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Hi! I'm a PM on the Chrome web platform team working on advanced apps including PWAs.

Can you tell me more about what's missing in PWAs in terms of support and UX?

PWAs are well supported in Chromium browsers. Can't speak to Firefox support, but I hope as adoption and usage grows we'll see them add more support.

Mentioned in another comment, but to be clear, our team contributes to MDN, and will continue to do so.

Web.dev is not an MDN replacement.

Our team actively contributes to MDN. Web.dev is not an MDN replacement, it's a channel for guides & other supporting documentation.

As another user mentioned, we do contribute to MDN. MDN is where we point devs for reference documentation. web.dev is for guides, how to's and other support docs.

Background geo, including geofencing is challenging, but there may be a way forward. We're exploring this conceptually, but it's not in the plan for 2020. I'd certainly like to be able to improve the capabilities of web based ride sharing and similar apps that have a need for this.

Bluetooth discovery is an especially thorny area from a privacy perspective. What use cases did you have in mind?

Asking for permissions upfront has been found to be an anti-pattern in systems UXR. Research has found that users make better decisions and find the experience less interruptive when permissions are requested in context at runtime. For example, in a video chat app, it's better to ask for the camera/mic permission at the start of the first chat session, not when the app first starts. Mac OS, Android etc. and other platforms have all been moving in this direction over the past few years.

When the permission is requested, we're investigating ways that we can do more to communicate permission risks to the user. Nothing publicly shareable yet, but do expect experiments to be showing up in dev channels over the next few months while we try new things.

Thanks for the feedback! This is now the reference "first PWA" example: https://web.dev/codelab-make-installable. Let me know if you find it easier for new devs to get started with. The other codelab and a lot of other scattered content will be removed once we finish the migration to web.dev.

Hi there, I'm the product manager for PWAs on the Chrome team.

Very interested in hearing about pain points you've had building out PWAs, especially if there's features you were keen on that haven't been released. Easiest way to reach me is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/b1tr0t

Fully agree with you that docs are all over the place. We've started to consolidate docs under web.dev, and the PWA section launched recently (https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps). Consolidating and adding docs is an active area of investment, and our goal is to create a well lit path for developers to succeed with PWAs.

From a Canadian viewpoint, the last couple of years of populism has been a bit like discovering your favorite Uncle has a probably lethal opiate addiction.

But, you're going to get to inherit his Corvette.

I believe the goal of the study was to explore how visual perceptions & expectations could influence the perception of taste.

Have you ever been focused on an activity and had more than one beverage at hand, and picked up the wrong one? For example, while coding, I had a freshly opened cold coke and yesterday's room temperature coffee both in reach. Focused on my screen, I took the coffee when I intended to pick up my coke. The mismatch between expectation and reality was very unpleasant when it hit me, but what was interesting was there was some fraction of a second after I took the sip before my consciousness was aware (painfully, painfully aware) that what I was drinking was not a fresh, cold coke.

Perception is interesting. What we see and what we expect are big influencers on what we perceive. I'm curious whether our other perceptions (touch, smell, hearing) can influence what our visual perception as strongly.

There isn't a lot of good data on foreign transactions because regional and federal governments have worked hard to make sure data was not collected on it. Popular pressure is slowly changing that.

One observation I have is that even if it's just single digit as a %, it can exert very significant pressure on the market. A bubble is a mob effect. It begins with some properties purchased at prices the local market can't support, regional opportunists jump in seeing the opportunity for flipping, then fear of missing out, especially for first time buyers, results in a stampede as people see the ladder going up and leverage themselves to get the last rung before it goes out of reach. But there was never any real scarcity in the first place.

Point being, a small amount of foreign investment can have a leveraged influence on local markets.

I do think the "foreign" word there gets too much attention though. The more important question to ask is - should property as an investment be something we economically encourage. How much economic activity does a $5M 3 bedroom house actually generate? I don't pretend to know the answer but I think this focus on the "foreign" bogeyman is blocking us from having more important conversations about the role of real-estate in economic policy.

