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by flurpitude 11y ago
>To purchase the software you have to go through a bunch of screens, enter payment info, download, install, and then enter a serial number. For pirating software you just search for it and it's usually easier to install, with some c
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I have never found a form, but I have found forums where people complain about persistent issues and nothing gets done. They seem to go out of their way to make it difficult for users to report issues. In addition they seem to have contempt
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Now how about Spotify fixing their front end so that Premium customers on Android can just hit "play" to play the album they want to play, in the right order? And how about an app in the Windows Store so that you can use it on a t
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by flurpitude 11y ago
It has been stable and reliable for me too. But the concern is not about reliability so much as security: some patches are not delivered due to the way Mint (apparently) mixes binaries from Debian and Ubuntu. It may be quite reliable but st
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by flurpitude 11y ago
>I tried upgrading when I found there was no upgrade path. Upgrading Mint means reinstalling Mint. I don't think that's true any more. I think they allow you to upgrade in place.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I have an old netbook that came with Windows but runs Lubuntu now. Why the excitement about Chrome OS compared to other resource-light Linux distros? I can run Chromium on Lubuntu, so doesn't that give me access to all the Chrome OS so
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Asus also often has many sub-models specified by a suffix to the main model number. And what they show on their many inconsistent marketing websites often won't match what's actually available in your country. Not to mention that
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When it comes to Windows 10 privacy, don't trust amateur analysts(zdnet.com)
9 points by flurpitude 11y ago|2 comments
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Inside the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon(motherboard.vice.com)
29 points by flurpitude 11y ago|1 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
To his credit, Sanders has explicitly said that a president can't change the country singlehandedly and a grassroots political movement is needed to achieve any meaningful change. Any supporter who thinks electing him is the end of it
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by flurpitude 11y ago
The cookie would tend to be for one session only. The login credentials can be used to create subsequent sessions.
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The ISIS encrypted messaging app the media reported on recently does not exist(dailydot.com)
11 points by flurpitude 11y ago|3 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
But we know that these same corporations may be legally obliged, secretly compelled or financially incentivized to give or sell the information they have about you to the government. And if the government cannot get hold of the data through
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by flurpitude 11y ago
This reddit thread discusses the donations these senators have received from telecoms companies: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/42nia3/senators...
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Senators insist that 25Mbps is more bandwidth than anyone could need(techdirt.com)
1 points by flurpitude 11y ago|2 comments
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Republicans to FCC: Even Netflix doesn't require Internet speeds that high(thehill.com)
2 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Linux distros like Ubuntu and Debian address this issue by offering different update streams so you can choose whether you want all the latest stuff or a more stable experience. Microsoft could do something similar, but they're lacking
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Visual Studio 2015 does not have upper case menus.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Right, that's how startups work. And that's why enterprises rarely buy software or services from startups. Microsoft is expected to be able to produce something more polished and reliable.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I would have agreed that it's a good product right up to Visual Studio 2013. But Visual Studio 2015 is slow, buggy and unstable. They really have screwed something up, it has been months, and the update pack they released didn't m
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I develop daily on Windows and Visual Studio. The latest versions of both are so horribly unstable and buggy that our team's productivity is being seriously damaged. What the hell happened to Microsoft's quality control? In Window
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by flurpitude 11y ago
"I was half expecting the article to outline how a box full of 80s technology had been replaced with a Raspberry Pi!" The Parallella computer, which looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi, has a Xilinx Zynq chip similar to the one in the
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Intel Skylake bug causes PCs to freeze during complex workloads(arstechnica.co.uk)
3 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Not exactly disturbing, but revealing. Evidently he lives in a little corporate bubble and is out of touch with the concerns of many ordinary internet users.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Depends who you're developing for. If you're selling SaaS and your customers are large public or private sector organizations whose staff work at their desks, old versions of IE are still your biggest headache.
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Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse(wired.com)
2 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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The science myths that will not die(nature.com)
3 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Don't forget considering universal healthcare to be an abomination.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
What's absurd about it? Which of the items presented are untrue, as suggested by your scare quotes around "facts"? Yes, the article is one-sided, but these are all real points of concern about the direction Windows is going i
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Too much pressure, too many meetings, projects coming in behind schedule. Must have been awful in those days. Do all those people look like they actually hate their jobs, or is this just a Finnish manner?

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