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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Great to see Chrome working on this! However I'm not sure about the 2 days over 2 weeks requirement. It's kind of unintuitive. Ideally, the website would have an install page, lead the willing user to it, let them click an install
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
I tried and it reported one error under a second. I had to reboot because gcc started to make bash crash, it seems. Then I saw the README (duh!): Be careful not to run this test on machines that contain important data. On machines th
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Great to read more about startups from jl! Please keep posting, maybe you could split subjects across several posts next time and have more room for specific stories (if you can share them). What are the most common types of "startup s
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
A discussion started by an actual lawyer about the same license used for an other project is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901357 He doesn't agree with your interpretation. The license is very clear in t
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
And there's the slow release cycle. It was common during the previous decade because of the stagnation of standards, but now that standards release early and often, it really shows their unwillingness to keep up. When bugs ship with th
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Agreed, IndexedDB delayed the mobile web for 4-5 years. Mozilla should have just shipped SQLite early and focused of proper file APIs and threading so developers can use any database that can be written in javascript. It turns out that spec
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Re (1), doing full-page rendering on the server is not up to the current state of mobile apps. You can already partially update a page. Zero latency is on par as well on the mobile web, as a web app can load its code on the first render, st
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
For performance, I agree with many here, it's not the number one priority. The critical parts missing are: (1) a way to install web apps that hasn't to be learned, like Mozilla's Intall API, and unlike the bookmark to homescr
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
It's hard to judge without digging into this spaghetti mess of files. But having the word retarget in your code seems like straight up lying to me. Tracking is more ambiguous a word and I couldn't find where they define the userid
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
> Users are not tracked nor re-targeted Have a look at code delivered by Superfish: https://www.superfish.com/ws/sf_preloader.jsp https://www.superfish.com/ws/sf_code.jsp And grep for track and
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
I'll add I've witnessed bad mechanical design from Lenovo. A friend bought a $1000 laptop (U330 touch) from them and a piece of plastic holding a hinge broke. When I looked at it, it was clear that the part could have been 10 time
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
TL;DR: Every time there is a wave of genuine innovation, it attracts wannabes. Some of them are not good makers, but they have the skills to attract a lot of capital. Then there is too much money for too little economic activity and too gre
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Okay, it makes sense that you would have to register with every country to get an exemption. The only hope is that this causes so much work to tax offices that they add a procedure to get the exemption in every country. I'm not holding
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know much about all this either So a side effect seems that some companies which used to be exempted from collecting VAT will now kind of have to, thereby either raising prices or taking a cut of about 16.7% [1] in
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Actually, it seems some (not all) laptop CPUs from the i3 up to the i7 do support ECC, while the desktop versions don't. Search for ECC in the pages below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i3_microp
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
It's a relevant question. Regardless of what one thinks about copyright law, it is what it is and all players should abide it. IANAL, so I can't say :( However, I think there is a need for a more granular robots.txt such as:
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
The cheapest certs I've found are from https://www.gogetssl.com/domain-validation/comodo-positive-s... but the wildcards are still pretty expensive. I can't recommend them though as I haven't bought one
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
It says the encryption is done client-side so a salt would be public. edit: they may be salting with the username or email address.
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
I'm no expert but I see no harm here. In order to use symmetric encryption, you need a certain key size (e.g. 128-bit key for AES-128). How do you transform a password of, say, 15 characters to 128 bits? You guessed it, with a hash (we
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Very excited to see hash-source being implemented and enabled. This means you can load files from a CDN and have their integrity checked by the client so the CDN cannot trick the user. Hope to see this land in Chrome.
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
> Nodejs could have workers Agreed, but what I meant is that the API (running a file in a worker) is inconvenient, first because there is no closure. Go allows the go routine to read variables in scope and has a race detector to tell you
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
> We could achieve similar things in Node with generators, but in my opinion generators will only ever get us half way there I wish more people realized this. Generators seem to be billed (ironically by TJ amongst others with his Koa pro
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Is there any hope that startup performance will get on par with native Android apps? It takes a good 6 seconds to start a trivial Firefox web app on Android. I found a bug [1] mentioning that gecko has to be loaded in the web app's pro
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Yes that's about it. I disagree about the likelihood that messages or phone calls were exchanged prior to installing TextSecure. And restoring the SMS database after purchasing a new device is not impossible. But I agree that names and
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Thanks for replying. My bullet (2) was stupid. Hopefully bullet (1) makes sense. TL;DR: TextSecure faces a key distribution problem. But texts messages are somewhat secret and are often already stored in each of Alice and Bob's phones.
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
Yes my reading of the blog led me to believe they use the naive solution because it only lists solutions which don't work and concludes that TextSecure is too big to use these. Do you mean that TextSecure may send encrypted messages to
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by throwaway41597 12y ago
This is great! And I love TextSecure. But I wish it didn't send my contact list to its servers and store them in perpetuity [1]. Has it be considered to use: 1. text message history with a contact to derive a key between two contacts?
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by throwaway41597 13y ago
Thanks. Please add a change log so we can quickly know when features get added/rejected/shipped/... Also I found that sorting by status was broken (a block of IE10+ features in the middle of IE11+ ones).
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by throwaway41597 13y ago
I wish I could get a reference from the console command line to an object I printed in the console earlier. For example: in my code I write console.log({ foo: function(msg) {...} }). The object is displayed as "[object Object]" (w