Dain42

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by Dain42 8y ago
That's not true. In fact, it's a specific misrepresentation of the CoC. Whoever planted that idea, did it in bad faith: > This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is repre
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by Dain42 10y ago
It doesn't really matter to me, as I'm not a Macintosh user anymore, but does it have the smart playlist feature like iTunes? That's the biggest thing I miss in most music players, including my current one, Google Play Music
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by Dain42 10y ago
You're probably outside the 95th percentile on that one, though, and good design targets the rest of the user base. I think most people probably just got annoyed by accidentally hitting those, or by them taking up real-estate or clutte
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by Dain42 10y ago
> want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can...? That was just something that was there forever, basically since 1984. It was part of the Macintosh vernacular. You could also right-click to eject.
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by Dain42 10y ago
Somewhere around 4.9 or 5.x is when I think it was best. They'd added library functionality for movies, TV, and audiobooks, which meant it was a one-stop shop for my media library on my Mac at the time. It was also still fairly lightwe
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by Dain42 10y ago
If you think that's unprofessional, you should see some of the drivel the FSF itself puts out. I understand taking a position against proprietary code and systems. But to take an extremely hardline stance like they do, and to do it a
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by Dain42 10y ago
If it's the minority that are drama creators, isn't it more reasonable to think that in most cases it probably is discrimination, then? Your comment really seems to be an attempt to turn that presumption and balance on its head.
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by Dain42 11y ago
By saying, "Pushing to get more even representation is at odds with business success or product quality," which is often outright stated and even more often pretty directly implied, people are basically saying, "Those 'd
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by Dain42 11y ago
I completely agree. My grandmother is in the Alzheimer's wing at her local nursing home, and I cannot begin to understand how the staff can do their jobs day after day. It's almost like running a daycare for elderly people. They a
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by Dain42 11y ago
Given that I'm a man, I'm certainly not inventing any context that involves caveman speak about "bad man hurt woman". I wasn't even really talking about the direct interpersonal context of the remarks, I was talking
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by Dain42 11y ago
It's foolish, and, honestly, kind of offensive, to imply that pushing diversity and at the same time pushing business success are somehow at odds with each other. There was an excellent segment that talked about almost this exact thing
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by Dain42 11y ago
I think that you're failing to see the context of these things. You're looking at them as isolated incidents when they are not. As I understand it from friends and acquaintances, being asked again and again, "So where are you
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by Dain42 11y ago
Considering how 10.10 traps machines older than about 3 years in the digital equivalent thereof, they missed their chance.
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by Dain42 11y ago
I have to support an elementary school full of Macs, and Yosemite has been my ongoing nightmare. (Well, that and the bad joke known as OS X Server.) I won't update during the year for obvious reasons, but I'm still trying to decid
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by Dain42 11y ago
I had this experience leaving the Apple walled garden about six years ago and moving on to Ubuntu (with Windows for gaming purposes in free time). I just kind of ate the costs. I suppose technically I still have access to my video content p
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by Dain42 11y ago
I think it's neat that people have been working on projects like this. It's good to play around with things and make your own thing... That said, I think that if you're doing all the work to create and "market" your
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by Dain42 11y ago
Eich didn't just hold the same nominal position on marriage, though. He donated a large sum of money to actively (and successfully for a time) strip his coworkers of their legal rights. Not only did his position on marriage not chan