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After reading this thread, is there even a proper way to measure how good a language is (trade-offs, benefits down the road)? Having done web stuff in PHP and Python I think both are terrible. So, how would a programmer trying to avoid his own biases and anecdotes find what tools are right for each job? Maybe I didn't "liked" PHP and Python because I'm a terrible programmer. Or maybe I only worked with awful teams.

Is there any science involved or should I make my decisions based in what blog post I read that week? How can I actually trust the opinion of companies/engineers if they are so invested in that tech? Who would admit that after investing millions on it they didn't actually think it was worth it? There's no way that I'll be able to have deep knowledge about all the languages that are out there.

The sad thing is that I end it up choosing whatever is popular and half sane because not finding (updated/well-maintained) libs or tools you need is worse than picking a niche language that might do the job better.

https://github.com/limetext/backend

> Register a previously used ID

> A deleted Yahoo account ID may become available for future use, and you’re welcome to try to register it. However, Yahoo can't specify how long until a deleted ID may become available, and we can't guarantee that it will become available.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3060.html

And make sure it doesn't get removed for inactivity:

> If you rarely use your account, it will go into an inactive state and then be deleted. You can prevent this by signing in to your account using any device at least once every 12 months.

> Register a previously used ID

> A deleted Yahoo account ID may become available for future use, and you’re welcome to try to register it. However, Yahoo can't specify how long until a deleted ID may become available, and we can't guarantee that it will become available.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3060.html

And make sure it doesn't get removed for inactivity:

> If you rarely use your account, it will go into an inactive state and then be deleted. You can prevent this by signing in to your account using any device at least once every 12 months.

That's why I would love if a company like Mozilla, that offers stuff I support like Firefox, started offering a paid "Google suite" with custom domains. Or at least e-mail and storage. I understand most of it is a race to the bottom but it might be viable if it was open source, community driven. What I care about is knowing my data is not being sold and paying for not having to monitor logs, update servers and all of that.

I do use the cloud but only for encrypted tar files.

I do know about alternatives like the ones listed at privacytools.io, but it's all about trust (in before someone tells me why I shouldn't trust Mozilla).

It's also useful for opening pages with livestreamer (www.livestreamer.io), youtube-dl (rg3.github.io/youtube-dl)

Worst-case scenario people would just rewrite parts of the stack to move around it. There's people salivating at this very moment just thinking about rewritting core stuff in Go, Rust, or something else, and making a blog post about it. Imagine if they had an actual motive to do it.

uMatrix is too weird for me (I love uBlock though).

Once it's available for everybody, what's stopping people from uploading things they don't own?

Do we just throw away everything after a few months? At the time I couldn't find good components or make the entire thing compatible (it's the little bugs that get you), including "basic" stuff like a calendar with date and time, all the bootstrap components, select2. Not to mention proper i18n support. Oh, and it needs to work in every browser (at least the modern ones).

If Vue really is a react/angular for toddlers (like me), I hope it wins and that soon there's finally a component set that "just works" and doesn't get rewritten every cycle. I'm talking about components that go beyond the 80% use case. That you can install without thinking twice. That you don't have to worry if it's going to be abandoned next week.

> The core of the Windows sandbox is Google's chromium sandbox.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#Windows_2

Any more components that are coming directly from Chromium?

This is an interesting move if it allows Mozilla to focus on Servo and the new Rust components. At least I hope that's what they are doing, after the recent Firefox OS news.

> The core of the Windows sandbox is Google's chromium sandbox.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#Windows_2

Any more components that are coming directly from Chromium?

This is an interesting move if it allows Mozilla to focus on Servo and the new Rust components. At least I hope that's what they are doing, after the recent Firefox OS news.

- My login stays the same (regular @gmail account)

- For receiving e-mails, it works like a simple forwarding service to my Gmail inbox. There's no copy of the e-mails anywhere else, no extra inbox, like I was using POP3

- I'll be able to send e-mails from that custom domain directly in Gmail, using Google's SMTP servers, but all the recipients will be able to see my original Gmail address in the hidden e-mail headers, and it's going to show "sent via Gmail" or something like that. I remember that's how it worked for an old alias I had, maybe it's the same thing.

If this is how it works I would definitely use it. I keep a live local IMAP backup and I also use Takeout regularly so there's very little risk involved.

Are you using this setup? Any problems?

(edit: what I mean is that he can recall the account and get full access to it while DNS still points to Google)

I'm probably leaving for another provider because of this. I'm more and more concerned about the @gmail.com lock-in. I don't even send any media attachments (audio, video) or store anything in my Drive since I know of several people getting banned and not even receiving a justification (anecdotal, but it's enough to make me nervous about it). I'm not saying that was the cause, but I can't know for sure, so...

Min Vid worked even with my highly customized YouTube (YTCenter and more).

Two reasons that killed it for me (Android):

- It required so many permissions that I had to scroll down (old permissions api?)

- First app interaction was a blank screen and no straightforward way to find my contact list or quickly send messages. Like 90% of the people I know would uninstall it on the spot after that blank screen. They don't want to feel dumb and they are "too busy to read a tutorial". I also couldn't find a single soul using it.

Just try browsing reddit with the RES extension or streaming heavy data for a few seconds (like a server side PDF processor that takes more than 30 seconds to finish, it's the same old behavior of blocking JS dialogs from years ago, white screen of death). When I'm using a iGPU (512MB) and I open some heavy images in sequence the browser crashes after a certain amount of time but this time it freezes the entire computer for a few seconds, so I suspect it's OOM (iGPU). I never bothered looking for a solution, nowadays I don't even care when my browser ocasionally crashes. My overall desktop (software) experience gets worse every year so I have gone used to it.

But Firefox still is my favorite browser and I wouldn't trade it for anything else!

That's why I only upvote 10% of the funny comments, prioritizing the ones that benefits my personal agenda.

1) How good is the sandbox? I followed the links but how battle-tested is it? What if you put an already sandboxed Chrome inside UWP, does it basically use almost the same calls or there are some extra benefits? Besides FS isolation.

2) Can I browse the "sandboxed disk" (including registry files) and export everything? So I can make backups or restore it later.

3) Does it stop apps from installing intrusive things? Some bank plugins use like 30% of my CPU on idle, run a lot of services on startup, so I have no option but to use a VM.

I'm really curious about all of this and there's almost no hype around it. All I see is people talking about walled gardens, privacy concerns (that I have too), how they screwed in the past with GFWL, Windows 8. But downloading software from 3rd party sources in 2016 is just awful. I want the Linux package manager experience. I don't trust any 3rd party like Ninite, Chocolatey, and they have like 10% of all the software I need anyways.

Let's see if the third time I make this comment gets a reply

1) How good is the sandbox? I followed the links but how battle-tested is it? What if you put an already sandboxed Chrome inside UWP, does it basically use almost the same calls or there are some extra benefits? Besides FS isolation.

2) Can I browse the "sandboxed disk" (including registry files) and export everything? So I can make backups or restore it later.

3) Does it stop apps from installing intrusive things? Some bank plugins use like 30% of my CPU on idle, run a lot of services on startup, so I have no option but to use a VM.

I'm really curious about all of this and there's almost no hype around it. All I see is people talking about walled gardens, privacy concerns (that I have too), how they screwed in the past with GFWL, Windows 8. But downloading software from 3rd party sources in 2016 is just awful. I want the Linux package manager experience. I don't trust any 3rd party like Ninite, Chocolatey, and they have like 10% of all the software I need anyways.