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fokov

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    Comment #18535569

    There has got to be more money in Linux than Windows since the majority of servers are running it. The problem is Linux doesn't see user experience as anything that is necessary. W…

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    Comment #18497875

    Because they realized they were in this together, unionized, not just demanded but fought for more rights and a better life balance. Since the baby-boomers more women entered the w…

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    Comment #18471993

    I didn't mean to replace YouTube as a product specifically. I meant that this happened over 30 years ago between the networks and cable. Network TV dominated and cable had the same…

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    Comment #18471845

    [Off topic] My god has web design totally crapped the bed. The amount of scrolling I had to do just to get words and then ... get to the point...

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    Comment #18460656

    Replace YouTube with network TV vs cable in the early days. There is a way past YouTube but people must be willing to adapt and/or take the hit building the next thing. Most of the…

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    Comment #18453269

    You fight it by taking the personal hit and run for office yourself. From my experience, the only thing you can really control is yourself. The problem is running for office is a p…

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    Comment #18257771

    Check your diet. This happened to me when I was consuming large amounts of carbs for breakfast and lunch. I switched to keto and noticed the tiredness went away in the afternoon an…

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    Comment #18251202

    "I've cut the board 3 times and it is still too short!"

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    Comment #17760336

    I'd move closer to the jobs if they weren't so far away from affordable housing :( I loved it when I lived .7 miles away from work.

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    Comment #17232310

    > Ten years ago nobody was particularly certain electric cars could ever be feasible This really isn't true. The "mainstream" media and other fools said it wasn't viable. I lived i…

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    Comment #16768420

    Honestly, this stuff just shows us how rigged the system is. This isn't the first time it has happened. Flash crashes caused by bad algorithms lost a bunch of money that was revers…

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    Comment #16659813

    > Public opinion is rightly massively against slavery in any form. Slavery is still legal in the USA according to the 13th Amendment.

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    Comment #16596650

    You can call it being cynical, but honestly it is just applying the past actions to a "new" medium. People have already created laws, regulations, and other utilities to regulate f…

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    Comment #16312918

    Speaking of W. The people that are complaining about the Justice department getting politicized have completely forgotten that W already did that by firing a lot of people for poli…

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    Comment #13638962

    Wait..are you suggesting tax something because reason A in order to raise money for thing B where A has absolutely no relation to B? This is why people hate liberals. Why do we nee…

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    Comment #13593324

    I agree as well. I've noticed many problems in my current organization but it is really telling when people are complaining about the same things I'm seeing. The problems really ex…

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    Comment #13536191

    Sounds like you're listening the noise and not the signal. There were plenty of people that were against Trump before the election and now he is doing the things he said he was goi…

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    Comment #13502403

    Does anyone know if any of the social media sites have release info on their relative bot counts? I'm curious because I've seen the same posts in different places and now see a ton…

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    Comment #13497061

    I'm just a dev but my solution was due to my laziness. I use Outlook/exchange with folders for different areas and then add rules to automatically move them to each area. Dev is fo…

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    Comment #13476927

    If his press sec is any indication, he will only allow their narrative to be told which will more than likely be filled with lies and omissions.

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    Comment #13476165

    We are already there in other sectors. I have worked in Workforce Management and Optimization (WFM/WFO) for the past few years. Scheduling is already common in areas where demand c…

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    Comment #13084244

    Stupid managers that will then either go to conference rooms for meetings or into their own office. That's the way it works here. All of the devs & qa that need a quiet environment…

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    Comment #12972718

    Is this really different than TV news? Most people stick to one network (Fox news, NBC, CNN, etc) and not only do they not watch the others but believe they are corrupt, fixed, and…

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    Comment #12122807

    Unit tests do not even prove that unit functions correctly either. Code coverage doesn't necessarily mean anything too.

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    Comment #11988728

    I worked in the Microsoft c# & asp.net world for many years (since 1.1). The company I worked for got acquired and our product essentially killed. Their product is in Java (among o…