Aldo_MX

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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
I remember purchasing a Netbook with XP pre-installed during the years of Vista-only madness. So nothing to worry about, the market will dictate (again) which OS works better for them.
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Google's login open redirect issue(aidanwoods.com)
9 points by Aldo_MX 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
No, the 2012 MBP allowed up to 8Gb of RAM, the fact that too many people ignored the specs and installed 16Gb is a different story.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
The "Hacker News Books" title raised too much my expectations, I was expecting books which talked about entrepreneurship, technical topics and good practices, not "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids"...
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
The rule of thumb is "don't feed the troll", many communities have tools to block a problematic person.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
What's your point? Even Ubuntu sold what you typed in Unity Search to Amazon. By the way, the thread to discuss about Windows 10's privacy issues is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
You are not giving the whole context: > We can't make this change without an RFC. Oh, by the way, the community cannot create an RFC, WE INTEND TO OPEN THIS UP.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
I had to install Windows 8.1 from scratch recently, for the first time in my life I had to review update-per-update what the f%$k did they do, it is depressing that too many updates had something to do with Windows 10 or an increase in tele
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
So this is what they meant with cloud-first...
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Emphasis in "printing, not displaying". The objection should not be "PDF must die", but "people mustn't use PDF for other purpose than printing".
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
You're misunderstanding, the intention is to integrate any privacy-related change made by the Tor Browser, but in a configurable way via `about:config` under the `privacy.*` namespace. Firefox should allow you to disable any privacy-co
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Preview of Visual Studio Code's Time Travel Debugging(github.com)
4 points by Aldo_MX 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Friendly reminder that not everyone lives in a developed country. $60 (+shipping+taxes+customs+middlemen) can be really prohibitive in a non-developed country.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
I always thought that Linux was actively avoided in embedded systems such as ATMs, Medical or Industrial Equipment, because the GPL forces you to release your source code.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
It is good to know which alternatives exist, "just in case".
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ROI on training: How to measure your investment(pluralsight.com)
1 points by Aldo_MX 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Their aggressive dark patterns suggest they're dying, but I don't want to see them die until a good Stack Exchange alternative emerges TBH.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
No, Stack Exchange is awful, at least Quora doesn't show an hypocrite and cynical warning: This is a bad question, but we'll leave it here because y'know, it prints a good amount of ads and our SEO managed to get on the
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
This specific branch was to ask for an ETA for the Windows Nightly, and you hijacked it. I advised you to refrain from hijacking it and you began spitting anti-Windows nonsense like a freshman who drank the Linux cool-aid for the first time
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
The Linux philosophy is to do one thing, and do it well, this is why they get impeccable codebases, but bad UI/UX design. Jokes aside, I stopped fighting desktop environments and embraced Ubuntu's Unity some years ago, at the end
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
> It's made by system developers and for people comfortable with debugging low level issues like kernel panics caused by faulty drivers. Fixed that for you :P PS. It is considered bad etiquette to ignore the issues of a Windows user
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
They're following Microsoft's example, I have iOS 9.2 in my iPad, I receive at least two nags per day...
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Hi Peter, What options does a person without a bachelor's degree (or similar) have to immigrate?
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UK is no longer the fifth largest economy in the world(metro.co.uk)
2 points by Aldo_MX 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
> Give people enough resources and opportunities, and they will often better themselves. The paradox is that giving people resources and opportunities is the wisdom behind left-wing politics, the opposite of what Trump and the Republican
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
> Trump is the most visible and frightening symptom of a massive wave of ignorance and insecurity among the American electorate. The issue is not the massive wave of ignorance and insecurity, the issue is that those people will procreate
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Microsoft Open Sources a safer C(github.com)
1 points by Aldo_MX 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
That option didn't exist a few months ago[1], so expecting users to proactively hunt when they implement an opt-out to an annoying feature is also bad UX: [1] https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question&#
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Notifications: * Random page 1 blah blah blah live video * * Random page 2 blah blah blah live video * * Random page 3 blah blah blah live video * * Random page N blah blah blah live video * > No option to disable globally those notifica
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
> Yes, there are a few “breaking changes” that justified the major version bump, but we’re hopeful the breakage doesn’t actually affect that many people. BC is "desirable", not "required", if breaking compatibility m

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