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Fixed bugs, improved performance, took the afternoon off, ~project got cancelled~, ~team~ got restructured, the intern.

Maybe they should give their developers a 3rd MacBook. One MacBook for the office, one MacBook for home office and one MacBook for installing Chrome and testing the site there. Jus…

You deserve to be at the bottom, because how dare you!? It is known that buying and going through the 4 week anti-procrastination program from deprocrastination.co instead of doing…

Help your family out, make good money from it. The worse it gets, the better. When the shit hits the fan, nobody needs it to come into the headlight with a bang, we want it to beco…

Because things such as Netflix are "boxed goods". You only get what's written on the box, and not a gram of extra value than that. To better explain, with Netflix (any modern offer…

Isn't that exactly what GDPR is?

Aah, the good GDPR!

Aaah, sweet, sweet Bethesda. I would look somewhere else, to be fair.

This is not a criticism of cars, but rather a criticism of the sorry state of software and computer hardware in a free-market (-ish) world.

The Office Ribbon is ESPECIALLY useful on OS X where there's a menu system as well with the builtin Help -> search in menus box. With that, one doesn't ever need to even look at th…

Oh my god, so salty! But here's the deal, and this might be directly aimed at you, since you say you're in the field. As a home-user who works in the industry and with some interes…

Will it be possible to test-install the bi-yearly updates in this and avoid getting my workstation bricked?

> it's not Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos, who get to decide But who is, John Doe who dies on a grenade?

Also vendors doing their best with astroturfing and obfuscating their works. I wonder why.

> and that is not their fault Except for some corporate environment, I don't see how it's not their fault. It's easier than ever to make an informed decision before using one's wal…

Not irony. The stuff is not on Google, it's on the Internet and directly accessible via links. It's in fact what any company wants, the holy grail: for people to mix its brand with…

The fact that the source code is available does not guarantee that the blob is the product of that source.

God save us all! The finance people are becoming hackers (or whatever it is that finance people turn into once they go hackers)! Doomed.

It's directly linked to: - ability, willingness, etc to tweak and upgrade your infrastructure - how competition-friendly and pro-consumer your market is - the type of grants, contr…

Try this one http://craphound.com/scroogled.html by Doctorow.

And people tell me I'm being paranoid for keeping my firewall on "block outbound", running as non-admin (windows), running the browser with noscript, adblock and no external cookie…

Is it strange that I'm worried why the fuck they have these stats in the first place? I don't remember being asked whether I'd like my data submitted or not upon playing games powe…