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kumar303 | 10 years ago | on: Swift is Open Source

I think they will co-exist as separate languages for separate problem-solving approaches. Go has first class support for channels and duck-type interfaces, for starters.

kumar303 | 11 years ago | on: Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

Also, nothing on Firefox OS would stop developers from using any payment processor they wish to. It's all just web technology running on a mobile device so there are many payment providers to choose from, especially for US and European users.

kumar303 | 11 years ago | on: Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

The main reason Mozilla built a payments service and offered a custom library for developers vs. recommending Stripe (etc.) is because no one supported the direct operator billing we needed in our Firefox OS launch countries with a developer friendly interface.

kumar303 | 11 years ago | on: Diaspora social network cannot stop IS posts

I'll admit I'm somewhat conflicted. You can arrive at similar conclusions thinking about it as child pornography. In both cases it does seem like censoring the material is the right thing to do.

However, my conflict comes from the fact that censorship doesn't really solve the root problem. In child molesters, the problem is better treated in psychiatric care and in extremism the problem is better treated through education, peace, and tolerance.

kumar303 | 11 years ago | on: Amazon Cognito

Yes. Firebase. I think Firebase is interesting because they focus on realtime data which is crucial for a lot of apps these days.

kumar303 | 11 years ago

It won't be integrated into Android very well though; you can't kill the process, you can't check its resources, it's not in the task switcher, etc, etc

kumar303 | 11 years ago | on: Firefox OS Apps run on Android

If you build an app with Cordova you can easily get stuck in their APIs. If you build a Firefox OS web app you get stuck in Mozilla's APIs :) BUT Mozilla is making a strong effort at standardization and is working with Chrome and others to reach consensus. Cordova strays farther away from stable HTML5 APIs than Mozilla does so in Firefox OS you will definitely be building a more webby app. I.E. some HTML5 APIs work great on mobile, no reason to use a custom Cordova one in many cases.

However, if you need rich cross platform support for your app (like iOS) I'd still suggest going with Cordova. There is a Firefox OS backend! https://github.com/apache/cordova-firefoxos

kumar303 | 11 years ago | on: Marc Andreessen says Snowden is a traitor

"The fallout from the Snowden leaks have hurt U.S. technology firms' ability to sell their products overseas"

What an idiotic, capitalistic claim. So Andreeson calls him a traitor because "business is now harder." Huh? Nevermind invasion of privacy and injustice.

kumar303 | 12 years ago | on: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM

"The decision compromises important principles in order to alleviate misguided fears about loss of browser marketshare"

misguided, as in, Firefox wants people to actually use its browser? I'm seriously surprised at some of these idealists failing to understand that normal people just want to watch House of Cards (or whatever) and that's pretty much it. Mozilla can't turn their back on those users.

kumar303 | 12 years ago

Can someone copy/paste this into the docs? :) It was really helpful, thanks.

kumar303 | 12 years ago | on: PHP or ASP.net: Did I Do The Right Thing?

I had to make this exact same decision in 2001 and I chose PHP!

I subsequently fell in love with Python and am still active with it today. I think a choice as far back as 2001 doesn't matter too much, programming is programming. However, I feel like I became a better programmer by having to deal with a language as shitty as PHP. There were so many pitfalls that I quickly became an expert at working around them -- this took a lot of painstaking investigation into the inner workings of the language.

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