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> did I just kinda hit the limit of my IQ / abstract thinking skills? No, the biggest problem is you haven't been exposed to enough of theory side of maths to have a intuition about how these things combine into the bigger pict
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Just wait till next year when Adobe will go free 2 play on their big names like Photoshop. Wanna open files from other people? Just get the $15/month "Fun with Friends" DLC. Oh need to save a file, better grab the "Shari
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T2 Diabetic that keeps a fairly strict keto diet here. Food is terrible these days. It's hard to get stuff that isn't loaded down with sweeteners, never mind salts and fats. All to make food taste better and to get you to eat it m
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From my perspective, vim is just a tool that I picked up in college, back in the bad old days (early 00's) where good IDE's were paid and anything free was largely terrible. Sure IDE's are great, I love stepping through code,
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> for-the-public-at-large True. Most of the people I knew with computers back then had them provided by their work, or bought them for university. But then I lived in a small city in Texas not near a major metro. Most people there didn&#
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- If you can trust an employee with a $25K ($50K today) computer, trusting them with a complete source tree isn't a stretch. - I'd be more pissed off that somebody didn't have a complete backup somewhere, even if it was a per
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Libre would be fine for most people but brand recognition and file compatibility are the big things that Office 365 has going for it.
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> I don't think this is a foregone conclusion, and it's easy to say this and sort of throw your hands up and go "oh well, woe is me" but it's kind of a cop out, no? The problem is that as we get older, we tend to
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Solution: Office 365. Since it runs in the browser Office 365 will work for the average home user of MS Office on Linux. No it's not the full fat versions of office, but for most home users it's fine.
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> And in my experience, the harder the subject, the more informally experts speak. I guess I've been hanging out with different crowds. I typically find that the harder the subject the more exacting the language has to be to avoid
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After living next to an AirBNB for 3 years in a quiet neighborhood, good riddance. If you haven't had the pleasure, having an AirBNB next door is like having your house moved to a cheap hotel parking lot. Random yelling and screaming a
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Regulations. Put regulations on the Market Places to tighten up their process for accepting new sellers, and direct punishment of the Market Places themselves for selling bad products. These Market Places have no skin in the game when it co
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I don't want to live downtown! I want separation between my neighbors so I don't have to hear them, and so they don't have to hear me. I lived in apartments for nearly 15 years... never again. We also have the cost of housing
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I'll take updates that slow my phone as long as I'm also getting security updates. I don't like have my banking app cut off because I no longer get Android updates.
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Best things about the iPhone: - long term support - can expect a new device to get 5-6 years of Apple Updates - AppleCare - better build quality than cheap android devices - Reasonable expectation that required software will support it - No
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Does Facebook spend any sort of money on R&D? I just can't fathom a company that once had a near trillion dollar market cap, not spending any of their resources to try to find their next big revenue stream. They should have been ab
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In high school I got rather adept at memorizing our marching band music. By my senior year I could play a song once or twice, and not have to look at it again for the rest of the semester. While this kind of skill is nice to have, there is
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Yes, but we all have typewriters in our pocket these days.
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The low hanging fruit has been taken. Years ago, a curious individual could solve some basic problem, maybe its a better file system, or a better kernel, or a new scripting language. Your program might take off, and you could build eventual
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Most people you see sitting at the library are doing class work or studying with online materials. If you want to see people using books, go up into the stacks or sit by the checkout desk.
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Sometimes firmware updates are necessary. I've got a Tcl tv that had HDR issues out of the box that were fixed by an updated firmware.
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Well it's a shame they still want my phone number. I don't wanna give some random company my number if they aren't gonna call me.
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If it happens to me, an active computer user for 25 years, think of how often this has happened to others. How much work has frustratingly been lost because Windows knows better about when to update. Worse is technologically speaking this s
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Everybody has their pain points with every operating system. For me and windows it was when it updated a hibernating unplugged laptop overnight causing me to loose several hours of genealogy work. I had been using a new to me application th
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You have to ask yourself, if titles weren't involved, what is your role at the company. Are you really steering the direction of the company? Do you have actual monetary investment into the company? -OR- are you really just a manager o
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Loads of small companies will give out titles like CTO when the position is like what OP said, a "better paid senior developer position". Honestly that is all this position is, a bit higher rank senior developer position. It'
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Apple is just supporting the technology people likely already have in their homes.
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It's been a long time since I heard mention of NetMeeting. I remember using NetMeeting in late 97 or early 98 on a 33.6 kbps modem. One of the most memorable parts was the area were you could find other random people to chat with on au
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I really like the form factor of these. I need to remember to look out for one of them to hack on.
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Capital looses so much from people working from home. Easiest to notice is property values. They own or rent huge buildings that will loose value as the need for them decreases. That is capitalism 101. The bigger loss for Capital is leverag

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