foxX

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by foxX 5y ago
Fixed bugs, improved performance, took the afternoon off, ~project got cancelled~, ~team~ got restructured, the intern.
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by foxX 7y ago
Maybe they should give their developers a 3rd MacBook. One MacBook for the office, one MacBook for home office and one MacBook for installing Chrome and testing the site there. Just throwing ideas around...
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by foxX 7y ago
You deserve to be at the bottom, because how dare you!? It is known that buying and going through the 4 week anti-procrastination program from deprocrastination.co instead of doing real work for 4 weeks helps you not procrastinate. Dothraki
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by foxX 7y ago
Help your family out, make good money from it. The worse it gets, the better. When the shit hits the fan, nobody needs it to come into the headlight with a bang, we want it to become visible with a hypernova.
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by foxX 7y ago
Because things such as Netflix are "boxed goods". You only get what's written on the box, and not a gram of extra value than that. To better explain, with Netflix (any modern offering in fact) mentality one can't invent
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by foxX 7y ago
Isn't that exactly what GDPR is?
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by foxX 7y ago
Aah, the good GDPR!
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by foxX 7y ago
Aaah, sweet, sweet Bethesda. I would look somewhere else, to be fair.
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by foxX 7y ago
This is not a criticism of cars, but rather a criticism of the sorry state of software and computer hardware in a free-market (-ish) world.
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by foxX 7y ago
The Office Ribbon is ESPECIALLY useful on OS X where there's a menu system as well with the builtin Help -> search in menus box. With that, one doesn't ever need to even look at that abomination of a ribbon.
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by foxX 8y ago
Oh my god, so salty! But here's the deal, and this might be directly aimed at you, since you say you're in the field. As a home-user who works in the industry and with some interest for tech, I generally only get access to the fre
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by foxX 8y ago
Will it be possible to test-install the bi-yearly updates in this and avoid getting my workstation bricked?
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by foxX 8y ago
> it's not Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos, who get to decide But who is, John Doe who dies on a grenade?
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by foxX 8y ago
Also vendors doing their best with astroturfing and obfuscating their works. I wonder why.
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by foxX 8y ago
> and that is not their fault Except for some corporate environment, I don't see how it's not their fault. It's easier than ever to make an informed decision before using one's wallet and it's every living, func
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by foxX 8y ago
Not irony. The stuff is not on Google, it's on the Internet and directly accessible via links. It's in fact what any company wants, the holy grail: for people to mix its brand with the category of business. It will pass and be rep
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by foxX 8y ago
The fact that the source code is available does not guarantee that the blob is the product of that source.
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by foxX 8y ago
God save us all! The finance people are becoming hackers (or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers)! Doomed.
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by foxX 8y ago
It's directly linked to: - ability, willingness, etc to tweak and upgrade your infrastructure - how competition-friendly and pro-consumer your market is - the type of grants, contracts and industry ties your environment has (think spec
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by foxX 10y ago
Try this one http://craphound.com/scroogled.html by Doctorow.
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by foxX 13y ago
And people tell me I'm being paranoid for keeping my firewall on "block outbound", running as non-admin (windows), running the browser with noscript, adblock and no external cookies...
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by foxX 13y ago
Is it strange that I'm worried why the fuck they have these stats in the first place? I don't remember being asked whether I'd like my data submitted or not upon playing games powered by Unity. Do they also have my IMEI, phone contacts, ema