It would appear that "what it is" is "not good enough", and that the sort of functionality and control over behaviour an layout is so hard to achieve on the browser that it's just not possible for any reasonably complex app and for a sensible price.
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Often people show me "tech demos", by which they apparently mean something you'd never bother to show anyone else if it was an app or a game, but because it's running in a browser window and because it doesn't look like yet another shitty website (because it has something that moves, or which you can interact with in some limited way) it's supposed to somehow impress me. I don't get it.
1) deal with it 2) pick a better platform 3) try and come up with a new platform which is broswer-like but where there is predictable, obvious behaviour on multiple implementations of the platform, and where the platform supports, out of the box, all the sorts of functionality you'd like for a modern app. If your platform is missing any of the APIs you have available on, say, Android or ios you're going to struggle to make a web app as rich as, say, google maps, or whatever.
I'd for for 3 but I guess it's hard because all the people who care are too busy trying to keep up with which framework to use, or centering text, or whatever.
They're saying it shouldn't be done, or that it's possible and if you can't do it you're a lame developer. I didn't see it as condescending at all.
"self-destructing cookies", on the desktop, lets you choose to destroy cookies 1) when you close the tab, 2) when you close the browser or 3) never. On android it's a toggle; presumably 1 and 3.
The android version of noscript is inexplicably named "noscript nsa". It has a bunch of options but I never fiddle with them. You can't install it via the usual firefox plugin system for reasons I don't understand, so instead you have to get it here:
You want the link "Download NSA++ (NoScript 3.5 alpha)". It's been alpha for as long as I've been using it. A recent change to firefox means you probably have to use about:config to temporarily enable the installation of plugins from outside the official firefox plugin store thing.
Perhaps the developers are trying to demonstrate that you can't have security AND convenience.
Not at all. It's their software and their app store.
I never read EULAs and I can imagine they're not valid everywhere, but they're useful as a measure of the intent of the company producing them. I imagine Samsung, for example, reserves the right to use any information you provide to ensure a certain quality of service. I'm sure Google have run their EULAs - valid or not - past similar lawyers.
In the hope that people who know more about primes that me (this will not be unlikely) are reading this:
How hard have people looked for pattern visually? I saw a few pieces about it online but I'd have thought that it would be rather easy to take the first, say, 10 million primes and subject them to all sort of techniques displaying them in 2d and 3d, and altering the way they're displayed (spirals, ovals, wrapping them as square spirals etc) and seeing if anything comes out. I mean, on the off chance that it might be easier to detect a pattern at a human level than apply strict mathematical techniques. Is this still an area under active research, or was it rather quickly tried and then given up with "nope, this isn't getting us anywhere"?
As you can probably tell, I'm not a mathematician. I just have a sort of superstitious belief that there's something "natural" about primes, and that there'll be a pattern there somewhere. I've read about people with mental health issues who somehow are able to tell if a number is prime and assuming that this is accurate then again, unless they are somehow able to run a learned algorithm in their heads stupidly fast they're therefore tapping into something natural. Or perhaps these people weren't assessed by anyone who actually knew what a prime number was.
It's not as simple as that. They are a democracy, with regular elections. They're just punctuated with military coups. There'll be tanks in the street and the military will have to, after a few days, try and stop people from dancing on/near the tanks. There'll be as many people in favour of the coup as against it. The military situation has nothing to do with the respect for the king; the coups don't happen without the king's blessing. Absent the monarchy in Thailand I don't think the situation regarding democracy would be any different at all.
I guess it's just "gotta write a story....gotta make a dollar...gotta get some ad impressions" or whatever, but..really..does anyone actually give a shit?
It's worth looking for Chomsky speaking about post-modernism on youtube (or transcripts). Very amusing.
People don't have a problem with arbitrage. It's just the annoying ads when you're surfing the net.
Why are Forbes links accepted here? What's the rationale behind not banning them?
Perhaps there's a better way of handling this. I can't read it directly on my Kindle because the browser there - optimistically described "experimental" - is shocking. Pocket is great because it does a good job of producing a page which consists of just the typing without the usual horrific web fluff (although sometimes it gets it wrong and the graphics go missing).
It seems a shame that, when most of what I'm interested in started life as someone else essentially entering text into a document, there's no way of obtaining it in that form but instead it has to be manipulated into something sensible. I don't want an "experience"; I just want to read what you've typed.
Would it help if I gave you my email address?