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by devcpp 12y ago
Woah what the fuck. Thank God I don't have to use this crappy browser except for a few pages that break in FF.
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by devcpp 12y ago
Chrome lets you install .crx extensions on your own too, although it's harder. Not that I like the proprietary Chrome or the fauxpen Chromium...
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by devcpp 12y ago
Most people would be okay with plaintext content sitting on your server and even publicly accessible by anyone. But this is HN, and we wouldn't use even an AES-512-encrypted service if it has to leave our computers. Our password could
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by devcpp 12y ago
>It seems the naysayers are doing nothing to try and change the situation You can thank the naysayers for serious research, otherwise people would just come up with stupid abstract ideas since no one would be skeptical or pessimistic. I
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by devcpp 12y ago
The view makes sense. We don't want it to happen because it's unlikely to go well. But if it does happen that corporations acquire power, we express our wish that it goes well, however unlikely that is.
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by devcpp 12y ago
Single features don't make up my mind when choosing an OS. By that logic, the only deciding UI feature would be a mechanism to switch between tasks. I don't think anyone will stop using Windows because of the lack of widgets or of
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by devcpp 12y ago
What's so awesome about Android is that Google can't reject you, since you can just install any APKs you want. If you can't appreciate that (among all the other freedom features, like root, ADB, customization, etc), you don&#
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by devcpp 12y ago
The entire American tip culture seems very weird to me as a Frenchman, where it is always included as a fixed percentage in the price. It looks to me like every waiter becomes a beggar when it's time to pay. Some of them are outraged w
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by devcpp 12y ago
Post-Microsoft Bill Gates* I will never completely excuse him in my mind for what he did as the CEO of Microsoft in the 90s in the name of profit. No matter how much he gives back. After all, we still suffer from it today.
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by devcpp 12y ago
Don't blame it on bad intentions. It just happens to be four 1920x1080 screens for scaling purposes. Much like bytes and kibibytes. I'm okay with this.
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by devcpp 12y ago
So much argument... I can't believe some people get this offended by simple words. In this case, Miley doesn't even deny it, she's trying hard to give that image, so it's really childish to complain about it. I hate this
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by devcpp 12y ago
Same way the NSA would be regulated against spying on the general population: remove money from the equation. Think about it, the only reason Comcast is doing all this is so they can charge premium fees on certain services. If you don'
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by devcpp 12y ago
>Companies like Comcast have no interest in slowing down web site traffic Yeah? How about money? As a comms engineer, I too think about the technical implications of this. But you have to remember that the people who push for the aboliti
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by devcpp 12y ago
Also makes me much more trustful about the openness of Atom. Much better than the closed development processes that I usually see from big corporations (e.g Google, Apple, Samsung, EA, at their respective open-source websites).
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by devcpp 12y ago
>This is why we can't have nice things More like this is why we can't have nice promises. Promises, on their own, are useless. Why should you get the PR boost from an openness promise if you don't actually end up fulfillin
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by devcpp 12y ago
Well, the decision to make electricity forbidden was a mix of building (by closing a circuit, not relevant to 100% capacitive systems), spark (ditto), heating and adding power consumption. There is some debate as to whether those last two s
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by devcpp 12y ago
Are we sure she knew about it? >violating the secret and illegal non-solicitation compact It doesn't say anywhere whether she actually knew about this. That would change my reaction from completely horrified to just utterly disguste
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by devcpp 12y ago
Legally, you're right. But if you were one of Oculus's founders and you were not a hypocrite, this would be a good way to promote Kickstarters like yours. Disclaimer: I have never used Kickstarter myself, and this one more data po
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by devcpp 12y ago
Disney had extensive successful experience with animated movies prior to acquiring Pixar. Facebook with games? HN's community and most people who would buy something solely for games would disagree. But who knows, maybe we'll see
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by devcpp 12y ago
People can just look at the cached version of this page on Google over SSL, I doubt they will ban Google...
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by devcpp 13y ago
Thanks for your reply. >Unity is not related to standards in any way I know, I mentioned it. I believe a standard at least has some practical positive impact, unlike the integration of a particular closed platform. >web content was al
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by devcpp 13y ago
>Mozilla doesn't believe an Open Web precludes proprietary applications By definition, it must. It's a slippery slope and it's the reason Mozilla is vehemently against EME. The rest of that line sounds like nonsense to me
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by devcpp 13y ago
And by then it's too late and becomes painfully difficult to go back. Examples: Linux, FirefoxOS. On the other hand, no DRM in HTML leads to the platform still being free. It's easy to integrate proprietary solutions but it's
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by devcpp 13y ago
>First, Mozilla has and does assist in the creation of FOSS game engines and tools Parent comment didn't imply the contrary. "stop promoting nonfree software" doesn't mean "stop only promoting nonfree software&qu
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by devcpp 13y ago
I disagree, we already have watches with weak processors (e.g Pebble) but they lack features. Android can bring those, and ARM processors are powerful enough. Indeed, the only difference between an Android watch and a full-size smartphone w
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by devcpp 13y ago
You could pretend they were perceived as a threat for Facebook and Facebook just bought the peace of knowing they have no remotely significant threat other than Google+. Although, knowing Facebook, I have a really hard time just taking this
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by devcpp 13y ago
You can fully disable these apps in Settings and you won;t see them again anywhere. As for the space, unlike iOS, you can install another OS with Gapps at all. UI performance woes? Coming from an iPhone 3GS, it's flawless to me. As for
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by devcpp 13y ago
CM is not Android, it's AOSP-based. Android is closed source but it's very similar to AOSP. Same goes for Chrome/ium and Chrome/ium OS. You can indeed say that most mobile users are on a proprietary OS and most desktop u
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by devcpp 13y ago
Well, it is a publicly-traded company now. When a shareholder sees the opportunity to make a dime, he'll seize it.
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by devcpp 13y ago
If people aren't willing to, nope. This is a slippery slope and we can't afford to pay every employee of dying professions forever. I think utilities and reasonable physical safety and healthcare should be paid for by the people.

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