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> In a relative sense, I would argue that Apple has pilfered an order of magnitude higher value from the community than they have given back. I take objection to the use of "pilfering" to describe usage of software according to
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Have you ever seen someone choosing Playstation for their server park since Playstation 3? As their primary workstation? (Yes, PS3 ran Linux in the beginning.)
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And it works really well from what I see. Although Orion also has built in a (simpler) implementation the most important Firefox for me and I assume many others, tree style tabs. Orions built in version doesn't have the full customizab
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That is to a large degree correct. I even thought it wasn't necessary to test them separately but I recently heard from someone with more and more recent experience that some differences exist, particularly around prefixed css attribut
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Hehe. But more seriously: it is actually the truth. Kind of in in the same way that people are thankful for Churchill: not because he was a fantastic man in every way (he wasn't) but because he saved us from something even worse.
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I don't know. But if so, what? Have you caught anyone deciding to go with Cisco instead of BSDs on their servers or their laptop? I'm serious here: Open source isn't a zero sum game. Partially thanks to the permissive license
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I run Mac OS. I am aware that it builds on BSD. Yet BSD is very alive and nobody who wants BSD is lost to Mac. At least I personally have never heard anyone deliberating over a free BSD vs Mac. Edit: and of course upvote. Apple ran with it.
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Chrome in itself is not the problem. Competition is good. Firefox is better now thanks to Chrome. Neither is Safari. Safari is actually part of the solution. Safari has saved Firefox and other browsers by being the only option on iOS for a
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Reality check: 1. All the BSDs have been out there for decades without anyone running with it. 2. Google and Microsoft - while being a shadow of their former selves technically - are probably still very capable of reimplementing whatever th
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The docs says Twitter integration is discontinued.
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There was a very good one, I think back in 2005 - 2007 as part of Google Desktop / Google Desktop Search. That was back when Google was a respectable company that in addition to the mandatory EULA had a separate notice that informed ve
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Last I checked they only did syntax highlighting, not completion. And Jetbrains were rather clear that it was not a priority. I am happy to be wrong now though. Edit, this is a good step forward, here is the list from NetBeans, the "To
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At a certain size, making sure ones company doesn't destroy whole ecosystems should be a management responsibility. Also, as pointed out by others, when again and again these stupidities benefits the bottom line there is good reason to
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At work I use Kotlin. At home I often use Java. My main reason for using it for my personal hobby projects is because I prefer another IDE. And Kotlin is only supported by IntelliJ, which I admit is a really good ide, but not my favorite.
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I don't have much problems (Firefox on Mac) but seeing how many others complain I guess it is just a matter of time before I get moved to another A/B testing "experiment" testing how much I can endure before I give up an
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This is a nice feature. There is nothing wrong with letting people switch between windows from the same application. There is still no reason why you cannot have both CMD-Tab switching between any window and also an option to switch between
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The problem is not that one useful app demands <$10. The problem is that for some reason "everyone" down to creators of alarm clock apps think subscription is the right monetization model. Many of us are tired. Please note that
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Had to look back at the deep bug you described and I am happy that someone looked into it[1] and got it fixed. Also happy that they so publicly acknowledged your work to narrow it down! [1]: https://github.com/oracle/gr
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I can't find your email address, send me a mail if you want.
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Ey, next to teaching it is the favorite part of my profession! (I like modeling systems and greenfield development as well, but I feel my time is absolutely best utilized when I can train others or crack hard bugs that are worth paying some
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Good. After that, go after Google and Microsoft for abusing their market positions other markets to destroy the browser market (again in Microsofts case).
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This has been going on since long before[1] the recent AI craze. IMNSHO it seems Google just cannot miss an opportunity to mess up the basics in the quest for amazing and then fail at amazing or cancel it just as they are about to achieve i
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Try search.marginalia.nu (free) or kagi.com (paid). Both prove that it is very much possible to come up with better rankings than Google do. Googles problem very much seems to be that quote by Upton Sinclair that “It is difficult to get a m
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Elementary OS was actually nice last time I used it. Looked like Mac but didn't copy every stylistic and UX choice from the 90ies that doesn't belong in the 2020ies, like space saving menus that makes haves your mouse traversing b
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Magically appeared now, thanks!
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Wow, thanks for sharing. I want one of those :-)
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More generally, stop copying the smallest-common-denominator DX/UX of <famous mass market product> when designing for other markets. I recently overheard a very smart user struggle to find how to mute a group in Teams. And while
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Ok, thanks for the clarification. Let me also clarify: I am absolutely not denying that Kagi uses Googles index. I am just pointing out that for some reason when I search with Google I get lots and lots of results for things I didn't s
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> But here on the ground, I can type a few queries and reveal that Kagi is the same shit as Google. Here on the ground in Norway I just say "lucky you" if Google serves the same results as Kagi. My experience is Google expands
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I remember reading about it, probably in a farming related book from the nineties.

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