cringepirate

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by cringepirate 6y ago
No it doesn't weaken the argument. The point is that seems to elude you is that they aren't bribing other devs by offering cash for an exclusivity deal. In the cases you highlight they bought IP outright. Also people seem to forge
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Them doing exclusives is on their own IP isn't really the same thing is it? I will give them a pass on it. People have to remember perfect is the enemy of the good. Considering Steam's position in the market they don't seem t
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by cringepirate 6y ago
>PAYING game developers for exclusivity is much different than CHARGING game developers 30% of their revenue. The way you frame it is totally incorrect and completely misrepresents Steam (who is obviously relevant in the PC space) doesn&
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by cringepirate 6y ago
It generally fails at that in my experience.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
> Sounds like acquaintances No. They were drunks (I was becoming one myself). I told you in the sentence before that once I didn't come to the pub they weren't interested in spending any time with me. That what addicts are like
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Yes I am aware. It can be confusing if you are new. I had someone ask me why it was different the other day.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Because for some is us the signal to noise ratio was too low (did I get that the right way around?). For me LinkedIn for me was a total waste of time. Good you find it useful use it, but I don’t and I don’t like the company so I am deleted
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by cringepirate 6y ago
That maybe but it differs from what is shown in the inspector (which shows the <head> and <body> tags). This could be confusing as the source html doesn't match how the browser interprets it.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I used to drink regularly down the pub. After a while I got sick of putting on weight and feeling rubbish and decided to give it up. The people I drank with after a few weeks stopped calling me (because I wasn't interested in going for
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I literally setup almost everything I personally need in about a day on a VPS. As for services like LinkedIn I almost never got anything of value from it, it is worse than most job board it is filled with slimey recruiters these days and no
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Disgusting attitudes like yours is all too common these days. It is anti-freedom, full of snobbery and it is nihilistic.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
The article is talking about forced updates by vendors of consumer grade software. That is what we are talking about. Also the same rule still applies. If I had to use some terrible software everyday I would leave a job if it was that bad.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Well it will go on longer if people are encouraged by those that are capable to stay ignorant. Also Rome wasn’t built in a day.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Making excuses for ignorance is simply promoting learned helplessness. Yes I appreciate there are edge cases such as the mentally handicapped. However realistic I am talking about the majority of the population which are capable of looking
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by cringepirate 6y ago
> If you've a following on instagram and you decide to leave for whatever reason, you can't take your followers with you. Maybe some will jump over if you link them to other platforms You should diversify your social media pres
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by cringepirate 6y ago
The last time I checked there was many competitors to Adobe in almost all the products they offered. You aren't forced to use their software at all. In any event you can slowly move away from using a companies products. It isn't a
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by cringepirate 6y ago
This is incorrect. You can almost always take your business elsewhere. It depends whether you think it is worth it, depending on how hard it makes the rest of your life. If people really cared (as much as they claim) you will make alternati
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Unfortunately I should have expected a reply such as this. Everything is seen as a all or nothing proposition. I think it is pretty obvious that if companies are abusing their position to that extent an appropriate governing body should ste
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by cringepirate 6y ago
No you got it the wrong way around. The power is in the hands of the user. > That will never happen as long as shareholders are the only people that companies are legally beholden to The user has a choice not to use products that are mad
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by cringepirate 6y ago
This old attempted gotcha. It doesn't prove what you think it does. I am well aware of the story. BTW British rail stopped being profitable back in 1955 (7 years after nationalisation). It proves that maybe you shouldn't let gover
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I don't believe that for a second. In the UK where I live the government subsidise rail. Rail is very expensive, slow and unreliable especially compared to my diesel car. I would rather cycle to the train station, get onto the train w
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I personally I make sure I have some form of automated testing (normally unit tests and e2e tests). As I like to know my code works but I can't do the writing tests first. It just doesn't work with how I approach problems. The app
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Being smart makes confirmation bias worse because you can reason yourself into believing your confirmation bias away.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
Many so called "enlightened people" will discard any data that doesn't fit with their opinions if that opinion is seen as virtuous/fashionable.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I would agree with that. I think the verbosity arguments do have some merit. I normally write scripts with the ISE or VSCode with a plugin. Also there are lots of extensions that you are kinda just supposed to know about e.g. dba-tools exte
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I am certified with Sitecore 6.5, However I haven't worked with it regularly in over 4 yeras so things have probably have changed (I've heard Sitecore 9 is very different than 6-8). One of the problems with the WYSIWYG editor was
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by cringepirate 6y ago
It is normally used as marketing term. There are other alternatives that don't stink of bullshit like such as allow. TBH in the example given the above should simply be: > A language for building reliable and efficient software.
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I read "Bad user experience" but I suspect what you mean is "It not what I am used to". They (Microsoft) say that their inspiration was Korn Shell and Languages like TCL. Microsoft when they still offered Windows service
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I don’t even believe that being unbiased is impossible so I do not even believe it is a true statement to begin with. I believe it is said by those that want to justify their sophistry. I fundamentally don’t think you understand what I am s
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by cringepirate 6y ago
I remember this person, she was on Gavin McInnes podcast quite a while ago. Here is the interview: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ke4nq

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