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by felipc 9mo ago
Complete list of mistakes in the design of CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference Just kidding. To me the biggest mistake was the standards' slowness in the early 2010s to p
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by felipc 1y ago
Pix has really spurred up small local businesses. It's so much easier to buy digitally from local stores now, or even just a person starting up a business because it required no setup, no fees or anything. If I need to buy a gift for s
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by felipc 2y ago
Yeah it still needs a malicious person to run the attack of course, but it's a different attack vector. Phishing consists of making the user believe they are in a different website than they are at. Most of the time, that requires a co
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by felipc 2y ago
Nope, it's much more insidious than that. The user is already on your website, which could be a legitimate website with a malicious owner. If you look at the screenshot, it's a perfectly valid interpretation for a non tech-savvy u
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by felipc 3y ago
The point about the newer Bialettis being cheaper is absolutely true. My mother has an old (>10 years) Moka that feels heavy and sturdy. A couple of years ago, after accidentally leaving it on the stove for too long, the bottom chamber a
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by felipc 3y ago
Has Nintendo ever talked about how they do software development? Can we all drop the thousands of books that have been written about software engineering in general and just figure out what they do? Game aside, the reviews have been pointin
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by felipc 4y ago
His GeoGuesser videos are great not just for the guesses, but also for the witty commentary and random chit-chat. But his other contents are even better. Great writing and narrative style. The 5-video series "How not to Travel Europe&q
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by felipc 5y ago
What I really like about Wordle is that the very reason that all of these fun and interesting math analysis are being done on it is due to the entire corpus being easily accessible there in the code. It's not something kept away server
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by felipc 6y ago
A long time ago in Internet time, Justin Frankel (creator of Winamp) created a tool for live music collaboration that approached this problem in a very different way. Basically what it does is that it _adds_ delay for everyone in a way that
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by felipc 6y ago
The thing that boggles my mind is that the only affected users are: (a) - Firefox users && (b) - who downloaded their messaging history on a buried menu option in the account page && (c) - in the last 7 days prior to disclos
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by felipc 7y ago
how does the bokeh look for a cropped portrait? can you get a reasonably shallow depth of field with such a wide lens?
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by felipc 8y ago
Can you check in about:config if the pref security.enterprise_roots.enabled is being set to true?
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by felipc 10y ago
Thanks for testing e10s! There's a simpler a better way to test it though, which is just setting `browser.tabs.remote.autostart` to true. These prefs that you mentioned won't stick (they will be reset after startup) and are just u
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by felipc 12y ago
I'm curious to know why is this a hardware fix. The problems on my mid-2012 mbp only started after the upgrade to Yosemite, and this seems to be the case from many reports on forums out there.
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by felipc 12y ago
Jeff Atwood's App-pocalypse Now gets more relevant every day http://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now/
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by felipc 12y ago
Anyone has info on what are the blockers for allowing it to run on other browsers?
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by felipc 12y ago
The announcement explains that Firefox continues free of any DRM code, and users who want access to it will have to explicitly opt-in to download it.
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by felipc 14y ago
One of my favorite blog posts from Joel Spolsky talks about this, basically explaining how these formats come to be. For mega-softwares like those, the source code is the de facto file spec www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
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by felipc 14y ago
Here it is: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/09/12/ionmonkey-in-... They'll also blog on the upcoming weeks about details of the architecture
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by felipc 14y ago
For this feature, there will also be an option to enable plugins for websites that have them hidden such as Pandora. And in addition it will be possible to whitelist/blacklist websites.