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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Gmail Bouncing Google Calendar?

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www.androidpolice.com 4y ago

Amazon's making ComiXology much worse with its latest update

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Advice on entering help desk field?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: If I broke a Google App Store feature, can I report it ANYWHERE?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Least painful way to create Twitter lists?

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Script/AI/site to parse block of text to sentences?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Scripts/commands for extracting URL article text? (links -dump but)

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Microsoft in 2019 (video) (2/28/2009)

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kottke.org 7y ago

Jet Li Turned Down the Matrix Because He Didn’t Want CGI Versions of His Moves

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Best explanation or tutorial of Kanban?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Filing bug reports against your life?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Can Facebook's color-background stuff be adblocked?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Office skills testing that isn't method-specific?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: When was the first text file?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: iOS HN apps withintegrated save-to services?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Whitelisting Facebook Connect, Blacklisting Facebook?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: "Dependent calendaring"?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Two days before 2013, is Google Calendar still misparsing 2013 dates?

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twitter.com 14y ago

SOPA has Not been postponed to 2012. Committee changed date to December 21.

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Is there a safe /dev/null for e-mail addresses?

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To me, they absolutely shunned their core audience -- people who wanted greater flexibility and configurability than existing browsers could give them. As a power user who used to have Firefox humming along exactly how I wanted it (thanks to things like Keyconfig, etc.), I now really perceive next to no difference between Firefox and Chrome. Yes, there's philosophical reasons that make them differ. But in terms of what they offer to the end user? There's no difference. They neutered themselves.

Gaming it out in my head, I would assume that this increases access to testing for those who are either uninsured or those who could not afford the turnaround time for their insurance to reimburse them for purchase of at-home testing.

As such, in this alternate world without the intervention, a chunk of the populace cannot afford to test. If one wanted to make slightly rasher assumptions, this segment might include those who are in jobs (Walmart, food preparation and service) that expose them to a large part of the population.

I Miss RSS 5 years ago

I'm saying this without any connection to the service aside from being a customer, but I think Inoreader is doing innovative work in the RSS space.

From Krebs on Security (linked to from Jason Scott's Twitter thread):

Unable to disengage a lock on his back fence, Herring was instructed to somehow climb over the fence with his hands up.

“He was starting to get more upset,” Billings recalled. “He said, ‘I’m a 60-year-old fat man and I can’t do that.'”

Billings said Mr. Herring then offered to crawl under a gap in the fence, but when he did so and stood up, he collapsed of a heart attack. Herring died at a nearby hospital soon after.

If this was treated as a linked-to-Google property, it would have been Google Travel - Weather Trends and would've been canceled along with the rest of Google Travel like 87% of their projects.

"It is durable due to its incorporation of pozzolanic ash, which prevents cracks from spreading."

Third sentence in the Wikipedia article. Later:

"The strength and longevity of Roman marine concrete is understood to benefit from a reaction of seawater with a mixture of volcanic ash and quicklime to create a rare crystal called tobermorite, which may resist fracturing. As seawater percolated within the tiny cracks in the Roman concrete, it reacted with phillipsite naturally found in the volcanic rock and created aluminous tobermorite crystals."

Neither seems to have been 'lost data'.

The person you're replying to is making a joke. The general meta-structure of said joke is that if something is considered particularly bad, its existence is denied, i.e., "1: SCRUBS only had eight seasons. 2: But what about that one where they were teach-- 1: SCRUBS ONLY HAD EIGHT SEASONS." Etc.

Firefox 79 6 years ago

The ability to share a link and be presented with a menu that let you bookmark or send it to a different device -- gone.

Not particularly pleased with that.

I really sometimes grow very frustrated with Mozilla. In Cory Doctorow's _Eastern Standard Tribe_, some people work as saboteurs, planting really unpopular stupid ideas, and sabotaging clean functionality.

It feels like Mozilla is really rife with such characters.

I don't know if anyone will particularly care, but both Substack and MailChimp newsletters have RSS feeds, in case you prefer those over mail. With Substack, you merely append "feed/" to the end.

With Mailchimp, well, you look for a "view in browser" or "share this issue with friends" link in the newsletter. On the archive page it takes you to, an RSS link is on the righthand corner.

Music Grid 6 years ago

If I was a bit more musically talented I'd work out how to do a rickroll with this.

Personally, can't recommend Inoreader enough for those returning to RSS. They do it well and they're beginning to incorporate some good innovation outside the normal structure what with collecting newsletters, etc. for you. My two cents, at least; I'm a happy customer. (Mentioning this since, as 40four points out, the article is kind of one big Feedly ad.)

Firefox 75.0 6 years ago

I fail to understand why Firefox takes as its lead Chrome's behavior. Let it be different, let it distinguish itself. We constantly hear how less configurability is easier to maintain. Unfortunately, that was Firefox's main distinction from Chrome. This path where it simply copies Chrome's UX and removes more and more features in the interests of something easier to maintain ... taking that to its logical conclusion, Firefox might as well become a Chromium fork now.