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I just started working on an extension recently with no experience and have found it to be pleasantly unchallenging. If you are familiar with web development already, it's actually a pretty easy transition. Primarily you have the option of injecting some JS into every page, and also running a page in the background. So you just need to design your extension to work that way. Then you have access to some extension-specific APIs for stuff like the little icon in the toolbar or reading cookies.

I think if you already know web dev, you probably don't need a specific resource to figure it out - just dive right into it and look up which parts of API you need for certain things.

If you don't already know web dev, perhaps it would be better to learn that first and then look at extensions.
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Well, for starters, it's physically impossible to have an infinite number of speakers playing an infinite number of waveforms simultaneously, so this silly idea does require mathematical abstraction to be meaningful. That shouldn't be too surprising because there are many places in the physical world where we use infinite series to calculate simple finite physical quantities, e.g. when we integrate to find the area of a region.

My point is that if you really sum every possible waveform, the resulting value may or may not converge depending on the order in which you sum them; in fact, it's a well-known property of such conditionally-convergent series that you can actually get any limiting value you want based on how your order them [0]! (let's ignore the fact that the fourier coefficients can take on a continuous set of values). For example, even if you were only allowed to play a single frequency sound wave sin(x) at volumes that are the inverse of some integer value multiplied by a max volume of 1 (in arbitrary units), you may or may not have them cancel depending on how you group the terms in the sum:

sum = 1*sin(x) + -1*sin(x) + (1/2)*sin(x) + -(1/2)*sin(x) ...

were the ith term in the sequence (starting at i=1) is

a_i = (2/n-1)*sin(x) for odd x
a_i = -(2/n)*sin(x) for even x

This is a conditionally-converging series that will hit all positive and negative harmonic coefficients 1/n and -1/n: the even terms cancel each preceding odd term, and the Nth partial sums therefore alternate between 0 and 2 * sin(x)/(N+1), which itself tends towards zero. But you can group these terms in a different order and get a different limit for the sum; in fact, you can group them to get whatever final value you want!

Now, if you extend this thinking to every frequency of sinusoidal wave, you can start summing every pure tone in arbitrary order to get an arbitrary coefficient for each frequency. By picking your limit for each frequency correctly, you can sum your sine waves in a fourier series [1] to get any song you could ever want! And this is while limiting ourselves to discrete frequencies and alternating harmonic coefficients (since it allows us to take a discrete infinite sum).

So the unexplained punchline to my previous comment is that the problem is ill-defined, or rather, that you can view any song as just a specific ordering of an infinite series of other sounds. (You don't have to use sine waves as your basis, by the way; you can use a bunch of different waveforms that look more like "noise" as long as their combination spans the same infinite-dimensional linear space as pure sine waves; you just end up with different coefficients. For example, in quantum mechanics, you can get a sine wave (momentum eigenstate) by summing energy eigenstates (non-sine waves with a specific form) with the correct coefficients.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem#Alterna...

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourierSeries.html
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Was that with or without the GPU rendering enabled?
So it'd be a huge NGO, I guess.
yeah, that's been my experience too. Hence the plan with Lagukan is to go the other way--we might start out with popular music as a guess, but it'll adapt heavily to your individual preferences as it collects data.
firms are evolving, though, with changing demographics and locations--as they should. many firms settling in new startuplands are from those places, trying to help those communities and local industries. their models are changing too, dif fund sizes, financial models. taking on too much VC is dangerous for ANY founder! i've checked out the holloway guide and it seems to be really careful about protecting founders.
Redesign reducing visibility of donation button, and no real support for selling / monetizing your extensions in the stores: totally agreed, they can and likely should do better there. I'd be curious to see if the change had any effect tho, and how much. Above-the-fold is valuable real-estate, it's possible that it's better-utilized after the change, just along a different set of priorities.

Direct payment from browser vendor to useful devs: not sure where that money would come from.

Alexa can probably support it since more use of an Alexa likely has a strong correlation with increased purchases through Amazon - they essentially directly profit off popular extensions, in a measurable way because they track everything, since it keeps people using Amazon in general.

I'm not sure Mozilla gets much money from e.g. adblock. Or other popular extensions. Plus they're a non-profit, so their cash-in-hand isn't too likely to change dramatically, unless we can convince more companies to donate (which could allow donating to extension devs).
There's some accountability in the human-based approach.

A person understands the context in which they are naming another person based on their face and can weigh internally whether they are sure enough to tell the police. The algorithm just spits out a confidence for the Police/DA to do whatever they want with.

A person can be cross-examined in court. Is that little old lady a blind racist who is accusing a person of color? Her credibility can be attacked in court. The algorithm was trained by racists? That's a LOT harder to attack.

