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by criley2 6y ago
1. "Recommended" extensions are a subset of all extensions, so to narrow the comparison from "Extensions" to "A limited subset" feels dishonest. Not all Firefox extensions are Recommended. 2. Firefox took years
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by criley2 6y ago
I mean... not to be contrarian but does the average user need to know a URL? Do I need to know an address to drive my car somewhere? My knowledge that a place exists and I want to go there is sufficient to get me there, without having the p
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by criley2 6y ago
It's not facebook streisanding, they've gone mainstream after years of alt-right/incel/QANON build-up. A lot of outlets are covering it and having not heard of it by now is probably getting on the back end of the bellcur
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by criley2 6y ago
That's not a reversed question, it's a completely new one. It was about sublime merge not sublime text as you appear to have switched it to. Unless you're seriously suggesting that someone would stop using the Sublime Merge t
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by criley2 7y ago
This is what is occurring, and the transition isn't necessarily easy. For example, there's no easy to way to take say 30% of all beer consumed (from kegs) and just on-demand convert that to canned.
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by criley2 7y ago
Generally speaking, free software UX is so bad that I would never recommend it to most people I talk to because 1) I don't want to train them on it 2) I don't want to support them on it 3) It isn't good enough for them to use
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by criley2 7y ago
Under VFR sure, obviously under IFR they are looking at the instruments as much as 100% of the time, including the instruments which inform them if planes are nearby, and instruments which inform them of their location, direction, and all o
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by criley2 7y ago
>We are lucky that the Y2k issue was so understandable by the public. As someone who was forced to spend Y2K in a "prepped" cabin on the side of a mountain with two years of supplies buried underneath, I think you might overest
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by criley2 7y ago
While it might suck to be someone whose only value is "slightly less evil", being replaced would seem to come with the territory of making 'slight ethics improvement' your major marketable feature. Either you remain on t
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by criley2 7y ago
I understand the "old days" idealism of hacking things in the 80s, but there weren't million computer botnets conducting massive criminal attacks on banks and governments in the 80s. It's a different era. It's like
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by criley2 7y ago
It's like quarantine. You might think you're smart enough to wear the right gear and behave the right way to keep others safe, but because some people are irresponsible or don't know how to behave, we enforce the rule on ever
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by criley2 7y ago
I have literally never heard of a "gamer" running shady binaries with administrator privilege in my entire life. Maybe you're thinking of the hacker culture of the 80s, but gamers today use launchers to manage downloading, in
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by criley2 7y ago
That's fair, but this was about virtualization not emulation. Similar but different, but that's certainly a solution too.
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by criley2 7y ago
Virtualizating Windows isn't very hard, even back to something like Windows 95. On the other hand, only OSX 10.7+ are really easy to run in a VM, and .5 and .6 only work for servers, and anything before 10.5 isn't really going to
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by criley2 7y ago
Stating what it is for does not change the audience who is here, what they are interested in, and ultimately how they found it and why. Not as many climatology folks here as tech folks. Let's not be obtuse.
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by criley2 7y ago
Well, this is HackerNews, started by a technology company accelerator focused largely on web applications, for which UX is a top line discussion point. The point being, the takes here are pretty on-brand.
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by criley2 7y ago
I agree that attempting to have one canonical recipe for something like "Macaroni and Cheese" is futile and counter-productive, but I don't think this project has to end up like that. For example, if the Macaroni and Cheese C
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by criley2 7y ago
I count 5 conspiracy comments regarding DNC, Bernie, etc unless mods have since removed them.
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by criley2 7y ago
This entire thread is full of conspiracy, disinformation and outright ignorance. Such a sad state of affairs for this website. If the folks writing these terrible comments are the same folks working in this industry, perhaps the sorry state
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by criley2 7y ago
You do realize that the Iowa Democrats who prefer Bernie or Pete are the SAME DEMOCRATS running this process right? There is no national party there. The people running this are Iowans. If they, as you say, prefer Bernie or Pete, then why w
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by criley2 7y ago
Let me be frank: I don't give a shit if candidates got questions for a town hall (not a debate!) an hour before hand. Personally, I prefer when questions go out beforehand so we get more thoughtful answers. "Gotcha" style que
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by criley2 7y ago
Ironically, the DNC did not conspiratorially help Clinton against Bernie, you just quoted another bit of weaponized disinformation used by the right to divide the left. Let me be frank: Bernie Sanders lost the 2016 nomination fair and squar
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by criley2 7y ago
I was responding to someone who literally said the caucuses were rigged by the DNC to hurt Bernie. Read the thread please! And for the record: Biden has never called this process rigged at all. Your link shows him rightfully criticizing the
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by criley2 7y ago
It's coming from inside the house! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1067175527180513280 "No one ever changed the world at 40 hours a week" "80 hours minimum, with peaks at 100 hours" A
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by criley2 7y ago
On the flip side, working for yourself means the job never ends. As an employee you can do 8 hours at work, 16 hours for yourself. You can drop a project and pick it up the next day. The client is pissed? You're still making your salar
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by criley2 7y ago
Really have to give kudos to Google for basically inventing this design language, because this Maps update really looks like a "catch-up" to much of the design language Google Maps has been using for a long time now. Honestly, loo
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by criley2 7y ago
Interesting justification/rationalization for the extraordinary cost of supporting the minority of users. Paying the Apple Tax is a cost of doing business in the Apple garden, but for folks outside of that walled garden, the extraordin
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by criley2 7y ago
On the flip side, 80% of all devices sold are Android and Android devices are the majority of sales, web usage, etc so there is no obligation for any developer to support the minority of devices and users at extreme cost when they can alrea
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by criley2 7y ago
This isn't really a fair comparison because any OSX user can just download and run Android studio for free, while your average Android programmer would require over a thousand dollars (to get a bottom-level Apple device with the worst
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by criley2 7y ago
Age of Empires 2 is an interesting case where the original versions had cheater AI, and the subsequent re-releases have taken the time to examine competitive meta and create new difficult AI that plays fair based on actually competitive tac

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