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by nxc18 9y ago
Its probably going to be the new Windows Media Player. It is quite nice and modern for what it is.
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by nxc18 9y ago
I worked in a grocery store about 5 years ago and the machines went down. We used the impression machine and everything was fine. It may break some rule, but there's no reason you can't just write all the information down. That&#x
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by nxc18 9y ago
This is super important. In an emergency you don't necessarily have time to learn how to dial out. For VOIP solutions that often come with the "don't call 911 it won't work" caveat. That isn't good enough. In f
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by nxc18 9y ago
Apple also advertises their own services in their OS. My iPhone and MacBook spam me with iCloud ads constantly. This isn't really an excuse for MS. Really I'd just like both operating systems to not bug me.
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by nxc18 9y ago
You can use use bash to interact with windows programs. You can run native Linux binaries without the overhead of a vm. You can run native Windows binaries without the overhead of a vm.
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by nxc18 9y ago
As an IE fan I was annoyed that they stole porn mode (IE announcd InPrivate before chrome existed). I still know quite a few people who think Chrome invented incognito and that IE ripped it off. Now that I look it up, apparently the idea st
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by nxc18 9y ago
Wow, I remember the first time I used chrome all the way back in 2008. It was a little buggy (it didn't support flash properly at first iirc) but it sure was fast. Now it has all the features, is still fast, and just generally is more
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by nxc18 9y ago
UPS has 400,000 employees. Autonomous driving would pay itself off very quickly even if one of uber's cars personally murdered every single UPS and FedEx employee. Of course, the issue at play isn't joblessness, but the lack of a
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by nxc18 9y ago
How is this just happening now? Java is super popular in the open source and academic communities, but C# has been ahead of them since its start with an open specification, open implementations, and for the past few years, a full-throttle o
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by nxc18 9y ago
The forced restart experience indicates that windows is quite capable of killing any process it wants to. Otherwise you could just run an app to block that feature. If you read Windows Internals you'll get some insight into how shutdow
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by nxc18 9y ago
Microsoft fired a huge number of their SDETs (and they no longer actively recruit them). Since then, I've seen a huge decline in quality among office and windows. Devs will tell you they're just as good as testing as the testers,
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by nxc18 9y ago
Windows has loads of stuff that is run conditionally on hardware and software configuration. I would not be surprised if Microsoft added a check to make the functions mentioned have different behavior. If you read the latest Windows Interna
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by nxc18 9y ago
Whether or not there is transparency (that the NSA works very hard to suppress), that doesn't change the issue. Sure, I absolutely trust the NSA - to break stuff, to snoop, to spy, to eavesdrop. In that regard, I have possibly the m
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by nxc18 9y ago
While its certainly true that we need to worry about these Russian products, the damage that the NSA has done is enormous. Can I trust Cisco VPNs? Can I trust Windows? Can I trust my router? The NSA opens boxes in shipment to break their se
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by nxc18 9y ago
My work laptop rarely makes it through the night without crashing/rebooting. I started closing all my apps before leaving partly to diagnose the cause (which is none of the apps I use apparently) and also to at least know what I'l
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by nxc18 9y ago
Its not exactly like macOS has been a pinnacle of stability lately. The number of issues I have with the various macOS devices I interact with has been about the same as for the Windows devices I interact with. That might seem ok, but its a
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by nxc18 9y ago
This makes total sense. I remember learning the ideas of calculus for the first time and thinking "wow, that makes sense" and also realizing how incomplete my picture of the world was without that coherent thought framework. And I
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by nxc18 9y ago
If your worried about money, is suggest getting a job at a decent company (reading between the lines it sounds like you've put your time in ventures) and having a financial plan. A small dose of austerity and planning can make you a mi
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by nxc18 9y ago
I had windows phone for the longest time. At the expense of apps, it had great a battery life, great camera, and was always fast. I switched to the flagship 2014 Moto X in October 2014. I got the material design update (iirc lollipop) in ma
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by nxc18 9y ago
Its a 3-step plan: 1. stop subsidizing it. 2. stop buying it. 3. deal with the monumental consequences of step 1. An optional 4th step might be taking some time to understand basic economics. A 5th step would be to address the underlying ca
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by nxc18 9y ago
I think my favorite part of this article is how the author is so understanding and positive about his users. I think if I had rented out cameras to people, told them not to point it at the eclipse, and then got a bunch of damaged cameras ba
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by nxc18 9y ago
That's a good point. I very fortunately left interview mode a few months ago, and have pretty deliberately blocked that part of my life out. As you might have guessed, I'm not great at it. You could argue that the fact that memori
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by nxc18 9y ago
If you really need to know a fact, you will naturally memorize it in the course of your work. In reality, the amount of syntax to memorize in your programming language is tiny; there are probably several keywords you don't know particu
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by nxc18 9y ago
If you're reading books for the details, you're doing it wrong. Read books for ideas. You can always look at the book for reference when you forget the details. I despair for the people who are taught that learning is about memori
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by nxc18 9y ago
I agree. The degree to which that pie chart is both hideous (we can do much better in 2003, oh wait, 2017) and uninformative+dishonest makes me not want to trust IBM with understanding any of my data (which is what machine learning is all a
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by nxc18 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Its sad, but I see soooo many startups that (somehow) get funding to: * Build an idea that already exists, is cheap, and well-executed by another company * Build something that is so limited in scope that it could b
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by nxc18 9y ago
The pro being the moment you're elected to your final term you lose all accountability to voters. Only the other government people can get rid of you, typically with a much higher bar than what would be needed in an election.
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by nxc18 9y ago
PSA: Google stores your precise location, tied to your account, for every moment of every day. In about 1.5 years of using android regularly I generated 700,000 data points. I understand Google maps on iOS participates in this. Go to takeou
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by nxc18 9y ago
Its true that there are holes and that UAC isn't a particularly strong security barrier (i.e. If an attacker is at the keyboard it won't do shit). But that's the same for OS x and they have some even worse patterns; e.g. I&#x
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by nxc18 9y ago
Microsoft has been investing a lot of effort into security. If they had it their way, you wouldn't even be able to install unverified software. I'm not sure Microsoft has been making the bad "security is expensive" decis

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