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by korginator 10y ago
Interesting to see the obvious pro-microsoft bias in comments here. I can only imagine the worst from microsoft and their user-hostile behaviour. * trojan-like telemetry impossible to control or block * malware-like behaviour through "
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by korginator 10y ago
I've been in a similar situation some years ago. My contract was not signed on time, and I started working some weeks before the contract date, with a "gentlemen's understanding". I was also owed back pay for consulting
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by korginator 10y ago
I've been on Vivaldi from the beta days, and am glad to see it's been steadily improving. On my Mac, it's extremely responsive, probably as good as Safari. It feels snappier than chrome or (god forbid) firefox. Page load spee
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by korginator 11y ago
The weather data appears horribly inaccurate. I'm traveling in Vietnam (Hanoi) today and we're seeing temperatures between 25 and 31 deg C, but the site says we're roasting at 34 - 48 deg C. I checked Bangkok where I will go
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by korginator 11y ago
I cancelled my netflix account last week because they cracked down on both my VPN providers. In my country, we legally get around 12-13% of the shows available on the US Netflix. Paying customers get shafted, and the mega-corps wonder why p
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by korginator 11y ago
Another increasingly common trend is not having a proper escalation path, like an email address. Good luck trying to find an email address at Netflix to escalate a problem.
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by korginator 11y ago
An even more troubling aspect is the increasing lack of ability for our pilots to fly by hand instead of relying on the autopilot. A large number of accidents today, like the Asiana 214 that went into the SFO airport sea wall, could easily
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by korginator 11y ago
This article is BS. Machine translation has been improving but it's still nowhere close to being able to provide real-time translation of spoken languages, and I bet anything it won't be there after another decade. I know for a fa
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by korginator 11y ago
Kudos to BB for their swift actions. Under no situation should any software randomly delete folders and files it doesn't own, period, specially something so widely used by professionals. This is not just a little bug on a rarely used O
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by korginator 11y ago
To me, the problem is not iCloud being opaque, but that it's been unreliable at best, and a migraine-causing frustration at times. For example, some years ago when Apple rolled out syncing bookmarks across your macs and iDevices, I man
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by korginator 11y ago
A solid hour of cardio, followed by a cold shower and some rum afterwards.
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by korginator 11y ago
Elsevier made more than 3.5 billion dollars in revenue last year. They are trying everything possible to destroy open research. They were behind three bills in the US congress to prevent universities from providing access to pre-publication
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by korginator 11y ago
I guess this was coming. Opera was on a long and painful road to irrelevance, right from when they threw away all their amazing work to become yet another chrome variant minus the most useful features that really made Opera what it was - re
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by korginator 11y ago
Malaysia showed promise a couple of decades ago. Their economy was growing, large companies were setting up shop and building factories, trying to diversify beyond their traditional resource-based economy. With growth came rampant corruptio
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by korginator 11y ago
My first experience with Trumpet WinSock was on a small project where the computer talked to some state of the art (at the time) network connected data acquisition devices. Coming from a Unix world at the time, the whole windows ecosystem a
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by korginator 11y ago
In my part of the world, I pay for netflix (and deezer and apple streaming music) but we're locked out of many good shows because of artificially created region restrictions with no technical merit or justification other than the fact
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by korginator 11y ago
No one I know associates Android with a premium experience, thanks to the fragmentation and the abysmal levels of support from the vendors or carriers. Case in point, I was trying to download a local news app on my Nexus 7 running stock And
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by korginator 11y ago
You will find the techniques described in the article used when you are traveling into Israel. I've gone through this many many times, and am still often taken aback by the weird questions I sometimes get asked by their officers. Still
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by korginator 11y ago
Speed. Very lightweight, low CPU usage. Extensible, easy to write addons. Keyboard shortcuts, single-key shortcuts for everything. A good bookmark manager. Customisable till the very end, through a simple to understand menu instead of the a
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by korginator 11y ago
Perl lends itself to craziness because of the notorious TMTOWTDI principle taken to the extreme - Intercal can indeed appear more sane than many Perl programs I have had the misfortune to use and (shudder) update.
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by korginator 11y ago
Well, let's see. Tax collections in Greece are at a little over 10% what's owed compared to 97.5% in Germany, deficit spending is astronomical, they have hardly any exports except for tomatoes and olives, have been using cheap cre
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by korginator 11y ago
How ready are they to go commercial? The update process has been extremely flaky at best, over the past several years. On many machines, I've had to uninstall and reinstall the software for it to make any sort of connection to its upda
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by korginator 14y ago
I'd go with Spanish or French if you want fast learning. Mandarin (Simplified) Chinese otherwise for practical reasons. Japanese and Korean are much easier to learn than Chinese if it is too tough.
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by korginator 15y ago
Did we ever stop to think this is just one person's point of view that's completely influenced by his personality, and that you could be 100% the opposite, before passing summary judgments for and against the poor guy? I've had mixed experi
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by korginator 15y ago
What's interesting is that 40% of the users were on Safari (Mac) and 65% users were on a Mac. This automatically precludes IE on this very large percentage of total users.
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by korginator 15y ago
What an ad-hoc argument with a weak basis. Some people are just introverts, and many smart intelligent people are naturally deep thinkers who prefer solitude over noisy chatter at a pub. This can shed more light: http://www.ted.com/talks/s
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by korginator 15y ago
MacOS on the primary notebook and desktop, a little x86 box on Mint Linux with LXDE for a lightweight and complete Linux, Windows 7 on Parallels, on those occasions when I feel life's too smooth.