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Backspace has been the Windows Explorer shortcut for backward navigation since Windows 95.

I use it all the time both in both Explorer and Firefox. And have never ever accidentally deleted text when trying to navigate, or accidentally gone-back when I'm trying to delete text.

Why is this suddenly an issue for Chrome users?
Try to view it overall as a product decision. I don't think it is necessarily "stupid". In fact I think a lot of thought went into it. Not just someone saying "oh today I will remove the backspace functionality".

I think your arguments are sounds. Don't break existing functionality is good but you have to take it into context. Sometimes you have to in order to make the product as a whole better.
Unquoted keywords are valid ES5.1 object properties.

alert(JSON.stringify({delete: "me", for: 1, var: 2}));

results in:

{"delete":"me","for":1,"var":2}

The only browser it does not work in is IE8 and earlier.
We should politicize education. That will end well.
So the key binding exists, but it doesn't perform the expected function? This sounds trivial to correct, were the code readily available.
It more or less is. It's a language and a web framework. That happens to have other frameworks built on it.
First the site claims that rent will be slashed by fifty percent, then it recommends a 65-35 split. Also: realghostroommate@gmail.com? Seriously?
The problem is that if you don't do TV, there is no good way to track the Olympics. I admit I'm guilty. Since I don't have a TV anymore, I can't just throw it on in the background.

In addition, while it's great watching the best get their medals, the thrill is in the upset. Upsets are getting much rarer nowadays.
> Alex Tabarrok discusses the case of India’s private city, and the challenges — and promise — of a private model of urbanization.

http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-371-private-cities/
And give some random developer access to "all my data on all websites". No thanks.
Poor man's fix... sigh... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backspace-to-go-ba...
Being able to relax for long periods of time without feeling anxious about it is a valuable (and learnable) skill!
Even if we take it as a given that it's nonsense and doesn't actually do anything, we'd still need to test it further just to understand why it does appear to be doing something.
Wouldn't something like an "This page contains unsubmitted form input. Are you sure you want to leave?", with maybe a configuration option to disable it, be far better than breaking a long-established and extremely useful keyboard shortcut? Instead the developers chose the easy way out, to pander to users who are apparently too stupid to notice that the focus is somewhere other than the text field they're entering into. Why not also remove the ability for spacebar/Enter to navigate to the currently focused link (or have they removed that already)? If you start blindly pressing keys on a page without looking, it's your own damn fault.

In any case, this screenshot of Opera's keyboard shortcut configuration shows just how far browser configurability has regressed:

http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/keyboard-se...
I don't get the joy that so many smart people get in looking down on sports. Sports are no more inherently better or worse than other forms of entertainment. I don't see how sitting down and reading a book is somehow more noble than watching and cheering for someone like Usain Bolt to prove that he is the fastest person in human history. You could rewrite half that article subbing in other forms of entertainment and it would be laughed off the front page. But since it is criticizing sports, you will get a comment section where everyone posts their favorite anti-sports quote.
The "real WTF" here is that user interface should travel with the user. It shouldn't be under someone else's control at all in the first place. It should be platform-agnostic. Windows v. Mac v. Linux (v. Web Apps) and all their applications should all have the same UI: what the user wants.

As a first approximation imagine a JSON doc that specifies a mapping from standard input events to standard commands or functions; it can be extended with application-specific, uh, specifications. It's treated as a "first-class" entity, and respected by apps and Desktops as a matter of course.

Something like that would save all this trouble, no?
lol.
rarely in my life I read something more non sense all in a single page
In Opera 12, and now Vivaldi, I got used to a really simple shortcut for going back a page: home down the right mouse button then click the left button.

Unfortunately, Mac's don't have two independent mouse buttons and I really miss that quick shortcut.
Missing 5–30 seconds of Twitch stream video, depending on whether an ad plays.

Plus it's horribly distracting even if you're not missing any attached video.
> In order to combat trailing commas I normally place the comma on the following line

Ah okay, so you're that guy whose code I have to reformat in every new job.
> Is the id there the billing id listed here[0]?

Looks like you're right. It's still a meaningless number in this context. It's not something I can or should have to memorise. To make it worse, an account can have multiple billing accounts.

The suggested hack should work, thanks. Hopefully Google improve the content of their email though. Hacks shouldn't be needed.
I think it depends on the reason for the change. If the reason is primarily to reduce complexity or remove a buggy feature, it would make sense to remove the feature entirely from the code.

In this case, the shortcut is being removed because it's often unintentionally triggered by people who are not familiar with it, however there are also a lot of people who intentionally use it frequently. It could be reasonably argued that something like that should be configurable.
In space, if you have a rock, you're among the ... well, let's see.

There's about 1,000 atoms per cm^3 of interplanetary space. Let's say you've got 1 kg of silicate rock -- SiO4. That's 4 parts oxygen (atomic weight 16) to 1 part silicon (atomic weight 14).

