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by zeta0134 10y ago
Inclusivity is one of those things that you just have to do, and not talk about. I sincerely hope the irony of excluding this man in the name of inclusivity is not lost on the crowd. What a mess. I think more people would do well to practic
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I disagree with this idea in the specific domain of Web Browsers. If a vulnerability is discovered in a codec that ships with Firefox, Mozilla can have a patch out within 24 hours. They only have to test that codec against their own browser
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by zeta0134 10y ago
There are fringe users who are compelled to purchase software by the difficulty of obtaining a cracked version. Especially for less popular software (which won't be cracked right away / at all) it's worth putting in a bit of
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Linux is the kernel. The semantics of this can be argued all day, but the kernel is not the operating system. It is simply the tiny piece of software that allows processes to run and manages memory and hardware access. The operating system
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by zeta0134 10y ago
It shouldn't be too much for a single person to take on if they're truly dedicated to the task. A small team is still probably more ideal, but the browser isn't overly complex, it simply has a lot of capability that it can pu
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I'm curious as to what the crash safety features in a flying car would even be. Emergency balloons? Parachutes? A collision at flying speeds is going to be bad for the riders, but the sudden stop after the resulting long fall will like
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I wouldn't consider this the end of Microsoft's dominance in the "desktop" market. What's actually happening is that the desktop market is shrinking, and being slowly replaced by smartphones and tablets as the casua
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Well, we're definitely at the point where my Web Browser uses more memory than my Operating System. I'm impressed, a great deal of this talk could be applied to modern browsers with a surprising degree of accuracy. I love looking
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think it's a real shame that Nintendo is running the Virtual Console almost the same way Disney runs their vault. They're clearly quite capable of writing viable emulation software and tweaking it (and the original games) to wor
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I mean, I'm going out of my way to try to stop my computer from running code I don't like. (In this case, advertising and tracking code.) There are tonnes of alternatives I could try, but I think the easiest way for me to block Fa
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Youtube recently did a writeup on their long road to HTTPS: http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2016/08/youtubes-road-to-htt... I find it particularly telling that switching to HTTPS caused many streaming errors to my
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't even Google most of my commands anymore, unless I'm pretty sure I'm running into some weird distro-specific issue. These command easily gets me through most of my day now: man [thing I want to know about] [command I&#
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Really, the vast majority of what I use my computer for, Linux is a better OS than Windows ever was. But even on Mac (which I never use) I'm generally OK as long as I can install a decent web browser. For the average computer user, Win
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Ditto to this. I realized I had an unused Netflix subscription, and not only did they cancel it, the rep apologized, said that happens a lot, and helped me negotiate a full refund with no questions asked. I came back a few months later when
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Yes, and I'm not sure why he's getting downvoted. This is a legitimate Facebook feature. Gender can be either Male, Female, or Custom, and Facebook gives you the option to choose which gender pronouns you prefer. Thus, to see it r
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't know what the exact exploit of the behavior is, but I've observed it on several "infected" computers while working in tech support. I've seen it on Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and some
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I remain baffled that alerts in modern browsers are still handled with an OS-level modal dialog that prevents interaction with the browser's interface elements. Couldn't the alert instead be rendered as an overlay to the page itse
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't think this would be that big of an issue really, because Flash is built into the Google build of Chrome. It's the one "extension" that would be really easy to give a free pass on this policy. This would probably
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Holy crap. That is just a ton of information being sent up there. (Also, as solely an English speaker, I'm very impressed with Google Translate's ability to parse this article out into a readable form.) I mean to their credit, the
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by zeta0134 10y ago
That's only true if you restrict yourself to vertex colors and shading. Every modern GPU supports fragment / pixel level shading, and can perform arbitrary gradients quite efficiently using this method.
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I wouldn't even say that being gay necessarily works this way. I am a gay man, and I can look back over the timeline of my life and identify several key turning points that could have caused me to take a different path. I may have deci
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't believe push notifications are opt-in, but the vast majority of apps that support it also have a signup / login step to link your phone up with the server doing the pushing. I'm certain that on both iOS and Android, n
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Speak for yourself. I program with a buddy, and we regularly use our instant messaging window as sort of a brain dump. Whenever I need to work out something particularly complex or ambiguous, I'll explain it to my friend in chats and g
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Computerphile did an excellent overview of time zones and all their complexities in the context of programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY I was quite surprised by some of the stranger rules out there, es
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I'm totally OK with that actually. Organic sponsorships have the very important quality of being vetted by the site in question, which greatly lowers the risk of malware being delivered in a way that the site owner can't claim res
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by zeta0134 10y ago
While I appreciate your viewpoint on adblockers, being in the advertising business yourself, that is not enough of an argument to convince me to disable mine. I find the entire practice of invasive advertising to be a huge disservice to use
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think the biggest trouble is that the vast majority of useful browser extensions need to read and/or modify the content of web pages. Often both. So the ability to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" i
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by zeta0134 10y ago
We have this at my office as well. I do my best to humour the guy, and he often plays good music, but occasionally plays rap, which immediately kills my concentration. I've spoken with my direct manager and my team about it, and the co
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Wait, since when is Opera a Chromium fork? They've been around a lot longer than the Chrome project. Unless they had a radical change of heart recently that I haven't heard about yet?
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Seriously, if Ubuntu were a single piece of software, it would top my charts. I don't even use it regularly anymore except on my work Desktop (I run Arch linux on all my personal machines) but the sheer level of "Just Works(tm)&qu

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