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It seems quite a few people have been turned off by the recent mac book pro fiasco as well.
Fiasco?
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Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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Not the OP but my most recent attempt to ditch Windows on my gaming desktop ~6 months ago was tripped up when I discovered that core software like file managers and such still crash or wig out constantly (it's always been that way, I simply used to put up with stuff like that, just hoped that had changed since I'd been away) and generally basic interactions (e.g. drag & drop) are still inconsistent and buggy. This on…
Cannot agree at all. I switched to Arch Linux when RedHat was swallowed by IBM. KDE Plasma 5 is my thing. Windows 10 is a VM guest in Arch host. 32GB workstation, multiple monitors - 2 24 inch Dell monitors, 1 Haeir 55 inch, SSDs and Western Digital Caviar Blacks and Transcend External HDDs... no issues to report. Same experience with Fedora for more than 2 years. FreeBSD with Xfce 4 and TWM on my laptop. No crashes,…
Huh. I hit a ton just trying to manage some files and burn a cd or two. Workflow inconveniences, crashes in various applications, little "some KDE service you've never heard of has crashed" messages from the system tray. Firefox scrolling was jerky until I googled a bit and found the right setting to change which is apparently the stop-being-broken switch, which is a thing that exists for some reason. Stuff like that, and on what's supposedly one of the most just-works distros. Weird. Fits with my experience running Linux as my main desktop (and laptop) OS from ~2002-2008, though once I switched to Gentoo everything was less buggy at the cost of having to configure everything manually.
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#273Not happening. https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/1063518498104664064
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My, I wish there was an OS that respected my freedoms unlike all of those... Hmm.
Time is money. Learning/setting up/operating around Linux is expensive.
>Learning
In practical terms, any software engineer knows how to work in a POSIX environment, so no issue here.
>setting up
If you mean "installing Linux", then any mainstream distro (e.g. Linux Mint) is ready to go out of the box. If you mean "configuring things up to your liking" then it is no more time-consuming than any other setup.
>operating
Don't know what you mean by this, but a POSIX environment is probably the most efficient/least painful way to do software development.
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#276I suppose this is a consequence of making all future versions of Windows essentially free by adopting "Windows as a Service" release process. When everyone upgrades to Windows 10 there won't be anyone left to buy it anymore so they need a new source of income to replace that.
> I suppose this is a consequence of making all future versions of Windows essentially free by adopting "Windows as a Service" release process. When everyone upgrades to Windows 10 there won't be anyone left to buy it anymore so they need a new source of income to replace that. OEM Licenses are bound to a single computer AFAIK. You change computers you need to pay for Windows again. So it's not like people will never…
But it also used to be that new Windows versions came out around every three years so by the time you needed a new computer, you'd be paying the Windows tax again anyway. In practice, not a lot of difference.
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To be honest, if a tool could run a scan over all my github contributions, and then use that to find a really well matching job, that might be potentially very interesting. Finding a job which is a good match for your skills and interests is hard. If most of your contributions are public then making use of them would be potentially beneficial so long as it wasn't super creepy.
Combine github data with linkedin data to get connection of developers to companies, and use that? Not that I'm suggesting them to do it... :)
The main challenge would be the information asymmetry between both sides (as is already the case). It's one thing for the recruiter to be able to scan all your contributions. Would you as a potential recruit be able to do the same, and see what skills and techniques were /actually/ in use by the company. A tool which could generate an anonymised summary for both parties and compare them for mutual compatibility might be very nice.
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#278Amazon has lately been putting ads on prime video for other prime video shows. I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads. Also, on prime video, occasionally, pressing the fast forward button won't skip the ad. I'm sure it's one of those "bugs" that just happens to force the user to do something the company wants but the user doesn't but I have a feeling it might just stop working all…
Netflix is going down the same route. They are not interrupting continuous playback yet but they are already promoting their Originals with autoplay ads (sometimes even with sound) in some clients. Luckily their clients' range of functions is horribly inconsistent, so I can still chose different clients to avoid this.
This is why I cancelled Netflix.
I've switched almost entirely to watching content I own, whether its iTunes purchases or ripped DVDs. I control the entire experience, I don't have to worry about content suddenly vanishing, I don't have to deal with anyone trying to steal my attention.
I feel the same way about dropping Netflix now as I did about dropping cable TV 5 years ago. I'm never going back.
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The noise-dive Apple's software has taken, it might fall under the "treats like crap".
It's odd to me that so many people seem to dislike this comment. My experience with MacOS has gotten more and more negative with each update. I upgraded to Mojave a few weeks ago (because the OS would not stop nagging me to) and I've had nothing but problems since.
I've not seen a single nag to upgrade to Mojave. I'm still on Sierra (and will likely move to High Sierra this weekend - I like to stay a major version behind for Mac software for stability's sake on my Mac Mini).
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>I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around. Pretty much every ad platform out there does exactly that
Duckduckgo does not. Hacker News does not. There are many examples. Ads on blogs such as Daring Fireball and Coding Horror do not. I gladly whitelist these sites.
Do Hacker News and Daring Fireball have ad platforms?