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Re:Stop using Material Design text fields on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:04AM (#22481962)
I can't agree with this article more.

The old style material field which were mentioned that are just an underlined text instead of a box were absolutely terrible too. It's disgusting that someone would actually think those were a good idea.

Also, what he calls out in the end, use high contrast guys! The old material design grey text on grey background was terrible to read. GCP used to be full of this.

There are good OSS databases like Postres and MariaDB, and there's also crap like Mongo.

Even though there are OSS databases better than Oracle, it could be true that data on OSS databases might be safer on Oracle on average.

Also, even though Oracle engages in horrible unethical business practices, I hear that their database product isn't bad.

Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:09AM (#22052780)
This title is complete bs, and the court ruling (linked in the article) only mentions monopsony very briefly.

The question addressed by the court is regarding who is the cause of any overcharging to the customer. The opinion argues that because Apple is exclusively dealing with the customer, it is able to sell on whatever terms it wants to the customer, so any overcharge is their fault. The dissent argues that because the developer has the power to dictate the price of the app on the store, any overcharge the customer pays is directly caused by the developer, because the developer could have chosen to sell the app at a fair price.

It is true that the ruling mentions that developers may sue apple, but that was never in question. Both the opinion and dissent agree on that fact.

Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:56PM (#21964020)
CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:03AM (#21911916)
At least ff supports sideloading, while chrome.. doesn't. And if you use ff ESR, you can also freely sideload unsigned addons.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:58AM (#21911892)
In this video, the tech lead had a similar problem with browsers acting worse on windows than mac. (even the same browser) I've never seen anything like what he showed in the video, so it could be a bug affecting certain hardware configurations or software versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwB8Oh628Q

Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:54AM (#21911859)
Loyal firefox user here. Never touched chrome unless I had to.

The australis days were rough, but since quantum it's been feeling fast. It doesn't even feel obviously slower than chrome anymore.

Re:Why I won't switch to Firefox as a web developer on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:27PM (#21910286)
Firefox has the exact same thing except for automatically recording the screenshots.

doesn't seem like that much of a deal breaker to me

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Performance/F...

Re:The web is not bloated on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:50AM (#21352541)
These tech companies are pushing bi-weekly updates of their 100+ MB apps just ... because that's how it's done.

Meanwhile I'm here having literally never updated a single app on my phone after installing them.

more likely the cost of operating in another country to collect minimum payments for n+ years is higher than the value of the debt.
Re:A giant whiteboard for $14 plus nails on Monday July 08, 2019 @12:57AM (#20380017)
they still do
Re:Ask HN: Is Someone Hijacking Google Images? on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:43PM (#19417815)
seems like mostly german results
Re:Show HN: Random Wikipedia browser extension on Friday March 01, 2019 @03:17AM (#19278768)
can't you just set the new tab page url to the wikipedia random page link?
Re:Project: Inexpensive Firearm Accelerometer on Friday January 11, 2019 @10:21PM (#18889386)
Is there any reason why you can't connect the accelerometer directly to the rpi?