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by vatueil 8y ago
As others have mentioned and I believe you were referring to, Firefox does let you create bookmarks with keywords to accomplish the same thing. Funnily enough, I've often seen Firefox users unaware that they can do the same with custom
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by vatueil 8y ago
> If Google annoys enough people, people can take Webkit and do whatever they want. Not sure if that should have been Blink, or if you're making a subtle point about how Blink was forked from WebKit (which was in turn forked from
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by vatueil 8y ago
> you can generate steam keys and then sell those keys off platform (and take 100% of the revenue) Which is significant, and missing from most of the discussions about Steam's revenue share. Game creators can generate as many keys
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by vatueil 8y ago
Title shortened due to character limit. Original title from Android Police article: > "Hangouts executive rebuts rumors of shut down, users will be transitioned to Hangouts Chat and Meet" Scott Johnson is "director of pr
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Scott Johnson: No Hangouts Shutdown Date; Transition to Hangouts Chat and Meet(androidpolice.com)
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Judge slams bikini-app maker’s lawyers in legal clash with Facebook(arstechnica.com)
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Samsung's folding screen tech has been stolen and sold to China(amp.cnn.com)
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Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection(arstechnica.com)
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by vatueil 8y ago
Any outcome would be tainted by the nakedly partisan motives. It would send a clear message to companies that they must bend to the administration's ideology. Anyone who opposes the administration would be short-sighted to allow themse
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by vatueil 8y ago
It's true that iOS has a smaller share of the market globally, including many parts of Europe, but this overshadows the fact that iOS is almost on par with Android in the United States (44.3% to Android's 54.5% as of May 2018), pr
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by vatueil 8y ago
Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513249
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by vatueil 8y ago
I think keyle is suggesting PR campaigns like the one Facebook reportedly ran may publish slanted articles as "opinion" pieces, not that this news story is an opinion piece.
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by vatueil 8y ago
I do not think that is an accurate description of how most YouTube employees feel. It is certainly not an accurate description of mine. You have cause-and-effect completely backwards: it is not because I "hate Trump" that I condem
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by vatueil 8y ago
> censoring people for espousing views expressed by the elected president of the United States To the extent that's true, that says a lot more about how far the office of President has fallen than anything else. In a sane world, t
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by vatueil 8y ago
Doesn't hurt to have the option, I guess. If a place doesn't need reviews then it probably doesn't care about bad reviews, and sometimes the reviews are useful nevertheless or at least funny. See: https://m.xkcd.co
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by vatueil 8y ago
Isn't Yelp one of the main forces behind the slew of complaints against Google? That must tie Google's hands to some extent.
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by vatueil 8y ago
There's also https://i.reddit.com for mobile.
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by vatueil 8y ago
The original AMP link, for those looking for it: https://amp.tomshardware.com/news/amd-new-horizon-7nm-cpu,38...
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by vatueil 8y ago
It works well for some of the comparisons, but for others I would really prefer static shots so I can take my time examining each. Especially the GIFs that compare more than two sources, such as the ones that include Here and Bing as well a
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by vatueil 8y ago
La Palma's air quality is also not as good as Mauna Kea's (more dust blowing over from the Sahara), if I recall correctly. It may be the second best site in the northern hemisphere, but it's significantly behind the top choic
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by vatueil 8y ago
IIRC Microsoft does share malware detection information with other antivirus providers, so that sounds plausible. (I think that's also part of the reason why Windows Defender appears less competitive in antivirus comparisons, since you
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by vatueil 8y ago
Incidentally there was also a blog post from Microsoft about preventing false positives just a couple months ago: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/08/16/... Short summary: https:&#x
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by vatueil 8y ago
Looks like all the previous linked threads received fewer votes than this one and no more than two comments. No reason to close this as a dupe, then.
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by vatueil 8y ago
Google's antivirus is optional, so if a user was cognizant of the dangers of using Aptoide but still wanted to risk it couldn't they turn Play Protect off? Google and Microsoft are often criticized for malware that targets Android
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by vatueil 8y ago
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292417
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by vatueil 8y ago
Regarding Linus, he spoke to the BBC and explained in his own words his position: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45664640 This ZDNet article summarizes some of the points Linus made, if you want the short version:
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by vatueil 8y ago
The article was published 1 hour 46 minutes after the failed launch, not "less than an hour", and as reported the crew's survival was confirmed 20 minutes after the incident: > After about 20 minutes of uncertainty, Russi
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by vatueil 8y ago
> A Soyuz crew makes an emergency landing after rocket fails. > It is not clear how long the Soyuz vehicle will be grounded. How is that "bashing"? The article reports the crew escaped without harm, a fact that was quick
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by vatueil 8y ago
I wish I could trust the WSJ's coverage, but I have to agree that they do seem to have an odd tendency to go off the rails on certain issues. A recent example that comes to mind is their Gmail API article, which at best badly misrepres
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by vatueil 8y ago
I think there's something to be said for choosing an obvious and informative name such as "Project Stream" over a flashier but non-intuitive name. Also, at least for now it really isn't a finished product. Perhaps they&#

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