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Comment · 3 years ago
?? They've always taken data to sell ads, although they usually try to sell things from within their own ecosystem. Don't drink the koolaid
Comment · 4 years ago
I do this, and I'm constantly in need of book recommendations. Please help
Comment · 5 years ago
What is your automated deployment pipeline for this kind of website?
Comment · 5 years ago
Why would most js heavy companies want content to be long lived? What's the benefit to them? If they're concerned about making data accessible then they'll open an API that they hold the keys to.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why? Why should you be in a position to dictate to twitter how to operate. It's a multi-million dollar company with many smart people working away on the product. Who are you? If you just want walls of text and a completely unengaging product, stick to hackernews.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why would you browse the internet this way? Why not just enable the scripts and close the site if it's annoying?
Comment · 6 years ago
That does give some food for thought. Of all the new language features, the elements I really need —functors, asynchronous syntactical sugar, and static null analysis— don't require much of the bloat found in many modern languages.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Eye stretching exercises. Focus on something as close as possible (in good light) then slowly track out to something at infinite distance, one eye then the other then both.

Additionally, make sure the contrast on the screen matches your surriundings! There's no reason to have your brightness very high at all, and brightness is different from contrast.

Comment · 8 years ago
It can be used to access a company's own hardware.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm perhaps not understanding the significance of this. Is the issue that if you go to a shitty scam site and start clicking things you might have issues?? I don't see how that's an issue to be solved by a browser.

Leaking your image and email is a huge issue though.

Comment · 8 years ago
Yeah, that took me a while to figure out just now. But I still don't see how that's an issue, I'm browsing on ycombinator.com, not ashittyiframesite.com
Comment · 8 years ago
Where the whitelist is stated https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/improving-autoplay-c...

I was really excited about this change, I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't more consideration of these niche web developers.

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