A kilogram is about 10^30 atomic masses. So we need 10^27 cubic centimeters, which works out to about 100 million km^3.

The Earth has a volume about 16,000 times larger -- which means at the average density of interstellar space, there would be about 16,000 of those rocks you have in hand, or 16 tonnes of matter. Rather than the six thousand billion billion tonnes of matter actually in the Earth.

We've met the space resource rush and it is us.
I never, ever have the problem of clicking on the wrong link, or going to a page I don't like.
Why should I be punished by all of these incompetent people who need to go BACK so often?
I've become accustomed to using backspace as a Browser Back keyboard shortcut, though I can sympathize with the hate for such. More than once did I intend to go back, only to discover the cursor was presently focused in a text box, or conversely, intend to erase a minor spelling mistake only to go back and lose everything.

I think what I value is not so much having Backspace == Browser Back, but simply having a keyboard shortcut for Browser Back. So certainly, by all means, get rid of Backspace == Browser Back. But please leave a means of configuring at least something as a Browser Back keyboard shortcut.
Viewing is down on linear TV, which makes sense. Online viewing, on the other hand, has been significant.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-c...
Safe, if you avoid mentioning doping, the effects of concussion on the brain, whether it is ethical to ride horses (more so to jump fences and to use a whip), the ethics of nations training 4 year olds for gymnastics, the fairness of juries in boxing/gymnastics/dressage, whether a sport should be in the Olympics (for example, where are the motor sports?), whether we should have separate events for lesser abled competitors (Paralympics, but also weight classes in judo, boxing, rowing, etc) etc.

For example, if I state gymnastics isn't a sport, just as ballet isn't, and that watching it means condoning child torture, is that a safe bet?

(Edit: and that's ingoring the really contentious subjects such as whether England really scored that third goal in 1966)
Very funny seeing so called "powerusers" complain they have to unlearn perhaps the most stupid shortcut key in the history of shortcut keys, and instead use another, much more obvious shortcut key (alt + left)

and as a bonus, I just discovered the windows + left key, which is properly awesome on this shiney new(ish) xps 13 (much better than the old rotate screen functionality).
I appreciate your enthusiasm for this topic, but, respectfully, you are not an expert either and you're spreading a lot of incorrect information. It's clear you have little understanding other than what you can quickly google. Yes, we know about varroa. Many of us are beekeepers and have seen this firsthand and are plugged into local communities where we share data on hive populations and research.

Honeybee populations have not stabilized, although it is true that wintering losses have stabilized a lot in the last several years. Summer losses have been horrible in a worrying way, and we just don't understand why - this was unheard of in decades past. CCD specifically has been observed less in recent years but overall annual losses are not stabilizing and are far higher than economically acceptable. My data is from the USDA.

The overall message is that something (not all varroa) is still changing things now, and we don't quite understand it yet. Yes, the introduction of neonics also corresponds heavily to the worst of the varroa period and that should be taken into account. It doesn't mean varroa explains away every other problem.

The linked BBC article is only about non-honeybee species.
Sitting down and reading a book doesn't make a country go bankrupt :).
I always state as relative change. I find that people can get really confused if you were to say "X ran in 110% in the time of Y" even though it is stated in a clear way.

My preferred way of communicating this concept is "we observed a +10% change in X compared to Y." I always use a +/- sign and this helps signal that I'm talking about a relative change.

If I am comparing percents, I'll always specify "relative" or "absolute" change though I prefer to use relative change. Occasionally if the change is small, I will use basis points instead of percents to communicate absolute change.
I always thought cities funded these stadiums to improve their brand, attract investments, jobs ect.
It's just a lazy way to fix a perceived problem, and didn't fix it completely. The correct way is to preserve the states, like the phone apps. iOS and Android have solved it for the longest time.
For what it's worth, if I understand correctly, Gurdjieff held that sports were a null activity of no worth and pernicious influence. (A cursory search turns up no references, sorry.)
Yes, it's costly to maintain the combinatorial interactions between configurations. But 'make it a setting' has further costs- when you're supporting a customer and you can't figure out the exact state they're in, when you can't make sweeping product changes because 8% of users have some incompatible option set, when someone implements a bad feature and there's no strong way to keep it out if you can just 'make it a setting', or when a feature becomes obsolete but is kept around 'as a setting'. It relieves the product team from one of their most important responsibilities.
This has saved my text so many times and I'm happy it exists.

And I'm even more confused by the official justification for removing the backspace button functionality, as this prevents the problem they cite.
Yep, Japan is much more like Pharaoh than Sim City. If is probably my favorite aspect of living here. Living on the periphery of Tokyo we pay 900$/m for a 2.5 room and have more train stations, restaurants, shops, hospitals and parks nearby than any other residential place I've seen outside of Japan.
Overloading backspace with "go back" was a stupid decision. Undoing it was way overdue.

