. just came up as an image on mobile
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Vue.js I think. Hard to say, I flitter between projects and there are lots of things I want to teach myself
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Is that a typo for next or a new thing
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    There are so many jobs out there in rails / ruby. I really want to learn it, but the tutorials I've seen teach you how to generate a blog engine. I want some real world examples and tutorials, where's the best place to start?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    The image says 27 requests, not 2000. The tweet has no further info. Where is this 2000+ number coming from?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    > It would be especially helpful to hear from people who decided to remain childless. Looking down the thread it seems that mostly people with kids have answered. Not surprising. Here's one more... > Child birth is probably the m
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    have to agree. unusable for me on mobile. the dropdowns keep closing themselves. I tried to click on tags but they can't be clicked on, it loads the whole item instead. seems kind of pointless to have tags you can't click on edit:
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Cool but it seems to be very Linux focused
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    portableapps.com seems to be a good starting point, as does ninite.com, but these aren't exactly what I'm looking for
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    Ask HN: Is there a modern equivalent of tinyapps.org?

    25 points by roryisok 9y ago|6 comments
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Very interesting, thanks. Apparently its been discontinued and replaced by qbrt https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/15/introducing-qbrt/
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I've heard this but I've not yet seen these UI ads people keep talking about. Are they in pro?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I'm not a user, but I assume ads exist in some IOS apps?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't Mozilla been rewriting parts of Firefox in Rust lately?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I remember eagerly testing out the beta of safari for windows. It couldn't render bold text. Like it was literally invisible
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Not to mention the only browser outside of Microsoft's that's not a fork of chromium. None of the other browsers out there can ever hope to be faster than chrome when they are just chrome with different paint job That's not t
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I wonder, if there was a fork of electron using Firefox instead of chromium, what would the ram usage be like? Mozilla really paved the way for electron with prism, shame it never really took off
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I'm the same. In Vivaldi you can hibernate background tabs to free up memory. Then they get reloaded when focused
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Some extension that vertically groups tabs from the same domain would be great. I know in Vivaldi you can do this
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    It's both. Having ads on some apps doesn't make it not an OS anymore. I won't deny it's an advertising platform, just like android or ios or television or radio or the internet. And while it's equally annoying on al
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    > Even Microsoft products such as Teams and Azure Storage Explorer use Electron, not native Windows APIs. You forgot the big one, Visual Studio Code - a runaway success, and an electron app. The reason they don't build these as UWP
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    They did that. TheVerge reported them paying up to $100,000 to companies to port their apps to the store. https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4433082/microsoft-paying-... That was back in 2013. Foursquare