grigory

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by grigory 4y ago
Right, I think it's pretty close to parity! I vaguely recall seeing some odd API that wasn't supported in Fenix that was in Fennec, but they're pretty rare. Fairly sure you could access history in Fennec via a webextension, a
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by grigory 4y ago
(Also a former Mozilla developer, worked Fennec and Fenix) I think a more nuanced perspective here is that roughly 80% of the work was done, and the remaining 20% require significant effort and organizational energy. Not all of the WebExten
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by grigory 8y ago
Senior at a lot of the larger companies I've interacted with is often a kind of a "terminal level", meaning that you're not expected to rise above it, and can comfortably spend most of your career at that level. Staff, s
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by grigory 8y ago
Jumping into a project with a truly world-class team is a very humbling experience, and certainly something to seek out in one's career!
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by grigory 9y ago
When I explain various aspects of concurrency and multi-threaded programming to non-programmers, using analogy of people doing some tasks really helps. I've picked this up from Feynman's lectures on computing - highly recommend th
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by grigory 9y ago
I use passpack to generate/store passwords, remember them in Firefox, and let Firefox Sync get them onto my different devices. Works pretty well! My host of devices includes multiple laptops (Linux, OS X) and many different phones - bo
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by grigory 9y ago
We also finally turned on "offline cache" support in Firefox For Android (for 50+ releases) - if you have a page in your cache, and you're attempting to load that page while offline, it should "just work". See http
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by grigory 9y ago
Can you expand on "Firefox completely broke security if Sync"? Do you have a specific incident in mind, or an architectural change, or..?
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by grigory 10y ago
Having spent a few years in KW, I have a feeling it might be difficult to convince people to move there.
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by grigory 10y ago
We're working on a fix, it should re-appear at some point soon (hopefully!).
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by grigory 10y ago
Thinkpad W541 (i7, 32gb RAM, SSD), running Fedora, often connected to an external monitor, mouse and keyboard. For travel, I use Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd gen), also running Fedora. Nowadays I mostly work on native Android dev, so environment
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by grigory 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I've read exact same comments back when oink shut down. Very sad indeed.
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by grigory 10y ago
Firefox's built-in reading mode was great in this particular case. That page is pretty unusable otherwise :/
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by grigory 10y ago
> It might be a requirement for non-techies but no-one surely clicks the back button or drags the scroll bar, at least no power user does. IIRC, back button is one of the most used UI elements of a browser. I'd probably consider mys
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by grigory 12y ago
CommandWear, Vancouver, BC - looking for a full-time Software Engineer http://www.commandwear.com/ We're building a next generation of real-time, situational awareness solutions. We integrate latest wearable tech (smar
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by grigory 12y ago
Curious to see this. At my "just failed" startup, our first product was a booking app targeted at tattoo studios. It was a hard niche to crack for a variety of reasons, and in retrospect we've moved on a little too soon witho
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by grigory 13y ago
Hard to remember exact details, but it was a bit "grey hat". Exploits of a foolish youth!
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by grigory 13y ago
316666. Haven't used it in many years. Obtaining that number was fun, as well :)
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by grigory 13y ago
Here are some of my absolute favourites: - Spectacle, for easily tiling windows http://spectacleapp.com/ - TotalTerminal, for globally accessible, full-width, semitransparent, sliding out Terminal. http://totalte
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by grigory 13y ago
Check out TotalTerminal as well. For me its global, full width visor + tabs became THE way to use the Terminal.
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by grigory 15y ago
Lots of mountain biking and hiking. Heading out to local mountains tomorrow with SO to hit the trails and hike around a bit. I have a long list of books that I'd like to read, so I get to them in the evening usually. If the weather is bad I
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by grigory 15y ago
I personally don't mind creating an account for a service I find valuable. Especially if it's going to be dealing with money. In that case, I would rather create a dedicated account than rely on some external party. I think when you're talk
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by grigory 15y ago
Looks good guys! Congratulations to founders on going live with the site! I'd love to try this out, but a facebook login wall is preventing me from doing so. I personally don't have an account, but I can see others not wanting to connect th
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by grigory 15y ago
No offense, but you sound like a broken western propaganda record. Having been born in USSR, I know a lot of highly educated people that grew up, went to universities, and built various careers in the USSR. While none think communism is per
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by grigory 15y ago
In my first year programming course, our prof spent 10-15 minutes at most talking about recursion. I was already familiar with it, but my classmates (mostly non-CS majors) had no problems understanding the concept. Since that experience I'm
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by grigory 15y ago
This is so awesome. Having tried numerous audio players for OSX I just can't find something that I'm satisfied with. I guess I'll just start building my own now :)
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by grigory 16y ago
This was my first thought after reading the title of this thread. Let your users fetch the data for you!
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by grigory 16y ago
Oh, not at all! I get the idea, but the word just really stood out to me, and not in a good way. So I thought I'd mention it :)
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by grigory 16y ago
One of the examples of what to enter into thinkery, "Who the fuck is JSON? #thought", is in poor taste and I'd recommend changing it to something else. Not that I personally find the word "fuck" offending, but it does feel unnecessary and o
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by grigory 16y ago
Thanks for the link and an explanation!

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