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by SCdF 14y ago
I don't understand that perspective, and I honestly think there is a bit of a double standard going on here. People hate on Origin and 'meh' the rest of the competition, but are in love with Steam. I know people who will only buy games if t
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by SCdF 14y ago
As much as I hate Oracle you're right, they are very much in the Cisco "makes the easy things hard and the hard things possible" zone. Nearly every situation I've used Oracle under would have worked fine in any free DB (including SQLite3 in
903.
by SCdF 14y ago
I wonder why it's a curated list then. If the pull is that the blogging tools are really nice then it seems counter intuitive to not allow people to pay some money to use it, and instead require them to be this cool to ride the svbtle-coa
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by SCdF 14y ago
So that's cool, different strokes for different folks and all that, and I didn't want my trace-negative (it really is very small) opinion to be the main point. My question to you is, has the fact that it's on Svbtle changed anything about
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by SCdF 14y ago
So I'm just a simple country lad who doesn't understand the big silicon valley city, but I really don't get svbtle. This is coming from someone who is (I imagine) part of 'the masses' who has been linked posts from there but otherwise has n
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by SCdF 14y ago
It's all anecdotal of course, but my female IT friends, both in uni and work, have to deal with not being made welcome, or being made too welcome. If I got leared at and hit on all the time when I'm just trying to get shit done I'd feel l
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by SCdF 14y ago
It's interesting that this is generally not frowned upon from the hacker community, even though only supporting Webkit is clearly the same fragmentation issue we've all been upset about for so many years. I imagine if it was "Sorry, we on
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by SCdF 14y ago
That's exactly it, the NY Times article wasn't only saying it was hard to meet people, it was saying that it's hard to hold on to people that you meet, because you just don't have the time to spend nurturing a friendship.
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by SCdF 14y ago
To be completely fair, it's not like they are going to remotely delete it or anything, the current version which I like functions, and has no glaring bugs, and will continue to function. And if I did use emacs, and somehow it changed in a w
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by SCdF 14y ago
I was editing for brevity, there are some awesome things about my job that balance the terrible.
911.
by SCdF 14y ago
One thing that I don't get about BrowserID is how it's supposed to work on shared systems / web cafes. There doesn't seem to be any obvious way to log out. The best you can do is 'log me out after an hour', which is crap.
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by SCdF 14y ago
I got confused by this as well. What's happening is that the email address he used already has a Persona account . If your email address isn't known to Persona it will ask you to create a password, which is cool. Otherwise, it will just br
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by SCdF 14y ago
I have to say (and this is Persona in general, not your site) the password dialogue freaks me out. I click BrowserID on your site, it opens a popup and it asks me to enter my email address, I enter one of them, and then it suddenly expects
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by SCdF 14y ago
Multiple carots, the minimap and ST2 picking your indentation strategy automatically by looking at the file (I work with badly formatted legacy code a bit, there is no project-level strategy that applies) are the three reasons I bought it.
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by SCdF 14y ago
On IDEs: I have the 'pleasure' of being one of those chaps who spends parts of his day job reworking massive Java projects. There is no way in hell I'm touching that without an editor that deeply understands Java.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Women go for fashion more than men, Fashion doesn't last, so there is no real point in the clothing lasting. Women's clothing is also cheaper at the lower end, and much more expensive at the higher end for the same reason. .. so women tell
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by SCdF 14y ago
How do you feel about putting company data on a service like Dropbox which is arguably wildly insecure ? I originally used it for sharing company stuff, and then I read up on their data storage practices and moved my work stuff off there as
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by SCdF 14y ago
Maybe this is pigheaded or troglodyte-esque of me, but I solve this problem by refusing to use any CSS 'features' that require prefixes. I can live without gradients, my life will go on.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Another datapoint: my Prime hasn't had any major problems, though I have had two issues, both due to the Tegra 3 drivers (or so forum posts have led me to believe). These issues are very rare though, perhaps once a month, and are fixed wi
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by SCdF 14y ago
We have a tester who lives in another city from us, and I've managed to build camaraderie with him using nothing but skype IM, including breeze shooting and other non-work based activities. I have done the same in previous jobs, with people
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by SCdF 14y ago
Right. sorry, my question should have made it clear that I meant built by Apple. The point I guess I was making was that it's not unusual for a company to not provide a client for their competitors platforms. It's crap, but it's not unusual
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by SCdF 14y ago
Genuine question: can I control Apple TV / AirPlay / iTunes etc from an Android phone? Or a Windows phone?
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by SCdF 14y ago
This isn't on point with the main conversation, but anyway: other 'western' countries that are similar to the US (I'm talking about UK, Aussie and NZ here, I don't have much knowledge of the others) look at patriotism differently to the US,
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by SCdF 14y ago
Could they licence it? As in, would Apple give them a licence? The main reason I have no interest in Airplay is that it requires iTunes, and none of my media 'workflow' involves it, not to mention it being a horrible piece of software.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Imagine that, an 'addon'* to Steam, you could basically automate the whole process. Mark games you didn't 100% need to have around all the time as sellable, so they'd go into the 'cloud' of buyable games. Whenever you wanted to play a game,
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by SCdF 14y ago
Yes. Ironically it's even less "firstworldproblems" than you might otherwise think, because a lot of the jobs lost etc go to people who are very much not first world.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Here's the thing: if the Windows 8 upgrade was free I wouldn't take it. Not because I have any great hatred of Windows 8-- I got bored one night and played around with it in a VM, it seems nice enough-- but Windows 7 works fine already. W
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by SCdF 14y ago
I agree, there is certainly potential there. However, much in the same way playing street fighter is crap on a keyboard compared to a joystick/pad and any FPS is crap on a controller compared to a mouse + keyboard, a huge portion of game ty
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by SCdF 14y ago
I have yet to find someone who thought themselves a gamer before mobile gaming became a thing, who actually likes more than a couple of mobile games. They are mostly utter garbage, more in the Zynga 'social' angle than anything else. The ma
930.
by SCdF 14y ago
I don't think you should discount different form factors being useful in different situations. Tablets are great for consuming content, and creating certain types of content, but as much as you can write a novel on one, a real keyboard is

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