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I truly don’t get how sites like udacity are able to sell thousands of amateurish introductions to various trends, when you can literally follow CS50 in all its incantations for free on edX.org.

Sure it won’t give you a video guide of X popular framework intro-documentation pages, but it will actually teach you CS for free, and I’d argue, that if you can complete CS50x and CS50x Web, then you’ll never need a site like udacity.

I guess FOMO sells though.
Might want to subscribe to https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/28 and https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/29 if you haven't already ;-)

(To clarify: it does have an adblocker, but it's quite basic, only based on a blacklist of hosts. You can also selectively enable JavaScript for individual domains, but not yet based on both webpage and its origin like with uMatrix)
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"Just use real quotes and observations"

Again, it seems you have a strong baseless bias against user centered design practices. You argue against a strawman of your creation.
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I guess it is best for whom? It is certainly fun to be part of such clique and everyone who has real responsibilities or relationships outside the office or who want to directly openly discuss workload will leave after a while having no choice.

As in, they are fun places if you single, but if you don't want to offload all children or sick relatives care to partner, you will be punished for drinking with buddies less. Your actual in-the-workplace behavior and output will be irrelevant.

They are fun places because of ping pong table and x-box console, but you wont be able to make explicit agreements about your workload and nature of work.
With the proliferation of cheap launches and satellites we are only at the beginning of satellite tv.
2FA when possible as well. Both Steam and Google offer this.
Do you really think a 6-year-old who thinks it's the best thing in the world is going to say 'no' to that? If anything that's encouragement.
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It's not antitrust unless you're pushing install your own products and only pushing your products.

You knowblike Google do if you access any of there services not in chrome "download chrome here", "this site works best in chrome".
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Then again, thinking about the kids' tv shows that only really existed to sell the toys (eg, Transformers) it's not that surprising.
I banned Ryan's after they started peddling his Walmart toys - my 4 year old hasn't seen/asked for Ryan's in last few months. So cut them off while young.
As someone who switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago my main issues are:

* No spellcheck in form fields (without a plugin, and I hate plugins).

* It feels slower. There's something about it that just doesn't feel as fast. Mostly things like opening windows etc.

* There's some annoying defaults.

* Dev tools aren't as good.

* Updates aren't installed automatically.

I mean, it's close to Chrome, which is good (for me), but it just feels about 5% less polished. It's good enough that I'll stick with it, after all there was a driving force for me to leave Chrome too.
> I have spent a lot of time observing this phenomenon in Venice

For half a second I had this vision of Lime jet-skis piling up and blocking the canals of Venice, Italy.
I can’t trust privacy.com. I refuse to give some company direct access to pull money from my bank. Only a matter of time until they’re breached too.
I said back in 2008 and I'll say it now, that ruling was absolutely idiotic, and still is (especially considering Webkit/iPhone situation).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588697
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I'm not sure what more they could do. They're extremely pushy about it in Windows. It takes several steps to make it stop pushing Edge when you open any web links.

I don't use Edge (or Chrome) because I don't trust the companies that make them, and it's one small piece of my computing life I can withhold from them. So...there's nothing they could do to make Edge good enough for me, without fixing the lack of trust I have toward Microsoft, which I guess is a marketing problem, but also a behavior problem. (Surprisingly, though, I think I feel less animosity toward Microsoft than I do for Google these days. Which, is hard for me to believe about myself, given how long and how much I've hated Microsoft over the years.)
I got an email that included “personalization data” in the list of data types that were stolen. The help page also says that information on “actions” was stolen.

Does this mean that every question or answer I’ve viewed is now in the hands of the attacker?
> Unfortunately market share is more about being about to efficiently distribute your product than just the quality of said product.

Firefox has broken out of this before by being a better product. Not being default on any platform is nothing compared to back in the day when IE had >95% market share and sites were made to work with it only.

These days even many linux distros are defaulting to chromium, that's the one place where it could be the "native" browser.
If only they'd swap put the Windows kernel for Linux while they're at it...
> I’d argue, that if you can complete CS50x and CS50x Web, then you’ll never need a site like udacity.

