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by arien 10y ago
Perhaps that is already happening, with a select few manufacturers. But consider that many marketplace sellers are third parties (e.g. an electronics shop). Or other manufacturers with different costs (many factors affect this... location,
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by arien 10y ago
Lots of those are manufactured by the same companies that make the branded ones. So they can still get their cut.
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by arien 11y ago
This. I usually make a list of things I know I want in a job and use those few "ask me anything" minutes to make sure a company ticks all these boxes (or as many as possible). I mean, if we're lucky enough to work in a sector
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by arien 11y ago
Exactly, I do agree with what you said. But, this is true whether you commit a few irrelevant lines manually or automatically. So if you're going to do it just for the sake of showing off, at least make it efficient, no? :P
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by arien 11y ago
But in this particular case, doing cool stuff is the actual reward of computer science. In other words, it's the endless sea of things you can achieve through it, not the fact that you can be cool while doing it :)
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by arien 11y ago
Or a little cronjob that commits harmless changes later in the week? :P I don't care about the contribution streak, but do have friends who comment on theirs on Twitter now and then. I suppose it's just another thing to be proud o
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by arien 11y ago
I think it made for a very strong and touching point when Nadella said they want technology to bring the best of people, not the worst. So they were able to use it in a way, even if it didn't go exactly as planned.
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by arien 11y ago
Well, it's fun nowadays... Before 2008 the fun entries were still novelty rather than the norm (it had pretty much been only Lordi until then - and I would consider them awesome rather than fun :)).
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by arien 11y ago
Here's a entertaining/embarrassing story from Spain, related to this. A few years ago (2008), the Spanish organisers of the Eurovision contest thought it would be a great idea to allow the public to decide who should represent the
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by arien 11y ago
We're most likely to care about what is/feels closer to us, what we can relate to, what we know. You'd feel more if your neighbour whom you greet every day on the foyer died in a car crash that if it were a random person you
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by arien 11y ago
Just like mobile developers don't bother making Windows Apps because they consider the % of users is too low. In other words, this manufacturer probably didn't care because the % of users who would use it for something other than
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by arien 11y ago
I don't think that would be a smart move. Considering Steam is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) gaming hubs for Windows and other platforms, if they blocked this and somehow forced people to use the Store/XBox instead, it c
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by arien 11y ago
The thing is, you can ask Cortana or Google Now or Siri about the weather, shopping (at least Cortana has reminders, not sure about the other two) and the other things you mention. So, at the moment it's feels like a redundant device t
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by arien 11y ago
Almost. More specifically, we didn't think that the personal assistant would have to communicate with a corporation that wants our info to make (more) money. The government option doesn't sound any better, either. I think they are
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by arien 11y ago
There are tons of runbooks in DigitalOcean's community, or Webfaction's or whatever else that guide you step by step on how to configure things. It's a matter of choice, you can spend some extra money and have those things ha
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by arien 11y ago
Exactly, I think DigitalOcean is a great and unexpensive option here. The thing is, you really don't need a whole box for each of your small projects, most likely you will be able to have a few in one box, specially in the beginning wi
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by arien 11y ago
I'm a PHP advocate, although I've found Django easy to get up and running for personal web projects. I mostly enjoyed the out of the box admin panel :)
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by arien 11y ago
Started dieting near the end of the month and managed to stick to it (3kgs down so far). Will take me about two months to reach my target, but I'm right on track :) Learnt to read/write around 250 Chinese characters. It was much
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by arien 11y ago
Side projects are not mandatory, don't feel bad about not doing any if you can't. Also, not all learning or your spare time has to be related to programming. Take a hobby that takes your mind off coding completely (I suppose your
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by arien 11y ago
Complex doesn't mean awful. Impractical and slow for our fast-paced life, sure. But the characters are beautiful and the etymology, shape and composition is fascinating. I'm currently learning Chinese (using Remembering Simplified
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by arien 11y ago
Whilst I don't know how's the job market where you are from, 1+ year savings should be more than enough to quit without fear (if it's not then you might want to consider why). You can take a break to regain your love for codi
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by arien 11y ago
Is there a list somewhere? I didn't see one in the article.
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by arien 11y ago
Vine reviews are marked in green, so you know in advance where you're getting into if you read them. Although most of the ones I've found are actually quite fair and honest and rather in line with the non-Vine ones. This has been
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by arien 11y ago
I was thinking along the same lines (personal computers = more boys interested in CS). Then I found this in the comments section of the article: http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n134/im_thatoneguy/CSDegr...
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by arien 11y ago
I don't use PHP on Windows, so I wouldn't know. But looking at php.iis.net and the PHP docs, everything points at IIS7 (or later), so perhaps that's the considered stable/supported version?
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by arien 11y ago
I think it's great to point new developers to the right resources. Besides sane frameworks, there are some good starting/best practices guides to help (that are regularly updated), such as: http://www.phptherightway.com
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by arien 11y ago
This also makes it so that, due to your PoV being validated for (what you think are) bigger numbers, you take on contrary PoVs (less represented in your network) with more confidence, thinking they are wrong and reinforcing your own view. V
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by arien 11y ago
I went to the Privacy statement [0], to the "Reasons we share your data" (click on Learn More) and it does not sound scary at all (it' pretty much the same as any internet company that holds customer data). It's very cle
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by arien 11y ago
It is a little unsettling when you read these policies. This is probably for Cortana. She has to understand and process your voice commands, learn your nickname and preferences to be effective. She already works in Windows Phone (very nicel
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by arien 11y ago
Both things you mention have to do with Google, who happens to own Chrome. Why do you think it is a ridiculous proposition? After all, you gave in and switched to Chrome... I've actually done the opposite, switched back to Firefox afte

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