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No, it's a new browser built from the ground up with none of the baggage of IE.
generally i agree they are spending a lot of money on development but they are also ensuring the future for their Web Tools when they have their own browser.

Honestly speaking its good to have competition and apart from Firefox and Safari (partially due to being Apple sepcific), Edge was the only Browser (with an own engine) that could compete with Chrome.
Your drawings would look great in 3D!
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> Chrome didn’t come to dominate the desktop browser market by forcing users’ hand, but by offering a better experience.

Disagree strongly. Reasons:

- Google has been extremely pushy with Chrome, including lying (IMO) about it on their front page, a place where no other ads have been shown ever (IIRC).

- Their own products often don't work in other browsers. Might be an honest mistake but personally I really don't buy the idea that Google cannot afford a QA team, so I'm going with the idea that they classify all this as "really useful bugs".

- People keep telling me that Chrome is better. I've tried to like Chrome (before I started shunning Google, I used to be a fanboy) and for me it could never replace Firefox for work (development, support and research). So I go with "better for some people".

- Today I'd argue that more than ever Chrome is a worse choice. It's not like they've stopped sending every address you type in back to their AI, and recently they've strayed so far from "Don't be evil" that even they realized it was becoming a joke. (Something something about animals on a farm and pigs painting the barn wall at night.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18530906

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18530389
> when it starts up again, it should be able to preserve this half-entered user input!

I wouldn't expect this at all!
> What the comment about ASCII means is that NUL is a valid character in an ASCII string, but it can't be represented in C's null-terminated string encoding as the format (sometimes called ASCIIZ, but yeah: not an encoding... but I mean, come on... the article is clear here) terminates at the first NUL.

I think ASCIIZ is the more common format, so I replied with all that in response to ASCIIZ being called "unusual". Most popular languages that actually allow NUL bytes in strings usually tend to support some encoding of Unicode anyways…

> Also, Nil is absolutely a thing in Objective-C: it is a null pointer of type Class

You got me…in my defense, I didn't know about this to my knowledge. It was still stupid of me to assume that DuckDuckGo would be case-sensitive when I searched that. I guess I should use this for Classes now instead of nil.

> I frankly think listing NULL and boost::optional is totally acceptable and complaining about it as if C++11 is more canonical is just being annoying.

One ships with C++, one doesn't; that's like saying Joda-Time is the canonical date library for Java instead of java.time. Although, I should probably ask you if you consider Joda-Time to be "more canonical" before listing it as an example…

> Doing a quick search for how nil works in Swift, it apparently isn't a null pointer, so you are wrong there as well :(.
> I am frankly betting that your comment about UnsafePointer is also not useful

I should have been more explicit, since these kind of run together when you bring pointers into the mix, which I guess I should have realized once I read the footnote. I'm not really satisfied with the explanation given in the article, nor your rebuttal of my argument. Swift's nil is overloaded in a sense: for native Swift structures, it's the whole "Optional-as-an-enum" abstraction that we know about. For class types, and pointers, it's a bit more complicated: you just cannot assign nil to a UnsafePointer or a SomeClass unless it's "Optional", but the "Optional-ness" is completely in the type system and under the hood, in order to facilitate interoperatability with C, Objective-C et al. you need to actually have the type of the size be sizeof(void *), have zeroes in it, etc. You cannot actually set either of these types to nil if they are non-Optional unless you do illegal things. So when you set a "pointer" (being an Optional<SomeClass>, UnsafePointer?) here to nil, you are literally shoving a nil it in, which also happens to work well with Swift's type system and Optional.none abstraction because there is no way to subvert it legally. All of this was basically a long-winded way of saying that yes, Swift's nil is actually NULL, but the type system makes sure that you don't get a "bare NULL" which lets you pretend like the Optional enumeration abstraction works but under the hood, and semantically, it's the same thing as NULL.
> Chrome didn’t come to dominate the desktop browser market by forcing users’ hand, but by offering a better experience .

That, and popping up that "works better in chrome!" thing on every one of their web properties for a few years.
They provide login with Google and Facebook too.

Would it be possible those logins are more secure?
>>They’re completely dorky and I’ll never be caught dead on one

Sorry for asking, but are you thirteen?
I've often wondered whether elephant-like aliens would make sense, exactly because of this.

I guess Niven and Pournelle had the same idea for Footfall.
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I also do that (almost, keeweb + dropbox) and copy paste logins, but a serious problem is that you need to clear the clipboard after, otherwise any other site you visit can read it.
What the fall of the petrodollar will change though, is that the US will lose some of its "friends" it could rely on by default. The US will have to work on its diplomacy again. I hope it will not be too much of the gunboat kind.
Not the OP.

Some very amazing games that are largely one man projects

On steam:

Kenshi: amazing game and about to hit 1.0

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/30/kenshis-eight-year-deve...

Off steam:

Dwarf Fortress

Those are just two that immediately come to mind
Volga-Dnepr's 7-hour airfreight solution saves customer a 20-day sea journey
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They should just do it when you close the last window, if the OS is not shutting down.
Feminine hygiene market
I wonder if this also means ChakraCore would be abandoned. I haven't played with it directly, put it seems to be a very capable JS runtime, which has no home outside of Edge. Well, there is node-chakracore, but I wonder why Microsoft would interested in keeping that effort.

