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For e-readers you should use epub or similar format built specifically for them for the output. For actually rewriting Latex or other format that uses a make file is probably a good choice since it can be used to output to various formats (html, pdf of different sizes, epub, mobi, chm, man pages, etc.) This way people can download it and use it offline in various ways.

In terms of rights, no because as it has not been 70 years since he has passed. Now, if he has transferred his copyright or changed it himself to be public domain then yes. Otherwise you would have to wait until after the year 2052 legally when it goes into public domain.
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This sure sounds like an interesting problem. With the likes of AI, Google's Cloud Vision[0] and hopefully many more this sort of thing can definitely become a reality in the near future.

[0] - https://cloud.google.com/vision/
Search companies -- formerly Google, now Yahoo and others -- pay Mozilla so that the browser defaults to their search engine. While it may not be a display ad, it's effectively funded by advertising.
I recently disabled all add-ons in Firefox. It's a lot more stable and it's faster as well.
While i agree with the idea of being able to install whatever you want. What's wrong with it being behind a developer mode?

I would bet that 99%~ people don't need or even want that kind of absolute freedom. As a chrome user, the only plugin I have that I can't get on the play store is one for downloading youtube videos but I can still install it from the author website, just takes a few extra clicks.
They're not safe, nothing is but they're harder because of the secure enclave and so on. Are you going to tell me that it is a good idea to force Apple to offer security bypasses to allow said repairs to Touch ID that should be permitted to pair with the secure enclave that was originally paired with the previous Touch ID sensor only?

I have a feeling I'm overthinking what the article said. I need to look at the law itself.
Internet Explorer followed the same path. Edge is more restrictive for the same reasons which the Mozilla developers have discussed at length: security and reliability suffered and users inevitably blame the browser for the results.

Here's a comparison:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions/m...
Emojis in passwords would both make passwords more secure and easier to remember for some people. The drawback is that they're very hard to enter in normal, physical keyboards.
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But Mozilla cares about average users, not about making something for power-users only. That seems to be the big conflict here: power users saying "you've lost the masses, so make something for us" while Mozilla's mission is making something that would be good for the masses, and they'd rather fail trying than failing that mission by abandoning it.
> They essentially give full control of your computer to the developer of the add-on.

That's the entire point. Firebug could not have existed as a WebExtension, and thus without XUL addons the entire web development field could still be on Venkman or Script Editor rather than where it is now.

The XUL extensions model allows extensions in ways unmatched by WE, and yes the development experience isn't tremendous and it's a serious security risk, but that means it's possible to experiment or customise in ways WE don't allow. Users could get things like NoScript and greasemonkey and ad blockers and tree-style tabs without having to demonstrate its value to the browser developer and needing to get the tool itself or some necessary API integrated and merged into the browser.

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

That is utter garbage.
> but as regulations are removed, competition on a more micro level is booming.

If the internet is an example, that doesn't happen.
So, fix the problem instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I get it, it's a hard problem to fix. There would be a lot of pain in getting there, both for Mozilla and addon developers. But throwing in the towel feels like a cop-out.

The logic is sound, but so is closing down every theater because someone got shot in one of them. After all, everyone has TVs and blu-ray players now, and you can't get shot in a theater if there are no theaters...
When I first saw the switch I said that it could potentially become a huge platform for indie developers. This is definitely a step in the right direction, although I don't see why a devkit would even be necessary. Perhaps you're paying for software? Will this open the portable market to indie developers beyond phone games?
>"There's more to the world than the European and American middle class"

Did you read this article? Its exactly about the European middle class! One of the reasons these types of stories have been such a part of the news cycle lately is precisely because it is effecting the once safe middle class in both America and Europe.

Also why is the fact that it lasted a generation relevant? We are always guided by our recent history. Things like education, retirement, labor polices are all "informed" by our recent history.
Awesome. I'll keep it bookmarked.

Is there a special reason as to why you're putting these out there? Trying to attract talent, or making the world a better place?
Addons are what makes Firefox different. Trading loyal users for those who switch based on circumstantial positions seems absurd to me.
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I can't rule that out either. It might be that it is in Googles best interest to kill firefox.

Here is an alternative view I have in mind. The strategy to mimick chrome makes sense, because the masses think this is how the browser -- or as they call it the "internet" -- should look like. Its imho feasible to launch a television and internet campaign promoting firefox after the transition by stressing the privacy qualities. Mozilla has a quality other venders don't have.

