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rhubarbquid
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Comment #22016933
I've worked in media, and I can confirm the "packages" that sponsors buy as described are totally normal in media. There's a reason editorial departments are totally separate from …
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Comment #22016883
It's almost like there's a reason the FTC requires disclosure of paid content...
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Comment #14573458
> Just use the GMail to avoid the delay with fetching third party accounts. "Don't use the email client you prefer" isn't really a great argument against it being bad UX...
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Comment #14556643
You've probably built up a decent skillset that would be valuable to a growing startup, if you're interested in working for someone else for a change. Don't be discouraged that you…
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Comment #14329009
Is something messed up for me, or does nothing much happen until the 1:30 mark?
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Comment #13778834
I have no problem with them charging for their software, but it's kind of lame that you have to download and run it before they even tell you it requires buying a license...
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Comment #13517607
I'm curious why you'd be opposed to throttling background tabs. I could see it being a problem if it interfered with, for example, playback from things like soundcloud, but I'd als…
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Comment #13223672
> I would have made a very strange push for developing a simple RISC-V core I assume that's just a typo/autocorrect, but it makes for a hilarious mental image
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Comment #13094404
I would guess: a policy against installing unapproved software on production servers, systems that don't have compilers installed (for security, jq appears to be C code), or debugg…
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Comment #13094383
It might be interesting to try... but switching operating systems is kind of a big step just to try another shell. Or is there some OO shell that works on Mac or Linux that I don't…
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Comment #13029216
Linux was the only OS on my desktop in 1994...
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Comment #13029167
It's been there since 10.10: https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor
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Comment #13029158
and 2 sentences after describing themselves as someone "whose definition of "fun" includes spending 6 hours in the middle of the night figuring how to get dual boot working with UE…
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Comment #12992097
Wow, that's super creepy This looks like dream tool for stalkers
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Comment #12965071
It has 6 usb ports, 2 of them type-c
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Comment #12877877
Metallic hydrogen was theorized to be a superconductor in a 1968 paper: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.21....
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Comment #12869103
Not yet, the new Macbook Pro meets all my needs (assuming I can stand the keyboard)
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Comment #12859865
> None of the data in chat is really a "system of record" and the switching costs are minimal. That's not true where I work. Slack's history is full of valuable information that we…
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Comment #12583667
I started working on a web based renderer for the burning ship fractal a little while ago. It's far from perfect, I still consider it a WIP, but it works well enough to play around…
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Comment #12295132
$35 sounds a bit high to me...
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Comment #12295118
It looks like the crap they used to put in spam emails to get past the early spam filters
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Comment #12252549
I think we agree, I meant "more than we could" not "more than there used to be" ;-)
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Comment #12252509
a) It never hurts to let the developers know you want it b) In theory, you should be able to hibernate Linux and boot in to Windows > I'd need to share monitors/keyboard for practi…
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Comment #12252436
> Mac used to be the same story, but now I would bet that at least 10% of indie game sales are on Mac. One of the big things that changed was that Macs got a lot more popular and b…
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Comment #12251609
Printing those warnings to every end user isn't particularly useful though...