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Very disingenuous comparison. Shows a lack of comprehension or wilful ignorance of the issue many have expressed in this thread.
They would argue that they're bringing the barrier down substantially.
You can use most WebExtensions from Chrome with Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
You know bike shares with docks is a super common existing model, and dockless bike share is specifically built as an improvement to that?
> On Sanjay’s monitor, a thick column of 1s and 0s appeared, each row representing an indexed word. Sanjay pointed: a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1.

I was curious how he can see "a digit that should have been a 0 was a 1" in a "thick column of 1s and 0s"? Can you give a specific example. I'm not questioning that he did but I'd like to know a specific example.
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Meanwhile the BSDs are closer and haven't done that, capability systems have been around for years but breaking Unix means tools aren't around.
Nah. You can do it with anybody. I've been part of long-lived teams that pair. But there we rotated pairing partners once or twice a day, so that over the course of the week you'd pair with everybody.

I think that's much more sustainable for most. Pairing with the same person every day is sort of like sharing a snowbound cabin with them. There are very few people I get along with so well that they wouldn't grate after a few weeks.
Someone died the other day in a Lime scooter after hitting a tree.

If you search for news on scooter accidents you will see they are more likely with Limes. Why not Bird? Because Bird throttles the speed according to the current laws (15mph) while Limes go sometimes up to 20mph.

Disclaimer: I work for Bird.
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He just means it wasn’t designed for the purpose or future hope of profits
To be honest, my experience with FF has not be been great in the recent years — although I do acknowledge that it has improved recently. I can’t point my finger at one thing — it was combination of little things that bothered me enough to make me switch to Safari and later Chrome.

That said, my comment was directed towards that FF’s market share is plunging rapidly and unless things change drastically, it might become another Opera — a niche browser at best. We need something that can counter Chrome and by extension, Google — something that developers have to support in addition to Chrome. FF has been playing that role nicely so far, but for how long? FF is not cutting it in terms of adoption — in terms of challenging the might of Chrome.
Bird is different. They have real people answering the phone or email all the time.

Disclaimer: I work for Bird.
I did virtually the same thing in about 1991. Was really into NNs back then. Apparently that was the dark ages for NNs.
Absolutely. Just the bus factor thing was amazing on its own. It's the very rare startup where anybody can take a vacation whenever they need. But that was definitely my experience. Even though I was the first programmer, in pretty short order there was nothing where my absence a blocker. It was great.
Maybe, and maybe that's part of why it's bothering me. I don't have a frame in which to easily sit it.

I think that's a good analogy, but it's not quite right imo. The important factor for me is that, in this specific case the distributor (or whoever is putting them out) is placing them directly in front of a school.

Potential consumers of the service are socially expected to do work to maintain something they didn't put there or ask for and it's being purposefully placed in more naturally risky location. Or they're being placed in a way that's not very nice to others (blocking sidewalks or bike racks).

In the ball game scenario the consumer has chosen to get popcorn, made a mess (either purposefully or accidentally) and then chosen to leave it for others to take care of. So the consumer is being personally irresponsible.

My interpretation is that the scooter companies are being personally irresponsible, but then sort of making it look/feel like the potential consumers are being irresponsible?

You put your backpack in the main walkway of the airport. I tripped over it. Things spilled out of the backpack. Should I feel bad and try and pick up those things? Does that answer change if I see you doing the same thing every single Wednesday when I fly out?
Drinking half a liter of wine exposes you to as much risk as a bicyclist traveling twenty miles. Are you ready to have drinking regulated? We might need to register you with our central database to ensure that you do not exceed your government-mandated allowance of alcohol consumption for the day.
In what way? They offer lower quality learning than is freely available for any topic they cover. Paid courses don't bring the barrier down very much.
Have no worry. Little, if anything, is 100% correct.

We sometimes get hung up on correcting and contradicting people, often missing a deeper truth. It takes skill to find the grain of truth and build on it :-)
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My order of operations (if the weather is good and I’m going somewhere in that range) is to look at Bird and Lime to see if there’s a scooter within a block or two and call a Lyft if there isn’t. If there is, I save the time I’d spend waiting for a Lyft.

Given that I perceive fossil fuel savings, I feel it’s worth it to check and try to lean towards this method of transport.
I am the only one who read it as C.K Lewis?
This portfolio is built by committing your classwork to git, I wouldn't say Udacity has this as a particular advantage. If I search for a course, usually the first couple results I'll get are git repos, regardless of the institution offering said course.
Just buy Ubuntu and turn "windows" to a full on Linux Distro already.
It comes down to who's in charge, and what their motivations are.

Google's motivations include learning everything about you, and how to serve you more ads.

Linus' motivations include writing solid code and flipping people the bird.