Sure, but that's a tiny minority of people.

If you have the capacity to complete deep CS courses, you can buy a book for $12 and learn React or Angular or any technology you want.

Most people don't have this capacity.

> I truly don’t get how sites like udacity are able to sell thousands of amateurish introductions to various trends

1. People read that some trend gets you jobs.

2. People don't have the discipline or enough foundation to just buy the $12 book and learn trend by themselves.

3. People find a course online that is really basic and thus doesn't tax their mental resources while convincing them they'll be able to get job later in the trend.

4. People get job, or they don't (I bet they don't, since having low learning capacity isn't a good predictor for getting a job in an intellectual field), either way Udacity gets paid.

It's not a bad business model, but eventually it will collapse because customers routinely fail to obtain the key value proposition: tech skills or a job using them.
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Clean your heatsink out, and also consider replacing the heatsink paste: that CPU is so old, its entirely possible a cheap thermal pad is no longer usable (commonly used on laptops and stock desktop HSFs).
Alternative headline: Firefox market share greater than Edge, Safari, and Opera combined.
Banks in theory have consequences for lending more than is reasonably available to them. The Fed really can create money out of thin air. That's a big difference.
Symantec's system does suck but there's actually a way to use it with Google Authenticator:

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The advantage of Firefox / Chrome in general is that if you develop habits / shortcuts you can use them in any OS. Safari only works on macOS and edge on Windows.

Both their plugin ecosystems are significantly less robust as well e.g if you want to use any popular tools e.g shodan, google data saver, edit this cookie, etc
"This add-on has been discontinued"

It's kinda strange how bad mozilla is in doing the obvious good. Building in a direct support for chrome-store should be a priority. Solutions like this addon have such a bad experience..
Right, the point being made is that Webkit/Safari are often the slowest of the bunch which is fine when you have three others but now each browser effectively has veto power and the expectation is that Webkit will wield it often.

It's saying "oh no, now Webkit can block things", not "oh no, we don't have enough strong implementations"
Suggest it to them?? If it's really faster, why wouldn't they merge it?
By exploiting how Windows C++ compilers layout VMT tables.

Yet this is much less relevant in UWP, which allows for richer type system.

Additionally the COM/UWP ABI requires type libraries for properly accessing the objects and marshaling.
What I like in chrome is search shortcuts, example I start typing "thes" then press TAB, then I'm brought directly to https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hello (possibly with little configuration).
I don't think Firefox has similar things, last time I checked we have to use bookmarks or something
Just pick up any special relativity textbook (if you don't know Special Relativity, it really only requires basic algebra to understand most of it and is pretty intuitive once you've read it). I recommend Taylor's "Spacetime Physics" which has lots of fun pictures and examples.

Anyway, you can think of special relativity is being all about information: if I look at something moving, it takes time for the light to reach me and by the time it has the thing I see isn't quite there any more. When things go really fast this becomes noticeable, as information about where something is can only travel so fast.

If you think of the deformation of a transparent crystal you could see what's going on pretty much immediately (light is slower in a dense medium, but not appreciably so in this example). But in an opaque crystal only the waveforms due to displacement (AKA "sound waves") can transmit "state" information from one place to another.

So you can draw the same Minkowski diagrams you would for interstellar space, only instead imagine them being inside the crystal. You can pretty immediately see that the maximum speed of information propagation is the speed of sound, so any deformation can only be learned about by a signal moving that fast. The same pictures that show a speeding rocket foreshortened now describe your crystal deformation when seen from various perspectives. Of course with a crystal you can squeeze from multiple sides which can make the diagrams a lot more interesting!
If you have iCloud SMS enabled, then it works on your Mac as well, not just on your phone
Given how much of the software development happens in Israel, there is probably some Israeli software in every phone. So describing it as "Israeli software" (as if it's the only software ever made in Israel or Israel is exclusively known for developing spyware) is extremely misleading.
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That's an excellent example.
I tried this once, but the terms are onerous, or they were when I tried it last. They expire frequently, they're huge (and I am on mobile broadband, which becomes very expensive if I run out of my data allotment in a month), they're limited in terms of versions.

