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by amyjess 8y ago
This sounds like a violation of provision 9 of the Open Source Definition and the DFSG. It's going to backfire hard when distros start removing Mongo from their main repos.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I don't know if this will help, but when my uncle Scotty was diagnosed with NHL, he founded an online support group that's still going strong long after he passed away (from what I understand, he died of something else and the NHL
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by amyjess 8y ago
Older. I strongly prefer the aesthetic of Win9x, Mac OS 8/9, and NeXTSTEP to what's popular today. In fact, I use QtCurve on my desktop to get pretty close to that aesthetic for any KDE/Qt programs I use.
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by amyjess 8y ago
...or I could just use mpv, which does what I want better than VLC ever has. Funny thing is, in the anime/tokusatsu fansubbing community, VLC has a really, really bad reputation because it does everything just a little bit wrong . Man
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by amyjess 8y ago
I've noticed this as well, and on a few occasions it's caused me to cut down on my participation here.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'd recommend checking out any game developed by Paradox. You haven't seen fantastic mods until you've seen what people can do with Paradox games For that matter, some games that Paradox only publishes (e.g. Cities: Skylines
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by amyjess 8y ago
People who play with mods are a tiny-but-vocal minority. Most people just download the vanilla game and play with that. Even if the game supports Steam Workshop, most players won't even bother to look. Enthusiasts are a pretty small se
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by amyjess 8y ago
One thing I've noticed is that companies generally have fewer PMs than software engineers. A company might have a whole team of engineers but only one PM, and the PM typically has a title like "Director of Product Management"
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'd like to see some pictures of QuickTime 3.x for comparison.
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by amyjess 8y ago
On top of the excellent comments made by rayiner, tfha, and jwr, we wouldn't even be burning dinosaurs miles away if we switched entirely to nuclear power.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'd argue that Southwest already did so. This fall I recently started flying again after having not flown since 1999, and I've been making it a point to only fly Southwest because they're the only airline that's even rem
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by amyjess 8y ago
I remember years and years ago encountering a Japanese-themed burrito joint called Samurai Sam's. They were pretty tasty, but the only one where I live went under ages ago. (Googling shows that a chain by the name exists, but they do
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by amyjess 8y ago
> This is again one of those large company political things. Year long promotion packet building, lobbying your work with promotion committees, getting a willing boss, and doing other routine political ground work to set you up for one.
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by amyjess 8y ago
You're thinking of a common misinterpretation of the GM streetcar conspiracy. Everyone's heard of it, and it did happen, but there are two big misconceptions most people have of it: Misconception 1: GM and their cohorts bought out
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Tokyo's transit system is run by multiple companies. There are at least 10 different train companies many of which also run bus services. I find this interesting because it's a stark contrast to NYC. NYC is of the only cities
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by amyjess 8y ago
Because this kind of raiding is harmful to society.
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by amyjess 8y ago
What kinds of regulation can the government pass to make it illegal for vulture capitalists to raid companies like this?
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by amyjess 8y ago
> The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook, as it would allow me to filter down my feed to just the people I really car
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by amyjess 8y ago
> There is also Wikimedia, Canonical, and Mozilla -- perhaps those 3 are less interesting since they have a non-profit mission tied to the internet-as-community and FOSS. Canonical is a for-profit company. They're also not fully dis
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by amyjess 8y ago
Unfortunately, current police unions spend more time attacking the public on behalf of corrupt police officers than defending principled police officers against employers who ask them to immoral things. Police unions really need an overhaul
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Chrysler's trying it all over again with their "turn the dial" transmission control. ...which they stole from Jaguar. Oddly enough, Mercedes has gone to column shifters in the last few years, which have previously been a
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by amyjess 8y ago
Nah, this is no different from what brick-and-mortar retailers have been doing for decades. Buying private-label items in supermarkets over name brand has been recommendation #1 in personal finance circles for at least as long as I've
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by amyjess 8y ago
Clothing, too. I have so much White Stag clothing, Secret Treasures sleepwear is so good that I actually go out of my way to buy their soft nighties, and my favorite belts are NOBO.
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'm amused by the "Estimated fulfillment by" dates on my DoorDash orders.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Musk brought this on himself. All he had to do was not make false financial statements on Twitter. For that matter, he'd be better served if he didn't libelously call people pedophiles, try to start a war with the media, subject
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by amyjess 8y ago
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/apxex-itt-executives-a... https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/08/31/former-sp-executi... (though the SEC failed in this case) https:/&#x
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Plus, Gearwrench is not american made, it is Taiwanese. Good tools, but your statement is factually incorrect. I think that's just ambiguous wording. Try parsing it like this: > I'd suggest ((Gearwrench) or (Tekton, Wright
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by amyjess 8y ago
Kmart has felt like that ever since I was a little kid in the late '80s and early '90s. It's always come off like they made it trashy on purpose.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Cloud wagon? Well, I guess if you're using Travis, but it won't make much sense if you're on a self-hosted Jenkins instance.
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by amyjess 8y ago
The Lancia Megagamma: http://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/lancia-megagamma-concept... This concept basically invented the minivan/MPV (no sliding doors, but most European MPVs don't have them). After Fiat&#x2

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