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by Produce 14y ago
So the Google ecosystem was a bad idea after all. I knew it. First they lure you in with a slick web mail client and a couple of gigabytes of storage. Then they buy up a bunch of companies, including YouTube. Then they link your Google and
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by Produce 14y ago
I merely provided a rebuttal to the argument that PHP, or any other language, for that matter, is unreliable. I did not make the case that automated testing somehow makes PHP a preferred choice. How you test the code is what dictates reliab
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by Produce 14y ago
>Have you tried automated testing on a large complex web application? It's an insanely monumental task. What's so insanely monumental about writing unit, functional (i.e. like these http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/testing.html#func
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by Produce 14y ago
> I use Python because it balances getting stuff done with having that stuff not fall over as soon as I turn my back. Uhh... Heard of automated testing? It makes absolutely no difference what language you write your code in, whether it'
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by Produce 14y ago
The smart thing to do would be to put a download link next to each video.
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by Produce 14y ago
That makes sense then - I wasn't aware of the fact that Gnome Shell and Unity were distinct. Thanks for the memo!
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by Produce 14y ago
>Interesting that you think desktop computing is an anomaly. I must have imagined the whole PC revolution thing then... I think he was referring to desktop computing being an anomaly in that the predominant OS is not nix based.
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by Produce 14y ago
>Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it. This is news to me since my colleague, running Ubuntu 12.04 is using Gnome/Unity. Did I miss a memo?
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by Produce 14y ago
>Yes, in principle they could learn that stuff; but they consider it to be a waste of their valuable time, for which they have other priorities. Yet they spend their valuable time on watching television while being bombarded with advert
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by Produce 14y ago
The year of the Linux desktop?
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by Produce 14y ago
>It should be pointed out, infairness, that the US Navy will also be using these drones to detect drug running in the Caribbean and I don't think anyone would object to that I'll object to it. It's nobody's business to dictate to people
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by Produce 14y ago
Are they also working with sub-par equipment? If so, put in a request together with them. Otherwise, put in the request yourself. If they turn it down, look for another job and put this one down as a contracting position. In my experience,
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by Produce 14y ago
>Christ, you act like you're doing someone a favor running this tool that was built to help you save time. CPU time is super expensive where I live. >Let me guess, you're the guy who bitches when the WiFi is down on the airplane. In
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by Produce 14y ago
>I don't think we should view it a negative light though. You won't be saying that when your future girlfriend googles your name and sees all the My Little Pony videos you've been watching.
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by Produce 14y ago
Yet companies act in exactly that way towards their employees. Late too many times? Ultimatum is issued where you get fired if it happens again. Too many sick days? Same result. Underperforming? Yup, you guessed it. Your employers are not y
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by Produce 14y ago
Firefox 14.0.1, Arch Linux (it's a rolling release distro, fully up to date). Solving these kinds of problems and optimizing things makes me happy. I'll take a look at this when I get home from work and see if I can speed it up.
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by Produce 14y ago
Word of advice - if you know anything about the code that nobody else does, use it as leverage. Come in one day, call your boss into an office and tell him you're quitting. When he asks why - voice your problems with the tools you work with
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by Produce 14y ago
It's a democracy - cast your vote. Psyche! Learn to love your monopolist overlords.
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by Produce 14y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of corporations - where nothing makes sense, everything is late and the dumber you are, the higher you climb!
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by Produce 14y ago
Congratulations, you have managed to provide a two second delay between clicking on, for example, the Firefox icon and the resulting sprite CSS being displayed on a brand spanking new eight core, 8GiB RAM system. I hope you're proud of your
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by Produce 14y ago
>I can't really offer any reasons to use Zsh over Fish. Bash script compatibility, bigger userbase and therefore more third party customizations.
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by Produce 14y ago
Step 1: throw all your newspapers in the bin, cancel your subscriptions and point all of the major news sites' URL's to 127.0.0.1. Step 2: start reading scientific journals and other high quality sources of information. Step 3: call all of
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by Produce 14y ago
People are running out of good ideas for products.
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by Produce 14y ago
I don't know. The interesting thing is that, from: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070927/012604.shtml >A recent GAO study found this to be a worrisome trend, noting that fewer new innovative drugs are being created -- with pharma
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by Produce 14y ago
>Nobody is going to put up that kind of money unless there's profit in it, period. I don't know what kind of fantasy world you are living in but there are plenty of governments and charities who fund scientific and medical research with
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by Produce 14y ago
I think that a better analogy is thinking of patents as nuclear weapons. What we need at this point is a disarmament treaty.
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by Produce 14y ago
>Wow, your kids are going to have more issues than Playboy. My useless comment of the week - hahaha!
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by Produce 14y ago
>If a worker makes a wrong decision it's much less of an issue. Unless the employee gets his hand caught in a machine, the press jumps all over it and stocks plummet 5%.
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by Produce 14y ago
>If you permanently eliminate the CEO position, there is multiple orders of magnitude greater impact to the company. Then why do companies with flat hierarchies exist and operate just fine? You don't need someone at the top because you
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by Produce 14y ago
I would say that we're definitely not identical, but we can all be equal. A better question, though I will answer yours shortly, is what does equality mean? It's simply the relative value we assign something. The thing is, we can think in t

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