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Re:Schrödinger's Firefox OS on Sunday January 10, 2016 @03:11AM (#10874642)
Here you can clearly see how the 'we'-culture is misused by the 'top' of Mozilla to shuffle off responsibility: there's nobody to rebel against.
Re:Podcasting is getting huge on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:56AM (#10743676)
I like the idea.

I find the advertising inside podcasts also particularly annoying. You can't ignore them by looking away like you would on a screen.

Maybe we need an adblock for podcasts (even if it will be difficult to automize -> some manual stripping of the parts where they are promoting stuff)

Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @03:59PM (#10727918)
Specifically for Medical vocabulary, I heard that MosaLingua recently released an app: http://www.mosalingua.com/applications-apprendre/medical-eng...
Re:Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock on Saturday September 26, 2015 @08:30AM (#10282920)
I think they hoped this law would encourage sites that people don't expect to have cookies to not set cookies until necessary. Like state sponsored news sites for example. I mean, really: why on earth does a site like that need to set cookies? To remember which videos I have watched?

The real problem here is probably Google Analytics.

Are browsers intelligent enough to inline the function invocation on each step of a _.times ?
Give it to the Greek Government - just kidding
Re:EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers on Thursday March 26, 2015 @10:08AM (#9269685)
Anyone knows if revoking certificates is also free?
A product competing (at least in part) with Google Analytics is criticizing Google Analytics. Please.
Re:Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards on Friday May 09, 2014 @02:35PM (#7722548)
For learning languages, I used to make my own flashcards and then search audio that contained the word. Then I discovered that there are apps with pre-filled cards that already have the audio such as MosaLingua (http://www.mosalingua.com/en).
Re:DNSSEC surpasses 50% of root domains on Friday January 24, 2014 @09:23AM (#7114944)
Does anybody know if it is the browser or the operating system that checks the validity of the dns records? Is it enabled on all clients?
Re:How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class on Monday August 26, 2013 @02:35AM (#6275517)
Technology has made outsourcing much easier providing tools such as Skype.
Re:Google Trends for "open source" on Sunday July 07, 2013 @06:29AM (#6001671)
I think the reason for this downward trend is the rise of ("free") web applications. There is simply less need to install local software.
Re:Immutable Infrastructure and Disposable Components on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:15AM (#5978327)
I think the point made here is quite interesting: instead of relying on (puppet, chef,...) to do the "deltas", always generating the whole system from scratch. This has a couple of advantages:

* You make sure everything is automated

* You can always trust the resulting system works; if it were to be built from scratch

Re:Ways to Solve the Wi-Fi Authentication Issue for Devices on Saturday April 13, 2013 @03:33PM (#5544352)
what about speech recognition?
Re:Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain on Saturday March 16, 2013 @08:12AM (#5385202)
I also have the same problem the author has sometimes: If I know that there are a lot of tests covering a particular piece of code, I tend to be less diligent making modifications
Re:Where is the happiest city in the USA? on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @02:54AM (#5243193)
Maybe the happiest people don't tweet
Let's take the level of nonsense on the internet to a new level!
Re:Be Wrong as Fast as You Can on Sunday January 06, 2013 @06:26AM (#5016041)
I totally agree with you there, but wouldn't it be even better if we limit the amount of new stuff we haven't tried yet to a size small enough to keep it in our heads? This way, we can eliminate the need for specs; discussing ideas though speech.
Re:New Chrome feature frees Web apps from the browser on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:03AM (#4280284)
Does anyone know how updating software versions work in this system? It would be nice if offline applications would work the same way as the HTML5 app cache.