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shwetank
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Comment #41692856
I'm working on Voohy ( https://voohy.com ), a platform for leadership development. It's a leadership development platform, aimed at new managers who want to do it right. I'm solo b…
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Comment #18263659
>What's more, because the barrier for entry as well as people's own expectations were that much lower it meant you saw a hell of a lot more individuality in the content posted. Peo…
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Comment #18250318
>the Web was far more pleasant when it was about hyperlinked documents and not this cloud-computing-inspired frenzy. The web was far more useful for you . I, for one, am glad the d…
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Comment #18250284
> And now, random websites can grab control of my radios? With JavaScript? No. Only the user allows it. >FFS. This is like the battery api. Too much time spent on "can we", too lit…
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Comment #16814127
I disagree. You have games like The Last of Us, The Uncharted Series, Yakuza 0, and even the latest Wolfenstein game having very well made and engaging stories which I think can tr…
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Comment #16722440
Think more from the inference angle. There are a lot of use cases for ML and many are using native apps or desktop apps. This allows you to run it on the browser on the web, which …
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Comment #13195041
With the growing use of Whatsapp in India, SMS is actually quickly dying as a medium of communication between humans here. Poeple who have whatsapp (there's a lot of them in india)…
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Comment #11542006
Opera does still contribute quite a lot to blink/chromium (check out https://operasoftware.github.io/upstreamtools/ which lists them), though the gist of what you've said still sta…
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Comment #11399324
Maybe take a look here https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/3xb7n6/how_ex...
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Comment #10810871
In Opera, you can right click on any tab in the tab menu, and click 'save tabs as speed dial folder'. All open tabs will be saved in a folder on your speed dial. If you wan to open…
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Comment #10456639
If you haven't, I would recommend you look into m-Pesa. In some countries (not all countries), M-Pesa uses USSD (like Tanzania I think). Overall, some of the solutions for payments…
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Comment #10320279
With the [Opera addons catalog]( https://addons.opera.com ), every update goes through a moderation process to prevent this kind of situation from happening (which is one of the re…
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Comment #10282996
Extensions in Opera based on the chromium model, but have a few unique APIs too, like the ones for speed dial and the sidebar, which are not there in chrome.
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Comment #10228387
And the sidebar extension for Opera for Hacker News (using Dharmesh Patel's app) https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/hackernews-si...
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Comment #10098021
We at Opera have called on for a single (or at leat a shared) API for making browser extensions, which I think will benefit the developer community immensely (instead of making one…
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Comment #9846721
Opera already has support for Sidebar extensions, you can check it out here https://dev.opera.com/extensions/tut_sidebar_actions.html
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Comment #9612690
The article links to that page. I don't think its absolutely necessery for the article itself to have a play button, as long as it links to a page which does.
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Comment #9604704
Also the fact that you can embed youtube videos in other web pages.
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Comment #9291118
This more or less should work with Opera extensions too.
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Comment #9230294
More than that, its a project which a number of other browser also rely on and contribute to, for example Opera.
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Comment #8818559
Firstly, just because someone makes a compile-to-js language doesn't mean they ncesserily "hate" JS ... I mean, it may , but it could also very well mean that they prefer their own…