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by signal11 8y ago
A lot more "lay users" will care when random sites they visit start picking up their Google identity and showing it in the web page , all because the user signed into the browser. This is what it looks like: https://im
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by signal11 8y ago
@__apf__ is being slightly disingenuous when she says "Not much ... like a Gmail login state indicator." Google logins are used across the web by a lot of sites. For instance here's what happens when you visit an Indian f
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by signal11 8y ago
But that’s why you need a “safe start mode” where you can start the app with a clean slate. Several Microsoft Office apps do this now. Given iOS’s repeated “crash loop” issues you’d think they’d have learnt by now.
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by signal11 8y ago
I just checked the App Store, it appears to have breached the 500MB barrier now: https://imgur.com/a/9LOrq1K
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by signal11 8y ago
I love iPhones, but if Google were to price the Pixel 3 at $650, a lot of people would pause and at least think about going Android. The Pixel 2 had a better camera than the X, so it’s likely that Pixel 3 would compare favourably to the XR.
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by signal11 8y ago
Aadhar is nothing like SSN. I wish it was. SSN doesn’t require biometrics — Aadhar takes fingerprints and iris scans. School kids don’t need SSNs to sit for their school boards. You can sit for university exams without SSNs. You can shop at
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by signal11 8y ago
Re “exeunt”— yes, sorry, I was quoting from memory and misremembered. The point about not being “high literature” was that the plays had a very broad audience. Shakespeare’s company were asked to perform in front of royals as well, but the
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by signal11 8y ago
As an aside, “Exeunt, followed by a bear” from The Winter’s Tale was probably one of the greatest stage directions in English literature. One point worth mentioning is that Shakespeare was not particularly high literature for his time: thes
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by signal11 8y ago
Just curious: what did you think of Doom 3, if you’ve played that? As I remember it, Doom 3 was far more influenced by horror as a genre than Doom (2016) was.
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by signal11 8y ago
I like Lucida Console, but I usually use Lucida Sans Typewriter[1] as my editor font. It's a bit taller and skinnier than Lucida Console, and works well with a line-height of about 1.2. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en
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by signal11 8y ago
With tools like Github Pages, netlify, etc, and static site generators like Jekyll, Hugo and nanoc, I’d argue - yes it’s possible. Wordpress itself attracts criticism but for a large class of users it does work. Ironically imo Medium, with
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by signal11 8y ago
Spring's WebFlux is the closest analogue I could find to Vert.x web ( https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-... ). However WebFlux is quite new and looks like it's targeted to ex
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by signal11 8y ago
As others have noted, it’s more of a fox wrapped around a globe — the icon made at a time when the competition (IE) had a circular icon which was an “e” with a ring around it. I did think it harked back well to the old Gecko icon: https:&#
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by signal11 8y ago
It's been a while but IIRC Groovy (a JVM language) overloaded "+" etc to let you operate on BigDecimals using standard operators. Obviously Groovy is very obscure compared to Java, but Java has had Project Coin and its succes
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by signal11 8y ago
> I gather the Indians still claim that some parts of British royal jewelry were stolen from them and should be returned with an apology. Bit offtopic, but this is complicated. A lot of the jewellery were taken from present-day Pakistan
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by signal11 8y ago
Very good point. Eventually the routine stuff gets automated. For instance [1] is an attempt previously covered on HN to generate code from an interface mockup/screenshot. Obviously this'll take years of work to perfect, but becau
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by signal11 8y ago
Also if you require good keybindings in the sample application, there's always viper :)
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by signal11 8y ago
IIRC QBasic, which came bundled with MSDOS, didn’t have a compiler. QuickBasic, a stand-alone product, did have the compiler.
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by signal11 8y ago
The Amazon store app doesn't sell anything which might compete with iBooks or the iTunes store, i.e. - no digital books, music or movies. In my other comment on this thread I've pointed out how this creates hilariously bad UX for
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by signal11 8y ago
If anyone at Apple is reading this, this creates ridiculously bad UX for iOS users. Search for a book on Google. Click on an Amazon Kindle Search result. The Amazon iOS App launches and tries to find the book, realizes it's a Kindle re
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by signal11 8y ago
Oh that's interesting, I've lived in two FTTH properties in the UK, the ISP installed a battery backup in both properties just for the phone line as otherwise the landline would die if the power went out and apparently that violat
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by signal11 8y ago
There's a small number areas (but growing) of the UK with Fiber to the Home. Mostly Virgin (cable), but also new-build properties and areas serviced by niche providers like Hyperoptic, Gigaclear and Cityfibre. Actually, even BT sell Fi
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by signal11 8y ago
If your cabinet isn't provisioned for FTTC, make some noise with the council. If possible, get some residents together and write polite but firm letters to your local councillors, MPs, and BT executives. Follow up with further letters.
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by signal11 8y ago
11 Mbps down starts out as "fine" for the average home user, but remember needs change. What if that home user gets a Ultra HD TV and starts streaming Netflix in 4K (needs a steady 25 Mbps)? What if they have kids, who can be more
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by signal11 8y ago
> Firms like CityFibre just want to cream off the most profitable areas of the country and kill off cross-subsidising the rest. That has not been my experience. I live in an urban area where BT has a monopoly (no Virgin). They were not
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by signal11 8y ago
Gigaclear is deploying fiber to rural communities, for example: https://www.gigaclear.com/fibre-optic-gigaclear-network-for-... CityFibre is deploying fiber to a bunch of cities like Milton Keynes and Peterborough. I do agr
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by signal11 8y ago
One way councils can force the issue is to deny planning permission unless builders can show they've engaged a telecoms company (doesn't have to be BT, could be Virgin or Gigaclear or Cityfibre). After all, we don't accept ho
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by signal11 8y ago
This is true, but there are a number of data errors in BT's own inventory, so you will need to take this with a pinch of salt. For instance, according to this (and therefore in BT's internal systems as well) I am eligible for G.Fa
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by signal11 8y ago
There are specialist ISPs like Gigaclear who have connected up villages in Oxfordshire, for example[1,2]. I believe the model is you get a bunch of families to commit to the service and they deliver fiber to your community, if it's wit
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by signal11 8y ago
> everyone sells DSL as "fibre" ... This also makes it much harder for companies that sell real fibre. Great point. FTTC is sold as a "fibre" product when it's not, really. But customers are wising up. Those tha

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