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by pluma 7y ago
No need to be sarcastic. The documentation explains the advantages over gettext. Most notable being that using the source language string as identifier a) discourages changes (and improvements) to the source language strings and b) makes it
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I guess my biggest pet peeve with German spellcheckers and autocomplete solutions other than the nonexistent support for compound words is that most of them don't understand capitalisation rules.
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FWIW if something "world news" level happens, first thing I do is check twitter hashtags. TV news and online news sites usually lag behind and rarely fact-check the "breaking news" so they're generally only worth pa
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I used to be annoyed about how a lot of the programmers I followed on Twitter would tweet about politics and feminism. Then I talked to some people who were on the receiving end of the kind of programmers that don't care about those th
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Game players yes. Prominent gaming channels are a mixed bag though. "Bro culture" is very much a thing and casual homophobia and racism is still very widespread. I'd say "liberal" is a more accurate descriptor than
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People will call you out on Twitter. You likely have a brand account on Twitter already so you'll already get those mentions. Even if you don't have an account people will create a hashtag. If you want to control your brand percep
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As a consumer, if a company with a Twitter presence responds that way I'll ignore them. Because 9 times out of 10 when I tweet at a brand it's either because I'm calling them out for actively harmful stuff (like using plainte
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In Germany the explanation was that under international law he could only apply for asylum if he was actually in the country. Meanwhile nobody wanted to contractually guarantee him asylum would be granted because it was seen as interfering
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A few weeks ago I noticed someone on the same train reading what seemed like a fashion magazine. As far as I could tell every single page was just a high fashion ad for some luxury good. Just photography, a brand trademark and maybe some ca
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Google is not a product company. It shelves and sunsets too many apps for that angle to make sense. Google is an advertising company. The goal of every Google product is to provide the company with more data, to make users give the company
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The distinction between accidentally building software that performs badly in any browser other than your own and intentionally doing so to deliver a degraded performance to people not using your browser is very small and hard if not imposs
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by pluma 8y ago
Why would the US annex a country if it's easier to install a US-friendly government and set up a number of large contracts for US companies? Overseas territories are a liability and the last thing you want is more citizens who might
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by pluma 8y ago
Optimistic answer: working on ads doesn't mean you agree with the level of privacy violations analytics involve these days, making those invasions of privacy technically impossible or illegal means you can avoid them without having to
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Opera started as a paid browser and nearly went bankrupt. They even had ads on the free version. Barely anyone paid for it and the ads killed adoption. Heck, even Netscape Navigator started out as shareware. It was "personal use only&q
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by pluma 8y ago
Just to be clear: other than the Mr Robot promo your main criticism is that their politics don't align with yours? Because I think when people ask about Mozilla controversies they're thinking about situations in which Mozilla has
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by pluma 8y ago
I always wondered why people would suggest "counting sheep" as it seemed like something that'd keep me awake rather than feel sleepy. I seem to have some form of aphantasia as I can only conjure up very disjointed and foggy i
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If history teaches us anything, it's more likely that the US would intervene against Norway to privatize its oil market with the "help" of US companies. But being a quasi-EU country and NATO member that's still a very un
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(laughs in European)
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Firefox with content-blocking enabled works fine. Not sure what you mean.
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Capitalism "enables" charity in the same way capitalism "creates" products. It doesn't. Wealth enables charity, labor creates products. Capitalism does however spread inequality, which in turn creates an opportunity
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by pluma 8y ago
Have you ever considered that maybe being self-centered isn't human nature but the kind of behavior capitalism incentivises?
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by pluma 8y ago
You're right. Advertising is just a symptom of the root problem, capitalism. "Attention is currency in the marketplace of ideas" as they say. If everyone is supposed to vote with their dollar, you need to make them vote for y
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Even worse, I've seen several large media companies and news sites run ads on mobile that completely hijack the (Android, i.e. Chrome) browser and redirect to a third party landing page. They usually seem to get killed off eventually b
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"Username checks out" as they say on the alien website.
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> decisions that will really only affect them individually This seems to be the mainstream view of addiction in many parts of the West, particularly in the US, but is it so hard to believe it's not universal?
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I'm not sure where you are from but there is a high chance what you see is not representative. Also, Baader-Meinhof phenomenon and all that.
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> unlike say windows which has exclusive programs written for it (cries in Firefox)
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(full disclosure: I work for ArangoDB but this is my own personal opinion) Coming from a JS background AQL is actually pretty easy to learn. Personally the only thing that keeps tripping me up is that AQL doesn't have a triple-equals a
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It's omitting a lot of context. Article 13 (and 11) is heavily inspired by pre-existing laws and drafts in Germany (and France), which are heavily lobbied by print publishers (much like US copyright law legislation is heavily lobbied b
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Citing irrelevant logical fallacies is not an argument. Also way to "move the goalposts" (see? I can do it too). It's relevant to the alleged inevitability of a Chinese-style firewall in the EU . If it wasn't inevitable

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