beavis2

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by beavis2 8y ago
I know. Apple, too. Can't get more closed and locked-in (outside of Oracle).
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by beavis2 8y ago
I've tried them all. - I don't want to return to C++ - I dislike javascript for large projects because even the best tooling is lacking, and the exploding dependency count. - I love C#, but WPF renders worse than Electron (and Win
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by beavis2 8y ago
> because they are prepared to do work locals are not, at a price that locals will not consider. Fortunately, those locals are able to purchase their produce at a lower price, with the benefits they claim which is being paid for by the m
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Buildfeed, the Windows build tracker, has ended(buildfeed.net)
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by beavis2 8y ago
It's give-and-take. At a butt-in-seat job, I'd turn up on time and leave on time - and that's the end of it. If during those hours I happen to be in an unproductive mindset (eg, unable to concentrate) then so be it. I'm
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by beavis2 8y ago
I said "most". They're a one-trick pony, mostly thanks to manipulation. And now this. Vulgar images, available directly from your start menu.
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by beavis2 8y ago
> resolve to 127.0.0.1 I wish people would stop using my IP address!
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by beavis2 8y ago
If you want to play the "think of the children" card, then let's start by discouraging development on Windows.
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by beavis2 8y ago
Can you imagine if they created, for example, core-utils?
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by beavis2 8y ago
A shame Steve Jobs isn't around to join in.
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by beavis2 8y ago
Sorry for being flippant. I knew what you meant, and I do agree with you.
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by beavis2 8y ago
"Sorry boss, I won't be fixing BUG-332 - I don't use that browser"
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by beavis2 8y ago
And also whatever you type into the start menu.
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by beavis2 8y ago
The browser is looked upon as the portal to the Internet. When accessing web-sites over a public network, I sort of expect (not necessarily like or agree) to be tracked and others to know what I'm doing. I'm always in the mindset
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by beavis2 8y ago
> What about you? You think the opposite? I mostly agree with everything you said. But I speculate, a good collection of today's "chrome leavers" here already use another browser - and are just adding fuel to the fire. Or,
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by beavis2 8y ago
> devs will not optimize of it. Yep. I have been a FF user since.. well, Netscape. Yet, FireFox-specific bugs have always been a lower priority. Because, it's "a bug effecting 100 users" vs "a bug effecting 900 users&
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by beavis2 8y ago
> talk about moving away It's just that. All talk. Including the usual empty threats of "don't piss of the technical people". Meanwhile, they're still logging into Facebook using Chrome on their Windows machines.
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by beavis2 8y ago
Not really. IE's "killer feature" was ActiveX. Which meant that any browser limitation could be worked around. But there was competition, that's why they made the original effort. Once the competition was killed, they s
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by beavis2 8y ago
If that where the case, FireFox would have overtook IE.
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by beavis2 8y ago
IE lost users because it was abysmal. And the reason for that was they wanted to keep people on the desktop. Who knows... if IE was already as good as early Chrome, perhaps there would be no Chrome.
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by beavis2 8y ago
Right. But there's a certain amount of irony that people are ditching Chrome, while still using an OS which literally does spy on you.
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by beavis2 8y ago
> it remained logged in across private tabs. If you mean "Incognito mode", then that's always happened. You need to close all tabs. Exactly the same for FireFox's private browsing.
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by beavis2 8y ago
That didn't happen to me.
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by beavis2 8y ago
While still using Windows...
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by beavis2 8y ago
Possibly. Their gain? - Less of a monopoly status. Their losses? - The privacy concerned. - Ad-blocker users. - Over-opinionated users. Good move, for them.
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by beavis2 8y ago
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by beavis2 8y ago
I also met my Wife on IRC, ~20 years ago (after chatting for 2 years). Explaining then to people how we met was difficult, so we ended up just saying through a mutual friend - which was also true. I strongly doubt it we would have met, in t
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by beavis2 8y ago
I like those stories. Although in this case, it's possible to disable power saving. (or have they stopped that, too?)
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by beavis2 8y ago
Yes. Been there, done that. I was wondering what it was I could have done. I was thinking of all the "grey area" things I may have been up to - then I paused and thought: "why am I concerned they could know so much?" bec
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by beavis2 8y ago
Despite the two companies collaborating on an app based on HTML5, Microsoft's app is still breaking YouTube's terms of use. "Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experien

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