The only way I can see to fix this is if there was more economic incentive for advertisers to care about the quality of the articles where their ads are placed.

There must have been attempts to do this.

I wonder what's been tried that didn't work.

Maybe some, but not all.

An old but concrete example: Andy Grove, in High Output Management, describes a fairly typical 8 to 5 day in which he works until he's tired, with level of fatigue vs level of "doneness" being the deciding factor of when he ends his day.

"I lost faith in democracy after the election because of the amount of companies and people that feel like the only way to beat Trump in the next election is to suppress the freedoms of the people that support him."

Evidence of systematic suppression please? Who? What? When? Where?

Do you have a preferred brand or online source?

I've also had good experiences with St Johns wort but found quality varies a lot from what you get at a pharmacy.

The tremor was something I was aware of since I was a kid, showed up in bad handwriting and general "clumsiness" with fine motor movements. Nobody ever thought much of it other than that I was "clumsy".

It wasn't until I was 27 that I started to wonder whether there was something actually wrong that might be a root cause for it. At this point the tremor was bad enough that at times I had trouble holding a fork to eat. The intensity of the symptoms could vary a great deal from day to day. Granted, I was in grad school at this time and my stress levels were pretty high. I did notice that alcohol made it better, but treatment with alcohol is contraindicated...

Got a referral to neurology dept and after they watched me do some drawing, arrived at the conclusion of the problem quite quickly.

For more off-label info, might have a look at Wikipedia page on beta blockers, it's pretty thorough. Turns out quite a few musicians use it for stage fright & dexterity.

OK - I'll bite. I haven't seen anyone mention medications here but personally I use propranolol.

Life. Changing.

For the first while I took it every day as prescribed for my ET. 20mg. And as I experienced the first pill (effects kick in about 40 minutes after), I had this realization "wait a minute, this is what it must feel like to be a normal person"! That light bulb in itself was incredible. Before that, I hadn't realized life could feel that good. I'd always wondered how people could do the things they could do ... and suddenly I didn't just realize but got to experience what it was like to be someone who DIDN'T have constant anxiety.

I cut back my dosage looking for minimum effective dose. Most days for me it's 0 (that's right, I don't take anymore on most days). My anxiety level has decreased because now I know -what it feels like not to be anxious-, plus, if I do feel anxious I have a solution at hand which lowers anxiety.

For a particularly stressful day I might take 5mg. (For me now a particularly stressful day means standing in front of a room of hundreds of people and presenting after 2 hours sleep.) At these infrequent low dosages, I don't experience any negative side-effects.

Worth sharing general personal details. I'm a 37 year old male in reasonably good health, I exercise vigorously twice a week and get a healthy amount of walking and biking in almost every day. I discovered propranolol by accident - it was prescribed for an essential tremor (ET), it was only after that I discovered the "off-label" anti-anxiety side-effects of beta blockers.

It's worth mentioning that I did experience negative side-effects when I was taking 20mg daily. If you can avoid taking it daily, that's going to be better for you in the long run.

* Reduced sex drive * Life just seems more "flat" I don't laugh as much, get as giddy. My partner described me as seeming "disconnected". * Cold limbs & numb tongue

It's been pulled from that URL unfortunately. There's a few copies floating around if you google the filename unfortunately they don't come from as authoritative a URL as the .gov address you provided.

I'm by no means a medieval scholar. But this doesn't mesh at all with the information in the"The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt (a national book award winner).

The texts of the pagans were not preserved because they were revered but because it was the duty of a monk to know how to write. To learn how to write, you have to write. Since very little new work was being created, old work was copied by rote.

Noted and filed! Thank you!

The first CSS file on a page is blocking for all modern browsers regardless of JS or no JS.

Exceptions for:

* media queries, which are evaluated, if the CSS is not applicable it isn't downloaded

* disabled stylesheets which are ignored

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Dead on! The overhead with gzip is very tiny. The size of the payload should also not be a factor in the cached condition.