"Android has back key and home key that users hit accidentally all the times."

The back and home buttons are not overloaded with other meaning based on context. Android applications tend to handle accidental "back" presses gracefully. Accidental "home" presses are usually of no consequence whatsoever.

"Why can't the Web apps save their state to better handle the accidental exit of the app?"

Who cares? They don't and they won't.

"It's not just the backspace, Ctrl-R and Ctrl-W all exit the app."

It's way less likely to accidentally hit those combinations. For backspace, it happens all the time.

"Don't break existing functionality!!"

The functionality isn't broken, it's just that the few
people who actually use this shortcut will have to use another shortcut now. Big Deal.
Sounds like something that could be done using client-side JavaScript and LocalStorage, but I don't know offhand of any libraries that do this.
> What I am saying is that in English, after learning 26 letters, you can read any combination of them.

But those combinations are usually learned via oral tradition and rote rather than actually having anything to do with the letters themselves.
I still haven't fully grasped what aspect of Haskell means you can't rigorously reason about your code.

I'm pretty sure you don't mean space leaks, and I'm pretty sure you don't mean global coherence of type classes, which are the two most popular complaints about reasoning about Haskell.

Other than that, can't you just say "this piece of code is at least as defined as the equivalent in a strict language" and leave it at that? What can go wrong?
It's not allocated or apportioned. It goes into the Treasury's general find. So it goes to paying all of the things the government pays for: Medicare, social security, and war.
I read back through your recent comments. I notice you get downvoted a lot. Does this bother you?
It's funny people are unwilling to learn that Alt-right after a Backspace would go back to previous page with state intact.
Want to get even madder? The highest paid public servant in over half of American states is a College football coach.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OsmROR7...

Oh, and in states where it isn't the football coach? second most common? A college Basketball coach is the highest paid in half.
Every configuration toggle is something somebody can break by clicking it wrong. For most people, things like this are a source of background worry, not a useful benefit.
The --index option that I added (see another comment) to pigz allows random access so that uncompression could be multi-threaded.

The workload I was interested in (compressing virtual machine memory during suspend) tends to be I/O bound. pigz struck a good balance to make it so that cpus and disks both stayed busy in an important subset of the machines of interest. This balanced saturation seemed to be optimal to minimize the suspend time. If the suspend image was on fast storage (that is, could saturate a 10 gig link) multi-threading uncompression for resume made a big difference.

I tried pixz and I think pbzip2 and found that while the compress ratio was better than pigz offers, the delta in CPU-bound run time during compression was unacceptable.

The scales may tip in favor of pixz when compression speed is less important than (e.g.) minimizing the amount of bandwidth required for 1000's of downloads of the compressed content.
Web apps are too complicated to rely on form input changes as a stand-in for user state.

Good idea about the space/enter thing, I'll file a bug.
That attitude really fucking pisses me off.

Not every user is the same. Everyone's needs are different and that is what configuration is for. Stop treating your users like they're all idiots who want exactly the same thing, or that's what you'll really end up with. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Or people can stop using Chrome.
> beginning programming students
That isn't the fault of sports, that is the fault of corrupt politicians that use sports as bread and circuses. And the only reason they use sports is because of its popularity. If getting an author to move to (or not leave) your city resulted in getting votes, you bet there would be governments going bankrupt courting them.
Use the mouse to click on the back button, then.
So what do you do when Grandma accidentally deletes this JSON file and every app on her computer breaks?
Without being sarcastic, I think the best part of this article was discovering that Tom Selleck starred in a 1990 Western set in Australia called "Quigley Down Under"[0].

And I tend to agree with the general sentiment of other comments here, it seems that given there seemingly was no real intent to create a real company from the funds invested, the title of the article could just as easily be "How Not to Run a Fake Startup Investment Scam".

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quigley_Down_Under
--enable-blink-features=BackspaceDefaultHandler
That increases mass and engineering considerations.

Designing a satellite or space probe is (structurally) pretty simple: you need a central truss or platform which is going to be subjected to very little stress or torque.

Pressurised compartments up the complexity a lot. Leaks are bad. Big, fast leaks are really bad. Even with out gravity, thermal gradients (sunlit side, dark side) present significant stress.

Pressurised compartments under constant 1g strain are even more complex. You've got stresses and strains, mass, things get dropped and bumped inside, etc.

Mass costs money. About $1k to $40k per kg in LEO, though the lower end of that's becoming more viable. Elon Musk and others would like to get down to $200 kg, though I find that unlikely.
Backspace seemed like a perfectly good shortcut in Windows Explorer to go up one directory.

Seems like it was misadapted to the browser context when it was recast as "back".
you mean, like, by clicking/touching the back button?