I don't think the police should be barred from using the tech, but I certainly don't think it should be admissible in court.
Their core business is to have a useful/featureful browser. Browsers gain extra features thanks to extensions. One of the reasons that keeps me with Firefox are many of its extensions. They almost lost me as a user when they deprecated a gazilion tons of extensions last year. I would say extensions are an integral part of the browser offering even if produced by third-parties.
Reminds me of https://www.surfr.fm/music
And anyone can come up with some contrived chain of events about how any particular technology might be misused. That's not a reason to dismiss it wholesale, otherwise we would never have any technology at all.
I feel this way about git itself.

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
It's pretty clearly in line with Mozilla's goals for an Open Internet -- and from a pragmatic point-of-view a mass exodus of extension developers from Chrome would be big problem for Google.

I could see this as a way for Mozilla to further distinguish Firefox from Chrome. If Firefox was seen in the developer community as the platform to target if you want to make money, it won't take long for extension developers to start targeting Chrome only as an afterthought, and users would start to shift towards thinking of Firefox as "the one I can extend."
Then I'll back up to the fact that it should actually play the correct music for the tag.
Was super confused for a while thinking this was about actual caviar...
Example(s)?
DFLib – a lightweight, pure Java implementation of DataFrame
I agree with you but I think a lot of people have a definition of middle class that includes whatever Toyota 4Bagger Reddit is fawning over and a few of the designer whatever's that the Instagram influencers are shilling (i.e. a few "nice things") and excludes things like Walmart jeans and any lawnmower that you have to push yourself. You can do all that on middle class money, but you can't do all that and raise your kids in a good school district and pay down your student loans, etc. etc.
Burqas?
Whaley Bridge Dam Collapse
High internet use and state support help countries ditch cash
Not quite, because while you are talking about estrogen in beef and birth control pills (Diane 35, presumably), you are talking about phytoestrogens in soy milk & co, and specifically isoflavones.

Phytoestrogens have a similar structure to estrogen, and can thus bind to the estrogen receptors, but they have only a weak estrogenic effect (the opposite might actually happen). The effect of isoflavones, at least, has been studied [1], finding "no significant effect" on "T, SHBG, free T, or FAI" - this despite the trials featuring subjects whose "soy protein and isoflavone intake greatly exceeded typical dietary Japanese intake", which was said to range from "25 to 50 mg" in Japanese adults.

What effect isoflavones have might be debated, but that comparison remains apples to oranges. A daily dose of estrogen greater than 25 to 50 mg would definitely have an effect. Even a tenth of that would have a very noticeable effect. It doesn't, so just saying "170'000 ng per serving" tells us nothing, not when the comparison includes birth control pills.

Hell, that comparison would even remain apples to orange if you just compared animal estrogens, or those estrogens that can be found in pill form. Diane 35 contains ethinylestradiol, which is much more potent than conjugated estrogens (Premarin & co) or micronized estradiol (Estrace): while 95% of the estrogen you ingest is going to be inactivated, ethinylestradiol bypasses most of that.

Isoflavones do not, they also undergo first-pass metabolism, so the comparison is doubly flawed.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.fertnstert.2009.04.038
Tesla has the advantage of the new technology from Maxwell, but maybe Europe will charge ahead too. I hope they both succeed.
Probably not; the USA runs a huge deficit.
You do realise we can prescribe whatever dose we like, right? Some drugs I prescribe in grams, some in milligrams and some in micrograms. The strength of a drug is somewhat irrelevant. I'm not going to prescribe a new and expensive drug just because the dose is 150mg when it's well-established, cheap cousin is available that happens to need a dose of 300mg.

It certainly is the context, and I believe it's what OP asked. If it wasn't, it should be, because it's the only question that really matters to me as the prescriber.

If what you're saying about the different pharmacodynamics is true (and this is actually what I'm talking about. I only mentioned milder effect because that seemed to be the difference in pharmacodynamics you were getting at), then this is an important difference. It would still have to somehow be quite different to the effect of the racemic version at any arbitrary dose to be preferentially prescribed.
I wonder how this deals with nested parquet data, and whether it's able to optimise on the things parquet provides.
> Most ideas are trivial, or very hard to protect, even while building a business.

Exactly, because they are worthless.

The exact details of how SpaceX achieves re-usability are very much patentable. The idea that initially was on Mr. Musk head isn't and wasn't.

> But what about patentable ideas ?

They do not exist. In order to patent something, you have to be able to describe your "invention". Which means you have executed it to some extent, insofar as you are able to at least produce a design. But the mere fact that you can patent an idea doesn't make it useful. The patent office abounds with patents which never amounted to anything.

> What about fully formed ideas coming from professors, backed by deep research

These are no longer ideas, are they? Someone had an idea, pursued it, with _the help of a team_ and produced something of value. THAT can be stolen. The initial idea that spurred the research cannot.

