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There are these two stackexchange qna threads [0] [1] that I had bookmarked a while back. I came across another one [2] that mentions something called "bus factor"[3], which I found quite amusing, though this question is about freelancing. I think there is enough material in all these combined and the links they point to to sufficiently address your concerns.

[0] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/125656/softwa...

[1] http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/9128/how-can-i-...

[2] http://freelancing.stackexchange.com/questions/126/how-can-w...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Is there a personal trainer that you can wear around your wrist, and possibly interface with a biometric chip inside your body that measures sugars/caloric intake and sends you automated feedback like: "Hey, you're overeating, is something wrong? Are you emotional eating?" -- or that charts and tracks every last ounce of calories burned, and can literally quantify the entire metabolic output of your body in a given day?

What about one that can track which workouts actually keep you motivated longer, which diet foods you like better, just by watching your behavior?

-- Nothing like this exists today, but it will, eventually. AI will be a lot like the AI in HER and it won't be very long of a wait, probably in 20 years or so..
And still, Linux outperformed most commercial competitors in the embedded and server spaces without being a single commercial entity. Apache was the most successful webserver for a long time, despite coming from a non-profit organisation, etc.

I also believe that Firefox should look to exploit Google/Chrome's weaknesses more: Google relies fully on ad income. Firefox relies on sending users to someone's search engine/default page. Why not offer a version that shows the web as most of us see it: ad-free and with less tracking.
My landlord already had it installed when I moved in, but yes, I can talk to the person at the door and press 9 to buzz them in.
Whaaa? Isn't this what Tilera and Tabula were chasing? Maybe they were too early and/or didn't have the momentum to drive the industry? It does seem like an inevitable technological evolution direction, however compilers, debuggers and so on will need to optimize for an almost entirely new set of constraints.

The thing with using FPGA's in systems (they're great for low-volume, high-priced items where ASICs would be too costly) is they end up just emulating logic which could be more cheaply implemented as actual execution units (as many modern FPGA's things like cache, ROM, ALUs, etc.). That is, it's expensive flexibility that isn't really all that useful. Sure you could reconfigure a "computer" from doing database things to suddenly add more GPU cores to play games, but how useful or power/cost efficient would that be? Sure it's nice to cut down on ASICs and upgrading them after the fact, but it seems like more like category development than offering practical advantages to solve a real problem. Maybe a super-fast HPC-on-a-chip would be possible, but I don't see that we're storage or compute constrained, however we maybe bandwidth and latency constrained in terms of shrinking clusters to a single rack of ridiculously power-hungry reprogrammable chips.

Instead of infinitely customizable, arbitrary logic, you might have a crap-ton of simplified RISC cores with some memory and lots of interconnected bandwidth or something in-between FPGA and MPPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_parallel_processor_a...
It's correct if you are using some framework like Drupal, and caching is not enabled.

Any FB page probably also needs that many.

For most sites, 200 queries is way, way, way too much.
> Spidermonkey in particular (Firefox's Javascript engine) is laughably bad when it comes to vulnerabilities.

This is the first I've heard this claim. Do you have data showing this?

JS engines, from my point of view, regularly have all sorts of memory safety issues. No particular JS engine stands out relative to the others.

> This is also the reason why the Servo browser that some folks think will be a lot more secure (due to Rust) is mostly smoke & mirrors. They're planning to keep using Spidermonkey there too!

Smoke and mirrors? Servo has sandboxing, which is already implemented (and which I maintain). There's a night and day difference between that and an unsandboxed browser.

The goal of Servo's architecture is to, first, achieve a best-in-class sandboxing story and then, afterward, to advance the state of the art by reducing attack surface. We aren't going to reduce the memory safety attack surface to zero. But it's very much feasible to reduce it so far down that attackers don't even look at layout/DOM/etc. code for memory safety issues the way they do today when searching for browser holes. The return on investment when looking for memory safety holes in memory-safe languages just isn't there.
I remember when Chrome launched. It was extremely zippy, felt fast and lean and had a clean interface. Adoption had yet to take off.

Those days it was all technical, google was perceived first as technically proficient and their agenda was to produce a fast and efficient browser. Many people could and did align with that.

Now there are too many question marks about Google's motives and agendas and Chrome does not feel like a technical achievement, it feels burdened by all these agendas.

Firefox is supposed to be the default go to when in doubt but why do you need such a large coporation to develop a fast and lean browser and here too there appears to be conflicting actions and agendas.

