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by mikelat 11y ago
I'm surprised this isn't already a perk at working at some of these companies, but then again I'm assuming they'd be subjected to a whole swarm of regulations regarding living conditions.
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by mikelat 11y ago
I'm surprised the technology isn't "fast enough" yet. Most top end phones are quad core, output 1080p, have 2-4gb ram, etc. Specs like that easily meet the listed minimum requirements of windows... odd. They're now
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by mikelat 11y ago
Just imagine all the tax dollars wasted ruining this guy's business.
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by mikelat 11y ago
Google has bothered me for a while with their lack of advertising ethics. I recently cleared and disabled my youtube history and they're still doing targeted advertising for videos I had searched for and watched weeks earlier. Clearly
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by mikelat 11y ago
Better yet, the browsers should easily be able to predict the dominant color of the page by parsing the CSS file and most of the DOM, and pick a complimentary scrollbar contrast accordingly. Maybe do that and allow override to light/da
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by mikelat 11y ago
I was honestly hoping they'd give up on the whole touchscreen + mouse/keyboard interface integration, this announcement pretty much confirms they're in it for the long haul. Both inputs are vastly different so their UIs are f
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by mikelat 12y ago
This doesn't come off as much as a surprise, because there are better alternatives because google code stagnated and wasn't a priority. Google code still has very old looking interface (especially when contrasted to their active p
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by mikelat 12y ago
Microsoft still lives and breathes with their old proprietary software licensing model. There would have to be some sort of major gain for them to port the browser outside of their ecosystem. I can see them doing it with IE mobile though as
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by mikelat 12y ago
This has pretty large implications for countries (namely china) with still a sizable IE6 userbase. IE6 doesn't support TLS by default, making https effectively completely unsupported for that browser.
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by mikelat 12y ago
I like this more for the fact that I get a better idea of what these companies are willing to say publicly about utilizing the data they have on you. TOSes are ultimately meaningless, but comparing sites with things like "your data rem
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by mikelat 12y ago
> My dream startup would be a Reddit-esque link aggregator, which favors the actual quality of submissions, instead of submissions which are lowest-common-denominator which are optimized for the hive mind. On that note there's defin
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by mikelat 12y ago
I understand the need to fight obvious spam and shadowbanning being a good tool for that, but shadowbanning regular users that are trying to contribute actual content is very disrespectful to the users.
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by mikelat 12y ago
I think you forget how bad it was with 2006 desktop. So many CSS hacks. We take our div layouts for granted but if you dared venture away from the standard table layouts of the early 2000s you were in for a lot of debugging for browser quir
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by mikelat 12y ago
I mentioned in another comment that when I think of IE6, I think of the hours spent fiddling with the HTML/CSS that works in FF/Chrome but not in IE6 because of browser bugs that were never fixed and standards not followed. It&#x2
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by mikelat 12y ago
I guess it's a matter of perspective. My experience with IE6 was mostly being a teenage hobbyist webmaster way back when FF vs IE6 was in full spin - I remember being proud of coding standards compliant websites that worked perfectly i
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by mikelat 12y ago
> Looks like the webkit prefix tags are creating the new IE6. This bothers me. Webkit isn't some ancient browser that is has remained stagnant for years until google/apple decided to do something about it. Nobody spends hours d
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by mikelat 12y ago
I enjoyed Digg and Reddit when they were interesting and had an intelligent set of comments/articles. In both cases they changed for the worse when the websites got more popular and attracted mainstream internet users, it's what d
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by mikelat 12y ago
They've been trying for the last few years to copy apple's walled garden model when realistically their greatest strength was the fact that they weren't an overly restricted platform.
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by mikelat 12y ago
Microsoft also disregarded the standard: http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#h2_determining Key to that notion of expression is that the signal sent MUST reflect the user's preference, not the choice of some
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by mikelat 12y ago
I think the idea that the simplicity, lax compiler and readability of python will serve as a easier introduction to programming and keep more students from dropping out early. Java certainly has its place in enforcing verbosity, OO, coding
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by mikelat 12y ago
I do hope this privacy conscious software becomes a trend and a race to the top. The amount of data collection is scary and the worse thing is the encouragement of sharing this information. I would like it even more if the data is encrypted
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by mikelat 12y ago
It's not like they had much of a reputation with the tech savvy crowd to begin with, with their frivolous patent litigation and business practices. The kind of crowd that uses a service like no-ip is the kind of crowd that likely isn&#
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by mikelat 12y ago
It's a good idea, its just that not everyone is using a top of the line machine, mobile users will take longer than desktop users for example. They're definitely onto something though.
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by mikelat 12y ago
That's impressive. Honestly modern browsers should just start ignoring off-domain :visted styles.
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by mikelat 12y ago
In addition if you already have adblock, you can add the privacy list to your subscriptions: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt Also addons like requestpolicy and self destructing cookies are benefic
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by mikelat 12y ago
IF THIS IS THE CASE and that's an IF then it seriously brings into suspect backdoors in larger proprietary software. Because really if they're going after trucrypt then they have to already have gone after the big players. I&#x2
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by mikelat 12y ago
My point was that the nexus 7 and ipad mini have been highly successful in these markets for a while now. I want to see competition but they're coming kind of late.
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by mikelat 12y ago
I was referring to their new touch screen windows version. I wasn't trying to imply that they were never in the market, just that they haven't released anything to compete with the nexus 7 or ipad mini.
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by mikelat 12y ago
So they're just now jumping on the mini-tablet train? Wasn't the time for that like two years ago if they wanted to get into the market? They really need to get their act together and figure out how to be at the front of innovatio
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by mikelat 12y ago
These statistics are failing to take into account that young adults that grew up using the internet for entertainment will not subscribe to cable TV. It's not all about the loss of current subscribers, but the loss of potential subscri

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