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by deong 10y ago
Well, here's what I'd say. My moral principles are fairly well set, but that's pretty easy because I only have to satisfy myself and my close family. Would I prefer it if the world was such that a strong candidate was always
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by deong 10y ago
Also, it's hard to argue that an ancient version of bash shipping in 2016 is driving away developers when they've shipped an ancient version of bash forever, and developers were lining up for Macs during most of that time. If anyt
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It does work great, meaning that it reliably executes the intended functionality correctly. My problem is that the intended functionality is not what I want. I have lots of terminals, Emacs windows, browser windows, etc. open at any given t
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by deong 10y ago
Most new-ish Android phones (as counted by number of models) are likely already coming with USB-C. Both the Pixels, the Nexus 5X and 6P before them, the LG v20, the Moto Z, all come with USB-C. As far as I'm aware, only Samsung hasn&#x
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by deong 10y ago
If I were still a Mac user (back to Linux a year or so ago), I think I'd be annoyed by the new laptops. Not enraged...just annoyed a bit. It's not the end of the world, but like a lot of Apple's recent moves, I'm left wi
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by deong 10y ago
> You can always go back and make it look pretty safely with good tests. Yeah, but you won't. I think that's part of the reason why people care about "taste". I want to maximize the chances that essentially the first
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by deong 10y ago
I don't have a problem with copyright holders getting paid long after the work. Unlike patents, where I do have a problem, copyright doesn't prevent independent discovery. If you write a song, I think it's fair that you have
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by deong 10y ago
> IMO it's no worse now than it was in 10.6, except it has a ton more features. Many of those features are the reasons why it is worse to many people. New code comes with a cost. Every new system feature (handoff, clipboard sharing,
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by deong 10y ago
I replaced the Wifi chip with an Intel one and have had no problems since. I did have other problems -- some serious. Right now, running Fedora 24 and Gnome 3, it seems to be a reasonably workable machine, but yeah, it's been more trou
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by deong 10y ago
Honestly, I thought their initial response was fine. There were probably a few too many incidents before a recall was announced, but it happened pretty quickly, and you have to give them a bit of time to do their own internal "what the
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by deong 10y ago
I'm in the camp that actually prefers -- strongly prefers -- Go's style of error handling over exceptions. It's not a perfect language of course, but when you say it's successful only because Google marketed it, I think
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by deong 10y ago
I can't speak to the Sony phones, but for at least a couple of generations (Galaxy S6, S7, Note 5, Note 7, etc.), Samsung phones have been right there with the iPhone in terms of camera quality. The S6 beat the iPhone 6S+ by about the
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by deong 10y ago
I'm not a heavy iOS user, and I hadn't considered that sort of thing, but I can see your point.
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by deong 10y ago
Yeah, I think it's probably sensible advice to say that if you want to stay away from Google apps and services, you're better off with iOS.
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by deong 10y ago
To be fair, he's doing so while referencing a response from that developer that was just as insulting. I don't want to get into a debate over whether two wrongs make a right, but the flow was "Systemd is not good", follo
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by deong 10y ago
No one cares if you're a non-golfer. Atheists in quite a lot of the country (and the world, for that matter), are a notable minority group. "Persecution" implies a bit more gravity that I'd aim for in describing it, but
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by deong 10y ago
The historical significance thing is particularly annoying. It's an explicit statement of "We want this type of content, but the system of rules that we created and can change any time we like does not allow this type of content,
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by deong 10y ago
It requires the ability to govern one's selves effectively, which we in the US have proven beyond all doubt we're not capable of doing.
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by deong 10y ago
Hell, it might be great if they'd just actually do that part about "doubling down on the winner".
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by deong 10y ago
Sure, but wouldn't you have also made that bet about Hangouts a few years ago? And then about Messenger? And then about Hangouts (again)? Google always looks like they have a plan, provided you ignore everything they've done pri
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by deong 10y ago
> It's knowing what the heck you are actually doing and doing it well is what's hard. That sort of goes without saying. If doing something well is hard, then doing that thing is hard. No one is interesting in writing code that
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by deong 10y ago
This topic does bring out a fair amount people who get very upset over something they themselves claim is not worth worrying about.
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by deong 10y ago
I realize Apple still treats it as a truth that if people buy their products, then they must be on the right track. I'm just saying that I don't necessarily agree. When you accrue enough market power, there start to be other facto
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by deong 10y ago
Well, Microsoft's primary products are still completely dominant in the markets they're in. Windows and Office are still the 800-pound gorillas (though of course mac OS has narrowed the gap). What happened to Microsoft is more tha
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by deong 10y ago
That's a model that works a lot better when you're a relative nobody than when you're the biggest company in the world. The reality is that people will buy whatever Apple sells them, within reason. They're not going to c
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by deong 10y ago
More successful by my standards (and yours, I guess), but not by the standards silicon valley uses. I assume lots of objectively stupid businesses are run by people who are capable of doing something profitable, but profitable isn't th
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by deong 10y ago
I don't think the argument is that you must feel "honored". Just not personally affronted by it. I work for a company that has open developer positions. None of them are related to keyboard firmware, but if you told me nothin
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by deong 10y ago
That's a nice solution if everything is more or less working properly. The problem is, "What do you do when they tell you you're wrong about everything?" One of the links in the article was to an article by a law profess
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by deong 10y ago
> They're to prevent panic attacks. That might have been the original intent of a "trigger warning", but their sheer prevalence today indicates that this is either no longer true or else we have nothing less than a massive
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by deong 10y ago
Yeah, but that's life with a complex bundle of software. It's not as though Apple's attempt at making a walled garden makes them magically better at not writing exploitable bugs in the userland. Mostly where they're bett

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