linuxftw

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2551.
by linuxftw 8y ago
No. But democracy is a threat to freedom.
2552.
by linuxftw 8y ago
They replaced much of the actual 'naval' and occupation training with 'pretend we're the Marines' type of training.
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by linuxftw 8y ago
I didn't hate it, but it was buggy and slow IMO. I believe it was discontinued due to Canonical's strategy of dropping mobile support. Unity was an effort to have a unified desktop across devices, I believe. Canonical is pivoting
2554.
by linuxftw 9y ago
No one is going to learn to be an effective programmer using a smartphone. I do expect a lot of people to install it, use it for 5 minutes, and never bother with it again. It's a perfectly suitable way to push people out of programmin
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I agree. We're marching towards less open, not more open.
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by linuxftw 9y ago
Every time someone purchases an Apple product, they are endorsing their practices, whether wittingly or unwittingly. Time and time again, we have observed that patents are a tool of the haves to prevent competition from the have-nots. While
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I have yet to see anything useful come from Fuchsia. There are tons of 'press release' type blogs, but nothing functional. The bundled steps to run Fuchsia inside qemu didn't work (and even shipped their own version of qemu
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by linuxftw 9y ago
Every graduate that doesn't find a high paying job in the field is an excellent candidate for the next level of education. After you have given a university hundreds of thousands of dollars and a decade-plus of your life, you will then
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I disagree. If I can query some API and it gives me some output, the data has changed hands. I can't really imagine a system where one has 'access' to data and does not receive it, unless it's in some kind of "Dat
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by linuxftw 9y ago
> are quitting Do you mean these people have handed in notices or are planning on quitting in the next day or so? Or do you mean these people are considering quitting if google doesn't change its ways? Or do you mean "Some pe
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by linuxftw 9y ago
There seems to be a cottage industry around making words more palatable when it comes to tech privacy. "Scans" should be "reads and stores" "What you send to other people" should be "private messages, imag
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by linuxftw 9y ago
> Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project That moment when you realize your mega-corp employer's "culture" is merely just another tool to get your to do their bidding. How do the share holders feel?
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by linuxftw 9y ago
> I regret every bit of it. Why make a statement without even one item of support as to why you regret it? The ASUS board problem sounds inconvenient, to say the least, but the way your phrased it implies it doesn't effect you in pa
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I think it's smart for Walmart to diversify it's business into something other than retail. They need to grow revenue for shareholders, I don't think there's any more large-growth opportunities for Walmart in that secto
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by linuxftw 9y ago
>> fluoride water > So... tap water? Most countries add flouride to their tap water because it improves dental health. Unless you're a redneck screaming about alien mind control, that isn't some crazy scary chemical compo
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by linuxftw 9y ago
The debt isn't forgiven, the private companies that made the loans are paid by the feds. These programs are windfalls for banks that make what would otherwise be highly-speculative loans. There is a large economic incentive for stude
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I think you're on to something here about the indirection. I too have witnessed the uncanny ads, but not even from my own phone (I don't have Facebook on my phone). A friend mentioned a particular restaurant I have never been to,
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by linuxftw 9y ago
Computer courses are no different than any other course. What's the first semester requirement for math? You can graduate high school without taking advanced mathematics, it doesn't mean you're prepared for college-level ma
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I don't think your actions were irresponsible. I would assume someone with domain knowledge of the area you changed did a proper code review, especially since you were an intern. If there's not time to write proper tests for code
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by linuxftw 9y ago
I prefer virtualenv + pip. I primarily develop on Fedora which ships both Python 2.7 and Python 3.6. pip and virtualenv are built into python3, no need to install anything. Additionally, these tools + tox are commonly used for python testi