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Let me give you an example: I often search the internet for the ASCII table. I don't think it's a fault, that I do not remember it. Even if I had it stored in my computer, opening it from a computer would not be as fast as looking it up online.

Another example: the setTimeout(a,b) in Javascript has two parameters: the time delay and the function to call. I never remember which one is the first, so I look it up every time.

I can type without looking at the keyboard. But I believe there can be great programmers, who need to look at the keyboard when they type.

This is up to a browser. I believe a browser should give you an option to decline all such requests by default, without asking you each time. Just like you can browse the web with JS disabled, without images, etc.

It can be done only after the user confirms, that they want to allow the website to do it (similar to a webcam access, etc).

So let's say it is 2005, some phones have cameras, and some don't. The manufacturer of phones without cameras says: "Phones are for calling, just buy a camera, it is literally what you want".

You can be right, but the market has a final word.

Today, many people enjoy using advanced apps, that can be "installed" and "uninstalled" in one second (by opening and closing a website), without leaving any track (mess) in your computer.

I mean putting an image into a clipboard when the user presses Ctrl+C, or some button in my program (without crating a <img> element on the screen and asking the user to right-click it).

I think a PWA mode is useful in all cases on all devices. But most of users use my program on desktops.

I am a creator of a web-based image editor www.Photopea.com and here are things I miss in Firefox (and why my users prefer to use Chrome):

- impossible to put an image into a clipboard (so that user can e.g. paste it outside a browser)

- no PWA mode (impossible to put an icon of a website to your homescreen, which will open the website without a browser UI)

- impossible to have keyboard shortcuts with Alt https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568130

I wish you could think a bit before writing such thing.

How do you decide what is an ad and what is not an ad? What if I tell my friend, that my new TV is really good? What if I tell it to 10 of my friends? What if I send an email to everyone I know, saying, that my new TV is great?

Would you investigate, if the TV manufacturer paid me or not? How exactly would you do it? Or did they gave me a discount on the TV?

I wish you could see, that you can not ban advertising, without banning free speech.

It would be also great to ban lying in media, right?

You are complaining about "1 minute of ads for less than 10 minutes of content", and advocating "9 minutes of ads per hour in average".

But the first case is less ads than the second case.

You are right, sorry :)

Happy Birthday To You:

1 1 3 1 - 6 5

1 1 3 1 - 8 6

1 1 1 0 - 6 5 3

1 1 0 6 8 6

- modified a bit, as only 10 of 12 notes are reachable.

To play Beethoven, press keys

0 9 0 9 0 5 - 8 6 3

There are also many products manufactured in the UK and exported to China, which are not counted as chinese CO2 emissions. And I don't mean just expensive cars like Bentley, Land Rover or Jaguar. British industry is quite huge.

E.g. all airplanes used in China were manufactured in Europe or the US, so you could say "China is outsourcing their industry to Europe and the US to keep their CO2 emissions low".

I write comments in JSON as properties, which I will never use in practice. E.g. { "name":"jack", "age":42, "---comment":"this is a person" }

So let's say you buy a game for $10 and the creator gets only $7 (as Apple keeps $3). But there could be an alterative app store, where the same game would be sold for $9, and the creator would get $8 (the store would keep $1). So the reason is, that with competition, the price of software could decrease and you would save money.

I don't mind that Apple keeps a large commission. But I mind the fact, that Apple has a monopoly on iOS software distribution, and the monopoly is always bad for the customers.

Each app or game, which runs on iOS devices, should pay Apple 30% of their revenue. These are billions of dollars each year.

The Fortnite game wanted to avoid this fee of 30% by making the game free to download, but the users could pay directly inside the game (the payment mechanism did not go through Apple).

If more apps or games do that, Apple would lose a lot of money. Also, Apple App store is the only way to get apps and games into iOS devices. So if I make a game and I want you to play it, and you know me and my game and you want to play it too, Apple is a "third person", who can stop us from doing so.

I still wonder why so many people buy devices, where the only software you could run has to be approved by the manufacturer.

I think we should speak more about this fact, so that people think twice before they buy some device.

I only make websites, but I am worried, that at some point, Apple would want me to pay them, so that my website is openable on their devices.

It reminds me my Javascript / WebGL game I made back in 2011 :) http://crazybugs.ivank.net/

The design was ispired by Wold of Goo :)

The worst part is, that the fee for a card payment is shared between Visa/MasterCard and your bank.

Bank transfers within a country are often free of charge, but are quite uncomfortable to make (typing numbers) and usually are not sent immediately (so that you can not pay this way in a grocery store).

Banks have no interest in making bank transfers easier or faster, or opening up to cheaper competitors of Visa/MasterCard. Meanwhile, people happily keep their money in a bank, seeing that all bank services are free and that it "can not get any better".

I think, if anyone is to replace Visa/MasterCard, they should also make their own bank (a place where people keep money in a long-term).

It took me almost a minute until I started to play. The rotation with a mouse was very slow (you have to move the mouse by a huge distance).

I prefer to play https://www.krunker.io, where you can play immediately :)

There are many "smart" ways in creating JPGs. JPG compressors improved in recent years. If you have a HEIC image, it can usually be saved as JPG with the same quality, which is larger by only 10 - 15%. The term "fraction" is a complete nonsense.

Also, you can switch your camera settings in the iOS to save a JPG instead.

Of course not. But if we are talking about replacing JPG, two things are necessary: a new format should not be restricted by patents and licence fees, and such movement has to be coordinated with all other "players" in the industry. Apple did not do any of it.

I am 100% on the side of the school. Unlike with JPEG, everybody who wants to work with HEIC should pay licence fees. Also, HEIC is like 50x more complex than JPEG.

I hope the world will never get to a point, where each phone brand stores photos in their own format, and you need a special software from the phone manufacturer to view the photos (that is what we have now with raw photography formats, and what we used to have in the past with phone chargers).

I think he did not mean "written 6 times", but more like Compiled 6 times, with 6 different sets of parameters, and having to be tested on 6 different devices.

It reminds me a moment three years ago, when I asked Dropbox to make their API similar to Google Drive, as they basically provide the same service. https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-api-spec/issues/3#issueco...

It is just awful to see, how everyone tries to reinvent the wheel and not to be compatible with anyone else.

My idea was, that both the author and a publisher would monetize it.

I did a similar thing back in 2012 :) but it was only for web games, which run without plugins. Authors of games submit the name of a game, the URL of the game, and the URL of a thumbnail (similar to a PWA manifest).

There is a "gallery" - a store of games. But most importantly, manifests are available as a JSON feed, which anybody can use. It is at http://www.spreadmygame.com/

To try KolibriOS without installing anything, you can emulate it in your web browser here: https://copy.sh/v86/ .

The names of colors like "#ff38a1" are also unique, so what is that post about?

I think we should also name the numbers between 1 and 1,000,000 wiht unique names. The current names we use have too many patterns :D The number 173,515 could be a "singing dog", etc.