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by marrs 5y ago
He wasn’t hired, he was a part of the development team for a number of years. For all I know, he still is. I still think you’ve chosen a bad example. Gimp’s UI is no worse than Photoshop’s, and that’s not open source.
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by marrs 5y ago
Is observing that someone conforms to a stereotype the same as stereotyping them though?
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by marrs 5y ago
It’s odd that you singled out Gimp as they are the only free software project I’m aware of who engaged a professional UX consultant to redesign their UI, and that must be maybe 15 years ago
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by marrs 5y ago
“I’m so disappointed the tool needs to exist” is not a criticism of the tool, is it? The person you quoted seems to be complaining about the state of the web more broadly
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by marrs 5y ago
I’d probably describe myself as in the centre, but who knows what that means anymore? I relate somewhat to the parent comment.
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by marrs 5y ago
I still speak my mind openly in the work place and invariably I find that most people are actually delighted when they realise they can have open conversations with me without fear of judgement. The vast majority of people are still entirel
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by marrs 5y ago
That’s nothing. I’ve quadrupled the number of cigarettes I smoke a day. Granted, I can’t climb the stairs any more without having an asthma attack, but I think you’ll agree that reducing my risk of infection from hardly anything to almost
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by marrs 5y ago
Not sure you’d see much improvement. Node is pretty fast
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by marrs 5y ago
Well the internet was a lot more useful, and pleasurable, before targeted ads were a thing. So I’d quite like to know how you came to that conclusion as well
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by marrs 5y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I also find it rude for other people to presume I need to be told what to read. And this regardless of the fact that downvoted comments are often more nuanced and interesting than the content surrounding them
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by marrs 5y ago
No, that’s Twitter
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by marrs 7y ago
It's not a tautology at all, it's the patently obvious. The only business reason they have to not apply for the licence is that they won't have any profits left over afterwards. Ergo they aren't very profitable, unless
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by marrs 7y ago
It's easy to say that with hindsight. At the time it wasn't so clear. Well, perhaps it was after the general election in '17. But then it was also clear that the political situation was very unstable and could change again
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by marrs 7y ago
I think the point of parent's comment is that hardly anyone in the UK has heard of N26, so perhaps we shouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's all due to Brexit. Let's be honest, if they had a market here worth saving,
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by marrs 7y ago
No, they were talking about doing that or leaving without a deal. That message didn't really change until the Chequers speech in July 2018, when no deal was essentially taken off the table.
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by marrs 7y ago
How does Go allow you to manage memory manually? Malloc/free or something more sophisticated?
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by marrs 7y ago
Do they have a 100% track record of preventing viruses from being installed on your system? Once your system is compromised, it's compromised. There's nothing the AV can do. It's the OS (and to a lesser extent user practic
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by marrs 9y ago
And this is why I didn't buy a Pebble. I'm basically not prepared to buy a smart watch at this point unless its software is open source. Otherwise you're completely at the mercy of the company's (mis)fortunes. Incident
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by marrs 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but your analogy isn't good. The best heart surgeons actually are the ones with the highest failure rates because they are the only ones prepared to take on the riskiest operations. I would
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by marrs 9y ago
I think he was just pointing out that it is contributing to the uncertainty in the market, and therefore increases the chances of a crash. I didn't read it as a criticism of Corbyn per se.
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by marrs 9y ago
So if someone who is anti-semitic believes that Jesus died on the cross at the behest of his Jewish contemporaries, and I also believe the same thing because that's what history has taught me, does that make me anti-semitic? Or is that
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by marrs 9y ago
No, but you can solve the problems you can solve. That will give you currency to buy respect, trust, and responsibility. I'm not suggesting you shouldn't do anything without getting permission first, but for the things you do nee
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by marrs 9y ago
Is this the "anti-semitism" to which you refer? Quote: Communism promised to be both morally and economically superior to capitalism, but every attempt became morally corrupt and an economic failure. As it became clear that the wo
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by marrs 9y ago
So being critical of critical theory is anti-semitic now? How very convenient!
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by marrs 9y ago
If someone is on a permanent contract then their employment cannot simply be terminated ever. They can be made redundant, which means that the role cannot be refilled, or they can be fired but only after going through a disciplinary proced
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by marrs 9y ago
I already got myself in boiling water by criticizing management in that the way projects and tasks were being managed was highly unprofessional... Communicating with managers is a bit of an art. I think a large part of wh
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by marrs 9y ago
"UNIX weenies by Armani" :) EDIT: OK, just made it to the end. Didn't really feel I could leave the above as my entire reply to such a profound story.
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by marrs 9y ago
This is the excuse that's always used, but I rarely see it play out in practice. Many people don't notice advanced features that are present, that's true. But they don't notice them so it does matter. For the people w
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by marrs 9y ago
...but Theresa May has been fighting a long war against the ECHR I'm not often on May's side but I was in that case. How we got ourselves into the position where we were unable to expel a man as dangerous to civil so
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by marrs 9y ago
That's all very fine and well, but programmers are rarely programming for themselves. If you are targeting your product at the user specifically then you should be aiming at least at a pleasant user experience. If the "advancemen

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