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Try Google. You want to see my arrest record? How can I prove to you the absence of evidence?

Telling someone what happened to them instead of listening to them because you don't want to believe them isn't very reasonable. You have the same reaction as most people at CMU: you don't believe what happened, so something must be wrong with me.

I'm sorry for getting a Computer Science degree at Carnegie Mellon University just because I wanted to become a programmer. Before I went to college people suggested to me that is what I should do if I wanted to get a job. People said professors would help you if you need help with schoolwork or getting a job, nobody suggested they would be rich and not care about any of the students. You can go down to CMU and ask if there's anyone to talk to or to help get a job but no professors of faculty will help you. They don't tell us what resources are available. I here about people at other schools who can get their school to help them. But when I ask at CMU everyone says they'll help me and then they ignore me. They tell me help should be available, but when I ask for it, everyone just gets angry at me.

So, yes, you are being offensive. Try figuring things out for yourself instead of insulting people with your unreasonableness.
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You throw out 900 resumes between step 1 and 2 because they didn't manage to submit one without tens of spelling mistakes?

I agree though that having everyone write a cover letter, that they can write in their own time, and that you can read in your own time is preferable though.

Better yet, just leave off on the cover letter requirement.
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What makes LLD faster than gold? gold's improvement on gnu ld was focusing on ELF output and removing BFD internal representation.

And shouldn't the name be llld?
Since that question was asked for us a couple of days ago (as the creator of awless), let me tell you that the authors were and still are researchers in Computer Science in public institutions in France. I vet personally for Tom (cf. http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/~hirschowitz/ ).

Patoline works well (PhD thesis were written using it) and the implementation in OCaml is nice and clean whereas the (La)TeX codebase is extremely complex.

edit: Funny coincidence, we were mentioning the Patoline project with the team last week.
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I think rockets are the real modern mass launchers. They can throw thing so far they'll never fall again.
You can use the LTS (Extended Support Release? Not sure about the Mozilla terminology) version. For a while..
November 14th. I really hope they get the promised additional APIs in order until then, but it seems like a really short time (given how they are not 1:1 Chrome yet last I checked). I personally don't mind the switch to much (since I really want better performance, and the beginning of e10s has helped, and I don't care much about non-trivial add-ons), but it's clear the promise of "We'll make new APIs for add-ons that need them" was important.
DownloadThemAll will work now and into the future with Pale Moon.
I'm actually not so opposed about software like VS (at least the older versions which did not phone home, and which all you did was download and install) --- it's reliance on services that are the main concern.
Binary trees was that for me. I listened to lectures and understood them very well from a conceptual point of view. But once I started writing them from scratch as an exercise did I learn that understanding the theory alone was woefully insufficient.
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You are right. I did and do not say every chrome user is stupid, there might be legitimate use-cases. But the vast amount of people just install chrome or get it side-loaded with some freeware and don't even think about their options and the impact of their choice. Now that is less than smart.
Shenanigans, that's what.
*Adapt and not adopt
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It is available on the net[1], but it's in PDF so it's not great to read on a e-reader.

So I started re-writing it in HTML[2]. Do I have the right to do that? If I do, would anyone be willing to help?

1.
https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/pdf/dissertation.pdf

2. http://grondilu.github.io/dissert.html
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Why? Does Chromium support Tree Style Tabs despite using WebExtensions? If that's the case, why would that not be possible for Firefox? Or would you switch to make a statement?
It seems that you are suggesting that the profits made by insurance companies is the key factor funding innovation in health care. This might be worth looking into, but I doubt this is true. It seems just as plausible if not more so that government grants in a country with single payer health care would drive innovation. The government would have an interest in both improving the health of citizens and finding new methods/techniques that reduce the cost of diagnosis and treatment.
This is a pretty clever idea to solicit ideas for software. Has it been effective?
I use Vimperator. I have not upgraded Firefox since 43.0.4 in order to continue to use Vimperator. I will not upgrade Firefox past the point where it does not support Vimperator.
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> has better addons

The add-ons might be better, but XUL-based Firefox add-ons are not better. They essentially give full control of your computer to the developer of the add-on. There's no permission model. The "APIs" are mostly the internals of Firefox itself, and when Firefox updates, lots of add-ons break.

Most add-ons can be ported to webextensions. The ones that can't probably shouldn't have ever been add-ons to begin with.

