soapdog

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by soapdog 11y ago
means a group check the source and documents. Another group never sees the code, only the documentation, and proceed to implement whatever they need being able to say that they have not used the original code. This is common in reverse engi
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by soapdog 11y ago
As someone who is not aware of what is all the problem about and couldn't really understand from the linked text, can someone provide me with some more context please. What is the difficulty that is affecting lambdaconf? What happened
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by soapdog 11y ago
I thought this was about the brussels attack...
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by soapdog 11y ago
JS on Firefox OS can talk to non-web enabled world. You have APIs to do TCP, Bluetooth and USB. Also APIs to do GPIO and I2C from JS are being developed. You can talk to more things than just http servers.
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by soapdog 11y ago
The main difference is that gecko with the web apis to access hardware features provide a very nimble layer that makes quite easy to develop apps with JS that previously could only be developer with Java or Obj-C/Swift. Its like phoneg
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by soapdog 11y ago
there are some misconceptions there. First, the project is not killed. Second, Firefox OS is not laggy, phones with 128mb of RAM and a single ARM core are laggy. You are correct about the selling points though. Thats something that we did w
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by soapdog 11y ago
It worked even if their email provider didn't supported it because in such cases there was a fallback Mozilla IdP. You can try it right now on MDN or MozillaWiki.
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by soapdog 11y ago
The main problem with Persona was not the tech, Persona is great and works well. The problem is that building federated identity services is hard. Persona is not a centralized login system such as "login with Facebook". With Perso
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by soapdog 11y ago
Just to be clear, Persona works on IE, Safari and Chrome as well. It is not tied to Firefox. You can login to MDN for example using Persona on Chrome if you'd like to.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Politics is a part of human behavior. Software decisions are also political. For example, the new Firefox privacy mode 2.0 which besides not saving any information also prevents sites from tracking you by blocking tracking pixels and other
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by soapdog 11y ago
There is also the "reader view" of Firefox. This is present on all Firefox browsers so it works on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and Android. More info at: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-v
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by soapdog 11y ago
At Mozilla we are running a program to teach Web Literacy and new digital skills called "Mozilla Clubs" [1] it is based on hands-on activities that are participatory in nature. Basically a group of people that meets regularly to l
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by soapdog 11y ago
but they are not downloading the JS from the net right? You can interpret python, JS, whatever as long as all the source for these scripts is present in the bundle at build time...
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by soapdog 11y ago
thats why the process changed and now extensions need to be signed and reviewed. Firefox stable will not install add-ons from outside the Mozilla add-ons site by default
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by soapdog 11y ago
This is the OP, sorry if my tone offended you. The review board process there is not to the satisfaction of some people. For example, if you create an application and another people want your application but the review board for any reason
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by soapdog 11y ago
Apple doesn't allow the rendering engine to be ported. For people who use Firefox on the desktop, being able to have their bookmarks, logins and tabs sync'd is a big deal.
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by soapdog 11y ago
You can have more info about that at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Andr... but be aware that Mozilla is moving its extension development system to WebExtensions which are different than t
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by soapdog 11y ago
Apple doesn't allow an app to "download code that alters the application inner workings" so extensions are a not possible. This can be seen on the following shot: http://i.imgur.com/faxbdBK.png from the iOS R
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by soapdog 11y ago
That really depends on the work. There is a lot of APIs in the browser these days that people are not using. For example, there are people adding jQuery to a project just to have the selectors when querySelector and querySelectorAll have be
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by soapdog 11y ago
You can add your blocking JS code to a WebWorker which will execute on a background task. This makes your UI responsive and keeps your number crunching from your users perception. You can learn more about workers at https://devel
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by soapdog 11y ago
CAR means Content of Address part of Register and CDR means Content of Decrement part of Register. They were tied to the 36-bits nature of the first LISP machines, with 15 bits to CAR and 15 bits to CDR (plus 2 bits for tags IIRC). So its n
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by soapdog 11y ago
Is that a valid reason? I know that personal taste plays a strong and important role but typescript is really cool.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Really??? Oh my, I thought that was dead... remember using it long long long ago
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by soapdog 11y ago
I use a surface and I have an ethernet to USB adapter, works pretty well.
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by soapdog 11y ago
probably because websql was not accepted as a w3c standard. Browser vendors should not add tech that works only on their browser and are not on the path to standardization.
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by soapdog 11y ago
the newton books were awesome. the UI guidelines one is also great.
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by soapdog 11y ago
there is an emulator called Einstein. It supports mac os x and android among others. you still need a ROM to run it. The newton platform is amazing and the community is great. check out newtontalk.net mailing list and the UNNA (united newto
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by soapdog 11y ago
Reading mode is one of my favorite things about firefox. Specially on mobile. I think its a great feature.
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by soapdog 11y ago
thanks a lot! Downloaded many images for interesting things from there. :-) this will be my hobby for the next weeks.
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by soapdog 11y ago
thanks a lot!

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