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by untog 7y ago
Chrome is also deprecating FTP so I don’t think that’ll happen. Plus Mozilla isn’t an organisation the size of Google. They have to prioritise what they’re going to support and it makes total sense to ditch FTP support. I’m a professional w
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by untog 7y ago
No, it works on Chrome on Android too, so that’s the vast majority of mobile uses covered.
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by untog 7y ago
Kudos for owning up to it! We all do it from time to time.
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by untog 7y ago
> Is this a thing that happens often? Used to, your phone number was in a publicly available book. When you could only call that number. Messaging is pretty different. And sure it happens! Phone numbers are (nearly) immutable. It's
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by untog 7y ago
> Almost better, as it is so limited. Except that with web push the block button is two taps away. Once I’ve given away my phone number that’s it, it can be sent to anyone, I can receive messages from anywhere.
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by untog 7y ago
I would strongly advocate for browsers to strengthen the UI prompt for notifications so pages can’t do it on load. In fact, Google is doing exactly that with Chrome and I think Firefox already has. So, no, v1 wasn’t great. But we can improv
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by untog 7y ago
> Try to realistically justify any of those use cases listed and you’ll realize what a shill you sound like. Wat? What part of the examples I gave are not realistic? I guess I live a fantasy life! Good to know. Are you arguing that there
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by untog 7y ago
Have you actually read anything about either of those APIs or are you just reacting to the names? The Contacts API does not allow unrestricted access to your Contacts. It presents a picker for you to choose a contact. The SMS Receiver A
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by untog 7y ago
Then you're out of step with what users want these days. Nothing wrong with that! But to take an example, when I hit a share button on a page I want to see the native share box, not some hideous iframed monstrosity that only works with
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by untog 7y ago
I’d say your use case isn’t really all that applicable to how React is normally used. Zero interactive elements and doesn’t require JS... that really isn’t typical for a React deployment. > I really disagree with the narrative that anyth
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by untog 7y ago
Serious question: why are you using React for a blog? What interactive elements are there on the page that require it? EDIT: Saw the link in your profile. I see lower numbers than you, though not by much. But I also see 2.6 seconds time to
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by untog 7y ago
> Couldn't see the value there. When you're choosing a JS framework you need to factor in the experience the user has along with the experience you have. I don't know much about Vue but React comes with a huge amount of bu
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by untog 7y ago
React won’t work well on 2G cell phones with slow CPUs. It’s a giant library both to download and parse and most of it is entirely unnecessary.
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by untog 7y ago
To be blunt, this is an extremely common thing in web development and it makes me very sad. But whenever I raise it I’m rebuffed with the vague argument that “developer productivity = more features = better user experience”. Which sounds gr
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by untog 7y ago
> It's kind of just noise at this point. Save it for the post-mortem and the history books. It's not terribly useful right now. If we were serving in the White House right now I'd agree with you. But we're just people
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by untog 7y ago
He also literally said "The coronavirus panic is dumb": https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528
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by untog 7y ago
I think you can take this analogy too far. If I were to do so, I'd say that the OP is suggesting that Pearl Harbor was attacked, the President said it was no big deal, just one Japanese plane, and the country collectively twiddled thei
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by untog 7y ago
Provided they go right. If the entire team is adapting to a new way of working it makes sense to hold off on new releases while you make sure you've got everything working right.
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by untog 7y ago
Most of those are true within states as well, though. Most contain both cities and rural areas. So why is it better to separate one state’s rural areas from anothers?
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by untog 7y ago
> Because the nature of response varies so much in between different locations and local expertise is often best poised to deal with local problems. Is that really true here? I can certainly see an urban vs rural divide, but beyond that
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by untog 7y ago
I look at it the other way. Why does it all have to be done at a state level? Because that's how things have always been? Meh. There are very clear efficiencies to be gained by coordinating response to events like this at a national
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by untog 7y ago
I don't think we need to apply absolutes here. It can be true both that it would be very difficult for airlines to keep cash reserves to cope with an event of this scale and that keeping essentially zero cash reserves (in fact, Ameri
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by untog 7y ago
> Devs wanted Flash and real-player plugins pack in the day too. They wanted ActiveX plugins too. No-one else wanted them The idea that users didn’t want Flash is laughable. It was enormously popular and enabled all kinds of multimedia p
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by untog 7y ago
Your comment doesn’t seem to be related to the text you’ve quoted. “It’s difficult to implement” is not related to “it is owned by Google”.
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by untog 7y ago
Yeah, screw usable UIs! Bring back marquee tags!
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by untog 7y ago
> All that applies to operating systems and has been like that for decades. Windows has had "great security sandboxing" for "decades"? Are you sure about that?
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by untog 7y ago
> By some strange coincidence maintaining a working web browser became a task that only Google can do "properly". Microsoft gave up. Firefox is struggling. In what way is Firefox struggling? And you didn't mention Apple, w
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by untog 7y ago
The combination of “I want” with “lower risk” (rather than “no risk”) speaks to a lot of the problems we are facing right now.
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by untog 7y ago
> I'd suggest they put a couple of picnic tables out in the parking lot for take-out. Why, though? The whole point is to stop people gathering in public places. > Curious about other commercial operations that could satisfy the r
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by untog 7y ago
> I'm not sure "willy-waving" translates into American well. The translation you are looking for is "dick swinging" :)

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