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wayneftw
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I think I put it best: "Apple likes to make people think they have taste and that they're good at design, but they're actually really, really bad at design and their tastes are quite obviously very shallow." Windows and
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6y ago
He means they have to move because they ARE big tobacco who, if they don't lobby the government, will be gone.
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6y ago
I have premium!! That’s the kicker…
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I can’t use Spotify(premium!) without having a freaking in-app pop up on iOS too. I’m actually thinking about going back to pirating music and just building my own player that load things off of S3.
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6y ago
Came here to say this. I've been on Manjaro at work and at home for 2 years now. It's the longest running Linux desktop distro I've ever maintained and it's precisely due to the excellent AUR repo system. I've had t
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6y ago
I'm sitting here at my dual 24" 1080p monitor, natural keyboard, vertical 5-button mouse, 32GB/500GB Linux (XFCE) desktop and I couldn't be happier. Fuck touch pads and hidpi monitors. They're honestly dumb. Who wan
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Other popular databases have named functions for this: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/json-function-refere... https://docs.microsoft
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I think the bad results occurred when there were too many variations in shadow and color on the faces. People with clean lines and smooth gradients on their faces came out better.
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6y ago
Absolutely. Libre Office is updated far more often. It's also installed by default in many Linux desktop distributions.
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I would like that and also forum comments that are ranked by what I would find agreeable instead of what some anonymous, amorphous, majority of the moment finds agreeable. Why should the user always be made to feel like the majority view is
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6y ago
I went and found them and listened to them out of spite. Thanks for bringing my attention to this Jay-Z!
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6y ago
IMO you can't have long term success for basic income without coupling it with population control measures such as requiring a license to have a baby and/or limiting the number of babies people can have. I fully support requiring
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6y ago
After he doubled the company profits during his tenure. I guess if you have nothing really valuable to say, resort to name calling though am I right?
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7y ago
If you don’t like NVM’s shell config shenanigans you can use n - https://github.com/tj/n
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7y ago
Yeah that and they still don’t have a UI that anybody wants to use or any software that businesses need. Google had to build their own fleet management system for Macs for crying put loud! The thought of Macs replacing most Windows machines
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7y ago
> the benefits of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity). I'd say the great majority of those benefits are going to Apple. There's nothing that Apple does in their app store that a third party app
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7y ago
> The UI is a mess and version 10 has put lipstick on a pig. This is exactly how I've always felt about the Mac OS UI. Small example of why I feel this way: There are many windows on a Mac that you can open that you then cannot swit
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7y ago
iPhone market share is very close to 50% in the US. You can't have a successful app launch in the US without making your app available on the iPhone. Apples policies affect the entire market, especially in the US. If they're not a
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It doesn't have to be artificially "made". It could still be "fostered" in a lab.
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Given that Apple would be the primary beneficiary of a strong Swift ecosystem and seeing how they treat developers on their platform - maybe they should rethink their stance or at least bring all employee projects in-house. Are there many d
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7y ago
> You are arguing for the sake of arguing. Nope. I actually just disagreed with you. I think JS is a robust language and I said why very clearly and politely. You, however - well I stopped reading after your first sentence. Good luck to
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Yes I believe it is true. Here are the results for this year from StackOverflow's survey - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... On the east coast, I'd say that most of the programme
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> Death does not make life precious. Yes it does. Especially if you're the one living it. Even if it's a lifeless object - the rareness of something easily makes it more valuable. For instance, diamonds would be worthless if De
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> Or is it still mostly a Mac market... When has the Mac occupied the most of any market? Most programmers don't run a Mac. Never have. The vast majority of programmers are on Windows with Mac as a distant second and Linux third.
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And yet, I still have trouble running normal software that was built for Linux, on Linux. Every set of updates might cause a problem that I've never seen on Windows or a Mac. I had an Ubuntu machine that only lasted 2 weeks before it w
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You should check your definition. Define robust: 1. Strong and healthy; vigorous - (of a process, system, organization, etc.) able to withstand or overcome adverse conditions . JS is the most robust language we have according to the main d
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I have had these same kind of problems with regular Macs. My 2010 Mac Pro won’t boot without a specific type of DVI cable and display. Certain standard USB peripherals (including some mice) don’t work or cause other problems on my 2015 Macb
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I'd love to see a comparison between this and a $3000 Macbook Pro. Plus, look at all those ports that Apple will never give you! Thanks for the link, this might be my new laptop.
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I have been on Manjaro with XFCE for the past couple of years and it's a dream. Haven't had one driver problem. Zoom, Slack and Beyond Compare all work without issue as does VS Code. Installing and updating all software via the pa
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7y ago
That's a taskbar. You can make it as large as you want on Windows.
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