By making it a pain free switch a big market share is possible for firefox.

Still, i doubt the current board has this view really in mind. I am thinking if I should apply for a position :)
>XUL-based Firefox add-ons are not better. They essentially give full control of your computer to the developer of the add-on

XUL does open up more attack surface than a web extension. However, web extensions open up enough that you're already in the business of trusting the creator of the extension.

A web extension is fully capable of stealing my online banking credentials, for example.
At one point in "Narcos", Escobar literally burned money to keep warm while on the run from police. So, I would not take this lesson too far.
Cartels are using drones for aerial surveillance in some areas to scout clear paths for foot smugglers, but I haven't heard of them using them to transport drugs. They do use manned ultralight aircraft, though.
For sales, I just ask that people pay me if I'm able to connect them with the person behind the problem. Essentially its a "Pay what you want" Model. Inevitably I'll have to move away from that model though.

In terms of marketing, I just kind of share what I'm up to on a regular basis and people seem interested. Also the email kind of markets itself to a degree. Friends tell friends, etc.

I do feel there could be value in software that keeps your marketing on schedule, and also helps to structure what you write about. It took me a while to figure out the structure of my weekly post.
Yeah, what bartread said. In no way did I mean to minimize the hard work that people do (and I did) to be successful. There is an awful lot of "make your own luck". But you still have to be at the right place at the right time. It's easy to say "well, duh, that's why I was there" and take credit and a certain amount of that is valid.

On the other hand, I've seen people with more talent than I have fail. If it were solely about their ability then they'd be rich.
They may be easier to write but they aren't as powerful. There are a number of examples of addons in sibling comments which won't exist any more because Mozilla wanted to make it "easier".

Even PG has remarked in an essay that success isn't easy - the people who will really succeed are the ones who put in the effort to do the hard things.
I'm pro open devices and anti imaginary property myself, but I don't see your argument. The only way I can connect your points is that perhaps without imaginary property, companies wouldn't have developed such a culture of secrecy and control - software would have stayed being seen as an "uninteresting" requirement of making a complete device. But with the ever-increasing complexity of software and the inherent irreversibility of compilation, I don't think that era would have lasted long regardless.
Ok, I'll remove it then and keep it local.

I don't know how to write epub, though I guess I should write in LaTeX : there has to be a conversion tool somewhere.
Yes, I an using it already since Vimperator is broken on the latest release of FF.
Except this doesn't make sense.

The set of clueless users who would install arbitrary malicious extensions and the set of clueless users who would download and run arbitrary executables is basically the same. Yet if they do the latter, any extention sandboxing is completely and utterly moot. It's the same issue as with mandatory extension signing; requiring signing for extensions while nothing stops someone from downloading an unsigned .exe (which could memory-patch Firefox if it so wished) is absurd.
The usual argument is that single payer will be cheaper because the single payer has a strong negotiating position from which to pay doctors and drug companies less. The suggestion is that the profits made by drug companies are a key factor in innovating health care.
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But this is the fix. Instead of allowing open access to the internals of Firefox, which will never be secure, you use a limited API. It isn't difficult to imagine that they can expand this API later to allow things that aren't currently possible. It's a hard problem to fix and there will be pain getting there.

And the theatre analogy is just silly. It's not like shutting down a theatre because someone got shot in it, it's like enacting a "no guns in this theatre" policy instead.
Been a happy Pale Moon user for a while. I hope the project keeps ticking on.
Well you have culture first of all, bringing in people from different cultures can lead to animosity and interpersonal conflict at times. Not to mention divise social groups that can occur when you hire alot from one particular country.

That and language, I have worked with devs and testers who just didn't have a great grasp on the english language which lead to a lot of frustration on both sides as we probably used half our jira comments clarifying/confirming what the other person meant.
I can't see this ever being implemented in hardware. Also what is the actual advantage of this over I2C/I3C, SPI etc?
My experience has been that it's pretty frustrating after a few minutes. It's a dead language with very few references available online. Apple recently added support for using JavaScript wherever you'd use AppleScript, and it wouldn't surprise me if they end up killing it off completely in a few years.
Is there a quick way to check whether or not specific add-ons are supported in the new version? I'm addicted to tree based tabs (100's of them open at the same time) and Scrapbook. Without those two I would have a very hard time to get through my workday.
Can Chrome do this: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center/?
This could be a PERFECT "gaming OS", with a little love. So tired of having to use Windows for my gaming machine.
> Gradually, neuroscientists came to realize that experts such as chess grand masters are experts because they have stored thousands of chunks of knowledge about their area of expertise in their long-term memory. Chess masters, for example, can recall tens of thousands of different chess patterns. Whatever the discipline, experts can call up to consciousness one or several of these well-knit-together, chunked neural subroutines to analyze and react to a new learning situation. This level of true understanding, and ability to use that understanding in new situations, comes only with the kind of rigor and familiarity that repetition, memorization, and practice can foster.

