zabraxias

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by zabraxias 10y ago
The only conflict of interest left is the browser itself. A $300M deal for Google to keep a competitor's searches their way is almost too cheap.
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by zabraxias 11y ago
Nothing as interesting as that. Mozilla has had a "let's try and be friends" approach with the ad industry for a few years (see 3rd party cookies) but the recent introductions like pocket and Hello are simply features some gr
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by zabraxias 12y ago
I hereby coin IANAA (I am not an attorney).
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by zabraxias 12y ago
A person named Goran who created a smart umbrella called "Kisha" - rain in srbo-croatian. The world makes sense :)
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How Big Data Peers Inside Your Medicine Chest(bloomberg.com)
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by zabraxias 12y ago
That's an oversimplification since the valley is the leading proponent of immigration reform (yes since the companies there will get better access to foreign workers) but every other developed nation seems to have a more sensible polic
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by zabraxias 12y ago
I am not proud of this but I "canceled" my Comcast service by moving to another country. The only step required was to remove the auto-withdrawal on their website. They probably tried to contact me and threatened to kill my servic
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by zabraxias 12y ago
There was a really good writeup about the decision process in the early iPhones where Steve Jobs ordered the UI in its own process so that the user gets instant feedback on interactions even if the feedback is a simple loading spinner. It g
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by zabraxias 12y ago
I disagree with the article though it does make me wonder about the supply chain part of the process with OEMs. The surface 3 is definitely attractive and powerful and I'd love to get one. If only MS would do one last, monumental chang
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by zabraxias 12y ago
It's one thing to agree or disagree with her position at Dropbox but are you trying to argue against what she said on camera? "I heard she might..." is not the case here since she was a public face for quite a while and she d
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by zabraxias 13y ago
He's leaving. Which is typical for CEOs even if his tenure ended positively.
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by zabraxias 13y ago
I love these article titles especially since I love getting my tech news from forbes the way I love my mechanic's baked goods. Apps have their place and the browser is not going away. If anything "The browser is dead...long live t
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Really interesting perspective. Made me think.
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by zabraxias 13y ago
He didn't donate to a campaign banning interracial marriage though and the example isn't the same. Furthermore he is one of the founding members of Mozilla and his contributions give him a certain level of respect within the organ
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by zabraxias 13y ago
The typical CEO response would've been to lie about a change in position and then state the same policies as he already outlined. I don't agree with the man's personal stance on same-sex marriage but he never brought it to th
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Mozilla's leadership is far more complex than the person holding the CEO chalice. Assuming he wanted to impose his personal views on marriage down to the company there would be a revolt and it will result in his termination. The board
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Worth noting that this only works for Chrome. For what it's worth I don't support the practice and think it will not help prevent "self-XSS" at all. The idea of self-XSS being ridiculous to begin with.
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by zabraxias 13y ago
I am with you on this one on most "reality" shows I've seen. In reality nobody asks me to go to a confession room to explain my supposed reasoning in front of a camera. I also find it ridiculous that they always keep the mo
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Sometimes I have to upvote sarcasm :)
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Very good question. Quite interested in this too and I get the sense Apple would nuke the app even if they didn't specifically write a rule against this.
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by zabraxias 13y ago
What if $(el).length === 0?
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by zabraxias 13y ago
It's almost amusing how well you captured everything I wanted to say. Kudos to you sir. Er...bro
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Oh so true.
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Fair enough but it's trickier to demo something that requires more elaborate user action. My reach-bag scenario wasn't so contrived actually we had to develop something that would guess a color palette based on a user uploaded pic
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by zabraxias 13y ago
There are other use cases like suggesting a color palette based on an image upload before it ever gets sent to the server. Something like an admin interface for creating news article pages/blogs that orient around a particular theme. I
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by zabraxias 13y ago
"Based on Spring" is not Spring. I worked there for a bit, they called it Sparta, and its appeal to the top tech brass was they could restrict which objects are available for use in the library they provided for you. The subtle me
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by zabraxias 13y ago
Wrong. PayPal refuses to use open source frameworks because of an internal culture (and self preservation interest) of some very old "architects" who really only care about being in charge of the next internal framework. The best
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by zabraxias 13y ago
This is really fantastic news but I too am skeptical of the drug companies being interested in a cure as opposed to a repeatable treatment. As a side note the article seems very well written for non-medical folks like myself.
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by zabraxias 13y ago
PayPal is still running on something they call XPT and their admin tools are built with something called Maxcode (Max Levchin wrote it). As of 2 years ago they revolutionized CSS by having it being generated from Java because their fellowsh
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by zabraxias 13y ago
The moment we start calling things "the jQuery of..." we're no better than startups that are "the Facebook of..." :)

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