wayneftw

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by wayneftw 6y ago
My simple method for avoiding paywalls: I go read about the subject somewhere else. I’m inundated with news. If there were no news, I’d probably be even happier.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Didn’t a bunch of Facebook employees stage a walk out last month? What are some examples of these companies acting incomplete unison at all times?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Most of the problems you listed are because you want to use a laptop to work for some reason. Ewww. Why anyone would want to optimize for working in trains, planes, automobiles, hotel rooms and meetings - I'll never understand. I'
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Oh okay, well that explains everything. So which other group on the same order of magnitude of Microsoft's 150,000 employees do you know of that exhibits the same kind of decisiveness that would normally be attributed to a single entit
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by wayneftw 6y ago
It turns out that there are multiple groups of people at Microsoft and these factions aren’t all in agreement all the time. I’m sure that there are plenty of those at Microsoft that disagree with telemetry and updates that you can’t opt out
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by wayneftw 6y ago
There is a setting to disable it.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
So, you feel that every single niche forum must be discussing this or they're not being human? What if this were a body building forum or a site where chefs and their kitchen cooks talk shop? Would you feel the same way about the users
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I'm not sure, that's why I'm asking for clarification. I'd like to know where the OP got their "frequently larger" stat from because I wasn't able to find one that specifically used the term "web apps
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Yes, they are. I was repeating the terms used in the respective articles.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> If you complain about a PWA apple cannot take it down! Browsers already protect people against malicious sites. You never saw Chrome warn you about it?
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by wayneftw 6y ago
> ...a frequently-larger web app Got any stats for that? I was quickly able to find [0] and [1] which state that web page sizes are 1.5mb (median), 2mb (mean) and the average is about 3mb. [0] https://royal.pingdom.com/we
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by wayneftw 6y ago
“Tech cares too”? What does that even mean? That’s the sort of sweeping generalization about a group of people that racists make.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
That’s it? Great! Sounds like non-iOS software developers that are stuck on macOS can just hop right off without any problem whatsoever...
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by wayneftw 6y ago
That's a good point. I think the Arch wiki is a good resource for this. My laptop is listed here - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_E5-575 I have the exceptionally cheap Acer E5-575g model (quad co
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Been running Manjaro Linux for 2 years now on 2 desktop workstations and 1 laptop. No fiddling needed. Everything just works. (I had to install one utility called libinput-gestures to use multi-touch gestures on the laptop.) Matter of fact,
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Runs on WINE or in a Windows virtual machine. The latter works fine for me.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Gee, it sounds like using the proper channels works way better than trying to push trashy ads in an NPM postinstall script. Hopefully this story will help tone deaf people to make the right decision next time.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I haven’t seen an actual complaint about what’s wrong with XFCE. Simple minimalism is certainly preferable to whatever macOS can be described as by many, sure. I don’t see a problem with that.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I’ll give them $ for push notifications alone! Not 30% but it’s worth something if their servers suddenly now must process notifications from hundreds or thousands of new Web apps every year.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
A Facebook property like Instagram might do well. I think more than half of the streamers that I watch have an Instagram link in their Twitch profile. Personally I hope for a good decentralized (actually decentralized, not d.live) streami
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Finally! Now if someone will build a browser that will add the missing push notifications feature to PWAs, web apps on iOS might have some semblance of parity with Android.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
When I was in the 4th or 5th grade my Dad, who ran a small business, had a rubber stamp of his signature that my Mom used while acting as secretary. I loved that thing since I used it for a while to sign any papers that the teacher sent hom
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Sounds good to me. Let somebody who wants to play ball fairly build the consoles.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I don’t think I’ve seen very many people that are purely black. Most of them look like they are shades of brown to me.
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by wayneftw 6y ago
It can be both. During Operation Mockingbird [0] the CIA found that they only had to infiltrate a relatively small nimber of the news outlets in order to sway public opinion. They placed stories with both cooperating and unwitting journalis
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Thanks for not assuming I'm a racist. Looking back, I couched my response in terms of "if you are offended by the word, then..." and I don't think I directly indicated that I thought you were offended. To be honest, I do
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by wayneftw 6y ago
I would bet money that Steve Jobs never intended to actually have web apps as the only type of apps on the iPhone. Their native SDK was probably just not ready yet for the release and they knew about Android which they wanted to beat to mar
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by wayneftw 6y ago
That’s not true. Follow this link to the Twitter thread where the guy (Pete Baudris) who picked the term as used in Git, explains his reasoning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533096
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by wayneftw 6y ago
Nobody anywhere uses the word "master" to mean a person who has slaves. The word has at least 14 other meanings. The one meaning that relates to "slavery" is 100% of the time tagged as "historical". IMO, remove
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by wayneftw 6y ago
So I guess describing people as a flower or snowflake in a derogatory manner means that we will have to remove these words soon?

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