This made a lot of sense to me. A pianist plays through these chunks of knowledge - and learns through them as well. These "chunked neural subroutines" can be built, and clearly are.

I think a lot of resistance for me comes from learned helplessness (aka baby elephant syndrome). For me, growing up my inner narrative was one of failure and rejection. But as i've grown and changed this narrative to be more nurturing, I do see more and more, my capacity for a great many things. Am I crazy? A genius? An idiot? Nope. I just figured out that with a lot of curiosity, play and patience, you can become proficient or even a domain expert. That's easy to see, at a certain level.

But I think for a lot of us, we have a concept of who we are, what we are and what we are not. And this, at least for me, this definition of I, has held me back more than anything. Change the definition, challenge assumptions, push boundaries. See who you are.
Requiring a CS degree and asking coding questions that boil down to if you've memorised BFS/DFS.

When we were hiring, I noticed people couldn't look past non-CS degree, and so we were effectively turning people with 3+ years of experience and great Github profiles/real world experience away. Because we "wanted the best".

Or having people fail shitty coding "challenges" because they couldn't remember breadth-first search of the top of their heads. Never mind that they knew where to look the algos up, or the role was pretty much full stack web developer.
For those not in the know, Thomas Sowell is a conservative historian, and the US Chamber of Commerce is not as official as it sounds; it's a group that opposes government protections.

Maybe you're onto something, maybe we should only regulate big business.
Shoot, trial and error would be fine.
I've taught kids using https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ - they have a great Scratch based set of exercises. You sell it as "Design your own video games!!!!"

Also moves into HTML, Python, etc.

I had great fun teaching using their curriculum. They're rolling out worldwide and all their materials are CC licensed.
Macs come with a built-in emoji keyboard. Cmd+ctrl+space

But does it really improve security that much? If password is short, it's still gonna be quick to crack.
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That image does not seem to have the issue at all. Which makes me think that if it doesn't happen for everything in the scene, the engine is for some reason rendering that object to a lower-resolution buffer and upscaling it with point sampling.
This is a really cool idea. I wonder if the play calling is a pure democracy or if they have an algo to make good play callers have more sway.

They could do something like, for every play I vote for that wins, the results of that play add to the weight of my vote. So, for a sack, interception, etc, I lose weight, but I gain weight for every play with positive yardage.

Obviously that's a bit naïve, but you get the idea.

However weights are assigned, they could carry over from game to game and lead to the best play callers in the crowd having the most sway. It would also solve the problem of non-fans trying to sabotage the game.
All of these seem like they're just more brutal parallels to existing business practices.

> Kill your competition, literally.

Buy them out or price them out of business.

> Assassinate politicians that won't work with you.

Buy them, or their competition. Call it "lobbying".

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

Discredit them instead with carefully planned leaks and press releases.

> Slowly kill your client base as you ruin their life.

Seems to work for the Tobacco and Alcohol industries.
There is never enough clean teaspoons to stir hot drinks.
Looks cool, well done. I toyed with the idea of building something similar as a product a few months ago. I think there's an opportunity for a service that allow users to create their own integrations for services that are too niche for Alexa/Siri etc to bother with, but would still benefit from automation. Example might be booking local tennis courts, seeing what specials are on at local restaurant, etc.

Some other ideas-

- Save macros retroactively. i.e, Extension records all the time, user selects previous n steps from 'action history' view.

- Paid service for running macros in cloud on schedule, receive reports, notifications, etc.

- Invoke macros from Alexa, FB bot, etc

- With above, can interactively ask for instruction if it encounters an error (button not found, etc).
which could probably be knocked out by a simple jammer
Ease of operation for untrained pilots.
You are generally paying for unlocked firmware that will run whatever code you want, a feature that pirates would target on retail consoles. IIRC, some consoles also put more RAM in development kits.
Don't DevKits have extra ports for you to connect to the machine?
To say the only reason Apple makes products that are hard to repair so that they can force consumers to buy more new products is disingenuous. Could it not be that they are trying to make the most efficient use of space to make products smaller thereby having a second order effect of being less repairable? I am not saying this is the entire justification or that what you are saying isn't factored into their decision making process. What I am trying to say is that asserting they ARE doing something with the only reason being x, is wrong unless you have explicit knowledge of their internal thought process.
If they don't have much context, you could show them software projects tailored to their interests and capabilities/time constraints and ask them if they want to make something like that with you.
And a change in keyboard layout or font could easily render the user lost.
> I want the addons to have full control over my browser

I can assure you that you only want this if you can guarantee that your add-ons only do what they claim, don't have security vulnerabilities, and are never acquired and maliciously updated. Otherwise, a permissionless add-on model means a bug in TreeStyleTabs could potentially be used to exfiltrate your entire password database, plant malicious binaries on your system, and destroy local data. If TST had limited permissions along the lines of only being able to manipulate tabs and their UI, that wouldn't be a problem.

> Have you seen "treestyletabs" implementation on chrome? It's a whole other window that has to be started an placed on the left of the screen by user because of the addon limitations.

Firefox will not have this limitation.
I know right? I really loved this one, but was afraid the market wasn't large enough. Maybe I'll send it out anyways.

I've had several interviews with folks who are edit/sort a large amount of photos, and there are a lot of needs in that space. A really flexible image categorizer would help a lot of people.
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So like: Getting the ice cream is the goal, work is the conflict, other team has ice cream makes the craving more intensive and hopefully, there's some resolution to this journey.
I am so busy fighting fires and doing maintenance, that I don't have time to innovate. There are a few reasons for this: regulatory burden (healthcare), and the complexity of systems, especially integration between complex systems created by different vendors.
Well this has a standard USB Type-C Port for charging. Would be a waste to use it just for that.
Haha, right. That is how the article should have read.
take a look at this too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13499626
> 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.

IOW, the addons are software, just like Firefox is. That is what makes them useful.

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

I hope you realize that this attitude is 100% the opposite of the original Mozilla team, and that Firefox and Mozilla would not exist today if it had been. Firefox became what it is today because of its customizability and its empowerment of users.

> Firefox will be better off for only supporting webextensions.

On the contrary, it will no longer be Firefox. That is the point that we 15-plus-year, loyal users have been trying to drive through the thick heads at Mozilla.

If I wanted to use a browser like Chrome, I would use Chrome. What kind of product manager thinks he can beat his competitor by essentially duplicating their product, when there is no differentiation on price? Both browsers are free. People are already using Chrome because Google has what is essentially a Microsoft, IE-style de facto monopoly. People can still use Firefox if they prefer it--but if it ceases to be unique, why would they bother?

Firefox 56 will be the last version of Firefox I use, because Firefox 57 will no longer be useful to me. That is the bottom line.
Dev kits usually have extra memory for debugging overhead and occasionally hardware for cycle specific profiling and the like.

Most release games run up to 5mb(or less) to the system memory limits so you can't turn on debugging and waiting for LTCG builds which can take 30mins+.
Doesn't the Xbox One allow you to use normal consoles as Dev kits, effectively making it free? http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/30/11318568/xbox-one-dev-kit

Can't find recent information on PS4 dev kit prices, but given the number of indie games I see on it nowadays (and receive for free with PS+), I imagine it's not unreasonable.
This requires that everyone uses password managers that either work across all their platforms or that they know how to access and look up passwords for. I don't think the general user is ready for that.
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Sounds like you actually want client certificates.

If only our ancestors didn't so royally screw that up.. they took the brilliant public-key crypto and even just through the bazillion different encoding schemes and various "cert store" madness have made its use entirely untenable. The whole "the service can't know the password" problem was entirely solved and look where we stand today.
> Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back.

I still use it, and I find many discrepancies between the server logs and what appears in Google Analytics.

And having the raw NCSA logs allows me to run specialized queries on the data.
Have you seen the exact instruction challenge on youtube? I thought it was a great segue into technical thinking for young kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8
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That add-on won't run on ff57, either.
> What's wrong with it being behind a developer mode?

The fact that one doesn't exist. "Developer edition" is really just their alpha build, they don't have release builds that allow unsigned extension installs.
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The other drawback to emojis was that they used to completely crash Chrome's password manager, but I just checked again and it seems it's been fixed.
The power users are saying, Firefox became successful by being powerful. When it ceases to be powerful, it will cease to be successful. People will just use Chrome.