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by snaky 8y ago
Apple has removed GPL-licensed apps from their store.
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by snaky 8y ago
We need more rants like this. It's pretty useful. They should be more detailed and structured though.
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by snaky 8y ago
That's only true for Fintech.
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by snaky 8y ago
It depends on very random factors and events, like with (almost) any other programming language. How could anybody rate a probability of some experimental language from Sun research lab - the tiny, fast, garbage-collected, object-oriented l
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by snaky 8y ago
It might be quite useful to look at BER MetaOCaml[1] at least. And maybe at some other ways to deal with some problems - like OCaml DSL instead of Haskell monad[2]. [1] http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/MetaOCaml.html [2]
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by snaky 8y ago
> Clearly interfaces are a crucial aspect of compositionality, and I suspect that interfaces are in fact synonymous with compositionality. That is, compositionality is not just the ability to compose objects, but the ability to work with
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by snaky 8y ago
Exactly. By the way, we used to have a very precise input method on mobile - the stylus. In the times of Windows Mobile (original Windows Mobile, not renamed Windows Phone) with resisitive screens. The information density of those 240x320 3
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by snaky 8y ago
The funny thing is modern material and structural design is going to be quite compute-intensive field, and we aren't talking about molecular modeling. This paper[1] would give you some very practical examples, and if you are interested
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by snaky 8y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, all that is inevitably coupled with monstrous pile of Javascript frameworks and dynamic loading and whatnot, and loads for 10 seconds on good days.
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by snaky 8y ago
Instead of just marking the extensions incompatible with particular versions.
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by snaky 8y ago
Searching among descriptions would be "unnecessarily complicated and I'm guessing very barely are actually used" I suppose. Oh if only there were some engine inside, like SQLite or something.
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by snaky 8y ago
> Writing another web browser isn't going to disrupt the market for web browsers It depends. You could say the same to Igor Sysoev when he started to write Nginx, for example. So, e.g. web browser with all the main Chrome or Firefox
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by snaky 8y ago
Do Google Docs have more features than WordStar?
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by snaky 8y ago
Is the Falcon actively developed recently? By the way, Bromite is available in F-Droid, is there any plans about Falcon for Android? > any of the chromium based browsers, which all seem to be "de-googled" Are there many of them
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by snaky 8y ago
> You can't create a UI that makes everyone happy either. That's why every software project having a user community has theme support.
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by snaky 8y ago
The relevant comment from Bugzilla thread > Nonetheless, I'd argue that it's a matter of PR among the subset of users most likely to champion Firefox. > When the reading list functionality just vanished on me one day and I r
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by snaky 8y ago
> suggesting it to others When majority of power users stop suggesting it to users around them, Firefox has no future anymore.
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by snaky 8y ago
I need to say at least one relatively good thing about Firefox - it has extensions on Android. I don't know for how long but still.
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by snaky 8y ago
> Most web app developers don't live in this world Really? Most Javascript developers live in the world of trillion-dollar startups serving billions of people? That's why they need Kubernetes, React, and 2000 nodejs modules to
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by snaky 8y ago
> a significant share I don't know what is 'a significant share' when we are talking about power users. Not to say a significant share of power users disabled telemetry completely so we can't say anything about thei
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by snaky 8y ago
Forcing users to default settings actually, they would happily remove about:config if they could.
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by snaky 8y ago
Creating XUL, really? You cannot create an restricted API for everything, the very point of extensions, plugins, addons is community is always bigger than your developers team, and much, much more diverse. The 'long tail' effect i
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by snaky 8y ago
https://github.com/nextcloud/bookmarks
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by snaky 8y ago
> That's how I expect Google to make decisions, not Mozilla Exactly. There is no point to compete with Google for "browser for Uncle Joe", Google won that battle. The power user browser niche is what Firefox could take ins
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by snaky 8y ago
"The Firefox X implementation is unnecessarily complicated and I'm guessing very few features are actually used" is exactly the same attitude from Firefox developers for any X since long ago.
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by snaky 8y ago
Bromite [1] is promising, especially if someone begin to build it for desktop platforms. [1] https://www.bromite.org/
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by snaky 8y ago
Would you then bring some light on how the such thing happens actually. That was really breakthrough product - the ultimate one, combined with Microsoft technologies like Tablet PC, and handwriting recognition - and now, after the 15 years
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by snaky 8y ago
I'm afraid the "Silicon Valley formative event" is the reason, so I'm afraid he wasn't such an outlier in horribleness - he just happened to be on the "wrong side of history".
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by snaky 8y ago
Debian or Arch aren't too, in fact. https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html So why the difference?
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by snaky 8y ago
> so they can RE it, write and use an open replacement Crypting and signing is trivial, so nobody is going to RE Intel ME or microcode updates.

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