It's not just about the current situation, either.

When Linus finally goes to the bitbucket in the sky, there are so many companies, organizations and private individuals with an incentive to keep Linux operating and free from backdoors, we can somewhat rest easy at night.

But with Chromium/Chrome - there are only a handful of organizations in the world that can keep up with the rate of patches coming out of Google. Google de-facto controls the direction of Chromium.

I'm not saying that's worse than the alternative. Maintaining something like that is a hell of a lot of work. Unfortunately, things have become so complex and monolithic that there are only a handful of viable browsers.

At least two of them have source available, so we can start over if we absolutely have to.
Not sure where the rebound is, the trending numbers show a strong decline even since the article. It’s even more bleak when you factor in mobile.
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It will prompt you to do so.
Why "some percentage"? I personally am ready to start "parking" my dockless shared bike in parking spots. I don't use cars, but I have to put up with them taking up a huge percentage of public space in my neighborhood.
Chromium is just a fork of WebKit, a fork of KHTML. Unless Microsoft is really planning on downsizing their web browser division, they’ll fork it instead of maintaining a rebranded patch set.
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I think I anticipated this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379360

>I wish Microsoft would just accept that no one will use Internet Explorer and devote resources to breaking MS-DOS compatibility.
But they don’t get the invoices of what you bought, just the total payment amount.
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The big companies, Google/Fb/etc hire that way but they also bring on niche experts. Leet code at those companies is for the code monkeys. They hire the people writing the ML/distributed systems/security code out of PhD programs and targeted hiring. Theres more to it, dont feel like typing it all up
Nice. Hows that occasional instance where you need to type your 100 character password into Netflix on a Smart TV?
Not only that, but a restraining order must tell the recipient where they are required to stay away from. So it forces you to tell your stalker where you live, work, etc. That's a high price unless they already know everything and for some reason moving isn't an option.
Are you guys planning on changing your internship policy this summer?
Homomorphic encryption (full and partial) opens the road to some unforeseen forms of obfuscation. This basically means that we'll see the status quo change in this area quite soon.

While the full homomorphic encryption schemes tend to be at the slower side for now, partially homomorphic systems are fast.
Which is legit, but at least where I am, those are (normally) not placed directly in walkways, or in a place that "consumes" an asset created and maintained by another business (i.e., a bike rack).
Udacity's clean, curated, well designed approach lost to market based diverse mooc approach by others.
There’s not much work on a pure Servo browser beyond experiment. They’ve just various uplifted Servo bits like webrenderer and stylo into Gecko.
I can't quite put my finger on it but something feels wrong about blaming the general populace for Edge's failure as a browser. Microsoft is one of the wealthiest companies on Earth. They've had every opportunity to use every marketing channel and dump resources into the team to make Edge an obvious winner. But they didn't.
Edge is an evolution of Internet Explorer. They removed some of the quirks they have added over the years, modernized the engine, but it's Internet Explorer to its core. It's just rebranded.
Yes, when I see that I move them. Just like I've spent years moving commercial sidewalk signs. Why is it only now that an environmentally beneficial and actually USEFUL item is causing trouble that the rest of you have started to care about wheelchair users and blind people?
I use Firefox for development, but I use safari (privately) and edge (professionally) for browsing, and see no real advantages to using either Firefox or Chrome for that.

I think modern Firefox is a much better browser than Chrome though, but Mozilla certainly lost the PR war and to no fault but their own, because Firefox sure sucked for a long while.
Yeah how dare people point out that some articles about China might have been biased! Isn't it interesting that every time someone presents countering viewpoints (not even necessarily defending the Chinese gov), they are almost immediately met with accusations of astroturfing/shilling?

On the other hand, a 2hrs old account that is likely created right before this comment is made is totes not suspicious at all. Nope, not suspicious, at all.
The problem is that devs got so sick of IE6 not being standards compliant (despite the fact that it was released before the standards were finalised and it was so good that people kept using it for years) that they refused to even contemplate any MS web browser ever again?
They want to avoid a second round of antitrust investigations. The first round was spurred in large part by the marketing push behind IE.
I don't. I was listing vegetarian protein sources they might have used. Foods are not just carbohydrates or protein or fat, they're a mix. Saying 78% of their calories came from carbohydrates just describes the macronutrients their diet provided. If you were to eat just beans (not recommended!), you might arrive at a ratio of about 80-90% carbs.
"fuck you" is not same as stupid. The comment is good actually- edge has potential, why not open source it since you're not going to do much with it anyway in terms of making money. this also brings devs to windows eco system and helps them explore windows internals.
> At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat

So instead of giving users more control over the update process and the telemetry settings, without dirty tricks to reset these and so on, they decide to use another browser. Fine, but that doesn't solve their basic problem with the perception of Windows 10.
Why can't he slow QT?
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For example the high bit in blocks of ASCII text will always be zero. In a binary dump it would appear as a column of zeros.
Partially. We are also in Venice, Culver City and Compton.
As one of the FF faithful, I almost quit when downthemall stopped working.

https://www.downthemall.net/
Hi, sorry I missed this message. You probably won't see this, but my plan is to do the following (you can Google the course names):

1. Learn math (I majored in history and sociology)

Classes
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Linear Algebra: Foundation to Frontiers (UT Austin)
Linear Algebra, MIT OpenCourseware
Single-Variable Calculus, MIT OpenCourseware
Multi-Variable Calculus, MIT OpenCourseware
Probability Theory, Stanford CS109

2. Learn machine learning
Machine Learning, Stanford CS229 (taught by Andrew Ng)
Classes @ deeplearning.ai (also taught by Andrew Ng)

3. Start my own project
Several friends and I had our Steam passwords stollen. Lesson I learned was not to have same password to more than one service because gmail account was hijacked too. The perpetrator stopped at changing gmail language to Polish, thank God. But, damage he/she could have done was much greater. It was before "login attempt from unknown location" messages. It was a drag to bring all back but we did it. The lesson also is: joining any online service/site we must accept the risk anything you provide could be stollen at some point and modify our usage phylosophy of these services.
My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap gesture. on air.

youtube is the definite leader for <10 y.o.s around me.
Interesting. What is the other engine?
Digital Ocean, very reliable, affordable and easy to manage. Highly recommended. We are running on DO our B2B startup with a lot of data storage needed, many users and a lot of data processing.
Another pass user here. Simple and understandable, two strong positives for that type of application.
Still puzzling to me. Chrome with its non-native, childish looks, questionable google integrations; and on the other hand the non-optional vertical tabs for firefox. I've never seen a tech-savy chrome user in the wild. Neither among colleagues, nor among friends.
By all accounts Mr. Rogers wasn't a persona, though, that was the real him. He really did want to be everybody's friend, not for fame or fortune, but because he wanted to make the world a better place.
Honestly, I think it’s a monoculture already and the fact that multiple engines exist puts up an illusion of competition. Google controls where the Web goes today, and that there is an oligopoly is a false symbol. At least Chrome gets more dominance, we can no longer pretend Google doesn’t already own the Web.
The "published HTML standards" change all the time and are themselves constantly negotiated between the browser vendors.
One engine already dominates the Web. Gecko is there just for show. Google more or less funds Gecko development.
I absolutely hate websites that allow users to spend time inputting information particularly contact information like emails only to tell them at the last step that they have to pay to get the end result. It's a really scummy thing to do.

Why do websites even do this? Do they really think that someone will drop $200+ on a whim because they've sunk 1-2 minutes?

It's ironic that they provide a service to analyze UX when theirs is pretty horrible.

Also it says top companies use UX reviews. Are they actually using the product advertised here or ux reviews in general? Because the way it's worded makes me think the latter.
I've heard that container shipping, and container shipping fleet expansion are important indicators, but I've also read that it went haywire in 2008, and the tradewar isn't helping.
Firefox on Linux appears to adopt the GTK themes (in my case Dark Themes) for web elements (Forms, message poxes, etc) and I have great difficulty removing the customisation. Chrome based browsers do not do that and it's one of the primary reasons I still use Chrome.
Modern cards commonly have rendering and compute pipelines available to be used in parallel. So in theory nothing stops games from using compute queues for physics.
The opposite of antipathy is sympathy.
He linked to Mozilla’s own public data set though. I think other data sets corroborate decline. The 9% might even be optimistic.
That has Edge 17, but not any past versions, and not Edge 18 which is the latest stable version.

With Chrome/Firefox, I can test in any version, as well as the development versions. And I don't have to jump through any hoops to do it.
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If someone parks their car across two spaces and I hit it, should I feel bad? What if someone does it every day in the apartment parking lot?

By the way, would you mind photographing the situation here? I think I might change my mind based on how much space these things are taking. My experience in SF is that people go out of their way to have them be in their way. But I may be judging you unfairly to be doing the same.

If there's lots of room, I feel the same about the scooter as I do about the hot dog man.
Information security is inherently asymmetric in offense vs defense:

Offense needs only one hole, whereas defense needs to plug all, including human behaviors.
When the offensive side finds a new attack, they can often try and see which of the victim is vulnerable, thus the offense can pick and choose among many potential victims, whereas the defensive side needs to defend from all attackers. The information, once leaked, can't be recovered - i.e. once exploit is successful, there's no "recovery" available.

