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Edge's reading list shows newer entries at the top. The problem is you don't have to do anything extra to use tabs. You just... leave them open, and then there's no reason to use bookmarks or reading list or history

Your site may be self-selecting for people who don't use Edge somehow. Our session count on a site geared for the average person puts Edge closer to 13%:

Chrome - 57.54%

IE - 14.12%

Edge - 12.88%

Firefox - 9.30%

Safari - 4.13%

Other browsers make up the remainder

Not only have I gotten used to it (pretty much immediately), I get really annoyed when it's the other way.

I'm not even necessarily talking about just the hardware specifically - the whole experience stinks. Nobody's really figured out what to do with it yet. I think mainstream VR as a whole will have to be something way different from what's being made now, and I don't know what that even looks like.

I think VR can only become mainstream/ubiquitous once it has an "iPhone moment" that fundamentally changes what VR even is in the first place. Right now everyone is thinking about how to make the VR we heard about 30 years ago. Sure, we have faster processors and everything is smaller and lighter now but if you look at VR demos from the 80s it's really all of the same stuff taking the same approach with all the same issues and all the same empty promises. VR's problem right now is it's just the same boring novelty it's always been.

It's awesome that you made it this far, but to be honest 3k MAU just isn't enough. If you're making money through ads, you'll want more eyeballs on them so try getting more users! Depending on how far you want to take it, your username may unfortunately become very relevant.

It depends on your audience as well (surprise, you need to understand who will be using your product). What we've found through AB testing with the game I work on is that our best (read: highest-value) players are very experienced with this type of app even if they're not tech savvy, and a tutorial is a nearly meaningless roadblock to them because they already know.

I'll have to try when I get home, but I'm curious how speech recognition will do against the message chosen for the touchscreen record. I'm not 100% sure how to even pronounce a couple of the words: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/5/fastest-touc...

This is obviously anecdotal but I work on a somewhat popular web game (millions of sessions/month despite having a mobile app) and Chrome OS (1.15%) represents less of our sessions than even 3rd place Linux (1.23%). We actually get almost as many people visiting our web game from a mobile device _by mistake_. So to put it lightly, Chromebook has some work to do.

You actually TALK on the phone? I have one of the smallest voice plans AT&T offers that still has unlimited text and even that has way too many minutes. I think the only number I actually call is my parents' land line. Even my dentist's office texts appointment reminders instead of calling. I'd think one of the biggest reasons for slow adoption is the same as our broadband adoption- It's hard for effectively 2 big companies to reliably provide service for 300 million people spread out over something like 8 million km^2 (for the lower 48 states) and have it still be affordable. For example a friend of mine still didn't have internet access at all in the 2010s because they would have had to pay to have special construction done near their house in addition to the high monthly bill.

Hell I'm in an industry many consider somewhat shady and practically the only telemetry we use for ads is "user installed the app" and "user paid us." Even that's mostly just to keep the ad partner honest. Everything else really is used to make the product better for you (and us) and it even really helps resolve customer support issues.

For me types make prototyping WAY faster, especially if "throw" or some other keyword satisfies the return type of a function. I can write out the function signatures and data types I need and get things to line up with the help of a tool that tells me exactly what I need to do (the compiler). This lets me quickly find a solution without having to actually implement any of it, and then I have a skeleton ready to fill in with details.

Well of course I won't have any impact on code quality when I don't actually write any code, because I can't stay focused while working from home. I'll take a non-open plan office over WFH any day

nsa_backdoor.bin.js

I would guess pretty soon since it's part of the W10 Mobile keyboard

Indeed you can't take money out of them, and the various app stores have pretty strict policies about this. Honestly, if Valve gets worried about gambling laws they could learn a few things from casino apps here. There are a few of them out there where you can "buy" something like a hotel comp using an in-game currency. This is actually ok for a number of reasons but two big ones are that: - The currency you use to get these IRL items is not the currency you play with and is not necessarily directly related to real money. It's more akin to frequent flyer miles getting you a free flight. That is to say, it's more "how much you play" and less "how much you pay". - There simply is no secondary market for these IRL items because they're tied to you personally, are non-transferrable, and can't be traded for cash. So while they have real-world value, they're worthless to anyone but you specifically

The reading view in Edge (and metro IE fwiw) works as well

It makes manual refactoring easier too in the sense that you now have a tool that can tell you what you broke and how to fix it.

I mean, if your laptop or phone have Miracast support you don't have to install anything or buy the Apple TV or remote thing. Maybe just a dongle if the tv itself doesn't support it.

Sure, unless you put that audio CD in your computer and Sony installed a rootkit.

Works fine in mobile IE

Can it be done with something that's not Javascript? Not trolling, I'm genuinely asking.

"Due to the rapidly decreasing demand for downloadable software in favor of web apps [...]" I just hope they get rid of the memory leaks in their web apps...

Which is kind of sad in a way. I really prefer Actionscript over Javascript :(

I kind of like the idea of having a person typing encrypted strings REALLY FAST

I can already press ctrl+enter in Opera to sign into any of my accounts after I do it once. So I guess this is a more complex but also more secure way of doing that?

Also, Kleenex. Possibly the "Duck" brand of tape as well since people seem to have trouble saying duct tape.

Except for when they deliberately cripple them for Opera users :\

We should always learn to write. Think about it- if something happens and we can no longer use electronic devices, where would we be without the ability to write?

That said, I don't think cursive is all that important.

Get a Google Voice number and it's free ;)