Unless... they replace V8 in their Chromium build with Chakra. They already have a V8 API shim, so I guess that would be within reach.
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Government funded art doesn't make it pure art

Sure, but it's no less pure than art funded by a private benefactor or patron.
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They should apply it when the last window is closed (checking the OS is not shutting down).
I was interested to see that the top 10 earners are all male.[1] I wonder if this is merely a reflection of greater male patronage of Youtube generally but the topics that these top earners are focusing on are not all stereotypically male interests. The 7 year old kid reviews toys which seems quite gender neutral and then there's the makeup artist which, presumably, would be of more interest to a female audience. What is stopping women and girls from dominating Youtube?

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Vaping – Teen Epidemic of the Century or Money Politics?
That rings a bell, indeed. Especially the phrase "scan doubler".

Thanks!

It's been so long since I really concentrated on the A1200/Amiga stuff in general, I've forgotten most of it :)
> While the passwords were encrypted (hashed with a salt that varies for each user), it is generally a best practice not to reuse the same password across multiple services, and we recommend that people change their passwords if they are doing so.

According to my trusted Password Safe (https://pwsafe.org/) I call about 400 accounts my own - each one with a unique random password.
The only problem with IE box model was that they implemented it before the standard got finished (and changed) so it was impossible to fix it without breaking already existing web pages.

The situation is not very different from now with Chrome implementing unfinished proposals.
Except FF's tools are slower and the experience is overall worse. A lot has improved about firefox (including my old main complaint, that the renderer was slow) but saying the dev tools are at all acceptable when you're used to Chrome's is sadly still a stretch.
> will be written by WebKit team alone.

or, webkit will become the equivalent of linux for browsers. Considering that there will be less incompatibilities , it's a good thing. The hope is that competition for users will lead to innovations that benefit them, and not wall them off from competing platforms.
Feels good to have left Quora and gotten confirmation that they'd wiped my account shortly after they hit mainstream. (Cannot remember exactly what happened but I think they defaulted to showing every question I visited in my public timeline or something.)
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Use of Blockchain for P2P Lending Platforms
It's so inconsistent. I was a Quora member for years and wrote a lot of answers as well as participating in a lot of discussions. Despite this I was never asked to confirm my identity!

I deleted my account last year (got cold feet as I was using my real name and picture and people I know IRL had started to stumble across some of my answers) but I'm sure my data is probably involved in this breach somewhow.
The problem with electron is that every electron app is shipping with chromium, which means a lot of resources are being duplicated.

A way to solve this is to make the JavaScript/html layer part of the OS, so that electron apps would ship as thin layers on top of a the system’s engine (The same way that java applications are thin layers on top of Java’s virtual machine).

Apparently, the way Edge is built doesn’t allow for replacing chromium in electron apps. So they need their own version of chromium instead.
They should add another button to indicate sensitivity to such passive aggressive buttons. It should redirect to disney.com.
It's hard, being FF.

Before chrome, FF outcompeted IE & safari on features. FF's features against OS makers moats like making their browser default and unlimited finances.

Once mobile got added to the mix, default, preinstalled browsers had even more advantage.

The feature/quality gap just isn't enough anymore. When FF gained all that market share 10-15 yrs ago, it had tabs years before the competition. It had add-ons before the competition. You could have IE6 or you could have FF with firebug, "tabbed browsing," as blocking, and cool web 2.0 stuff like social bookmarks and whatnot.

It was a massive feature gap. That's no longer the case. Hard times.
Linux does well with some macros: IS_ERR, IS_ERR_VALUE, PTR_ERR, ERR_PTR, PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO, ERR_CAST, IS_ERR_OR_NULL

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux...

No, it doesn't totally replace NULL, but it does solve some of the problems in a high-performance way.
And it must end with "-The Quora Team"

Because we will leak your data, but we won't bother designating a responsible spokeperson be it security officer, cto, vp of engineering or principal architect. It will be the all nebulous quora team.
This gets claimed a lot, but I've never seen reliable evidence for the "agreement", and the oil buying countries wouldn't accumulate USD - the whole point is to spend it on buying oil.

US inflation management is done by the Fed, which has got rather good at it. It's one of the few big success stories of 20th century economics is working out how to do inflation control with interest rates reliably.
This is what I am wondering. Quora will email you after viewing a question with something to the effect of, “Still looking for answers to ____?”

Your email address and hashed password being exposed is one thing. That information plus your search history is quite another.
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The Problem with Feedback
> Isn't there an inherent need in programming to express an explicit "nothing" value?

In numerical calculus: yes, most certainly. What do you expect the result of log(-1) to be? The alternative is to use specially tagged particular numbers as "no-data", and pray so that they do not appear naturally as the result of computations.
Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why?
If I were a supreme being trying to communicate with humanity, I would definitely and purposefully try to force them to engage their brains to understand what I was trying to say.