Microsoft could change the game by open sourcing Edge, but I guess the key goal is getting all that user data, not having the best browser. (But, Google manages to get all the user data and have a mostly open source browser that people unbelievably have a lot of positive feelings about.)
This vision is pathetic, unambitious. What if Microsoft is content to reskin and rehome Chrome, submit their battery life PRs, and cede the web to Google? What is the web once Google dominates its access?
And if you look at their submissions and comments, you’ll see a heavy China focus.
I'm also using firefox, on both mobile and desktop. With ublock origin, decentraleyes, privacy badger, and https everywhere add-ons.
If brainwashing doesn’t work why don’t you rule the world? Why doesn’t somebody? If there is a known or knowable with some research way of altering the goals and beliefs of people permanently outside (or including) totalitarianism I am unaware of it. If you are aware I would appreciate some citations. If brainwashing worked a whole hell of a lot more of the world would be communist in name and fact than is the case for either now.

If people do things mostly because they want to do them is victim blaming where is individual responsibility for anything? We are all enmeshed in society and systems of social control (but I repeat myself).

Groups and pressure from groups on people to belong may be extremely strong but the overwhelming majority of people belong only to the most anodyne inoffensive subcultures, thoroughly accepted by the host society, whether they be a religion, political persuasion, musical taste or athletic subculture. People dip their toe into a subculture and if they like it they either start paddling or jump right in. Most of them try multiple subcultures and eventually settle on a small number to continue in or none.

Online subcultures are no more, and probably less, able to influence other individuals than offline ones. They’re just more attractive because you can find the one that’s just right for you. People move to be around others like them, gay men and lesbians to Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, New York, hippies to San Francisco in the 60’s, people into dance music to Detroit or Chicago, rationalists to Berkeley and the Bay. The only way emergent structures and collective memory can have _control_ over free people is through their free choice.

My personal experience is as excellent a guide as yours. I do not see successful brain washing. I see subcultures, some deeply unhealthy, attracting people who find them congenial.

Here’s a literature review on brain washing and how it doesn’t work.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TiG8cLkBRW4QgsfrR/notes-on-b...
Reading the comments here make me chuckle. I honestly find it mind boggling that people would complain of bicycles taking up space, let alone scooters.

I love the bike share programs in Taiwan and China. I haven’t used a car in years. Yeah some people trash the bikes but most people at least seem to give a shit.

Why this is such an issue in the West, I can’t understand...
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Chrome trusts the OS cert store on Windows. Works perfectly.
Those videos of the computer's prediction of events that _haven't happened yet_ are fascinating.
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There are deprecated extensions that can't be ported to Quantum and were actually useful to many users. And then Quantum is a memory hog, jumping from ESR 52.9 to the current version it needs a couple GB more for my workflow. It's faster and looks nice, but my computers are powerful enough to make that pretty much irrelevant.

For this small speed gain and unless I switch to Waterfox or some other community effort that tries somewhat hopelessly to keep alive what many users want, I have to buy more memory and stop using FireFTP and Session Manager. I just needed Firefox, not a Chrome competitor.
I expect that future generations will have a better sense of how personality changes over time, and thus less embarrassment from old videos.
I think if anything the etiquette will get worse. I've already heard of people throwing bunches of them in dumpsters, then when the dumpster is picked up and compacted the batteries catch fire setting the entire load of garbage on fire.
Which just caught up with Chromium. And hardware acceleration on Linux is still disabled by default.
In 2018 in a real OS (linux) it shows up along with all the other updates in a central gui for updating your OS that depending on your flavor may notify you of available updates for example by incriminating the number in a tray icon but never forces you to install except when it is convenient for you.