> What about an idea(deeply researched) that with relatively easy implementation could get a lot of press, high SEO and some defensibility

Then you don't need that much funding, do you? If it is easy to implement, you go ahead and implement it, and _NOW_ it has some value, if your implementation is any good. Still, you need to produce something for it to have value.
No I mean 5-7. The skiing is rubbish until January but the ground is frozen by the end of October and defrosts in late March/early April. Lots of places have colder winters than here but they do drag on.
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I'll take a look at them, but given the sheer number of cases judges see across the country every day, and the fact that such Twitter user "Dumb(Stupid}Hat" would probably not post the ones that are doing their jobs ethically and professionally, I don't see how this implies this is very very very common.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587812

Discussion going on over here.
You can reuse that comment when we get mandatory under skin gps tracker from birth. We could even sacrifice all our liberties and get rid of every single crimes if we went further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
Because there is still a lot of competition? Grubhub, ubereats, and many others.
"David W. Cantrell gives in [24] an astonishing new conjectured upper bound for R/r, namely R/r <= 1 + (sqrt((4ρ-1)^2 + 16ρ(N-1)) - 1) / (4ρ) with ρ = Pi/(2*sqrt(3)). ..."

But the references section seems to be missing entry [24] for some reason.
Assuming everything you say is true ... your point is what? This hypothetical person would probably not be executed? Going through a trial for your own sexual orientation but being acquitted doesn't sound like a great time to me.
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> but Google would only benefit from ad/tracker blockers going away.

That's a gross mischaracterization of the situation. There are far, far more extensions than just ad blockers.

Google could trivially block ad blockers without killing all extensions, and ad blockers can survive just fine without extensions (pihole being the obvious example of one such alternative).

Google even has their own rather large suite of extensions: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/ext/15-by-google...

None of any of this has anything to do with ad blockers nor some hidden agenda to kill them. It's about how selling a hobby project can be disastrous for users, and what (if anything) Google/Mozilla should be doing to prevent those hobby developers from wanting to sell in the first place.

Personally I think that's treating the symptom and not the cause, and a better policy would be something like Google or Mozilla preventing updates to extensions whose backing developer has changed. Although that would be hard to enforce.
Even if you buy your cars cash, unless you already have that much liquid sitting around you've gotta be saving hundreds every month to prep for the next car and for major repairs to the current car. You're either saving hundreds a month for future car expenses, already have a large savings (so, not these folks), or you're 100% for sure guaranteeing future debt.

[EDIT] which is to say that even without a car payment, you better be saving the equivalent of at least half a car payment a month, or you're probably falling behind.
Prel is great and has an important role, even today.

That being said, I'm a professional dev and we own a decent amount of perl. That codebase is by far the most difficult to work in out of anything we own. New hires have trouble with it (nobody learns perl these days). Lots of it is next to unreadable.

I agree that like any other language, perl can be written well and can be written poorly. That being said, perl makes it _really_ easy to write something poorly, in contrast to something like python which is a bit more rigid and tries to have one right way to do things.

I still use perl pretty extensively for little one liners, but at this point we are actively trying to get rid of as much perl that we own as possible. We find that rarely writing anything longer than 10 lines should be done in perl, if only from a readability and maintainability standpoint.

I love perl. It was THE game changer for many many years. But perl is falling out of fashion quick.

I'd have no problem working in the language with some very rigid guidelines and a bunch of experts.

But the reality is that nobody is hiring perl experts, perl experts are becoming more and more scarce, and most new hires have a bit of experience with py or rb. I dont dislike perl, I'd just argue it's almost always the wrong thing tool for the job these days.

In a previous life I worked at a large E commerce company. You've likely ordered from them. Pretty much everything ran on perl/perl Mason for over a decade. At that time perl was the cool new thing that everyone wanted to pick up. Now (or when I left a few years back), most of that code represented a liability if it needed to be changed.

IMO this is just the cycle of a programming language.

I remember reading Spolsky articles where he talks about VB6 like it's some shiny new amazing scripting language, akin to python 10 or so years ago. But alas, time moves on and so do most programmers.
haha...well this is an African university so I'd imagine there are some preconception there. As I said - I'm thankful.

Fortunately I picked a niche where my countrymen dominate so all worked out fine.

>They don’t know anything about foreign universities, though, so they figure one is as good as any other.

I've literally seen directors grab a senior manager in the hall with "I'm supposed to interview this person who is from same country as you - look at this CV and tell me does this look solid"
I honestly can't tell if you're being serious. In what perverse world is doing nothing considered active resistance?
It makes sense that the majority of the population should be able to “dictate” (really: have majority influence on) policy, doesn’t it?
He is explicitly talking about the experience of the defendant.
> They are advantageously positioned to be able to fund a team to execute an idea, theirs or otherwise.

So they could unethically become a competitor. Big deal.If the idea is not originally theirs and they do not have the founder on board, then they will end up building something different. For better or worse.
I would love to hear some more about your vision; "virtual office for remote teams" leaves a lot of room for potential product growth. A teammate saw IntelliJ on your integrations list, for example. I think he was hoping it allowed for remote code pairing, but I think right now that just means the application name support
Surely that would affect all the applications being compared equally, though?