Now more than ever we need clean open source projects with no agendas but because of growing complexity its becoming increasingly impossible for small groups to do, and I think we have not evolved open source structures to deal with this yet.
Correction: their efforts _used to be_ excellent, and I've been a big fan since KDE2. But lately, the whole plasma desktop feels like it will topple over and fall if I so much as look at it funny.

Random crashes of random "ksomething" components, announced with a cheerful dialog with a cute icon (I've had these crashes upon a first login of a newly created user, how low is that?), the little activity chooser widget expanding and collapsing itself in top-right corner over and over, audio devices appearing and disappearing semi-randomly whenever KDE tries to play one of its sound effects, Just a few days ago, after upgrade to latest plasma, all my systray icons are double in size, and thus no longer neatly in two rows. I'm not a half-blind grandpa, or a smartphone user, I don't need icons the size of my thumbs! The systray widget _is_ still able to display smaller icons, when I make the panel narrower, but the only way I can get two rows of icons anymore is to make it so wide that two rows of these large icons can fit.

Just yesterday, I tried creating a new user account with the intent of starting out with a fresh configuration and recreating my customizations, to get rid of old cruft (KDE doesn't seem to handle upgrades from previous versions very well, e.g. I lost the right-click menu on empty desktop somewhere around plasma 5.4). I got crash on first start, text in various systemsettings sections not redrawing properly when scrolling, "desktop settings" menu item always produces two (!) dialogs side by side, probably because I have two monitors active, KDE sometimes starting into a black screen with no controls visible... Not a very good first impression for a new user.

I'm now suffering KDE until I can get something else going and configured to my workflow. LXQt is something I'm looking at primarily, since I like the idea, and also like to write code for Qt. Hopefully I'll even be able to contribute eventually.

But yeah - KDE is circling the drain from a regular desktop user's point of view. Although it's still usable, it's the thousand little cuts that will get you.
I agree, but the same applies to Chrome on X11.
It's reserved for multicast DNS, which is what Bonjour uses.
Looks like various parties have forked the codebase already.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
A digit is allowed to be a TLD, and is easy to type[1]. UIs will probably treat an all-numeric address as an IP though.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dot-local.html
> What does "a little bit harder" mean?

I'll try to answer below. But I don't think SO can have their cake and eat it to: IMO SO can either set the threshold for asking to non-zero or they could stop complaining about the current torrent of help vampires and low-effort questions.

> Any reputation requirement is out of the window because it would alienate far too many people from ever contributing.

And here is were our opinions differ.

It seems like somehow SO enjoy having a torrent of fresh noobs to correct.

If not, adding just the slightest speed bump to people who just want help with their homework (i.e. you cannot ask a question until your account is 6 hours old or has passed introductory training: look at tags, make a search, visit meta) would likely (IMO) weed out most vampires without affecting the large majority (the read only users) or anyone who is prepared to make any effort to become a contributor.
> firebug is close but slow

Hasn't Firebug been mostly replaced, long ago, by Firefox' built-in tools?

Press Ctl+Shift+i, or click Tools > Web Developer.
>(MS) was actively trying to make their own browser bad

Is this conspiracy or fact?
If you can't draw an objective and distinct line in plain English between where it is acceptable to discriminate and where it is not you shouldn't draw one at all.
His point is that nobady uses chromium, google never promotes it, and on windows you can't install a chromium binary. His point is that if chromium is that good why google is pushing chrome down peoples throat? (hint: its the ads-game).

The only reason chromium is "open-source" is that google attracts lots of talent, saying users have a choice between chromium and chrome, when in reality this isn't true.
It might be that the processes are genuinely eating your RAM, but on most unix-like OSs, RAM usage doesn't work quite the way people expect and it may be you're misunderstanding. Many pages of forked or threaded processes can be copy-on-write, so it actually costs the OS nothing to have multiple processes sharing them. They only actually become separate pages when the process actually writes to them.

What this means is that you can't get a true picture of the ram usage just by adding as you will in fact be double-counting any read-only pages that are shared using COW.
I stop use Firefox due to Brendan Eich story.
It is almost as though different people has tastes that stray from yours.
It's not a myth.

FF was my main browser, and would be to this date if it provided the best experience.

Chrome is faster, snappier, more fluid. Faster time to render, fastes JS engine.

There's a reason most of the geeks switched to Chrome on their own, before Google began it's aggressive approach of converting everyone to it with ads and bundling.
I too switched from chromium to firefox a few years ago when my system ran out of its 8GB RAM regularly.

