alxlaz

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by alxlaz 5y ago
It's not expected in general , it's the kind of thing I expect from Gnome, and specifically, on Gnome's bug tracker.
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by alxlaz 5y ago
On the Gnome bug tracker? Yes.
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by alxlaz 5y ago
It's very difficult, because making sense of the examples would require explaining all the convoluted decisions and corporate mechanisms behind them, and that would make it trivial to identify the companies in question. I can give one
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Not all younger developers have to jump through those hoops. There are plenty of companies that don't do that kind of nonsense, because they're trying to hire good engineers, rather than, specifically, engineers -- good or bad, th
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Hey, thanks! I think I tried to poke around Github Explore a couple of times. It's still a disorganised pile of stuff but I guess at least it's a new disorganised pile of stuff, I'll check it out some more :-).
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by alxlaz 5y ago
This is somewhat tangential but I was hoping the hive mind here might have some good ideas. Does anyone know of a modern equivalent -- of course, as equivalent as it can be in a world where shareware isn't quite what it was -- to these
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Honestly, I think a third way would be good, but sticking with a way would be even better. A huge, huge chunk of my last year was spent teaching dozens of teachers (long story) who were used to, and very productive with, the '90s way
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Wondering if there's a way to monetize this technique.
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by alxlaz 5y ago
It would, but you run into all sorts of impedance mismatch. For example, how do you revoke and grant access to your photos folder to some applications, on demand? The straightforward way (create groups for each important folder access class
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> KPIs don't need to be tied to actual people, usually they are tied to teams, systems, projects, processes, etc. Right, but my post, the post I was responding to, the post the post I was responding to was responding to, and the art
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by alxlaz 5y ago
KPI = Key Performance Indicator. It's basically a list of things that are considered during your evaluation. The more items off that check list you cross (if they're one-time items, like "ensure an uptime of X"), or the
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> That is weird argument, just because it didn't happen then, it doesn't happen now? If you try to do it the exact same way, without even bothering to look at what happened before, let alone learn any lessons from it, then no,
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by alxlaz 5y ago
You could replace every occurrence of 1991 in this article with 2021, and every occurrence of 2024 with 1994, and it would read exactly like a piece from 1991, and have just as much substance, too. (Spoiler alert: nope, it didn't hap
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Oh, I knew I'd recognized your username from somewhere :-D. fclones is actually my favourite dupe finding tool! In my experience the underlying model is what determines these things. That's not always under one's control. S
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by alxlaz 5y ago
I'm gonna go with the unpopular opinion here: the "better approach", as in, the one that allows you to have arbitrary state coupling and take the human factor of the equation, is garbage collection. Rust's trade-off (y
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by alxlaz 5y ago
I'm not sure someone (including OP) would be "complaining" about it, considering that "this enforces borrow checker rules at runtime" is like the first or second thing in the documentation for RefCell and friends. T
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Well, tough luck. Not all business plans are destined for success.
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by alxlaz 5y ago
I know this was the original argument 10+ years ago when this trend started, but it has long stopped any sense. Firefox' tab bar is now 48px. If you add in the insane padding of the address and search boxes, that's practically the
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> Firefox chrome has gotten so small its a hard to find a 'safe' place to grab. That might suggest that having no titlebars on systems that can display more than one window at a time isn't the best idea, either ;-)
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> most people use touchscreens (phones / tablets) but there is still a group of people who have bigger screens and would love to see more data than empty space. They do/might but adding all that empty space in the desktop ver
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Yeah, so? The author of the post specifically (you read the article, didn't you?) said: > The thing is, I think advertising is positive, and I think my individual contribution is positive. I'm open to being convinced on this:
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Why do all the examples from the advertising industry have such easy-peasy, neutral goods? Fishing equipment. Basket weaving books. Dog food. Targeted advertising hasn't been a blessing just for small businesses selling fishing equipme
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Point (c) of ANNEX 1 refer to Article 3. The author quotes a definition from page 60, so... Article 31, 32, or 33?
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by alxlaz 6y ago
No, but they're very high-traffic and if the "this was a deliberately bad patch" message is sent off-list, only to the maintainer, things can go south pretty easily. Off-list messages are easy to miss on inboxes whose email i
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by alxlaz 6y ago
In the restricted sense of Title 45, Part 46, it's probably not quite human subject research (see https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/... ). Of course, there are other ethical and
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by alxlaz 6y ago
This is, at the very least, worth an investigation from an ethics committee. First of all, this is completely irresponsible, what if the patches would've made their way into a real-life device? The paper does mention a process through
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Just sayin', for a supposedly "new Microsoft", this is exactly the kind of stunt that Microsoft would have pulled throughout the 90s and 00s.
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Sometimes there is simply no better way to convey one's ideas :-D.
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by alxlaz 6y ago
"The concept of Evince is one document, one window"
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Yeah, what parent is describing isn't muntzing, but the simple act of being dense in a setting where nobody can say it: > He kept insisting on completely bizarre design changes, and ridiculous cost cutting on design like using 2 che

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