HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

stesch

4,306 karma · joined August 29, 2007

submissionscomments
stesch··on Firefox 57.0 Released
Downvotes for this? WTF?
stesch··on Firefox 57.0 Released
Currently no NoScript for Firefox 57.

And no gestures if you are on Mac or Linux.

stesch··on How Firefox Got Fast Again
Oops. They added the feature that indicates that an extension isn't ready for quantum.

My bad.

stesch··on How Firefox Got Fast Again
> Actually every addon indicates on the addon site whether it is compatible with quantum or not.

Not on the new site and not if you are using Firefox 56. You need to click on "View classic desktop site" in the footer. Then you see a "Compatible with Firefox 57+" tag/badge right from the version number of the extension.

stesch··on How Firefox Got Fast Again
You don't know before the update if an extension is supported or not. Firefox 56 doesn't support all of the new features of web extensions so some add-ons (and versions) are only available for Firefox 57.

Too bad Mozilla changed the Add-On website a few days ago. You don't see any indication of supported Firefox version anymore. You only see the extensions that work in your current browser, not the extensions for the next version. (Unless you switch to the old layout in an link hidden in the footer.)

Some extensions will be delayed because the deadline (2 years?) wasn't long enough. Some extensions need additional features and may only be available with Firefox 58 or later. Some never.

And you need to invest some time to research this. One starting point is https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/

stesch··on The cargo cult of versioning
project is liable to go boom at some future date

I've seen so many people come and go at my last job and at other companies, I don't think anybody cares.

stesch··on Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2q-Csk-ktc

Makes some good points.

stesch··on Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
70% downvotes on /r/apple, posted 17h ago.
stesch··on Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
I have the feeling it's something American that I can't really understand as an European.

Last time I got flagged was a comment with a link to a picture of a Sikh with a sign that said he writes bug free code. As some Americans mistake Sikhs with Muslims that may have triggered something. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209714

By the way: You can't post emojis here. Hacker News removes them from your comments.

stesch··on Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
It must be politics why this post got flagged. ️
stesch··on Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
Why is this flagged??
stesch··on Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (1997)
I'm older than C.

But you can listen to a Queen's best of album at any age.

stesch··on Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (1997)
But we have only fourteen hours to save the Earth!!
stesch··on Apple says color and hue shifting, OLED burn-in expected on iPhone X
€1,548 with AppleCare+ and 256 GB. Apple Germany.
stesch··on If You Think Basic Income Is “Free Money” or Socialism, Think Again
After a few years of reading UBI (Universal Basic Income) debates I come to the conclusion that it is impossible to teach humans new tricks. The way you earn and spend money is deeply ingrained into our brains.

When the Neanderthal used the ATM he knew that it was his successful killing of a sabre tooth that lead to the money he had in his hands.

Maybe we should just skip this immediate step and go full on Star Trek/Venus Project.

stesch··on Why do people keep giving Magic Leap money?
I strongly recommend reading "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge.

It's a science fiction novel about a near future where everybody has AR contact lenses and can see the world the way he/she chooses (among other consequences of this technology).

stesch··on Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?
This isn't hard Science Fiction.

Definition on Wikipedia: Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction

stesch··on WebExtensions in Firefox 57
Comments are interesting. The transition will hurt a lot.

But I don't think that the market share will drop because some Chrome users will probably go back to Firefox while a minority will switch to Google Chrome.

stesch··on Colly: Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang
So you want the data but you don't want to ask for it?
stesch··on Colly: Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Golang
Why are scrapers and scraping so popular? What is a real use case for it?
stesch··on Google Clips is a new $249 wearable camera
In the movie "The Circle" a big company (a mixture of Google and Facebook) invents a small camera that you can put everywhere that records everything and broadcasts it for everyone.

A post privacy future.

stesch··on Google Clips is a new $249 wearable camera
First step to "The Circle". :-)
stesch··on A modest proposal
But I want to use eval() in IE8!!
stesch··on Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
So the people who are currently working at Facebook do so because they lied?
stesch··on “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
I was once in a meeting on site. The task was to get some data from an AS/400 to a Linux server and display it on a website.

Text files would have been enough to cache the data. But you never know how a project can change over time so I proposed PostgreSQL or IBM DB/2. The latter in case they absolutely wanted to pay for a database and they are already using an IBM AS/400. (We were using PostgreSQL and Informix.)

At the meeting they said they have already bought a license for an Oracle DB. Without consulting us. So we were forced to use it without prior experience.

stesch··on North Korea Is Not Crazy
They have family.
stesch··on Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)
Would you rather use good code by a shitty person or shitty code by a good person?
stesch··on I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
Can't see the article with NoScript. :-)
stesch··on Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years?
I got a stern warning ("Please comment civilly") from a Hacker News moderator for writing "You are funny." and you are calling me sociopathic.

I like this place. And you aren't funny.

stesch··on Red's $15,000 'Red Raven' Camera Kit Available Exclusively at Apple Stores
MKBHD made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywk2-xx0LP0
← PreviousPage 5 of 18Next →