davesmith1983

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by davesmith1983 7y ago
When is Linux technically better? It is a good enough all rounder. There is this principle of "Worse is better" when it comes to many, many products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better Also the fir
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
There is all sorts of wrong here. You are conflating several concepts. Firstly I was commenting on your very strange definition of what working meant. What we (programmers) normally mean by working we mean "It fulfills the requirement
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
I think they are referring to the fact that "Legacy" has now been defined as code without unit tests in some circles. However I agree in general most people mean "Old code I don't want to work on because I don't lik
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Legacy means it might be working, depending on your CURRENT needs. Your current needs change, even when the code does not. No working should mean "It fulfills the requirements". If the requirements change then the code should
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
https://archive.fo/K0q1f I know that some servers have been shutdown because because of racial slurs but what is effectively illegal pornography (at least in the UK) is A-OK. Discord like every other company will enforce th
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
They are starting to clamp down on the censorship of their platform and it will only get worse i.e. naughty words aren't allowed on discord (though it isn't policed that throughly). A friend of mine had one of our discord servers
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Jokes aside I recently setup a phpBB forum and me and friends are using IRC instead of discord. IRC is ridiculously fast and so is phpBB.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
This comic routinely used as a "Gotcha". However it so over simplifies the position that we are in. Youtube now totally owns online video, there isn't any competitors that are even close. Facebook has almost half the world si
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Firstly I didn't reply to you. Secondly I dunno where to start with this. Comparing homosexuality to Child abuse or implying that Brendan Eich is okay with it. The second is probably legally defamatory but IANAL.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ I would read that.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Brendan Eich is a Catholic that is why he opposed same sex marriage. That doesn't make him a homophobe, that makes him someone that opposes same sex marriage because of his religious beliefs. People seem to constantly conflate oppositi