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I think the "bro" word is incredibly sexist towards men and negative. It's a cliché we're trying to accuse people of, and it doesn't cover the diversity of programmer styles and the desperation many of us are into a
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This! Yes, why does it even go to public press? In France 60% of programming jobs are through consulting companies, they constantly play the game of no-poaching, and those get solved after commission between the two employers. Either one is
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On the other hand, how could they skip this topic in an article about a "privacy" phone? If find the trustworthy value of a phone is about equal to the privacy leak bounty. If each customer trusts the phone with, say $300 worth of
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> paid his irc staff to lie to users Founders, how do you deal with your support teams when you've understood you'd be going bankrupt? I'm sure there are plenty of honest people who would do the right thing; but I guess th
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From the website: > Color is inspired by bold color statements juxtaposed with muted environments, taking cues from contemporary architecture, road signs, pavement marking tape, and sports courts. Emphasize bold shadows and highlights. I
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> along with the notion that encryption algorithms are considered munitions worthy of export restrictions? Simple: The same way an agent can't open your car trunk even if it may contain one of 1. groceries or 2.war weapons.
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Gimp shortcuts aren't displayed, most often. Try creating a path and draw a line on it: You'll have to use the mouse very, very often. And you'll only find the shortcuts if you search online. That's sad because you could
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Small, but relevant for history. In 2006, AWS was the first cloud. At the time, a datacenter with extremely low prices, super-massive customer base and where you could spin off/shut down instances on demand was crazy. The impact change
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This is an interesting question. I'm located in Europe so I can't hear what the crowd is humbling. -Do you think there is enough collective desire for a particular change? It's often hard to rally everyone for a "spring&
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I don't understand their pricing. $9.99 a month or $99 a year for a rolling 7 days of video. I guess most of that is a still, unattended image. Amazon cloud storage is cheap. It seems very expensive to me. For example. My flatmate has
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It's in their right to be assholes too. Most probably, they wont't because it's a bad way to do business. > If they didn't, someone else might have a case They could have just licensed their trademark to the website f
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New trend to expect: People are so afraid of posting their real status because of privacy, that you won't expect anything meaningful from your newsfeed.
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We need to keep in mind that we are the old generation: We all have more than 10 years Internet experience and we know how many times Facebook has betrayed us. Now we should ask the younger generation and people with non-IT jobs what they t
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> Software grows to match the hardware. You mean XML for instance?
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If you disable logging in with the root user, ...do you allow Sudo for another user? Then, what's the point?
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I find there aren't enough incriminating pictures/infography in the article. This kind of technical detail only speaks to people with a mechanics background. For example, a pole will be much weaker if there is an abrupt section ch
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I tend to think that deleting data gets it flagged forever. What are the last 5 status updates you deleted on Facebook, if you ever did it? How many dollars would you pay for your worst ennemy's deleted posts?
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> knocking over a dictatorship and trying to build a democracy friendly to us If I remember well, Afghanistan, Irak and Iran are the last places where US overthrew a Shah or a dictator. I don't remember them being a working democrac
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Excellent reference; Do you think if sorted names by increasing threat level we would succeed to reach a constant preparation?
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+1 for the refreshing positive stance on the topic. I testify I'm personnally very upset for being pointed out as collectively guilty of discriminating, although I really try my very best to treat people equally. I sometimes wish we co
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Yes. I have often been told "Can you please fill this form?" by French IT contractor companies and the subtitle was "Nationality - Age". The title was "Degree and name of the achool", which is just as discrimin
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I'll try not to reach a Godwin point in saying this, but we don't really do that for discrimination but because we're traumatised of lists with people's religions on it. Saying the "race" word is a big no-no to
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"Race"? In France it is forbidden to ask or record the religion or color of skin. Thus, it is forbidden to make statistics about it. Of course it is not the same about people with a handicap.
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There are 3 things our descendant would have a facepalm for. They could carrot the ice over the last thousand year and notice a short time when all the oil we dug up from underground would form a thick deposit all around the globe in variou
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It may not be a process & quality question, but simply staffing with very highly experienced and smart people. Some analyze that the Windows kernel has that problem[1]. [1] http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
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Moreover, patent lawsuits have a high probability of engaging a single programmer's responsibility, since all contracts engage the programmer not to use derivative works of anything else and not to use patented work. So I would think i
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> You can freely copy pretty much anyone's as legal documents are not covered by copyright. Can you really? Any reference? Personal answer: No, copying TOS for your own website infringes their lawyer's copyright. "Document
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> opt out of everything I've switched to the gay side, out of equal (physical) interest for both genders. Dating criteria are much more "on demand" depending on the way you search for people, so it's hard to generaliz
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> Chrome, unlike Chromium, is not free or open source. How should we consider Chromium, knowing it is most probably used to serve Google's interests in terms of reporting, orientation, strategy, etc? Does it contain usage tracking c
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We're rather talking about Youtube going under DRM than Netflix. Youtube without DRM was an advantage for a couple of hackers: They could download vids for offline viewing (iPod/iPad and p2p-sharing after takedown). Youtube with D

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