Chromium was using about 7.5GB, it was quite noticable. I then reopened the exact same tabs in firefox, made sure they are all loaded to make a fair comparison and it came out to less than 1.5GB RAM usage. I've been a happy firefox user since then and never looked back.
Because you could say learning is function approximation for the public.
I will switch back when it has what I need. Currently my biggest need that Firefox doesn't support is MIDI access (i.e. hook a digital "piano" to it and Javascript in a page can talk to it). It's been in development for who knows how long in Firefox, I'm not holding my breath.
I will switch when it has what I need. Currently my biggest need that Firefox doesn't support is MIDI access (i.e. hook a digital "piano" to it and Javascript in a page can talk to it). It's been in devlopment for who knows how long in Firefox, I'm not holding my breath.
Good memories. TIL that Blues's News still exists:

https://www.bluesnews.com/
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That is exactly what I point out.

But unlike others I hope that I don't tell everyone that my taste is better.
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That would depend on which country you're talking about. I think some countries like Sweden get away with being more progressive because they're more homogeneous. People in these countries have fewer differences of opinion and a higher level of social trust in general.
Is this a competitor to cloudflare?
No, I mean that even if you add additional layers of sandboxing, the chrome process can still access the X socket. A process with the ability to read and write to the X socket can record keypresses, issue mouse and key events, etc etc.

(There's not a well-supported way to avoid this, but there are some tools that use Xpra for it.)
Some fun examples of text generation using LSTM/RNN (and a good overview of RNNs for sequences): http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/#fun-...
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I'm not sure why you're talking about "be forced to resign".

Eich resigned voluntarily, according to Eich and the Mozilla board (i.e. every involved party). No one forced him.
> Major factors for that are the implementation languages (C++ and C) and the vast attack surface. It's disheartening to see this trend continue.

You realize that there's only one browser which is starting to adopt alternative implementation languages, and it's not Chrome, right?
Of course I'm not blaming Google or Cloudflare, but it is kind of sad that larger and larger part of the Internet is moving behind their networks. I don't think this kind of centralization is good for the Internet.
It is just the direction the universe flows. Life is just a more complex incendiary reaction born out of a certain chemical chemical composition and planetary alignment.

In that sense it is perhaps similar to a volcano that erupt. Both are emergent from the same forces of entropy, but life just takes a non obvious path. Life seeks to burn itself out, the same way a volcano seeks to cool itself.
The true picture is that I have a performance issue that forces me to look at the RAM usage in the first place.

As I've wrote below: I had one addon (ublock) on Chrome while my FF is so full with addons that I have to look up what they actually do from time to time ;)
Less space for the DE's configuration to get screwed up and start getting in your way.
> Overall this should reduce costs as fewer uninsured patients will end up being treated in the ER, reducing costs passed on to everyone else.

The US has approx. 11 M illegal immigrants (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/20/5-facts-abou...). Can they also access Obamacare coverage? (I seriously hope so!)
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A lot of it is just familiarity. I get the same thing moving from FF to Chrome - I find the Chrome UI annoying and it doesn't work for me as well as FF.

Perhaps a nod to how much google wants to own your experience is how the chrome browser doesn't use your desktop's windowing decorators, instead spludging down its own horror. I prefer my own horror, thankyouverymuch!
My primary browser is Brave with in-built ad-blocker because Mozilla does not want to ship ad-blocker with Firefox. As ads is the most likely vector of malware distribution channel, that means that safety of users stopped to be a priority for Mozilla unfortunately.
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Also, the UPS cargo 747-44AF/SCD had inadequate cockpit/cargo air-handling separation, fire suppression, cargo-cockpit/airframe firewalling, lacked EVAS, isolated oxygen supplies and didn't have per-cargo-container fire detection and suppression.
This gives insight to your internal network structure to the public. It's better to run a local DNS server for internal use.
Yes, Google has market leverage. However, when IE was Firefox's competitor, MS was in just as powerful of a position, and Firefox was a success. They were a success because they clearly had the better browser.

These days, that's no longer the case. I know that I certainly did not switch from Firefox because of Google's marketing efforts or underhanded tactics.

But what if you're right? In a world where, I agree, it takes an insane amount of money to develop good software, where Google has more of that money than Firefox does, and where Google has really effective market leverage, do the "shoulds" have a chance? Is the future we want even a possibility?

