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by __sr__ 8y ago
Yeah -- that is a bummer. It may have been acceptable if the OS were free, but not when you paid the full price for the license.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I did -- but IMO it is less outrageous (but outrageous nonetheless) than what the top three (Google, Amazon, Facebook) are doing. And there is always a certain amount of risk when you putting your data on someone else's servers. Just t
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Can you elaborate? Among the giants (Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft), I’d like to think Microsoft is the 4th on the least trustworthy scale - right ahead of Apple, and behind the other three.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Wow! Did not realise people hate/distrust Microsoft so much! Balmer’s Microsoft - sure, but I thought that under the current administration, they were seen as a lot more friendly company.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I’d say tablet sales are approaching their stable values.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
It’s more like cell phones have created unreasonable expectations for sales. People change phones once ever 12-24 months. Tablets, on the other hand, easily last 3-4 years. In that sense, tables have more in common with laptops than phones.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Definitely. Text is good for “lazy” communication — so is email. By lazy, I mean, I sent you a text and you can respond whenever you like. But if the communication is real time - i.e. the sender expects a quick response and vice versa, voic
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I guess that varies from person to person. My iPad Pro, for example, is my most used personal device. I prefer it over my phone whenever possible. In fact, I like phones small - it’s a pain to pull out a brick every time I want to talk. It’
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Good riddance! It’s not like they have actively been developing Android to support tablets. In fact, it is the other way around. The older versions had better support for tablets. Even Nexus 9 was a half hearted attempt at best — and the re
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Why do you need to audit dependencies you don't use? Don't use `is-odd`, nobody is forcing you too. So should I audit every dependency of every single package I use? Every time I upgrade every single package? Nobody is forcin
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Awk has it's uses. If you use the command line you'll probably use Awk occasionally. Agreed -- I use awk all the time in shell pipeline. > I don't get the Perl hate. The problem is not with writing Perl -- I don'
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> A ground-up rewrite for... window snapping? :-) No, but it does need to be brought on par with the state of the art in UNIX world — things like process sandboxing, container support, process limits (like cgroups), a modern development
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Yeah — not to mention the lack of keyboard controls like Windows 10. Sigh!
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I am talking about the Split View mode described at https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT204948
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by __sr__ 8y ago
macOS does have — kind of — window snapping, doesn’t it? The split window mode? Or am I missing something? Although I agree that it should be more flexible and should have better keyboard controls....
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Microsoft brought their essentials — kernel, filesystem, API etc. — up to scratch in mid 2000s. Vista and and 8 may not have been successful, but they played an important role in the evolution of Windows and Microsoft is now reaping the rew
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Why would you use Java when you could use C++ which has a ton of extra features? Or Haskell which has a lot of neat abstractions? Or Python which is super easy to use? Or Lisp which is extremely flexible? Simple, they all serve a particular
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Well, I don’t live in Silicon Valley, and as a result, the company I work for is not a Silicon Valley company. If I am going to convince the management to invest in Elixir, I need to be able to answer questions like this. Pretty much everyo
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Is it me, or does the article feel like it is written by someone who didn’t actually bother to learn Kotlin. Instead they learnt the bare minimum syntax and tried to write Java in Kotlin. The author complains a lot about how Kotlin is diffe
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Is Elixir being used extensively outside Silicon Valley? Can you list some well known success stories? Looking at job listings and open source projects, it doesn’t seem to be widely used. In fact, I don’t know anyone outside Silican Valley
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Qt? Although it has its own problems, the end product is often way better than Electron.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I am not faulting you - IMO, you did the right thing.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
As an end user, I am concerned about the software I use being easily exploitable because of a bug which could have been avoided using the right tools. At the same time, I don’t want my editor to consume all my RAM and CPU. This seems like a
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by __sr__ 8y ago
That may be true, but I am not complaining. Note that I do not fully agree with the parent.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Agreed - I’ve seen far too many who got into programming because of paycheck or peer pressure or something similar, but we’re not really cut out out for it. They ended up hating it not a long time later. Eventually these are the people who
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I said “significantly” — macOS and Linux have existed for ages, yet Microsoft is starting with WSL just now. Also, as far as I know, WSL is a by-product of the Poject Astoria - not something Microsoft set out to do. They probably thought, “
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Did Linux succeed because other UNIXes were bad? No, it succeeded because there was a need for a UNIX like OS not encumbered by lawsuits (like BSDs) or costing a fortune (Solaris, SGI etc.). Linux is a clean room implementation that do
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by __sr__ 8y ago
>It lights a fire under M$'s asses to make windows competitive Err... no. Not unless the installed base reaches a critical mass. And certainly not when the market share is not even 0.1%. macOS (or even desktop Linux) has a higher in
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> One of Go's biggest strengths is that anyone can pick up the language and be somewhat productive in it after a week. And then what? They find themselves duplicating the same code again and again because Go doesn’t provide good abs
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I totally agree, in case it wasn’t clear. Go, like many others, was designed by people who thought the users of the language are not as smart as themselves. They seem to have forgotten that after writing a few thousand lines, even a novice

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