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by marrs 9y ago
I think this attitude is holding FOSS back. The most successful projects are the ones that are funded: Linux, Blender, and Ubuntu to name 3. On the other hand we have projects like Gimp, which steadily makes excellent progress and gets bet
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by marrs 9y ago
I agree that labeling people as racist or sexist for being caught out by shifting norms is not productive, but at the same time people need to put effort into empathizing with others and educating themselves. Maybe th
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by marrs 9y ago
It's no greater than the leap required to attribute gender disparity to internalised misogyny.
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by marrs 9y ago
Made me laugh
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by marrs 9y ago
They might not be feeling so free to express themselves since this guy got fired.
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by marrs 9y ago
I broadly agree with what you're saying. I think both cases could be argued as constitutional because they both protect sovereignty in different ways: the right to privacy protects you in your own home, the right to gather intelligenc
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by marrs 9y ago
Syria is not a good example for you to pick. She borders Iraq, a place where the US absolutely and directly interfered with catastrophic consequences. The uprising described in the Wikipedia article was a part of the "Arab Spring&quo
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by marrs 9y ago
I'm really not trying to be pedantic, but that's not true. The UK has no written constitution but it does have a constitution. It's important to make the distinction because it is entirely possible that this proposal is
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by marrs 9y ago
but it very often is. If you're a web developer, for example, little matters more to your users than performance. This has been demonstrated an almost infinite number of times by now, but surprisingly few industry professionals seem
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by marrs 10y ago
> Don't tell me to stop watching the circuses and go join one. I'll just nail down the tent flaps and set the big top on fire. But you won't because your peers will put the fire out before it has a chance take hold and the
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by marrs 10y ago
yeah, absolutely ridiculous. Create a burden for the state during bad times by not saving. Also, where is the money going to come from to buy and sell shares. Pension schemes are huge sources of investment. Isn't that also an economi
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by marrs 10y ago
Sounds more like a natural progression to me
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by marrs 10y ago
I wondered that as well at first but then I realised that it probably doesn't have much shared code as it will be using the DOM directly and that is the shared dependency
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by marrs 10y ago
Well, actually no, the author is right. You are paid to deliver results, be it adding new features, processing data, making widgets or whatever. The business really doesn't care how you do that. Obviously you do write code in the co
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by marrs 10y ago
If we're talking about the same studies, then they also found that it was equally distracting to be talking to a passenger. God knows how dangerous it must be to go on a family outing. In short, I'm skeptical about what those resu
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by marrs 10y ago
Do anything in a car in the UK and you can expect several points on your licence. They don't even have to be in front of you any more: they just record it on a camera
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by marrs 10y ago
Sorry, but this old argument never washed with me. Certainly before Gnome 3 and Unity, the UX was considerably nicer than on my Mac, and in fact those old DEs are still much nicer to use than Yosemite, and the new ones are much worse precis
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by marrs 10y ago
Yeah, in a world where the microcomputer is something you assemble from blueprints in a magazine, then programme to print "Hello, World", or maybe talk to Eliza on if you got the tape machine to work. And given the competition for
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by marrs 10y ago
Yes, you should have been! I worked for a company that had this problem. The directors founded the company straight out of university and consequently had no experience of the industry to draw on.
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by marrs 10y ago
Wish I hadn't asked now. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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by marrs 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple themselves didn't think of it until after they had resolved to manufacture and sell a smartphone. Once you are determined to do something, the act of doing it combined with motivation enables you t
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by marrs 10y ago
I'm in the process of reading Vol 1 atm. It's densely packed but really well presented so far. I should caveat that I'm still near the beginning (learning MIX) so I can't claim that it will remain that way, but so far I
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by marrs 10y ago
is there a print version?
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by marrs 10y ago
well the not-fully-working desktop stack for Linux devs seems to work just fine for them. I've certainly never had a problem with it. I've never had a problem with the Apple kit either but it's nothing to write home about.
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by marrs 10y ago
I instantly believe you, based on my experience of the fiasco that is Gnome 3, but can you share some examples of this?
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by marrs 10y ago
GTK+ supports both of those languages. Also, macOS's "tooling" is XCode, so Linux's tooling is superior by default.
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by marrs 10y ago
If you're a developer, almost all the killer apps support Linux first. But you're right that this is the deal breaker
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by marrs 10y ago
Don't ever rely on your own perception of what's intuitive to evaluate a user experience. Someone has given specific feedback to the contrary, which means that there will be others. If I was the site's maintainer, I'd b
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by marrs 10y ago
VS would probably repurpose the ribbon to provide debugging keys at that point.
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by marrs 10y ago
To be honest, there aren't that many and they're becoming fewer and further apart.

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