Most of the worst aspects of religion come when people don't think at all about nuance or that there might be a variety of reasonable views about how to understand a sacred text, or the need to apply it thoughtfully to their own situation. I'd want to make any sacred text I was inspiring as far from clear, modern and unambiguous as possible.

Not to mention, if your aim is to inspire a work that can be usefully read in nomadic farming communities thousands of years ago and also in the AI, VR infused future, you're going to need a certain amount of ambiguity.
AFAIK, none of it is funded by the government

Virtually all governments all over the world have various arts funding schemes that covers music.

That being said I have no strong opinion either way on if that's a good thing or if the music funded this wouldn't have been funded some other way if those schemes hadn't existed
It's a different source of tracking, and frankly speaking, we know why Microsoft wants to track us - the same reason they always have. Microsoft wants to sell us more of their own products, generally speaking. It's not about throwing all private data to the open market for the highest bidder. I'd rather have M$ out there looking to sell their own products and services to me than Google looking to sell me to their advertisers and whoever pays them this week.
Police, spies gain powers to access encrypted messages after political deal
I'd like to know that too, as a recruiting manager I've wondered why there are no more female manager role models and what I can do to change that (and I did change some things in the past).

Recently I saw a woman and man commenting on the chess championship on YT, both excellent chess players.

She tried to impress/be liked by being nice and helpful, he tried to impress/be liked by being powerful. This of course should not be taken as a study but a starting point for some thought - he kind of dominated her appearance (though I guess this wasn't his intention).
For zsh, zaw[1]'s history is insanely useful. I don't really think a neural network is needed. Usually I get to the exact line I wanted with a few keystrokes.

[1]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zaw
Pretty much my experience. From time to time I see some article claiming how Firefox is getting faster and more awesome, but when I try it out I never see any improvements on my modest hardware.
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This is one reason I dont write anonymous answers on Quora....
why force equal outcomes on such a niche place like Youtube?

on Instagram the top earners are all females. Kylie Jenner makes $1 million per post, Selena Gomez 800k. And it is ok to be like that as Instagram is 70% female.
Even though I broadly agree with them politically, I still think companies should be apolitical. All these politics involved in things that aren't inherently political are tiring.
Also usability, most people just don't care enough. (which is reasonable often)
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18596197

Edit: oops I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18583782. Hilarious responses though.
Exactly this. MMT works fine for self-denominated debt.

The classic element of currency crises and hyperinflation is always that you can't print foreign currency: if your trade+investment balance is bad enough, imported items become more and more scarce relative to local ones. This crucially includes oil.
That is like telling anything can be consumed from Assembly, thus it has an Assembly ABI, even if painful.
It creates bigger winners and even bigger losers.

There are kids who have been depressed since age 8, no idea when their depression will end.

The number is increasing at huge rate.

There are kids who will look upto these kids and get in competition mode while other kids gonna be depressed because they can't afford or can't do as good as them.

I've no idea if it's good or bad.
I never see my total RAM usage going over 6G to the whole system if I don't compile anything. I have tens of tabs open and the 32G of RAM is most of the time useless. Mind you the ThinkPad RAM upgrade was about 120€...
> When a car goes around a turn, more ground must be covered by the outside wheels; likewise, the outer edge of a spinning hard disk moves faster than the inner one. Google had moved the most frequently accessed data to the outside, so that bits could flow faster under the read-head, but had left the inner half empty; Jeff and Sanjay used the space to store preprocessed data for common search queries

So Google was a company that was too cheap to buy ECC RAM, but willing to let half of their hard disks go to waste. I'm struggling to understand the logic behind this; can anyone explain?
Nice CC0 ebooks of the above three:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st...

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...
I came here to write that ASCIIZ is the more costly design decision than null, that not only led to crashing programs, but also to security vulnerabilities, sloppy APIs that cannot handle "binary data" and subpar performance.
It doesn't matter how pushy or honest is google. Users have to go out of their way to use chrome instead of the default browsers and they still do. And I haven't heard anyone saying "I'd rather use Edge or IE but site xxx only works on Chrome".
Agree with the main point: Do regularly step outside "your" assigned work to fix problems.

I still think yak shaving is bad, but tautologically. It's
only called yak shaving when you go too deep.

Not yak A: My build failed with no sensible error given, so I improved the build process to log errors better.

Not yak B: My build failed with no sensible error given, so I had to log into the build server to inspect it, so I had to run around asking people how to get remote desktop credentials. I then documented on the internal Wiki how and where to find credentials, and improved the build process to log errors better.

Yak territory: In scenario B, I found the remote desktop software is running an old version, so I set out to update it on the build server.

Deep Yak territory: While updating the remote desktop software, I realized that it would be good to update it on all build servers, so I make a script to do that. Such a script should also run automatically to upgrade to a newer version when it becomes available so I don't have to manually to this every time. I could run the script on the build master, but the script is in Python 3, and the build master only has Python 2 installed. Installing Python 3 I notice I need to keep Python 2 the default to not mess with execution of existing scripts. But the existing scripts are mostly thin layers above Python libraries that exist in Python 3, so it wouldn't be a big task to port them over and thus simplify everything.
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