mel919

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by mel919 8y ago
The whole situation of us encountering Oumuamua and being unable to gather much information about it reminds me of one of the Lem's short stories about Pilot Pirx in which he encounters an unique alien object and is also struggling wit
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Temporary app permissions in Android(androidauthority.com)
1 points by mel919 8y ago|0 comments
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Astral: GitHub stars organizer(astralapp.com)
2 points by mel919 8y ago|0 comments
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by mel919 8y ago
Let us not forget when Google tried to patent an algorithm for Assymetric Numeral Systems developed by an academic scientist with intent of making it available in a public domain. Seems like this kind of practice is more common with Google
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by mel919 8y ago
> Microsoft, with its cloud, software licensing and subscription businesses, is even less likely to go rogue in data collection because it no longer has a mobile platform to speak of. But they have a desktop platform and they used it to
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by mel919 8y ago
Looking at the deeds, not the words, I think Windows 10 shows quite well Microsoft is not that much into a strong privacy stance.
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Skype contact leak(twitter.com)
5 points by mel919 9y ago|0 comments
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by mel919 9y ago
It wasn't stated explicitly. The assumption that I made was it related to the discussion about validity of the topic. Assumptions can be misleading but human language operates in a context. Formally, should the context be taken out, to
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by mel919 9y ago
Just a mere suggestion: you may look into how it's done in yeoman ( https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093#issuecomment-22034... ) and read this https://github.com/dotnet/cli/i
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by mel919 9y ago
I'm not the author of the blog post. I think you're comparing apples and oranges, also this kind of reasoning is an example of "tu quoque" logical fallacy.
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by mel919 9y ago
Microsoft introduced telemetry enabled by default to .NET Core CLI.
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Microsoft/.Net Foundation added telemetry to the dotnet command line last year(opinionatedgeek.com)
142 points by mel919 9y ago|92 comments
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by mel919 9y ago
I highly recommend dropping it. Switching to a reliable cloud storage from OneDrive is an amazing experience until you reflect on time wasted trying to make 1drv work or waiting for it to start working properly. OneDrive and Dropbox have be
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by mel919 9y ago
I hear you. OneNote uses OneDrive which is a huge mess itself. Sync to Dropbox would help so much... there's even ticket for that on their uservoice. OneNote also sucks massively at searching in notes...
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by mel919 9y ago
As a former OneDrive user the service was terrible, I've had issues with sync and all of the clients - web, mobile and desktop. I've read similiar opinions. From my experience the quality of OneDrive is really poor; it's not
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by mel919 10y ago
That'd be in line with Conway's law ("organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations").
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by mel919 11y ago
Microsoft being a software company is amazing. There are plethora of issues with MS core products like Edge, OneDrive, Store not to mention the release of Windows 10 mobile in alpha state for some of their phones. It's just mind-boggli
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by mel919 12y ago
Looks like uppercased CS is a play on a file extension and a shortcut sometimes used for C#. Personally, I read it as CS-hell.
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by mel919 12y ago
MS-hating opinions come from the old times of IE6 and practices like FUD, EEE. A lot has changed since then but this hate still shows up sometimes. There's an interesting article about this by Scott Hanselman titled "Microsoft Kil