Lots of other browsers used to do the same thing Firefox does, and chose to use a webextension-like model instead. Why? Because those screenshots of folks with half their screen consumed by toolbars, weird popups, overlays in the browser viewport, extensions that sneakily inject ads into pages, and track user behavior _still exist_. And there's really nothing Mozilla can do to stop them.

Do you know how Firefox add-ons get approved? A human sits down and sifts through the obfuscated source code. I helped build these tools years ago, I can tell you it's hell. Beyond being error-prone, it causes months-long delays in add-ons getting approved.

Firefox will be better off for only supporting webextensions.
The code search is very poor. Case sensitivity, whole word, regexp search...
Here is an example of one I received a while back, but haven't included in the daily email because I was afraid it was a bit too niche.

"I work in sports photography.

A problem I face is that I spend a lot of time grouping and sorting players in uniform.

The software I want would read the jersey numbers and tag the image with the players shown in the picture. Then it would allow manual tagging for those with jersey numbers not visible.

I would pay for this software."
The main problem I face at work is email spam.
And this is just one of the many problems with the US medical system, even if it went to a single payer system taking the individual off the hook, the cost of delivery is completely out of control due to (in my opinion) a lack of "proper" capitalism.

Perhaps any acquisitions in the field of medicine should be subject to antitrust laws?
Thanks for the tip on this - installing.
How much does handling cash cost?
This is an interesting concept. It gets me thinking: what exactly makes this "slightly evil"?

It's not actually doing anything nefarious. It checks to see if it can use your credentials to access certain sites, but it doesn't actually do anything with them besides tell you that it worked.

There is of course the potential for doing nefarious things using your credentials on other sites. But... all software which receives a username and password has that potential.

I can only conclude that it's "slightly evil" to point out the possibility.
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Almost every day I use both of them. They both have pros and cons. It's all about having practice and spending time on any of them. But one thing for sure is a game changer that is FF dev tools can show you the events bound on element right next to it, unlike chrome's list of events.
VimFX works very well in FF51.
I doubt 0-60 time cracks the top 5 of most people's wants when they are buying a car.

The fixation on this is odd. I see plenty of Teslas and very fast imports around here in north CA but they always seem to be taking it easy...
Found the answer to my own question: They made it into 4.15 but since they are experimental the features are not mentioned in the release notes. [1]

[1] https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?136947-4-15-R...
Not yet! But I'm refreshing my inbox like crazy :)
Better wisdom from crowds
About 2) : the multi-process model is not "1 process per tab", but "M tabs sharing N processes". So you won't end up with 40 processes in your case. I've been running nightly with 5 processes for months and found that to be a good setup.
Understood, and this is why you tend to see more established spending spending money on campaigns that achieve brand awareness rather than campaigns that translate into immediate conversion right?
TV advertising is as large as all digital advertising combined. And TV advertising is almost all untargeted brand advertising, if they can get a big chunk of that pie it doesn't matter if a small business can't microtarget users with shitty ads.
If you think that's crazy, my friend's professor has the students join a Slack room he created that allows for anonymous usernames to discuss classroom stuff. He has the chat open in a projector during class. It's an interesting mess.
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Interesting! Care to elaborate?

I remember at one of my first jobs, one of my duties was to manually train our spam filter...
Artist without art degree?
These landing pages could really use clearer examples of what the product actually looks like from wallboard-viewer and admin interface standpoints. Clicked around for 45 seconds, unable to find screenshots, no thanks.
According to NetMarketShare stats [0], Firefox is now at under 12% of desktop marketshare... and falling. I've switched over to Chromium (and Safari on OSX) because I just couldn't justify slower speeds and much poorer performance overall anymore. I've also noticed it used a lot more CPU than alternative browsers... which is an issue if you're using a laptop. Once Mozilla kills off XPCOM and XUL-based addons [1], there won't be any real reasons left to use Firefox. Lots of Firefox die-hard users I know have already moved to Palemoon which will support XPCOM/XUL addons for the foreseeable future [2].

It's amazing to me how badly managed Mozilla is these days. They've been on a downward slope for the last two years and they still haven't done much to improve their position. Last week I checked Mozilla's homepage and couldn't even figure out what their guiding purpose is anymore. They seem to care more about social issues than about browsers and technology [3]. Unfortunately, they don't have much future.

[0] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

[2] https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml

[3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Did they have a choice in their career path?
Or simply fly directly into the US on an education or tourist visa[0].

