Windows 10 gets package manager
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I was not seeking a flag. I would not expect one for that trivial level of pedantry. And while I really should go away and get some real work done, I will not do so in response to your demand.
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I did have a DOS-based PC. We also had a Commodore-64 in the house. And I had one of those "cool" Radio Shack PC-6 pocket computers.
The point is, the one that clicked with you was that cli-bereft Mac. Now is it because it's the best one in the whole wide world? Perhaps. But if you were never exposed to it at the point you were, you'd be a different person now.
I don't have any companies.
My first IT job involved rather a lot of OS/400 and Novell Netware, believe it or not.
OH NOES DID I BLOW YOUR MIND!?
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Right; but I go out of my way to expose myself to new stuff and stuff that's not new but I'm not familiar with. That's why I have a BeOS box on my bookshelf. And Corel Linux 1.0. And Redhat 6.2. (And those are just the ones old enough to have physical artifacts of.) That's why I took the time to learn more about the OS/400 system at that job than I needed to perform my job functions. And when I found out they had an OS/2 Warp system running the phones, I installed it on a spare PC and played with that, too. (It's really awful.) That's why I've gladly participated in projects using Java, Python, Ruby, and was about to join a Node.JS one before that one contract ended.
That's because I like to consider myself good at what I fucking do, because I spend time getting good at it. My opinions are informed, whatever you may think.
Shitty developers do what shitty developers do. I don't really care. Employers generally can tell the difference.
Of course, you wouldn't be here if you weren't good.
But can you really say that all of your attitude towards various technologies are completely rational and in no way shaped by the kind of upbringing and experiences you had? Because that would make you a unique human being in the history of the world.
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But can you really say that all of your attitude towards various technologies are completely rational and in no way shaped by the kind of upbringing and experiences you had?
Can you really say that your attitude towards various technologies is entirely shaped by what the cool kids are demoing on YouTube?
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The point is, the one that clicked with you was that cli-bereft Mac. Now is it because it's the best one in the whole wide world? Perhaps. But if you were never exposed to it at the point you were, you'd be a different person now.
Right and if wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola.
In case you're brand new here, I'm not good with hypotheticals.
But can you really say that all of your attitude towards various technologies are completely rational and in no way shaped by the kind of upbringing and experiences you had?
I can say it, yes.
Nah, seriously, the best you can do is study enough psychology texts to know the common cognitive biases and do your best to avoid them. Just knowing them, however, is like 90% of the battle.
Because that would make you a unique human being in the history of the world.
Duh. You're just now figuring that out?
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Can you really say that your attitude towards various technologies is entirely shaped by what the cool kids are demoing on YouTube?
Not entirely. But influenced.
I can say it, yes.
Nah, seriously, the best you can do is study enough psychology texts to know the common cognitive biases and do your best to avoid them. Just knowing them, however, is like 90% of the battle.
You obviously missed the most important lesson - you're NOT immune. No matter how much you learn, no matter how hard you try. Never ever.
Duh. You're just now figuring that out?
It took me awhile, but when I saw you maintain the perfect grammar in your angry tweets with half a bottle of Jack Daniels in the bloodstream, I knew.
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It took me awhile, but when I saw you maintain the perfect grammar in your angry tweets with half a bottle of Jack Daniels in the bloodstream, I knew.
I'm dyslexic, man. I type better with Jack Daniels.
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Who gives a shit about Hipster JavaScript Library
43,432,3240.8 if it's just as incomplete and buggy as43,432,3230.8?FTFY.
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despite the fact that IE hasn't been awful some... well nearly a decade now.
I like IE, but even IE11 on a 4GHz quad-core chokes pretty badly if you open more than a couple of tabs. That's why I mostly use Chrome still.
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because we won't flag for those that are angling for the flags and don't care about the pedantry itself.
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because we won't flag for those that are angling for the flags
That seems unnecessarily @blakeyratish from someone who deliberately writes her bots the way she does.
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I flag for pedantry when I detect it. It just comes up rather less often than you might expect…
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Wait wait wait what?
If your $modernBrowser is choking on 4 tabs then either you have 64MB of RAM to go with that overpriced overclocked CPU, or you need to stop clicking yes to all the "special offers" that come with your purple dildo videos.
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If your $modernBrowser is choking on 4 tabs then either you have 64MB of RAM to go with that overpriced overclocked CPU, or you need to stop clicking yes to all the "special offers" that come with your purple dildo videos.
Don't be stupider than you have to. If either of those applied Chrome would run like shit too.
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No, like, full honesty, I've had ye olde grandmother's (not mine, but our typical customer) computer come in with Ask Toolbar, Google Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar, Weather Channel Toolbar, and at least 2 Toolbars That Cannot Be Identified on a Celeron Dual Core with Windows 7 and 1GB of RAM... and IE still ran well, once the system stopped paging out all the damn toolbars. The only reason grandma even noticed a problem is that some of the pop-ups started having naked pictures in them.
100% serious, if you're having severe crashes & choking in IE with more than 2 tabs open, then either you're visiting sites with really bad Javascript (hi Discourse!), or your computer needs nuked from orbit before you lose your identity.
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100% serious, if you're having severe crashes & choking in IE with more than 2 tabs open
It's not crashing, it's freezing up for several seconds, presumably while JS is running. Seems generally to only happen if I have several (minimum # not determined) tabs loading at once.
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i'm not entirely sure i understand what you mean but i'm assuming that it's a compliment.
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Hm, I don't know man. I definitely don't have that problem on IE at work (granted, a pretty serious box hardware wise), browsing sites like TechNet, forums.mikrotik.com, the Googles, etc. and 10+ tabs are pretty routinely in my workflow.
Granted, at home, I wind up using Chrome, but that's more because I have some of the "open source guy" in me than because I have any real problems with IE. Plus, private browsing yada yada (since IE got it last).
That, and I CBA to find a good AdBlock for IE.
The techie in me would try to trace the IE processes, keep track of which site(s) cluster the problem. But the part of me that's home playing games right now is definitely way too lazy.
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Also, please correct for the "you have to use Apple to code for iOS" thing, because that's a huge factor I think you aren't considering. A lot of people have Apple machines, do development on Apple machines, but PURELY to get access to a lucrative mobile market-- and they hate their dev environment with a passion. I personally know at least 3 people in this bucket.
Only if we can correct for the "Has to use Windows at work because the IT department forces them to" factor. I personally know at least half a dozen people in this bucket, who'd rather use *nix or Mac. Including myself.
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i'm assuming that it's a compliment.
Somewhat left-handed, but yes.
It amazes me how stingy people are with the flagging even if sometimes it IS people begging for it. Does it hurt you if Arantor gets the second-level pendantry badge?
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That, and I CBA to find a good AdBlock for IE.
There is one. I found it by googling "Adblock for IE". I suppose it could be the problem.
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not really, but i'm only awarding flags for honest pedantry because i would really not like to get such a badge when i wasn't being genuinely pedantic.
which means i'm almost certainly never get that pedantry badge.
and i'm okay with that.
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There is one. I found it by googling "Adblock for IE". I suppose it could be the problem.
Yes, that does appear to be the case.
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Is there something wrong with being left-handed?
You may feel free to google what a left-handed compliment is.
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not really, but i'm only awarding flags for honest pedantry because i would really not like to get such a badge when i wasn't being genuinely pedantic.
Any time I'm being pendantic I'm doing it on purpose. Trolling for the badge is secondary.
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they you might get a flag from me if i judge your pedantry appropriate.
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they you might get a flag from me if i judge your pedantry appropriate.
If you haven't done it by now I can't imagine what would make you do it in the future.
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i think i have actually i know i've handed out a few.]
@pjh might have a query hanging around for that if you ask him really nice when he wakes up tomorrow (or today)
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i think i have actually i know i've handed out a few.
Well, I haven't gotten the badge so not enough people ever have at the same time.
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try stronger?
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Any time I'm being pendantic I'm doing it on purpose. Trolling for the badge is secondary.
This. When I'm pedantic, it's on a subject that interests me. Usually I have some knowledge of the subject to begin with, although often additional research is required to actually write the post with sufficient detail (and sometimes this fails; I'd suggest a pedantry fail badge for an attempt at pedantry, but getting the facts wrong, except that I'd wind up getting it). Thoughts of whether it's badge-worthy don't usually enter until after I've at least started writing the post. Only once have I asked for a badge, and that was intended to be mock whiny begging, not real.
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I'm mostly pedantic about SFDC, but I don't like to acknowledge that it exists. I'm a very confused person.
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I don't like to acknowledge that it exists. I'm a very confused person.
From what little I know of SFDC, I don't blame you.
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You may feel free to google what a left-handed compliment is.
I'm failing to see a clear distinction between that and a backhanded one - the latter phrase I've known about since childhood, and the former for about 3 minutes.
@pjh might have a query hanging around for that if you ask him really nice when he wakes up tomorrow (or today)
I've not yet come across the table(s) dealing with flags, though bear in mind two of the 'flags' aren't actually flags but thinly disguised 'create PM' forms with the recipients names hidden.
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And PMs, in turn, are posts. Isn't everything with a text message a post?
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The actual (real) flag messages that show up under /admin/flags aren't I think. The yellow replies under are summaries of the PM's sent.
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Nobody uses ASP.NET for public facing stuff. It's either PHP for unambitious or one of the new techs for startups shooting for the stars. Which ensures the next bih thing won't be built using MS tech.
Both .NET and Java are still used a lot in larger organizations for their web applications. At least in the US. Maybe it's different in Europe.
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San Francisco Dept of Corrections?
A women behind bars kind of guy, eh?
The SFDC that I'm actually talking about is too inappropriate for channels like Cinemax.
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I'll take your word for it.
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In at least this part of Europe we use ASP.NET for public facing stuff. I've only worked in small shops though.
I like ASP.NET, it's a joy to use for the stuff we need to do. I'd like to use some of the cool stuff but ASP.NET is just reliable.
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I'm failing to see a clear distinction between that and a backhanded one
I dunno, maybe I was mixing the phrase with "left-handed spanner." Don't worry too much about it; "back-handed compliment" means the same thing as I intended.
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San Francisco Dept of Corrections?
From a web search I think it's an acronym for Sales Force Dot Com".
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From a web search I think it's an acronym for Sales Force Dot Com".
Dang it, there goes my plausible deniability.
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I like ASP.NET, it's a joy to use for the stuff we need to do.
Except for WebForms. That's a satan's spawn.
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