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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I'm having a hard time writing a reply to this that doesn't come off as unsolicited life advice from a stranger, so I'll just say that my positive experience with quitting Facebook is of course highly personal. We all have di
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
No, it doesn't. But with Microsoft, Google and Amazon all relying on Chromium, there's going to be massive pull in that direction no matter what. Together, these three companies will now, basically, control the desktop OS market,
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
> One part of why Microsoft's ideas didn't really catched on was that we developers just didn't get it. Most of us were amateurs and had no computer degree. Personally, I'd say it was mainly because we were tech geeks
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
> a 10-year-old question-and-answer startup Has the word "startup" simply replaced "company"? I'm thinking we should at least draw the line at a full decade.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I'm in a demographic that's very heavily invested in Facebook. FOMO was real when quitting, and I'm sure I've missed some event, someplace, sometime. But the neat thing is, people actually use other means of contacting m
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
This, and especially the first point, is key to good reviews. It is also why good code reviews take time - sometimes (almost) as long as actually writing the code.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I was trying to avoid hyperbole. Trench warfare is certainly applicable to the situation here as well. We might be lagging behind the US, but polarization is steadily increasing. Nobody seems willing to address the real issues at hand. Inst
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I'm getting Universal Soldier vibes.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
As someone living in a multi-party system, I'd say the difference is probably negligible. Having several smaller parties usually means the forming of two political blocs, within which the different parties must get along reasonably wel
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
There are many various descriptors for red, orange and yellow. In Italian an egg yolk is called "rosso" (red), whereas in Swedish it's called "gula" (yellow). As a side note, Orange (the fruit) is called "Apels
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
Owning a home is sooo last decade. Housing as a Service is where it’s at! Now sit back and relax while we install this wallpaper with non-stop animated ads, tailored to suit _your_ way of life.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
This is great, now I can check if my cheap fringe laptop is usable with BSD. Been itching to switch for a while, but haven’t dared.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I thought this was going to be a post about customizing vintage SGI desktops. Joke’s on me I suppose, for living in a different millenium.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
MapQuest and OpenStreetMap came before Google Maps, which in itself was mostly tech they bought from other companies. There were plenty of webmail systems before GMail - Google just had the financial capacity to offer more storage. Saying t
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
This. And don't forget constant nagging about linking everything to a Google or Facebook account. The web has turned into a nightmare for end users. I hope there will be a popular uprising of some sort, people saying that enough is eno
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I honestly think peak web was reached some time around 2003.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
There were browsers, standards, protocols, libraries and frameworks before Google and there is a plethora of them now, too, that have no connection to Google. Without the web, there would be no Google, but without Google, there'd still
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
The trick is to not use a desktop environment. Stick to a simple WM and do your stuff in the terminal like back in the 90s and you're good. The DE stuff is basically more or less well-written GUI wrappers for command line tools anyway
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I came to read about the lisp implementation, but I stayed for the "cutef8" pun among his other repos.
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
No worries. Besides, pointless arguments over minute details is a key component of any scener's life. :)
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I didn't say people dreamt of becoming "white-collar slaves" or "9-5 drones". I said a lot of of sceners dreamt of working with software development - which of course includes games. The general notion was more alon
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
> you say that nobody was had the means for creative activity in Sweden before the arrival of the computer That's reading a bit much into my post, I think. My main point was that popular culture and youth entertainment wasn't a
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
Thank you for explaining the scene to me. After all, I've only been involved with it since the 1990s. I can assure you that many of us dreamt of working with computers in some way and the fact is that many of us do, today - including a
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I think there's a point to the statement. A lot of them surely dreamt of working with software development, but they weren't interested in "cashing in" because it wasn't part of the overall mindset. Economic policym
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
I'm very interested in the special conditions that spurred the creation of the demo scene in (northern) Europe. Hacker culture in the US seems to have mainly grown out of academia, often taking a staunch libertarian view on the freedom
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by arexxbifs 7y ago
The thing with computer science is that many of the big names around are old enough to have experienced the golden age of CS, when working with computers on pretty much any level was still mainly about exploration and invention. Knuth, Thom