All of those factors combined make defense orders of magnitude more difficult - in terms of careful attention to detail, in terms of manpower, in terms of human training and vigilance, etc. For those reasons, the best defensive strategy is to minimize the information you need to protect.
Fun to imagine an alternative reality where our brains would simply be unable to accept flashing monitor LEDs or vibrating speaker diaphragms as representations of people.
Out of couriosity, wouldn't it be an option to implement CORS? From my understanding, it's just a few static headers.

Agreed with the missing WebSocket inspection.
I have the book and the argument is on pg. 33-34 in my edition:

1. There exists a moral law within ourselves that instructs us on what we "ought" to do.

2. There must be a "mind" behind this force, as "you can hardly imagine a bit of matter giving instructions".

I think Lewis would revise or abandon his argument if he lived in our age.
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For a bit more context, my favorite article on the topic: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

tl;dr: Scientific publishing wasn't always like this. Publication was run mostly by scientific societies, who would charge little more than the physical cost of printing, but were inefficient and had huge backlogs.

The shift to the current status quo was pioneered by a literal conman, Robert Maxwell, who saw an opportunity to build a "perpetual financing machine". Maxwell eventually moved on to massive pension fraud instead [1], but in the meanwhile succeeded in building up Pergamon Press (the Elsevier-before-Elsevier) into a juggernaut with 47% profit margins. A few particularly relevant quotes:

> As Maxwell had predicted, competition didn’t drive down prices. Between 1975 and 1985, the average price of a journal doubled. The New York Times reported that in 1984 it cost $2,500 to subscribe to the journal Brain Research; in 1988, it cost more than $5,000. That same year, Harvard Library overran its research journal budget by half a million dollars.

> Scientists occasionally questioned the fairness of this hugely profitable business to which they supplied their work for free, but it was university librarians who first realised the trap in the market Maxwell had created. The librarians used university funds to buy journals on behalf of scientists. Maxwell was well aware of this. “Scientists are not as price-conscious as other professionals, mainly because they are not spending their own money,” he told his publication Global Business in a 1988 interview. And since there was no way to swap one journal for another, cheaper one, the result was, Maxwell continued, “a perpetual financing machine”. Librarians were locked into a series of thousands of tiny monopolies. There were now more than a million scientific articles being published a year, and they had to buy all of them at whatever price the publishers wanted.

> Scientific conferences tended to be drab, low-ceilinged affairs, but when Maxwell returned to the Geneva conference that year, he rented a house in nearby Collonge-Bellerive, a picturesque town on the lakeshore, where he entertained guests at parties with booze, cigars and sailboat trips. Scientists had never seen anything like him. “He always said we don’t compete on sales, we compete on authors,” Albert Henderson, a former deputy director at Pergamon, told me. “We would attend conferences specifically looking to recruit editors for new journals.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Aftermath:_Thef...
I test my app in Edge, every time a new version is released. When it inevitably fails, I shake my head in disbelief that Microsoft still hasn't paid a dev to spend a couple months fixing their IndexedDB implementation, which has been incomplete since the IE days.

Can't expect a small rag-tag group like Microsoft to compete with a rich corporate behemoth like Mozilla, I guess :)
WTF, what instability? I use it as my main browser and have (almost) no issues at all, even with ad blocker installed. Maybe 2x a month I need to launch Chrome for some weird site.
You really think a Microsoft browser is going to track you less? The same company whose entire OS is deliberately riddled with spyware and tracking, and even managed to sneak telemetry into an open source code editor?
I thought it was going to make me rich with a 32x32 icon. :(
I don’t have a sample size of one. I have the evidence of my eyes. Incredibly successful social movements look like the Mormons or Corbyn’s Labour, not some master brain washers who can take mentally healthy people and make them join a cult or other social movement and never leave. The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints is the most successful new religion of the past two centuries, possibly excluding the Baha’i. It has some weird and crazy beliefs and demands a level of commitment and community involvement that most Europeans or Americans would balk at and the average missionary spends two years trying to convert people. And most of them get nothing. I don’t even live in America and I know two ex-Mormons and one who based on his lifestyle will soon be an ex-Mormon. I hope I don’t need to convince you that Corbynism has been very successful indeed. It took over the main opposition party in the U.K. Much as I’m impressed by their fervour and convenient as they’ve made becoming a member of the Labour Party most of these people will not be Labour Party members in ten years, possibly five. They’ll get older and more cynical and age out of thinking they can make a difference in politics, Corbin will get into government and disappoint them, they won’t have enough cash to renew their membership. And that’s a successful political movement!

People aren’t brain washed. They make choices, sometimes shitty self destructive choices, occasionally deluded ones. But they are making choices.