Article author here -- I agree, it would be interesting to see results. One reason for using more than a single image: no navigation timing API in iOS.

iOS may now lag behind Android in handsets shipped -- but it's still a dominant player in web visits on mobile!

Unfortunately that means that for RUM tests I needed to have results that were insensitive to differences of a few ms.

Here's a petition asking Apple to include the navigation timing API in a future iOS release:

http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-please-support-navigat...

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Some of our open source projects: http://github.com/mobify or http://www.mobify.com/dev

Positions:

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Your graphs are pretty -- and it's an interesting page, but your ping section makes me wonder about the rest of your data.

You don't qualify what you're pinging, but if we're talking ping to the internet gateway, ping over a strong 802.11n connection on my iPhone 5 is 2 - 5 milliseconds on my local network. The same is not true of LTE which has more typically a 100ms latency to the carrier internet gateway.

LTE definitely brought down latency from 3G! But it's nowhere near as low latency as a good 802.11n connection!

Anyone else catch the irony that this is the same nation that passed an absurd "cookie law" in the name of protecting people's online privacy?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/26/eprivacy_cookie_comp...

As I understand it they backed away from the stronger restrictions at the last minute... but still, the very idea of a surveillance nation like the UK "protecting" people by blocking third party cookies would be hilarious if it wasn't also tragic. Very generously they've said they won't prosecute offenders... probably... unless they don't like you... or have a political axe to grind... or you're the wrong ethnicity...

I freely admit I'm on the web side of this issue.

No question that apps are big. But there's a lot of data out there that people regularly used less than 10 apps in the last 30 days. Almost all of those are social or built-in apps. They used a lot more than 10 websites in the past 30 days.

The raw number of apps and websites available is a complete red herring. Mobile apps have existed (in a numerically significant form) for < 4 years. The web is closer to 20. Expect the amount of noise in the app space to follow a similar growth curve except to date app discovery is worse. With the control vendors have over app store environments, this may get even worse and not better. Or it might get a lot better. Who knows. One thing is for sure -- if you want to be found right now, you're better off with a good web site.

We discussed this a while back in a blog post based on other data from Flurry. Also discussed by Skyfire.

Mobify post: http://blog.mobify.com/2011/06/23/have-apps-really-passed-mo...

Skyfire post: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-flurry-got-it-wrong-on-ap...

Ed: fixed link.

Let's compare with Rackspace cloud load balancer for one month (30 days * 24 hours) = 720 hours. (From their pricing page: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...). Linode is allowing 5000 simultaneous connections. Rackspace charges for balanced bandwidth. Let's pick something modest 1 TB up, 5 TB down. Rackspace cost: $1530.80/mo.

So, I'd say linode's price seems quite reasonable. :)

And I haven't even seen any comments on the possibility of this being a smear campaign to tarnish Wikileaks further in the media?

I'm just saying, if you wanted to completely discredit an organization what's the fastest way to go about doing so?

Step 1: Manufacture accusations against it's founder for which there is no defence, where the individual is guilty before a trial even begins. Oh, I don't know, how about accusing a man of a sex crime? (Especially a funny looking foreign one!)

Step 2: Manufacture scary "hackers" who do scary "hacker" things. Hide your children!

Step 3: Let CNN and Fox do what they're paid to do. Spin and spin and spin.

That's the point exactly. What insurance company would offer earthquake insurance at a price that an average citizen could afford in such circumstances.

Bingo. General X doesn't need to care (much) if the product works. He's not the one doing the bomb checking. Nor is it his own money he's spending. And if he gets a tidy 10% back, he can soon retire somewhere where there aren't bombs.

An aside: what is the psychology of someone who perpetrates something like this? Fraud is one thing, but fraud which can (and has) led to the deaths of hundreds of people? Does he actually believe his products work, or is he a psychopath?