stuartd

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   by stuartd 6y ago

   You’re seemingly pushing you own agenda here? As the article itself says: > Are other approaches feasible? For example, Firefox’s captive portal test uses delegated namespace probe queries, directing them away from the root servers towar
2. 152.▲
   by stuartd 6y ago

   If someone finds an answer which helps them and so upvotes it, why should the reward depend on the age of the question?
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   by stuartd 6y ago

   Please excuse my lame pun: > foc-u-lus
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   by stuartd 6y ago

   > Things that we do not worry about anymore: Javascript, controllers, CORS, JSON, HTTP status codes, API documentation, 3rd party dependencies. That's a good looking list of things not to worry about. Especially CORS, the bane of my
5. 155.▲
   by stuartd 6y ago

   I know it’s a feature, but even sites which allow you to set a timezone (eg Slack) still displayed times incorrectly. It was a tradeoff I was not prepared to make.
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   by stuartd 6y ago

   I used privacy.resistFingerprinting until I realized that was the reason websites were displaying times incorrectly, as they receive the default timezone value of UTC - [0] - and I couldn't find a way around it. [0] https://
7. 157.▲
   by stuartd 6y ago

   > you have to be able to hold very large completely abstract systems in your brain. That's a different skill/aptitude than, for example, holding all the working parts of an internal combustion engine in your mind. Is it really
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   by stuartd 6y ago

   > I can usually come up with working code to do whatever I've ever wanted to do Been working as a programmer for 25 years, and I’ve never read (or considered reading, or felt the need to read) a book on data structures or algorithms
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   by stuartd 6y ago

   If anyone's interested, Raymond Chen did a series of posts on the idiosyncranies of the Itanium processor, starting here: [0] [0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150727-00/?p=90...
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    Mac OS has never said to me "hey, you're using Firefox, are you sure you wouldn't like to use Safari instead"? And I hope and trust it never will.
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23651672
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    > Is your code less functional and more imperative style due to Rust? I would imagine so. Rust doesn't support tail call optimization, and variables are immutable only by default.
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    [flippant] Even Christ stumbled
14. 164.▲
    by stuartd 6y ago

    Don’t know where you got ‘riots all over the world’ from, Mr Throwaway? And you seem to be saying that ‘prior convictions’ excuse this appalling act? Again - for shame.
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    I personally dislike all Serif fonts, but TNR most of all. Too much Windows, probably (I also loathe Arial)
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    8,000 miles away, give or take, and not Europe. And you don’t know why? For shame. https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1267327498339127298?...
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    This was the first song that came to mind when I read the article :)
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    I’m an opt-in donor, always have been. And I think this change is good, albeit poorly communicated. Some ammunition for those who disagree - organlegging! http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=337
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    .. and (as Michael explains on the book) it’s literal meaning in Martian is “drink”, or in other words “to make part of yourself”. It used to really annoy me when people used it to mean “understand”, but I’ve got over that now.
20. 170.▲
    by stuartd 6y ago

    Landfill costs (understandably) vary between countries. Got a lot of empty space? Cheap. Crowded? Not cheap at all.
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Not sure why this tagged ‘Assange Trial’ as that only gets a tangential mention. The author is writing that he has been excluded from the Alex Salmond trial.
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    The best argument I heard against this was - if you ban them, you just drive them underground. Where there can (by definition) be no regulation.
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Agreed. I have no idea what the author is referring to here. Every version of FF seems to have better tracking prevention, though Mozilla do advertise the services they provide. Which I don’t find unreasonable - as those services are otherw
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    UK reader here. “Continue reading this article Register with an email address”..
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Loved those interviews. Thank you.
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Oh, this takes me back a long time. I kept a game of Progress Quest open for far longer than I should have.
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Don’t forget to chip in a few bucks to the author (if you can afford it) though
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    The ultimate irony of DNT was that trackers could use the header as browser fingerprinting data..
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Originally of course there was only one mouse button, and you would ctrl-click for the context menu
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    by stuartd 7y ago

    Google Reader?