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by epoch1970 9y ago
"Failing hard" and "severe dysfunction" probably aren't the most realistic ways of describing it. The situation isn't good, but it also isn't bad enough for terms such as those to apply. While it isn'
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by epoch1970 9y ago
> They do (and any service basically). You don't want to run a large-scale service without having some way for your users to self-reset their passwords. I don't buy that. There are other similar services that allow an email add
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by epoch1970 9y ago
When I last tried to sign up, they requested a phone number, I assume as some sort of an attempt to make it harder for spammers to sign up. I don't think they have any legitimate reason for that sort of information, so I didn't pr
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by epoch1970 9y ago
It was the extension signing that caused me to move on. I had written several small, but useful, extensions for my own personal use. I knew they were harmless, yet Firefox made it difficult for me to actually use them. If I'm rememberi
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by epoch1970 9y ago
I think the "Why?" section's conclusions are off the mark. It basically blames Google's advertising of Chrome for Firefox's decline, and even goes so far as to say "Firefox’s decline is not an engineering probl
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by epoch1970 9y ago
The big problem I have with having conversations on Twitter is that I wasn't even able to sign up for a Twitter account the last time I tried. It wanted me to provide a phone number. I refuse to do this, as they have no legitimate need
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by epoch1970 9y ago
The thing I dislike is how such languages try to abstract away the filesystem representation of packages/modules/libraries/etc. The conventions and resolution approaches that are needed to accomplish this often end up being o
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by epoch1970 9y ago
> If somebody can get React Native to run on PostmarketOS, then we could start building up an ecosystem of non-walled-garden apps that are compatible with iOS and Android! What leads you to believe this would actually happen? PhoneGap&#x
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by epoch1970 9y ago
> Does it strike anybody as strange that an operating system is getting worse over time rather than better? I somewhat expect it, as we've seen desktop OSes come to be influenced by mobile OSes, or worse, as we've seen desktop
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by epoch1970 9y ago
I wouldn't consider Servo to be "quite good", at least in its present state. The Browser.html UI is quite minimal, in the sense that it really doesn't do much at all. It's basically a list of tabs along the right si
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by epoch1970 10y ago
It can't help that Google hasn't released a phone comparable in spirit to the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 phones. We're talking about phones that have a practical size, reasonably good specs, and a $300-$400 price tag.
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by epoch1970 10y ago
I don't know if it's still like this, but when I last tried to create a Twitter account it required a phone number and some kind of verification by phone. That's something I refuse to do. I can sort of understand requiring th
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by epoch1970 10y ago
When people say that they want to "remove Pocket from Firefox", they don't mean just hiding a toolbar button or disabling it using about:config. They don't want it there at all, in any way. They don't want it using
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by epoch1970 10y ago
It's a similar situation for me. I've used Firefox for a long time, and it currently gives me the least-worst experience of the major browsers. That's probably the only reason I still use it. I wouldn't say I like using
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by epoch1970 10y ago
We should be careful when comparing the growth or package counts of CPAN and npm. While conceptually similar, they're still very different from one another. A lot of the npm growth is just the JavaScript ecosystem catching up to where
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by epoch1970 10y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted what was meant by the "Most certainly use Python3 for any new projects." sentence. I don't think it's using "Most certainly" in the sense of "Most developers using Pytho
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by epoch1970 10y ago
MySQL's lack of CTEs is particularly annoying. Even SQLite has supported them for some time now! I've seen this cause MySQL query authors to use various workarounds that end up impacting the query performance negatively.
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by epoch1970 10y ago
Why do you reject the documentation? It has exactly what you're asking for: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/different-rep... It describes the various methods that are available, it lists i
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by epoch1970 10y ago
Funnily enough, Facebook is one of the sites where I've seen these non-technical users have to use the dev tools to make the site usable again! I think it was a login prompt overlay shown on business profile pages. These users didn&#x2
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by epoch1970 10y ago
The dev tools can be very useful to average users, even if they don't use them the same way that developers might. For example, I know several non-technical users who use the built-in dev tools to remove the annoying overlays that some
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by epoch1970 10y ago
Except that around 90% or more of the time I find myself having to open PDFs using a real native PDF reader because pdf.js is too slow, or it improperly renders the PDF, or it won't allow me to fill out forms the way I want, or some ot
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by epoch1970 10y ago
What's the likelihood of actually seeing a change?
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by epoch1970 10y ago
It's not involved, but it's also not obvious to many users.
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by epoch1970 10y ago
Why was a link apparently not in the most obvious place, on the https://www.rust-lang.org/ web site? A small notice across the top would not have been disruptive, yet I and others would have seen it.
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by epoch1970 10y ago
What terms would you recommend that they use instead?
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by epoch1970 10y ago
I think this survey was very poorly publicized. As somebody who only dabbles in Rust, this is the first I have heard of this survey. I am sure that others are in the same boat as I am. We would have participated, but we learned about it wee
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by epoch1970 10y ago
> Things have changed a lot since the pre-1.0 days. The instability of the pre-1.0 days left a very bad impression on many people who tried Rust then. They came to know Rust as a compile-today-but-not-tomorrow kind of language. What, if
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by epoch1970 10y ago
> They aren't going after C++ gurus or C magicians but people who are new to systems programming. If this actually is their strategy, is it being done voluntarily or out of necessity? I ask, because I've witnessed enough scepti
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by epoch1970 10y ago
How exactly has Microsoft "faded into irrelevance"? Various versions of Windows are used on probably 90% or more of desktops and laptops, in both home and business settings. It still sees widespread server use. Word, Excel, PowerP
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by epoch1970 10y ago
I've routinely seen a desire to not use systemd described as "hate". Why is that? When somebody wants to use zsh instead of bash, it's not described as "bash hate". Or when somebody wants to use Clang/LLVM

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