0: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/03/homeland-sec...
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Programming language runtimes tend to be somewhat complex (real world ones, at least). The implementation of the internals of a modern LLVM-based JIT language is bound to be somewhat "esoteric" regardless of what it's written in – using C++11 wouldn't change that. The developer docs are pretty comprehensive these days and a significant number of people have "picked it up" and become serious contributors to Julia's internals. In fact, of the people who hack on internals the most these days, none are original developers. (I'm thinking of Jameson, Yichao and Keno for those who are familiar with Julia's development.)
> Note: Firefox 51 requires Vimperator 3.16 which is being reviewed by Mozilla and coming soon. For now, you can get the release on GitHub. However, in order to install unsigned add-ons (like releases on GitHub), you must use the Developer Edition of Firefox and after that open about:config and change the xpinstall.signatures.required property to false.
two of those are highly paid and none of them pay the employer to work
I personally think there's more than enough time in 4 years to both teach "theory"/computer science and practical skills.

A lot of classes and colleges just move too slow.
I believe you are confusing eminent domain (forced sale of real estate) with asset forfeiture (cops pull you over, find something to arrest you for, then take all your stuff and never give it back to you regardless of whether you're found guilty or not).
This is why a lot of the best mathematics books won't just state theorems, but will actually heavily encourage the reader to solve problems as well, as that is considered an indispensable part of the learning process.
No idea, but debit is flat 0.2%

(They also limited CC fees to 0.3%, so I'm afraid no "cash-back" when I dine)
The facts on the ground are that this particular workspace is doing well enough to write checks that do not bounce without a version control system.

Changing workflows and training employees comes with capital costs and business risks. Not using a version control is not a moral failing. It is a business decision. My advice is to understand why it is a business decision and what went into making it and not assume that immediately implementing version control is a local optimization let alone a global optimization for the business.

To put it another way, if the need for version control at this particular time in this particular context was obvious, there would be no need to ask the internet for arguments. The important argument would be to point to actual problems easily solved by version control that seriously and actually effect the business. Keep in mind that lots and lots of software has been and still is produced without version control.

None of which means I don't like version control and don't use it for my own projects and would not recommend it if someone asked my opinion (and probably would recommend it even if they did not since that's just my idiom). What it does mean is that walking into an ongoing business as a new employee and telling everyone that they don't know what the fk they're doing encourages people to take sides. Looking to win the argument over version control means looking to make other people lose the argument and that means people will disagree just on the basis of winning and losing.

Anyway, my random advice from the internet is to start using version control in ways that help you do your job without requiring anyone else to use it or deal with it. If people see it makes your life easier and does not impose on them at all, they'll naturally be curious if it will make their own life easier.

It will take time and might not work at all. At the very least you won't be telling you're teammates that they're wrong and save all the time that would be spent arguing. At best, you'll show them the advantages version control since might solve of the problems that version control can solve...but again, use version control in a way that does not create problems for anyone else and that means significant, effort and discipline and empathy on your part. All of which is harder than making arguments.

Good luck.
> I just couldn't justify slower speeds and much poorer performance overall anymore... once Mozilla kills off XPCOM and XUL-based addons, there won't be any real reasons left to use Firefox.

Now, make an enlightened guess as to why they're getting rid of XUL.
The package size of that thing is ridiculous. Used it once in a React/Redux app and it was about the same size as everything else combined.

Edit: 832kb apparently https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn/issues/169
Just like the old man's testimony in "12 angry men". He didn't see, but his mind filled in the wrong details.
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This first came out in 2013 or 14 IIRC. I remember signing up for it then.
This is related to the Curse of the Gifted. When I was a kid, I could grasp concepts easily and I understood maths very quickly so I didn't really bother doing things like homework or actually studying.

I then went to a decent university (a French Grande Ecole) and for the first year, I was still doing okish but I went from being a student who always had good results to doing average. Then, the second year came, and just understanding the concepts without cultivating fluency by practicing wasn't enough anymore and I failed hard. I hadn't learned how to learn and while I understood the concepts and could easily follow when the teacher solved a problem together with us, I had difficulties doing it on my own. I worked doing exercises and was able to pass but time and time again in my professional life, I've had the same issue where I tend to rely too much on my intuitive understanding until it fails.

I'm not sure how to help kids not to go down this path. As a kid, I would avoid any rote memorization and would probably not do any non graded exercise since I knew that I understood (and also since as a geek wanting to fit in, I tried to be more accepted by my peers by purposefully not doing my homework). In the end, I think the key is play and giving maybe challenging exercises that forces the kid to use his newly found understanding would be a way to get them used to not just rely on their intuition understanding.
It wouldn't really be to make a statement. Chromium is a better browser but because of the powerful add-ons Firefox's overall experience is better. Take that away and there's no real reason to stay with Firefox unless you like their license and Mozilla as a company.
Pretty neat that it was implemented in less than 600 lines of C.

