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by testUser69 10y ago
Exactly, the top comment in this thread claims MS is the only company doing cool things (which is 100% not true). The top comments in the Windows 10 thread yesterday were mostly people claiming "it's sad to see such negativity tow
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by testUser69 10y ago
>The Git community strongly suggests and prefers developers have more and smaller repositories. A Git-clone operation requires copying all content to one's local machine, a procedure incompatible with a large repository. They aren&#
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by testUser69 10y ago
Why is that so hard to believe? America is run by Donald Trump. The problems with these companies is that developers aren't making technical decisions, it's executives who know nothing about computer science. That's why Windo
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by testUser69 10y ago
I think it's more naive to believe that large companies always make the right decisions. We see Microsoft make mistake after mistake (look at windows 8, windows vista). The only time they fix their mistakes is when they're made pu
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by testUser69 10y ago
Out of Jobs, Gates, and Torvalds, Jobs and Gates are some of the worst people to become part of the tech industry. Microsofts anti-consumer practices lead to it's world dominance and now the world is ruled by closed standards. Here is
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by testUser69 10y ago
Disable spyware and adware. I don't think you can really disable all the spyware though. We're talking about a company that participated in the NSA PRISM program. That means that Microsoft has an agency within it that works closel
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by testUser69 10y ago
I didn't see any progressives (or conservatives) marching against the Obama administration. I'm sure they had some small rally, but look at what's going on now. Under Obama if you got detained at an airport (which happened al
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by testUser69 10y ago
All editors support go really well, that's because go has official tools that integrate with editors (guru, for example). At the top of the read me is the feature list for the vscode-go: https://github.com/Microsoft&#x2
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by testUser69 10y ago
Most HN readers probably don't even use Windows. I think it's objectively the worst OS for a tech enthusiast.
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by testUser69 10y ago
It looks pretty bad on Linux too. Somehow they managed to transport the crappy font rendering from Windows to Linux. It really feels like it's not built for Linux, but just shoe-horned in.
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by testUser69 10y ago
>The business world has been even more recalcitrant. In a recent study by Softchoice, an info-tech consultancy, corporate computers were found to be running a whole gamut of legacy versions of Windows. Fewer than 1% of them had been upgr
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by testUser69 10y ago
>Wealth has gravitated around massive city centers since time immemorial Well yeah, but there were times when wealth was more evenly distributed within America. When we first started taking in immigrants (when America was founded), we we
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by testUser69 10y ago
If an interpreter is so rare that one can't be found in the US and they need to be hired internationally, then maybe it's worth it to pay $100,000?
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by testUser69 10y ago
Americas "tech dominance" threatens the breadbasket. The coastal areas, mostly certain cities, have become "international" and any worker from a rural area who wants to earn a living wage doing a technical job (e.g. STEM
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by testUser69 10y ago
Hopefully in 2050 our corporate overlords will still spend a week discussing how to patch vulnerabilities in our 3D printed food databases too.
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by testUser69 10y ago
That assumes that the sole reason America has tech dominance is because of international diversity. But we've always been tech dominant, and according to many people we're not even diverse.
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by testUser69 10y ago
I've used Fedora on the desktop for about five years and never had this issue. Maybe they were thinking you shouldn't change permissions on files in /etc unless you know what you're doing?
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by testUser69 10y ago
What specific software causes problems? I use SELinux on the desktop and have no issues with it other than occasional warnings which don't seem to effect anything. I develop a lot of networked applications and do a lot of stuff with Li
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by testUser69 10y ago
I wonder if he really thinks holding the world hostage with proprietary software is ethical? You would think the guy would be 100% aware of the barriers Microsoft creates for people struggling in third world countries, yet MS has no problem
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by testUser69 10y ago
The press was asking for this though, at least the mainstream press like CNN and MSNBC. Not only did they push the Hillary Clinton agenda, but it was obvious to anyone with a brain that the liberal news networks didn't mind that they w
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by testUser69 10y ago
I think the "business people" are people who hide their technological inadequacy behind supposed business expertise. A businesses success is not determined by whether or not they use tools that adhere to business micro-cultural &q
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by testUser69 10y ago
The fact that they were upfront and honest about it and that they even live streamed themselves fixing the problems makes me want to use gitlab even more. If anything I have even more confidence in them. You didn't hear a peep from Mic
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by testUser69 10y ago
I don't know why people on hacker news are against transparency. I'm glad you guys are live streaming this, others would feel too inadequate to do so. Being this transparent only makes me want to use (and contribute to) gitlab eve