RadioactiveMan

I really value tests on projects I work on alone because the work is usually intermittent. I don't have the time or energy to deal with regressions, and I may not remember everything about the system by the next time I work on it.

I also find manually testing to be tedious, so I'd rather spend that time writing code that does it for me.

People's fundamental rights and freedoms are not technicalities.

> No one has expressed concern so far.

The article is an expression of concern. It also cites three court cases to show that it matters.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or what.

> HTTPS doesn't hurt anything and actually has some nice side effects (it separates backups onto a separate port than the majority of your web traffic, allows for traffic shaping if you want to do it).

Wouldn't using HTTPS put it on the same port as virtually all web traffic?

Would we really lose them? My understanding is that, after a fire, a forest experiences very rich growth, especially of plants that don't grow much under the shade of old trees, which are good food and cover for many animals.

> People complained when Firefox added [...]

> Now they're [...] removing [...], and people are still complaining?

It's different people.

6.99 is 6.99. It's only 7 if you pay with cash.

> 1) addons don't work yet

It'll be interesting to see if this change is going to get rid of extension support or not. I'm a Firefox fan, but uBlock Origin is more important than the browser.

The praise for arrow functions is surprising. They don't enable anything new and their feature - saving a half dozen characters - comes with the cognitive cost of tracking how both types of anonymous functions work and their subtle differences in behavior. It's not worth that price.

There's seven billion people in the world for which running grep is not easy. This makes it easy.

The padlock was already meaningless.