If you install locally. Example downloading the nightly build to a local dir or installing in windows you may receive notifications of a new version when you open it but you can safely dismiss them with one click and update next Thursday if you like. At no point will it decide that its time whether you like it or not like windows update.
Seriously? You would sell your soul to the devil to save typing four extra characters?
If we went to war with every country that committed hits against their own people we'd be at war with half the world. There's some balance and restraint we have to have in dealing with the world. Imperialism is not a sustainable strategy in 2018.
To be honest I thought changing the logo made sense since I didn't really believe they built an entirely new browser. Despite all the press about the core being somehow different I figured it must still share a lot of code (and I wasn't the only one [1])...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-edge-hit-by-many-of-...
> We will increase our investments in growth areas like enterprise and career development

I'm surprised the shift has taken this long. Employers will spend massively more on employee development than employees will.

Employer: $2,000 for a 5 day class? No problem.

Employee out of pocket: $150 for 6 weeks? I wonder if I can just read some tutorials.
You are saying like if almost 1 billion of WIndows 10 users aren't huge installed base?
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My experience is exactly the opposite. Each time I'm past 200 tabs or something (i.e. all the time), Chrome's UI starts occasionally lagging and glitching, and I'm not even talking about memory usage (overall or even just parent process alone) and how it's affecting the operating system. Even with pre-Quantum Firefox I was always pushing limits much, much further.

However I'm avoiding media- and script-heavy websites as much as possible, and block a couple of ad networks solely because of the stress that rich media ads (videos flying all over iframes and whatnot) causes for the hardware I'm running the browser on. (I don't mind ads if they don't take 8 CPU cores to render, but they seem to be disappearing from the internet.)
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This is the most insightful response I've received this entire thread. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not sure how I feel about the idea that women are viewed as potential catastrophes. That's probably just where we're at with identity politics these days.
In theory maybe, but in practice we rarely do. Sometimes even when the idea is pretty clear, like WebKit's CSS JIT, it's not that easy to copy because of underlying assumptions.
I wonder how many views one needs to get such income and who pays it? I had a blog with 500k monthly unique visitors and rarely made over $500 from AdSense. I had pretty good bounce rate and average visit was 7 minutes.
> Udacity has been much better than my actual university for almost every topic I've went to them for.

Which topics, in particular?
The only thing I care about w.r.t mobile extensions is an adblocker, and the Safari iOS content blocking API works wonderfully for that.

Wipr is the one I use, and I basically never see ads anymore on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027?mt=8
No, I tell my friends and family to use Firefox. There is more than one decent browser out there.
I don't like the idea of everything using the Chromium engine; monoculture _is_ bad and we shouldn't put our eggs in the one basket. That said, IE and Edge have historically been terrible both compatibility and performance-wise. It's not just websites that aren't tested in Edge - my experience with Edge is that all aspects of performance (initial load time, ui responsiveness, web site responsiveness) are terribly slow.

I applaud the death of IE and Edge. One thing I'm worried about though is that Chromium may take over the market and we end up with websites working only in Chromium based browsers and other important browsers like Firefox and Safari get left in the dirt.
chadash wrote a nice explanation further up in the thread
Great article! Two powerful minds working on analyzing and solving on same thread of thought. Kudos to the writer, very well presented.
Pewdiepie definitely diverges strongly from Felix‘ IRL persona. Pewdiepie is an outgoing personality with misogynistic tendencies, playing with racial slurs every now and then, appealing to his Reddit/4chanish/incel followers (whom he now calls army of 9 year olds).

IRL he seems to be awkward around other people, soft (nice), and obviously a bit depressed.
At least Firefox has no intentions of throwing in the towel and adopting webkit/blink yet
Correction, in "Blue Planet II" series.
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>'personalities' whose existence is a function of the media themselves.

These could be today's satirists
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1. Learn how to say "no."

2. Learn how to say "I was wrong."

3. Learn how to say "I don't know."

4. It is ok to change your mind

By "learn how to" I mean "gracefully and confidently".

Longer version:
I have learned to care immensely about what I'm working on but not get stressed. I constantly step back and affirm that most things just aren't a big deal. That gives me clarity of thought and allows me to do really good work and have a lot of fun doing it. No matter what happens, nothing can take away my ability to learn and self improve. Therefore, I will always be ok.
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Well they don't all use Edge. The majority of them use Chrome!