While I am big fan of Clojure and even more ClojureScript...
The problem is: Once an ecosystem is stagnating or on the decline it's a huge risk to enter this space. It's not just your own market value you might be destroying, it's hard to find resources and to scale development.
Besides this, what I really want is strong competition between lib authors in order to keep the ecosystem evolving. Even current blockbusters like React face problems in this regard, like the react-router monopoly where maintainer Michael Jackson buys competitors from the market to keep his leadgen machine running. I know this is OT but a language without a huge OR trending ecosystem is worthless.
I think what you are stating is that the Clojure ecosystem is stagnating.
I'm moving more and more of our company's stack over to the Clojure ecosystem because I see a lot of innovation and excitement in it. More importantly, it takes fewer people to be more productive in it.
I know some high-profile people have left the language for various reasons, but there are lots of people I know personally who are joining it. We should expect some churn.
I won't try to convince you that it isn't stagnating, but I want to put out an alternate perspective from someone who is investing a lot in the ecosystem.
> I know this is OT but a language without a huge OR trending ecosystem is worthless.
Anecdotally speaking, I'm not sure I agree that the Clojure ecosystem is stagnating (it's relatively small and likely always will be) but a big draw of ClojureScript is the way it piggy backs on the Node/NPM community.
I recently spun up a React/Reagent UI paired with a Clojurescript node.js server. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to do ClojureScript <--> JS interop in Shadow-Cljs projects.
I am so tempted to reply with a BS. Because this is a super hard problem, with hundreds of edge cases making it even harder, some tried to solve it in the past, with underwhelming results.
Declaring BS on what, TruePic as a business? The general problem is very hard, but the specific problem of taking photos with smartphones is tractable. Their approach makes sense, and in some cases can be made much easier with access to platform (e.g. android, ios) device verification. This is just the beginning of the broad adoption of identity verification services.
I am curious to know more about this space because it's all very new to me. What failed solutions were tried in the past? Which issues does Truepic fail to address? And is it even possible to address these failures?
Truepic doesn't solve the problem of you taking a picture of your neighbors flooded basement or broken windshield. GPS can't fix the problem as its not accurate enough, and for quite a few places is not odd if you park somewhat close to your neighbors house.
This is an awesome idea and would love this paired with a 'fluff' counter telling how much unnecessary fluff is around a key message of an article. In this case it's low.
Switched last year to Lenovo and while the ecosystem around Windows has for sure its issues, it's still night and day. I've been decades on Macs and I lost the interest for computers then. Since I am back to Windows/mainly WSL somehow this interest came back.
Back then, I was smiling at those PC builders with their RGB 'crap' but now I'd love to build my own battlestation with RGB everywhere. The PC ecosystem is more authentic, honest and more about tech.
What?? I use it all the time: Tilde in vim for upper/downcase and bash for home and backtick for jumping to marks and in JS for template strings. Great key.
While this might be handy when visiting your favorite paid porn site, isn't this counter-intuitive? When I am in private mode, I expect nothing to be saved.
In both private and not-private windows, the browser asks the user whether to save each password. Nothing is saved unless you explicitly click the Save button.
Ok, but I think the parent is wondering in what situation you'd want to store in the browser details of a site you'd visited, but still use private mode to "hide" that you'd visited?
What data does the password use retain? IIRC password store retains the "time first used, time last used" and displays that visibly.
In short what's the use-case or user story that fits this feature?
If your girlfriend is replicating your harddrive to determine what ring you're buying, maybe it's better if she finds out and you call off the wedding instead of going through with it.
That's true, although I could picture a scenario where you want to log into a service only occasionally, so you want the password saved but don't necessarily want to keep a container for it. For instance, my wife and I have separate brokerage accounts, and I log into both simultaneously once a month.
That heavily depends on how much of a hassle the container system is, really. If specific sites automatically get opened in a specific container (a la facebook) then I'm certainly going to take advantage of password saving. Anything to have to not type and/or click fewer things to actually do what I want to do, instead of getting to what I wanted to do.
If I have to manually open the correct container first, though, that's a hassle. It's why I use containers sparingly, but hot damn do I have the "facebook container" extension installed (a site I look at maybe once a week) because automatic silos are fantastic.
> What data does the password use retain? IIRC password store retains the "time first used, time last used" and displays that visibly.
Lets compare it to downloads. That's another feature that leaves quite a bit of "compromising" info but users might still want to use it. I am thankful that Firefox does still allow downloads in private mode and did not just disable it. Sure, I could copy all the links into a non private session, but that would be annoying.