Wow, never thought that would need explaining here :(
Presumably animal models. Fish, frogs, mice, etc.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fetus%20development%20i...
Here's one (of mine) that removes IP addresses from academic papers:

https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
There are unlikely to be large colonies of wild honey bees in England and Wales.

There are some feral honey bees colonies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/28290890
Mouse click on back need to travel long distance.

Why can't you guys just use alt-right after a backspace to restore the previous page?
Vanguard invests almost purely passively, and does not generally take directional views. I agree HFT benefits Vanguard but that doesn't contradict my point at all.
Finally, a way to assess poverty from space, ironically increasing the distance between the observers and the observed by several literal orders of magnitude.
Good idea about the space/enter thing, I'll file a bug.

I was being sarcastic. I seriously hope you are too.
That's completely inaccurate. You can stream the olympics from nbcsports.com and from their app. I can count on one hand the number of people I know that both don't have internet, don't have a smartphone, and don't have TV.
They do.

The promises don't materialize.

Nowadays it looks like Olympics and its ilk (Pam am games) are just fraud by global construction contractors on the masses.
You're right. That would of course be a crushing blow to their user stats, to lose all five people in the world that actively use the backspace shortcut.
iOs: Swift (or React Native to use only Javascript)

Android: Kotlin (or React Native to use only Javascript)

Web app: Ruby + Rails >= Go > Python + Django > PHP + Laravel

Client-side app: React + Redux
The craziness is that these guys really thought they were building a company.
The reference to Swift at the bottom suggests this is satire.
I lived in Allen (S. of McKinney ) for quite a while. At least at the time, the Allen Valedictorian was already slated to go to Harvard Med. after he finished undergrad. Dunno how that worked out..

The academics were outstanding there, but about 1/3 dropped out before graduation. Wasn't a lot of effort put into retention, either. We left around the the they were building that massive Allen sports complex and the new high school.

My youngest was still in high school at the time, and moving her out of it was the best thing we could have done, as it turns out. But I think that's mainly that she got to reinvent herself, and she really liked where we moved to.

Plus, the Internet was beginning to make social media (MySpace) available, which really helped her socially.

I'm pretty sure the land for the Allen monstrosity was donated by the founder of one of the companies I worked for. Guy lives extremely frugally, but he was worth untold millions.

The whole Dallas area has dumbed down a lot in the wake of the first dotcom bust. It's all $20 an hour contract Java work now; $30 if you're lucky.
I would suggest that you not google image search that, as I did. There are many modern results, and it's quite awful.
Characterizing the Efficiency of Thermal Camera-Based Attacks [pdf]
It's been Up since at least Windows 3.0. They might have changed it to Back recently.

It's not suddenly an issue; I've occasionally accidentally gone back since IE 3. Between fourth mouse buttons, alt-left, and touchpad swipes, Chrome devs are starting to think that backspace-as-back is more trouble than it's worth.
> That's the right way.

It's the lazy way.

You're right that it adds complexity. Every line of code contributes to complexity, and increases the number of places a bug could manifest. That's just the nature of software development.

Most software doesn't exist in a bubble of strictly-defined use cases. Software such as web browsers target a huge (potentially the broadest) range of users. Driving towards the lowest common denominator, as Google have been doing with Chrome by stripping configuration options over the years, doesn't result in a product people love to use. It produces software that performs adequately for the majority, and nothing more.

For features like "backspace to navigate back", throw them behind a flag. Make them default-disabled. Don't even worry about putting it in Preferences - tell power users who need it where they can find it (chrome://flags).
Yet the author trusts Tox.
https://archive.is/t9VQY
That's a orthogonal problem with known solutions.
My standard riposte when faced with a technical discussion that's clearly wound down or gone off the rails - "So how bout them Cowboys?". We would also accept a friend's variant - "Roll tide."
That's what I did. I switched to Firefox when they made this change.
Isn't the email sent to you, the billing account holder? That is, if you're the account holder then the (original) To: field in the email headers is the Google Account it's intended for. I agree we could (and should) repeat that, but you shouldn't have to cycle through all your Google Accounts to do so.
I watch only college football, ad I watch it because it becomes art in places. It's also long habit from decades past.
Both Kaby Lake and Bristol Ridge are APUs. Probably it's about graphics part. There is no breaking changes in these CPUS.
If you have a self driving car selling them to Uber rather than taking the profit for yourself is just stupid, much like selling bitcoin mining hardware - if it's worthwhile you might as well just let it make you money?

Counter-example: High-Frequency Trading equipment manufacturers, like Metamako[1] and Arista Networks[2]. Their hardware enables HFT firms to make money, but they stay in the network equipment business instead of becoming HFT investment firms. This seems to have worked out well for both sides.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602135/high-frequency-tra...

[2] https://www.arista.com/en/solutions/high-frequency-trading