btinker

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by btinker 6y ago
Though combining a paid "lifetime" plan with the deactivation of inactive accounts as the article suggests seems like a bad idea. That's deceptive in my book.
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by btinker 6y ago
It would check the arguments and return type of the function. Map takes a function with three arguments, toReadableNumber only takes one, therefore the functions are of a different type. So someNumbers.map(toReadableNumber) would be an erro
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by btinker 6y ago
> GNOME doesn't work for you. GNOME uses Wayland, but the bugs you experienced are not the fault of Wayland. They're the fault of GNOME. Yes, but I, and I believe most people talking about Wayland mean "user experience on
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by btinker 6y ago
> People in charge of large FOSS projects like Gnome should not pretend it's just some hobby project they can do whatever they want with. Those projects are essentially public infrastructure and should be treated as such. It's
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by btinker 6y ago
> Wayland works for almost everyone, and works for more people than is even possible with X11. Most of the lies you’ve heard about ways that it’s broken are just that: lies. And if you insist on living in that fantasy, then keep it to yo
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by btinker 6y ago
> There are a lot of projects (sudo being the most recent example) supported by a team of developers in the single digits (or just one) that are relied upon by projects raking in millions if not billions in annual revenue. But the whole
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by btinker 6y ago
Yep, that's part of why reddit is so great. > Fundamentally i think the solution is competitors. This was a much easier position to take when the web did not just have a few social media giants with network effects, but still: if yo
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by btinker 6y ago
> In my opinion it seems like Elastic wants ElasticSearch to still be perceived as the fully open source project (with all of its good connotations) it once was. This. It is too bad they couldn't have satisfactory financial success
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by btinker 8y ago
Are you sure? This is what MS says about it: Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our pr