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by ___alt 8y ago
Imho, this is were alternative layouts really shine: comfort, health. Typing speed is an overrated fad (and in the worst cases an e-penis length contest) as in most cases when writing stuff (be it fiction, reports, code) your throughput isn
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by ___alt 8y ago
Or Heroes of the Storm BR.
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by ___alt 8y ago
Yes, I didn't mention it in my post because I think the auction house and the underlying economy issues are going to be the hardest part in making everything cross-realm, but cross-realms guilds are highly desirable. Your arguments are
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by ___alt 8y ago
From what I see, Blizzard is slowly rolling out everything they need to eventually get rid of realms entirely as separate technical entities. Cross-realms features are everywhere, the concept of PvP servers is no more, and if they manage to
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by ___alt 8y ago
You don't need to run arbitrary third-party software to run ads, period. I'm perfectly fine with ads in an ad-sponsored ads but I'd appreciate if it didn't open my computer to malware infestations.
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by ___alt 8y ago
That would be neat, browsing through several dozen fonts to find the right pick is a bit overwhelming, although one can argue it's a self-imposed burden.
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by ___alt 8y ago
Isn't the iPhone more power-efficient than many Android counterparts? That would explain why they can afford a smaller battery (but may not explain all the gap).
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by ___alt 8y ago
US is a great country for many things, but having any serious health problem putting you in financial jeopardy (or throwing you in an inextricable administrative maze to dodge high and cryptic charges) in ridiculous for a "great"
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by ___alt 8y ago
By default, Chromium still integrates heavily with Google services. See project ungoogled-chromium for details: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
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by ___alt 8y ago
I agree that Facebook's implementation of those features is piss-poor and your analysis is on point. However you can't expect something to be a proper Facebook alternative with them missing.
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by ___alt 8y ago
Facebook is a bit more than just personal pages. * It has built-in authentication and ACL, you get to choose who sees your stuff or not (not counting overarching privacy issues). * It has built-in syndication, which means that it's eas
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by ___alt 8y ago
It was unclear to users what they consented to when they signed in. Because Facebook doesn't give a damn about proper consent. The fact that Facebook botched it up is not less problematic than Facebook selling data because the outcome
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by ___alt 8y ago
In this case the two points where we should have caught the issue would have been: * Integration testing with a specific data set that was different from actual production data. * Code review (they're not systematic yet but we're
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by ___alt 8y ago
My intent was not to blame the developer, I'm aware of the context they work in and as you have guessed correctly our engineering process is fucked up in many way. The developer writing the correct implementation was just the earliest
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by ___alt 8y ago
To give a counterpoint, the lack of basic algorithmic knowledge of a developer in my team cost us a nasty production performance bug. I agree that whiteboard algorithms are not exactly our typical day work, but I'm fine with them being
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by ___alt 8y ago
Thinking that "Working software over comprehensive documentation" means "don't write documentation" is one of the biggest misunderstandings about agile and I feel your pain.
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by ___alt 8y ago
In the process of finishing Masters of Doom , definitely worth the read.
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by ___alt 8y ago
While I suspected the disappearance of big software boxes had something to do with available shelf space, it didn't know it was competition from DVDs that were the main factor.
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by ___alt 8y ago
> Yes, they modelled it after Epita which was also about code, code, code. I don't know where you last got your information about Epita, but this has been less and less true for around 10 years now. They sought to have a state certi
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by ___alt 8y ago
> organic foods improve vascular function and prevent insulin resistance in the organs This is bullshit. > Many of the 'deposits' in Alzheimers are composed of quarantined pathogens (lyme, chlamydia, etc) and fasting + diet
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by ___alt 13y ago
Have you ever looked at what rape is in REAL life ? It's something done massively by men and a huge proportions of rapes are by men on women. Words don't exist in a vacuum. Rape is not some vaporous ethereal concept.
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by ___alt 13y ago
How funny that one side going nuts is "Hey look at meeee !" and the other side is "I hope you get raped and killed and whatever, bitch". Do you really think that those behaviors are equivalent ? Because they're not.
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by ___alt 14y ago
Mandatory http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht...