victords

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by victords 6y ago
What a stupid concept. I love it.
32.
by victords 6y ago
Thins like that is what keeps me from going all-digital in pretty much anything. Books, movies, games... The fact that one day you could wake up banned for something and lose everything you bought during years is absolutely awful.
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by victords 6y ago
I've heard plenty of criticism about PHP. Making things "too easy" was never one of them lol
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by victords 6y ago
Also, the EU is far from being this "digital warrior" some claim to be.
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by victords 6y ago
I'm partial to the subscription service model because most of my life I could barely afford a console or a gaming PC to play a lot of games, so it seems much more accessible. But regarding the argument that we will have a bunch of diff
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by victords 6y ago
> In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization No, they're not. They just have better PR. They're both for profit companies with their share
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by victords 6y ago
That's too bad, but I can't help to think that it's a nice feature.
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by victords 6y ago
Yeah, I got the same impression. Maybe I was too young at the time or not so much involved in Tech to really pay attention, but I think what happens today is worse. I never saw that as Bill Gates being evil and more a very competitive and r
39.
by victords 6y ago
And so they have an office in a politically stable region: The UK!
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by victords 6y ago
Quest is a great little piece of hardware that I'd like to buy since my PC is not good enough for VR games, but having to create and tie a FB Account to it just seems wrong.
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by victords 6y ago
I agree with you that society should support them. But not the companies. I think the companies should provide benefits uniformly for all its employees, but the government should provide the extra benefits for adverse situations, such as th
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by victords 6y ago
Microphones cannot speak, but the Echo can.
43.
by victords 6y ago
So the 2T dollars company is the decent one?
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by victords 6y ago
I honestly don’t think they do. I really think that’s just a personal project of a Russian billionaire that has enough free time and pretty much unlimited resources.
45.
by victords 6y ago
Ah, yes, instead let's just sit down in front of another piece of plastic typing on a keyboard to give unrelated advice on the internet about how bad it's to waste your life in front of a piece of plastic.
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by victords 6y ago
It’s still retaliation. No way around that.
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by victords 6y ago
> There should be no expectation that Instagram ever deletes anything permanently from their servers. No, there should be this expectation. If I have a photo of myself that I'm not comfortable being saved somewhere, there should be
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by victords 6y ago
The monopoly is not in the smartphone market. It’s about the monopoly behavior within the applications marketplace. Google can have the argument that you can install different stores in their OS (or even apps directly), and so you’re not lo
49.
by victords 6y ago
With Google now also kicking them out of the store, I don’t think that’s a battle they will win. However, I really hope they do. Against both. That would be a great victory for the consumers.
50.
by victords 6y ago
He's not been really out of the public sphere. He has always been involved in a number of social issues through his foundation and have been very vocal/public about them. Maybe we're just hearing a bit more about him and his
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by victords 6y ago
To be fair, that is not uncommon today. Amazon itself proud themselves in claiming they're "the most customer obsessive company". Or Facebook's and its mission to connect the world. So, I wouldn't say it's biza
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by victords 6y ago
Nice, I did not know they had that! Is there a way to subscribe to this? Did not find an option for the reports neither at the Status page or at the Blog page.
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by victords 6y ago
Are there malicious reasons for doing that?
54.
by victords 6y ago
Let's not forget about the Xbox gamers working from home that are secretly playing games during boring meetings.
55.
by victords 6y ago
With all due respect to adult actors, but the “Einstein visa” being given to a porn actress is hilarious.
56.
by victords 6y ago
To be fair, his comments were unacceptable at that time as well.
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by victords 6y ago
That's quite a jump to conclusion... I don't think that the issue here is Brazil's position on capitalism or innovation, there are other companies providing similar services there. The issue seems to be a juggernaut company l
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by victords 6y ago
Follow up question: In general, when a diff is generated, is the standard process to just do a manual code-review and CI, or do you also test it manually to check for unexpected side-effects?
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by victords 6y ago
> At what point are the citizens of a country responsible for changing it for the better? And how would they do that? The HK citizens by themselves will not win this fight, the writing is on the wall. They either get help from abroad or
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by victords 6y ago
My personal theory is that they made such a bad naming decision on their first service that they just committed to it and doubled down from there on.

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