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by ungzd 9y ago
Mailchimp just exploited bad behavior of Gmail, which accepts mail only from large and reputable servers, so your own server, which had never sent spam, will be almost blacklisted by default. Or maybe it's a lie and Gmail happily accep
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by ungzd 9y ago
Looked at this "Explore feed" today. Only "viral videos", "funny animals" videos, listicles about casual topics. Recently I started to see the same content in Instagram Explore tab too. This is how their super-
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by ungzd 9y ago
"Humanistic" in sense "marketed for the masses" and "knows what you need and what you don't need". Old Google was more "technical" but more neutral.
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by ungzd 9y ago
iOS photos is something like ACDSee or Windows Explorer, not like Flickr. Maybe it syncs something, but it's primarily local photo viewer.
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by ungzd 9y ago
In order to do this I have to select photos for specific day and there's no way to do it. On my computer these old photos are in directories named with date, one directory per day, but in Google Photos this information is lost, they ar
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by ungzd 9y ago
> Central to Olivetti’s philosophy — and also to the designers that it hired — was that technology needed to be humanistic, not domineering Today's Google is very bad at this. Their every product is creepy, cold, dumbed-down and sur
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by ungzd 9y ago
> Chrome browser It's really Safari, but with Google services. Apple forbids other HTML rendering engines.
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by ungzd 9y ago
> But PCs are still around. > > I’m not happy about this. He is not happy that everyone not switched from real computers to media-consumption gadgets where programs are curated by central company? Where even content displayed in t
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by ungzd 9y ago
It should have XLR instead.
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by ungzd 9y ago
Looks like they returned some of NeXT's aesthetics.
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by ungzd 9y ago
What kinds of ads are required to have this warning and what kind of edits are counted as edits? Does debayering, remapping brightness or denoising count as "digitally altering"? Then all ads will have such warnings.
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by ungzd 9y ago
Google is cracking down on links in their search results too, using AMP.
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by ungzd 9y ago
They forgot to turn off this service.
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by ungzd 9y ago
It's very frustrating every time I'm trying to read some webpage via Pocket app and it has formulas rendered with Mathjax (which is very popular because MathML is failed and pre-rendering formulas as images requires complicated to
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by ungzd 9y ago
There are opinions that it did its main purpose of decoding mp3 not very well: - http://mp3decoders.mp3-tech.org/decoders_winamp2_62.html - https://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plu
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by ungzd 9y ago
But the idea of React is to have central application-level global mutable state, instead of jQuery's lots of fragments of local state attached to DOM nodes ($(...).data) or kept in callback closures, CPS-style. IMHO, article does not e
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by ungzd 9y ago
But if you are using ideas from their software, you are infringing patents too.
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by ungzd 9y ago
I don't know what are use cases for that. Nowadays, if you are coding in assembly, you are probably doing some kernel things, embedding asm in C/C++ (for SIMD or something like that and not because compilers generate bad code), em
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by ungzd 9y ago
Yes, it does not look like website of another Node.js framework or adtech startup. Another culture of software has another website aesthetics. And yet it looks better than average "modern" website. Fonts are of adequate size, cont
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by ungzd 9y ago
BTW, this googlesource.com is probably the fastest Google website and much faster than typical website. 7.5 KB of html, 5.2 KB of CSS, tiny images and even 8.7 KB font. And no javascripts at all!
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by ungzd 9y ago
If these mysterious patents are about things like "virtual DOM", comparing trees of state or something derived from FRP, then using Vue, Preact, Angular 2, Cycle, Riot, Elm, reflex-dom is not more patent-safe. Moreover, they can s
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by ungzd 9y ago
Also I still don't understand what features does it have. Is it just clone of del.icio.us, but with screenshots and some extracted text? Or it allows to build collection of items based on data extracted from websites? I don't see
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by ungzd 9y ago
- Login form in chrome extension disappears when switching windows (i.e. for copying login and password from mail). And it loses data when disappearing. - When posting lots of links it says something like "Only 250 links is allowed&quo
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by ungzd 9y ago
BTW, there are experiments of implementing MOBA in Age of Empries 2: - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=13857... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3GhThEj1A
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by ungzd 9y ago
Often porting cost is much less than profit from this market. This is quite geeky game intended primarily for fans of old AoE, lots of such fans are using Linux and Mac Os now.
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Can't find information how much feature-complete it is.
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Extensibility. Official server still doesn't have plugin API and it is closed-source so it can't be modified. Almost everyone uses spigot/bukkit/sponge because vanilla server lacks many features, but these are dirty hack
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by ungzd 9y ago
> 1. Uncertain Roadmap Qt is still widely used despite lots of insane company merges (Trolltech -> Nokia -> Microsoft -> Digia -> Qt company). Probably because it's opensource. > 2. Patents If Facebook has patent for
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by ungzd 9y ago
That's unexpectedly. Meson is not so popular build system (and appeared not so long ago), but looks interesting. Autotools is pure horror, Cmake uses almost the same approach as Autotools, Blaze derivatives Bazel and Buck are only suit
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by ungzd 9y ago
Tried to make it output with chunked-encoding: - In Chrome it shows nothing (looks like it waits for end of stream) - In Safari it shows only the first frame - In Firefox it works (shows animated clock) Branch with chunked encoding: https:

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