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DragonMaus

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    Comment #41154511

    This is entirely typical of especially VB scripts. When I was a software engineer for a Fortune-20 company, I spent more time debugging (and trying to normalize, though that met wi…

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    Comment #41101870

    The initial roll out for Industrial Annihilation was really janky. With Planetary Annihilation, they did the Kickstarter thing and it worked pretty well (if I recall correctly, it …

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    Comment #41071783

    Determining liability is actually quite simple and straightforward in this case. Making it stick, however, will turn out to be very complex.

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    Comment #40644869

    I spent so many hours with POV-Ray when I was younger, rendering LEGO models I had made with MLCAD. Some of those renders even found their way into a project I did in school for CA…

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    Comment #40605144

    Microsoft have consistently pushed the idea that they own your computer, and are merely leasing it to you, for decades.

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    Comment #40554704

    A rushed product pushed out before it's ready is a very small price to pay in the endless race for ever increasing profits. The tech companies who "really should know better" do kn…

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    Comment #40483883

    In my experience at $OLDJOB, working under Scrum, there were two types of user stories that came in. The first would be issues from the QA team that absolutely had to be fixed. The…

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    Comment #40482240

    Honestly, my first thought was that this might be the kick of the pants the general Linux community needs to close ranks and actually solve some of the longstanding usability issue…

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    Comment #40406051

    What brand/model is it?

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    Comment #40165332

    I actually went in the opposite direction. I replace notepad.exe with AkelPad[0], which perfectly satisfies all of my basic-text-editing needs. If I have to do anything more comple…

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    Comment #40117605

    Would this be the logical extrapolation of the "it's not the destination, but the journey to get there" mindset?

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    Comment #39885206

    Do you mean NanaZip?

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    Comment #39491967

    Or the irreplacable trinket that your aging grandmother sent you.

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    Comment #39081908

    Vi(m) has had a bad reputation for abstruseness for so long that it's become enshrined in meme culture, and nowadays it's unlikely that sites like this are created out of any legit…

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    Comment #35318014

    I have fond memories of creating LEGO CAD models and running them through POV-Ray for hours on end to turn them into gorgeous renders.

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    Comment #34738951

    Could you elaborate on that? I too am quite unhappy with the mess my %USERPROFILE% has become.

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    Comment #34560871

    I want to love OsmAnd. I've tried it many times over the years, but the only functionality that it does better than other apps is bookmarks/favourites (it actually allows you to or…

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    Comment #34171846

    > Some sites seem to do something to block it In my experience, this is often not a matter of "doing something", but rather a matter of "not doing something [correctly]". If a site…

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    Comment #34117189

    > And the list goes on. I would be keen to see more of this list, as two of the three items you mentioned are not at all interesting or useful to me (and, I would presume, to a maj…

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    Comment #33843289

    You can add my favourite font to that list: Fantasque Sans Mono (zero clearly different): https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans