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Did you pay attention to the Prop 8 campaigners? They were and remain jaw-droppingly disgusting people. > Early on, Prop 8’s supporters decided to focus their campaign primarily on children, stoking parents’ fears about gay people brainwashing their kids with pro-gay messages or, implicitly, turning their children gay. > Another notorious commercial shows an earnest school administrator fretting that a “new health cu…
You got a lot wrong.
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When I upgraded it gave me a page showing me the new defaults it was about to apply, and gave me the option to skip it and keep what I was using before. Went with the latter option and indeed, it's still all MPC-HC, foobar2000 and Opera. Maybe it's because I was upgrading from 8 you were upgrading from 7? I recall some changes to how defaults were handled between them.
> Maybe it's because I was upgrading from 8 you were upgrading from 7? I recall some changes to how defaults were handled between them. Nope, upgraded from Windows 8.1. Not sure why I had a difference experience than you. I even went through the customize screens.
I did the upgrade with Win 8.1 Pro and the choice to reset default program options was pretty clear.
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Sadly, I have discovered that Mozilla and I have very different ideas of what "long term" means. The irony of my previous post is that both Microsoft and Mozilla seem to be playing the same game now, right down to sub-year "long term" support. You can't really choose whether to have those updates any more, only to defer them for a short while. Anything more than that, and you just have to give up on updating altogeth…
Honestly with everything becoming web apps these days, I'm starting to feel it's more dangerous for the browser than for the OS. So many zero-day exploits like the recent Microsoft OpenType bug. And of course, Flash. Enough said there. I'm already to the point where I don't web surf on my primary development box, outside of localhost (site dev work.) As long as your firewall seals off all unrequested external traffic…
I do want to point out that the OpenType issue you mentioned is really an OS bug rather than a browser one, though. It's a good demonstration that ultimately any OS facility that is used by browsers is a potential vulnerability, and crucially it's a cross-browser vulnerability and therefore more attractive to attackers.
What I'd really like is for all my platform software -- OS, browsers, language runtimes and the like -- to focus on stability and quality, with new features taking a secondary role. But I guess that doesn't sell new and shiny to customers^Wconsumers with an Internet-era attention span. :-(
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Stop trying to rewrite history. Brendan Eich decided to leave on his own, in spite of the fact that they tried to get him to stay.
Nonsense. He was forced out. Forced to resign. How hard is that to understand?
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...
Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?
A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.
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You got a lot wrong.
Go on.
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Go on.
You seem to like comics that summarize one side of the story. Here's the other side: http://adam4d.com/whos-the-bigot
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You seem to like comics that summarize one side of the story. Here's the other side: http://adam4d.com/whos-the-bigot
Don't try to pretend the Prop 8 campaign was some reasonable, thoughtful discussion of the impacts of gay marriage on society. Prop 8 was a campaign of hate directed against a historically maligned minority, designed to prevent that group from gaining acceptance. The ads implied crazy off-the-wall shit like recruitment of children (read between the lines: homosexuals are pedophiles) and that somehow children being to…
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So "you are free to say whatever you want, but if I don't like it I will destroy your life".
I'm not sure whose life was destroyed or how we jumped to that point, but yes, if you choose that slurs and hate groups are more important to you than your community's acceptance, then you get to deal with those consequences. At no point is this an infringement on your right to free speech.
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The Dart team is not a large team and not an arrogant team. Led by Lars Bak, they thought to try and make something that ran faster than JavaScript by doing away with 'monkey patching.' Lars and Kasper Lund took all their experience working with V8 to make something that avoided the bottlenecks. Gilad Bracha designed a good working language and it works without many "gotchas" along the way. It's a pleasure to use. Th…
tl;dr -- "Dart is good". A fine view, I agree on parts. Your words do nothing to address the very real technical problems that kept DartVM out of Chrome. Stop personalizing everything and study the link I cited.
"The issue here isn't "can we make multiple vms live in webkit" it's "can we expose multiple languages to the web", to the former i say obviously as we already do, to the latter I say that we don't want to."
The general tone Oliver had was akin to saying only little-endian machines should be supported on the Web. Not because of some technically proven deficiency in the idea of allowing big-endian machines, but because "we don't want to." I can only imagine if such logic had been applied to other parts of the Web. Technical problems always have a solution.
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