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by timothya 2y ago
See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site automatically based on how you interact with videos. You can see what it's calculated by visiting
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by timothya 4y ago
See also Rowan Atkinson’s standup routine from the early 90s: https://youtu.be/uw8dW9Hyno0
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by timothya 8y ago
See: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/using-page-speed-i...
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by timothya 9y ago
> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up. No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0] [0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-en...
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by timothya 9y ago
"Changelist". Similar words are commit, diff, patch, etc. (though sometimes those other words have other implications)
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by timothya 10y ago
The Google Home definitely supports Chromecast now [0]. My favorite related thing to say is "Hey Google, play House of Cards on my TV" , and it will turn on my TV and then start playing the next episode from Netflix. Perfect for
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by timothya 10y ago
> All this is over-engineered IMO. It's complicated in order to provide a lower-level API so that libraries can take advantage of different features and provide more opinionated ways of creating custom elements. Polymer is an exam
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by timothya 10y ago
I think the official documentation is what's found in the help center; this page contains a lot more information about using a custom passphrase for your sync data: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/118
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by timothya 10y ago
To be fair, Chrome has exactly that feature to, and let's the user choose what they want.
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by timothya 10y ago
Context is king.
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by timothya 10y ago
Yeah, and please also don't send me any messages where you chose autocompletions for the words, or messages where your phone autocorrected the spelling of. Heck, don't even send messages where you pressed the keyboard buttons to s
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by timothya 10y ago
It says on Revolv's website that they're giving full refunds to current customers: "If you're a current Revolv customer, please email us at help@revolv.com so we can help you out during this transition and provide you wi
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by timothya 10y ago
They're giving full refunds to all their customers, so it's more like those customers got to use the device for "free" while it was available.
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by timothya 10y ago
It's nice to see WebKit adopt this approach too. Chrome and Firefox have already had a policy against new CSS properties with vendor prefixes for over three years, so with Safari onboard too now it's becoming easier to imagine a f
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by timothya 11y ago
There's another interactive widget when you search for "bubble level" (only on mobile). Handy! If you're not on mobile, this article has some screenshots of the widget: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015&#
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by timothya 11y ago
According to the pre-match interview[0], the AlphaGo project is about two years old, and started out as a collaboration between two members of DeepMind and a member of the Google Brain team (Google's deep learning team which pre-dates
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by timothya 11y ago
For the record, Chrome's sync data can also be an encrypted blob that Google can't decrypt[0]. [0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en
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by timothya 11y ago
> For some time, Google has been convinced that the semiautonomous systems that others champion (which include various features like collision prevention, self-parking, and lane control on highways) are actually more dangerous than the
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by timothya 11y ago
While you're right that it's up to the browser to fix, that can be a very time consuming process (especially for something as tricky as video). YouTube doesn't want to wait around for browser vendors to fix things, so they wo
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by timothya 11y ago
> The poor way in which YouTube does feature detection (via user agent string) is almost as appalling. If you could provide a better alternative, I'm sure they'd be all ears.
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by timothya 11y ago
That sort of feature detection is likely not sufficient for detecting if a video will play well or correctly . There's been a number of bugs in MSE in the past which means that YouTube has to fall back on browser version checks to a
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by timothya 11y ago
Reading the comments on that bug, it looks like it was only a small subset of Firefox users who experienced this bug. Not really a big story.
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by timothya 11y ago
> the only way to monetize on youtube right now is via ads That's not true, you can also set up a channel where users have to pay to purchase or rent your videos (or pay a subscription to see all of your videos). More information
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by timothya 11y ago
The Closure Compiler supports compiling ES6 code already, and can also do transpilation down to ES3/ES5. [1][2] Google also has the Traceur Compiler which does transpilation of new JS features (ES6, ES7 proposals, and a couple of featu
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YouTube Offers Legal Protection of up to $1M for Creators Facing DMCA Takedowns(techcrunch.com)
1 points by timothya 11y ago|0 comments
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by timothya 11y ago
That shouldn't happen in Safari or Chrome anymore - videos don't autoplay until you actually open the tab for the first time.
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by timothya 11y ago
I don't really see how that's relevant; you're talking about a system from years ago. It's not like they could easily just go back to that, especially with so many comments stored in the new system. Furthermore, the G+-p
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by timothya 11y ago
From the YouTube Help Center: "You'll soon be able to comment, upload, and create channels without Google+. The comments you make on YouTube will appear only on YouTube and not also on Google+ (and vice versa). Check out our blog
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by timothya 11y ago
It works if you log out. Or watch the version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4IsqmMqCEo
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Disney Animator animating in 3D with Virtual Reality [video](youtube.com)
2 points by timothya 11y ago|0 comments

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