Viewing profile — timothya

See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay tl;dr: The browser attempts to learn your preference for each site automatically based on how you interact with videos. You can see …

See also Rowan Atkinson’s standup routine from the early 90s: https://youtu.be/uw8dW9Hyno0

See: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/using-page-speed-i...

> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up. No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0] [0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-…

"Changelist". Similar words are commit, diff, patch, etc. (though sometimes those other words have other implications)

The Google Home definitely supports Chromecast now [0]. My favorite related thing to say is "Hey Google, play House of Cards on my TV" , and it will turn on my TV and then start pl…

> All this is over-engineered IMO. It's complicated in order to provide a lower-level API so that libraries can take advantage of different features and provide more opinionated wa…

I think the official documentation is what's found in the help center; this page contains a lot more information about using a custom passphrase for your sync data: https://support…

To be fair, Chrome has exactly that feature to, and let's the user choose what they want.

Context is king.

Yeah, and please also don't send me any messages where you chose autocompletions for the words, or messages where your phone autocorrected the spelling of. Heck, don't even send me…

It says on Revolv's website that they're giving full refunds to current customers: "If you're a current Revolv customer, please email us at help@revolv.com so we can help you out d…

They're giving full refunds to all their customers, so it's more like those customers got to use the device for "free" while it was available.

It's nice to see WebKit adopt this approach too. Chrome and Firefox have already had a policy against new CSS properties with vendor prefixes for over three years, so with Safari o…

There's another interactive widget when you search for "bubble level" (only on mobile). Handy! If you're not on mobile, this article has some screenshots of the widget: http://www.…

According to the pre-match interview[0], the AlphaGo project is about two years old, and started out as a collaboration between two members of DeepMind and a member of the Google B…

For the record, Chrome's sync data can also be an encrypted blob that Google can't decrypt[0]. [0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en

> For some time, Google has been convinced that the semiautonomous systems that others champion (which include various features like collision prevention, self-parking, and lane co…

While you're right that it's up to the browser to fix, that can be a very time consuming process (especially for something as tricky as video). YouTube doesn't want to wait around …

> The poor way in which YouTube does feature detection (via user agent string) is almost as appalling. If you could provide a better alternative, I'm sure they'd be all ears.

That sort of feature detection is likely not sufficient for detecting if a video will play well or correctly . There's been a number of bugs in MSE in the past which means that You…

Reading the comments on that bug, it looks like it was only a small subset of Firefox users who experienced this bug. Not really a big story.

> the only way to monetize on youtube right now is via ads That's not true, you can also set up a channel where users have to pay to purchase or rent your videos (or pay a subscrip…

The Closure Compiler supports compiling ES6 code already, and can also do transpilation down to ES3/ES5. [1][2] Google also has the Traceur Compiler which does transpilation of new…