I don't personally think that it is, which is why I wonder what larger changes we would need to see for that to become true.
You can make people change their behavior by shifting the weights, but it is pointless to tell them what their value should be. Make FF more convenient, or show how bad competitors are regarding to privacy.
> Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web.

So CloudFlare is a service you pay for, and they seem to be hosting every despicable backwater of the internet so presumably they take no stance of the 'goodness' of the site they protect.

Whereas Shield is a free service, but only extended to those who Google deem righteous enough to protect?

I think there's room for both. There could also be room for Google extending it to a paying service, although I'd be surprised if Google would take the brand risk of extending their protection to porn sites etc irregardless of fees.

And of course every time Google stand up and protect sites like KrebsOnSecurity for free, the tech world loves them that little bit more and its a massive PR opportunity miss for CloudFlare.

Of course, every time Google stand up and protect sites like KrebsOnSecurity for free, its a massive PR loss for Akamai who wouldn't/couldn't.
Yes, this, exactly
Unfortunetaly, on Brave browser, it doesn't show this text. It appears what it looks like a placeholder:

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Truck driving in the city, negotiating alleys and backing into loading docks. Sure that might be awhile. But long haul Interstate driving? With all of the restrictions on driver hours? That is coming as fast as possible. 8 hours driving at an average speed of 50 mph gives you 400 miles per "day". 24 hours at 50 mph gives you 1200 miles per day. Everyone saves time and money.
The public at large will never be swayed to use less convenient alternatives for ethical reasons. But even so, if a small, dedicated group of people are convinced, they can keep the ethical alternative just alive enough that it remains a somewhat viable alternative.

I don't think vegetarianism will ever be the norm, but there are enough vegetarians to create a market for vegetarian food. This creates options for people who don't want to eat meat for ethical reasons, increasing their freedom to live life the way they want without it being prohibitively inconvenient. A similar argument can be made for desktop Linux or using Firefox.
Once accustomed to browsers with more comprehensive customization it does feels rather limiting using anything else. It's the customization aspect that keeps me with Firefox coming from Opera Presto, in addition to a host of other functionality that thanks to its far more moddable nature is possible.

One of the things I love about Chromium though is the responsive and device modes of the web inspector. Top quality.
You could say the same about Coke vs Pepsi, but that doesn't stop either one from trying to maximize their market share.

I think the dev tools in Firefox and Chrome are much more distinct from each other than Coke vs Pepsi, though. The last time I used the FF dev tools (which was admittedly over a year ago) they were much slower and their support for changing attributes on HTML tags inline was more limited. I think the Net tab had fewer features too but this is going back a while so my memory is fuzzy.

Even if the only difference is personal preference, what's wrong with Firefox trying to accommodate more users' preferences?
This doesn't help.

For any of the reasons you mention we can pull another reason why FF is better.
The structure of Linux is really its worst enemy, having everything be a separate package results in a terrible end user experience, exacerbated by the developer fragmentation you mention. The only way to get a good looking and usable system is full top to bottom integration of the entire desktop environment. There are a few that try, but in the end you are running GTK and/or Qt, both of which are hideous and stick out like a sore thumb against anything well designed.

I tried damn near every combination of desktop environment and window manager on my RPi, hoping that someone had fixed this issue since the last time I tried running a Linux system. In the end I settled on LXQt as the best of the bunch, but it still isn't a good experience.
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38 here, and while the way I think about work has changed somewhat, the "bureaucracy to slow things down" aspect remains, if anything, more soul-destroying. If I have to spend time at work, I really, really, don't want the feeling it's just a burned offering to the gods of process. Still time for this to change, but I'm starting to doubt it will.
Limiting features such as Google Docs offline access to only Chrome is bad. I don't see that as Google is making efforts to make chrome good. I see it as Google is trying to promote Chrome browser through the demand it has generated for its core products. That kind of exclusivity is what worries me most. Especially when Google built chrome on open source Chromium.
“All scientific work is incomplete," he said. "All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.”

This is a very salient point, and I think defines the right attitude to these matters, eg climate change.
I actually did two internship there. The Seattle lab did ship many new features like content-aware fill, shake reduction introduced in Photoshop CC 2015. The researchers there also has lots of freedom to explore different directions not directly related to the products, and it turns out that many of them will become a new feature of products within a few years.
After years of trying, it still looks very bad on KDE, and even worse with a custom color scheme. Fix that, and I'll switch immediately.