dewiz

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   by dewiz 10y ago

   my 2 cents, #1 doesn't make any sense these days. You can find something bad in all the major players.
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   by dewiz 10y ago

   I moved to Bing a couple of months back and I do the opposite, i.e. turn to Google when I can't find what I'm looking for in Bing. On avg I'd say it's ~5% of the times for generic searches, ~10% for more technical stuff.
3. 183.▲
   by dewiz 10y ago

   So you agree that Microsoft was fine to put IE as the default browser I guess. I see the same rationale, and I'd be OK as long as we give companies the same fair treatment.
4. 184.▲
   by dewiz 10y ago

   T-mobile US comes to mind as an example
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   by dewiz 10y ago

   Serious question, what's wrong with Thunderbird? I've used Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Outlook up to 2016, Mail, Gmail, Squirrel etc etc. I use Outlook where I _have_ to, but TB is a constant across a
6. 186.▲
   by dewiz 10y ago

   You're missing akka.net there
7. 187.▲
   by dewiz 10y ago

   1M votes margin, many news channels are giving it for granted. It woukd be fun to see reporters react to a sudden reversal though
8. 188.▲
   by dewiz 10y ago

   Sky news is now projecting OUT, ie given the trend looks like UK will leave EU. Anyway, still many votes to come, margin is around 800k votes so far.
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   by dewiz 10y ago

   404 page not found
10. 190.▲
    by dewiz 10y ago

    It's not about the question, it's about the tone ;-)
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    Microsoft Wallet with tap to pay available for Windows Insiders(blogs.windows.com)

    1 points by dewiz 10y ago|0 comments
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    Microsoft Wallet(microsoft.com)

    1 points by dewiz 10y ago|0 comments
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    Newly discovered asteroid is Earth's cosmic buddy(engadget.com)

    1 points by dewiz 10y ago|0 comments
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    A Map of Where Your Food Originated May Surprise You(npr.org)

    1 points by dewiz 10y ago|0 comments
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    Scientists Say They've Unearthed a Completely New Kind of Meteorite(npr.org)

    3 points by dewiz 10y ago|0 comments
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    last time I checked Microsoft was a company (not a platform) and like any other it has to make money to survive. Your saying is applicable to every other company releasing open source code
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    Talk with your colleagues Anonymously, with Blind(techcrunch.com)

    1 points by dewiz 10y ago|1 comments
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    Maybe separate queues work better, but that creates competitiveness, and in a long term will stress workers more, who might eventually slow down and feel judged by others.
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    Does it mean that a team of developers where each developer is responsible for a feature (vs the team being responsible for all features) will deliver quicker?
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    The move from P2P to a client-server model, is a sensible change, considering the fight to stay relevant on mobile devices, for instance considering the impact that Skype used to have on battery consumption. http://markmail.org&#
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    I bought v3 a long ago, the price was ~30$, a good investment :-)
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    This img https://www.sublimetext.com/images/win_title_bar.png used in the homepagbe still saying Sublime Text 2
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    Is it possible to do TDD without unit tests? I ask because a place where I interviewed had no concepts of mocking, injecting, and would just test the whole chain of classes. But dev leads would insist on TDD. Hmm?
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    AE often comes from Latin words, so yeah you'll see it more in European languages
25. 205.▲
    by dewiz 10y ago

    Irony wants that the author made a mistake himself when writing that post. See the (*) note at the end of the page.
26. 206.▲
    by dewiz 10y ago

    ...and some people drive complexity by design: be complex to be consistent (resistance is futile). I've seen that in big orgs where managers like "achieving" consistency (yay), even if developers are wasting time and money t
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    There are free ways to disable voicemail, e.g. on Android see No More VoiceMail app or http://m.wikihow.com/Disable-Voicemail-on-Android
28. 208.▲
    by dewiz 10y ago

    the authors forgot to add the protocol to the link href="www.lmfdb.org" should be href=" http://www.lmfdb.org"
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Disc...
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    by dewiz 10y ago

    I like the comment about the online transactions, not being a technical problem but a business one (in his opinion), a problem that would be solved on that year (1996). And sending card numbers over Internet being safer than doing that over