Similarly, imagining a situation were saving passwords from private windows might come in handy doesn't seem like a hard stretch to me. It also pretty obviously leaves a trace, just like a download, and thus shouldn't create much user confusion.
Some browse in private mode all the time and many times I have wished it asked me to save passwords so I don't have to type them repeatedly. Bookmarks work in private mode, why not passwords?
Not adding every damned site to my hstory is actually a feature.
Chrome's session and tab management on both desktop and mobile are abysmal. Whilst I've nuked it from desktop, I cannot remove it from Android. And, sadly, Firefox performance there still lags badly.
I browse almost exclusively in incognity on Chrome/Android.
I'm assuming the threat is considered to be someone with local physical access to one's computer. Once you've entered your master password then an "attacker" only has to click the burger menu, then "logins" then they can enter a string from a website login URL, maybe "porn" and it would show the website's full domain, the username used, when the site was first and most-recently visited, and how many visits were made over time -- if it keeps bookmarks with all the info -- if you were using privacy mode to hide your tracks then it's not working there.
If you use Private Mode all the time then can't you just set the browser to act as if it were in private mode but with more fine-settings choice, that way you could have had password saving all along.
So, I'm still not really seeing the benefit.
That said, presumably the password db could have salted-hashes in in-place of domains/URLs for "privacy mode passwords" and then they'd be very hard to casually discover; that might be closer to user expectations.
In addition to using private mode for visiting sites that I don't want saved in my history, I also use it as a poor mans sandbox for visiting sensitive sites (like my bank), to avoid potential cross-site-scripting attacks while visiting those sites. For this use-case, saving passwords is very useful. In fact, my biggest complaint with private mode in Firefox is that my preferred password manager plugin (bitwarden) doesn't work in private mode.
Why not use Firefox multi account containers[1] for this use case?
Having one banking container or even one per bank would have the same effect, without the annoyances of private mode?
I tried it out, but it was much more structured than I'd like. I don't really want to have pre-defined a bunch of containers for each site that I want compartmentalized. I really like the ephemeral nature of private browsing where a single click gives me a fresh new container that I can use for whatever I want. Plus, when giving recommendations to family members, private browsing is more user-facing feature, and easier for them to use.
Sounds like we need a guest mode where nothing saves but add-ons work and a privacy mode where things are privacy driven and only certain add-ons work.
Yeah - I still think it's crazy that when using (mobile) Chrome, if you poke around in bookmarks, it will remember what folder you were in. So there's some hint of where you've been if someone else would then go to use Chrome bookmarks.
You might argue that if you really want private browsing, don't use bookmarks, but I feel that's a weak argument.
While I share most of DHH positions, I still dislike him/his tonality/too dogmatic view/his lame way of doing content marketing--which is the only thing he seems to be doing nowadays.
It is click-baity and doesn't add anything substantial or new to the discussion.
Serious question: Is here some voting ring upvoting or HN being hacked? Reading the weird submission and this thread full of confused users, I am surprised this got on #1 and even stays there.
It'll probably slide down quickly. It was only posted 30 mins ago and there are ~130 upvotes and ~40 comments. That shows HN lots of interaction and is surprisingly high for a post only 30 mins old.
The artificial inflation is probably real, but not malicious. For example, say 1 in 500 readers of a post normally leave a comment on HN. That would be the baseline that HN's algorithm compares stuff too.
This post has an extremely intriguing title, causing lots of people to click it. Then as people click it, no one understands it, so then they all come to leave a comment asking what the hell this product/service (i still don't get it myself) is. This confusion is actually helping the post on HN because so many people are confused that let's say 1 in 100 people leave comments instead of 1 in 500 which is the norm. This causes the HN algorithm to assume this post is causing discussion and must be particularly interesting to users because it has 5X the interaction of a normal post.
So the confusion is real, and I doubt it will hold for too long, but since the post is so new and has very high genuine interaction (comments of confusion is still interaction) points, the HN algorithm will rank it highly.
I feel the same way. These guys are in every thread about editors posting a link to their site. They posted about it so often, I wish I had a filter for it by now. I think HN has to step up their adblock game.
Also, and serious answer. I would NEVER participate in anything like a voting ring and have been very vocal about paid advertising in the RSS community in the past.
Lost a very very high paying customer to Datastreamer who was using RSS content to create google spam.
We never sold to them as they violated our ToS out of the gate.
Anyone already tried it, how is it?