One drawback, though, is that you couldn't use it for arbitrary data. The strings seem to be mapped to C strings, so variables can't contain nulls. No way to express a null in a string literal, either.

Edit: antirez (redis creator) also made a tiny tcl interpreter...actually a little smaller than Partcl. Has the same issues with null chars: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/picol.html
My first reaction was to disable automatic updates of Firefox. I'm not against change, but the whole controversy around this issue makes me a bit wary of blindly trusting Mozilla.

I want to make sure my browser experience doesn't get ruined because of this shift. I don't have the time or patience to clean up a messy first release with webextensions only, breaking my trusted browser add-ons. First seeing, then believing.
Consumers need protection from doctor's mistakes, plain and simple. I don't need to make an argument either. Call someone who has lost their child to a doctor's mistake.
>They won't answer your emails/take your calls?

Long list of issues. My personal favourite being "this line does not accept incoming calls". Mails being ignored. Or they pass it off to some random other person. Or they just tell you they don't have time.
Yup, just felt like cable again. Cancelled and have not looked back. Their 'network' programming is forgettable and mostly filler.
> 100MHz = 1ns.

You've misplaced a decimal point.

1GHz == 1ns.

100MHz is 10ns.
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How does a matte screen help? less glare?
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Firefox isn't a webextension. Why should I trust it and nobody else?
It's the most secure browser available. That's a not a 'might be legitimate' use case.
Tab Center has been my favorite tree-style tab add-on/plugin ever. None of the previous implementations come close to this for me.
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Firefox also seems slightly faster for me than Chrome (and Safari feels _a lot_ faster), but that's not enough to switch, since I'm so used to Chrome's sane UX and sync (and with a passphrase I'm pretty comfortable having that on Google's servers).
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I agree generally with your points, but this doesn't really address the issues being criticised in comments here. I want to use Firefox (I do currently use Firefox, despite a lot of limitations), but there comes a tipping point where the balance of privacy (and apparent "user-interest") and actual usability and power leads to a not-so-good proposition.

Someone has commented above that it seems like Mozilla management may have been bought off by competitors and may be deliberately trying to run Firefox into the ground. I don't believe this, but given the recent decision-making it's not entirely implausible.

Opera went a similar path ~5 years ago. Most Mozillans don't consider this comparable as Opera was closed-source (and there's this one-track tunnel vision people have around that term), but the similarities are stark. A company with a history of listening to its users and a massive level of contribution to open standards and interoperability, making a product that served a niche userbase extremely well, decided that aping it's mainstream competitor (Chrome) directly would somehow be a good move. Now there's no discernible difference between Opera and Chrome, and no reason whatsoever to choose the former over the latter.
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Vimium on Chrome is pretty good.
When you're feeling proficient and confident in something, move your goalposts, and force yourself to take the next step:

* Become proficient not just the concept or task, but good enough to where you can teach it to someone else, or write a clear and concise KB article.

* Implement it (perform the task) repeatedly, with consistent outcomes.

* Automate the process.

* Use this as one part of a much more complex system.
Go look at the CVE reports for each browser. Your taking a > 10x risk running anything other than Chrome. These changes Mozilla is making are to fix that.
Probably not the best comparison. Reality is more like:

- Kill your competition, literally.

- Assassinate politicians that won't work with you.

- Murder anyone in the press that speaks ill of you.

- Pay off regulators that might interfere with your business.

- Slowly kill your client base as you ruin their life.
There is still one major reason to stay with Firefox - it is not Chrome.
No it was not and that just defies all business logic. Do you really believe that a freight forwarder using steam ships that could guarantee your delivery in matter of days vs a matter of weeks via a service that employed horses didn't charge a premium for that service?

What would be the point of that?
Lots of other browsers used to do the same thing Firefox does, and chose to use a webextension-like model instead.

Really? Name three.

Your arguments may be true, yet they fail to answer the question: "If you hamstring the addons and make everything chrome/chromium like, what's the reasons to use FF then?" If Chrome made all the right decisions, we might as well kill off the Firefox project.
> Firefox will be better off for only supporting webextensions.

Sounds like Firefox developers will be better off. Everyone else will suffer.

I'm a developer, I understand how much the job sucks sometimes (that's why it's a job). But if you want a product to succeed, can't afford to put the comfort of your developers over that of the end user.