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Imho, this is were alternative layouts really shine: comfort, health. Typing speed is an overrated fad (and in the worst cases an e-penis length contest) as in most cases when writ…

Or Heroes of the Storm BR.

Yes, I didn't mention it in my post because I think the auction house and the underlying economy issues are going to be the hardest part in making everything cross-realm, but cross…

From what I see, Blizzard is slowly rolling out everything they need to eventually get rid of realms entirely as separate technical entities. Cross-realms features are everywhere, …

You don't need to run arbitrary third-party software to run ads, period. I'm perfectly fine with ads in an ad-sponsored ads but I'd appreciate if it didn't open my computer to malw…

That would be neat, browsing through several dozen fonts to find the right pick is a bit overwhelming, although one can argue it's a self-imposed burden.

Isn't the iPhone more power-efficient than many Android counterparts? That would explain why they can afford a smaller battery (but may not explain all the gap).

US is a great country for many things, but having any serious health problem putting you in financial jeopardy (or throwing you in an inextricable administrative maze to dodge high…

I'm so glad I live in a country with single-payer healthcare.

By default, Chromium still integrates heavily with Google services. See project ungoogled-chromium for details: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

I agree that Facebook's implementation of those features is piss-poor and your analysis is on point. However you can't expect something to be a proper Facebook alternative with the…

Facebook is a bit more than just personal pages. * It has built-in authentication and ACL, you get to choose who sees your stuff or not (not counting overarching privacy issues). *…

It was unclear to users what they consented to when they signed in. Because Facebook doesn't give a damn about proper consent. The fact that Facebook botched it up is not less prob…

In this case the two points where we should have caught the issue would have been: * Integration testing with a specific data set that was different from actual production data. * …

My intent was not to blame the developer, I'm aware of the context they work in and as you have guessed correctly our engineering process is fucked up in many way. The developer wr…

To give a counterpoint, the lack of basic algorithmic knowledge of a developer in my team cost us a nasty production performance bug. I agree that whiteboard algorithms are not exa…

Thinking that "Working software over comprehensive documentation" means "don't write documentation" is one of the biggest misunderstandings about agile and I feel your pain.

In the process of finishing Masters of Doom , definitely worth the read.

While I suspected the disappearance of big software boxes had something to do with available shelf space, it didn't know it was competition from DVDs that were the main factor.

> Yes, they modelled it after Epita which was also about code, code, code. I don't know where you last got your information about Epita, but this has been less and less true for ar…

> organic foods improve vascular function and prevent insulin resistance in the organs This is bullshit. > Many of the 'deposits' in Alzheimers are composed of quarantined pathogen…

Have you ever looked at what rape is in REAL life ? It's something done massively by men and a huge proportions of rapes are by men on women. Words don't exist in a vacuum. Rape is…

How funny that one side going nuts is "Hey look at meeee !" and the other side is "I hope you get raped and killed and whatever, bitch". Do you really think that those behaviors ar…

Mandatory http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht...