whyileft

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by whyileft 10y ago
> There are also absolutely no tests Could you address this? I rarely trust anything in active development without any test coverage. So maybe I'm missing it somewhere?
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by whyileft 10y ago
Who cares... Mozilla gets more and more irrelevant by the day. Since its clear the leadership is completely ineffective but someone manages to not be replaced, its pretty obvious Mozilla will continue its downward path. In a real corporatio
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by whyileft 10y ago
This is neat. I would flip the payment to the applicant as that is the common practice with landlord applications in the US.
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by whyileft 10y ago
With freelancers you can just stop paying them after day 1 if they don't and try another. In some verticals of software development there is a ton of supply.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Well, then I guess its just a happy accident because the separate windows for different tools makes it a lot more convenient for with weirdos like me. So thanks a bunch, even if you didn't mean it!
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by whyileft 10y ago
Can you explain why it will be different this time around to have an unregulated public market that lead to the great depression? I ask because your comment would apply to any regulation in the public markets. Can you at least explain why t
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by whyileft 10y ago
Its because GIMP's UI is designed for users that have more traditional Linux style window managers(tiling, focus follows mouse etc.) Whereas most other programs, including the Adobe suite, are designed for the more underpowered window
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by whyileft 10y ago
Because a shares without a vote cannot protect themselves from being diluted or wildly uneven dividends and buybacks. It has happened in the past.
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by whyileft 10y ago
The great depression was awesome, amirite?
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by whyileft 10y ago
The more I read about complaints about AMP, the more it dawns on me that there are still a fair amount of people that do not understand that the web is basically Google's product. Facebook and others have arrived to take significant ti
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by whyileft 10y ago
Air transportation is only more affordable for a very small portion of the travelers who get the highly discounted fairs. On aggregate of costs for all travelers air travel is more expensive. As the other comment stated, please do some rese
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by whyileft 10y ago
I know its a common phrase like "hair on fire", but seriously, "jumping on live grenades" is super gross. That probably happened last week in Syria. I get it, its just an expression we use in the industry. Its all good t
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by whyileft 10y ago
> Implying that non-free software is unethical? Absolutely. It is. There may be few other options in the current global economic system, but it does not make it any more ethical.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Its almost like there was an actual reason many municipalities required permits for arcade games.
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by whyileft 10y ago
More usury in the one of the most immoral societies in the world. Where it is perfectly legal to create terms of a contract where an elderly person can be pushed into crippling poverty if they are unable to pay.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Well, one is physically impossible while the other is theoretically improbable. So there's that.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Given enough time almost any very junior software developer from any amount of training could successfully complete that task. What you consider capable is that they can do it within a certain time frame and with a certain level of quality.
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by whyileft 10y ago
> There is an acute shortage of capable, knowledgeable workers trained in the skills that industry needs. Just like there is an acute shortage of NFL Quarterbacks that are capable of leading a team to a super bowl championship. The pro
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by whyileft 10y ago
This is exactly the example I give when I try to explain to someone that managing through personal responsibility as opposed to team and organizational responsibility will grind your company productivity to a crawl.
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by whyileft 10y ago
In my experience the exported SVGs from Illustrator can be pretty noisey.
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by whyileft 10y ago
https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install with a budget $15/year vps and you're good for personal needs. That said, this is a great write-up and I'm sure very helpful to those that need to set up a more cus
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by whyileft 10y ago
I was talking about tech specifically.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Makes you wonder about what effects the current crash is going to have on employment numbers.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Because they don't read them and even if they did they wouldn't understand them. All of that is moot anyway since any reasonably informed investor would realize these type of non-voting shares with essentially no board representat
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by whyileft 10y ago
Especially now that video is eating up bigger and bigger chunks of the content market everyday.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Can we dial back the FUD? I present all the time with my Linux laptop that does not require any dongles to connect to HDMI, VGA and DVI projectors. Oh yeah and airplay works just fine too. Been that way for as long as I can remember. This i
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by whyileft 10y ago
You are forgetting that there isn't an incentive for any of the makers of my software to trick or coerce me into doing things I don't want to do. With the profit motive removed free software has less of an incentive to hurt me.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Since you feel that way, would you mind showing me an example of an interface you do not consider "clean" but is of high quality and excellent usability?
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by whyileft 10y ago
"streamlined" is much better. Great suggestion.
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by whyileft 10y ago
An objective antonym to "cluttered" in design is "minimal".

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