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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Christ does anyone do testing anymore?
As a QA professional: no.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know its annoying that I'm catching up on news but fuck me what a shit show.
There was a thread on this here somewhere, because someone got one of the emails with a fluff-ton of other people's addresses.
Apropos:
(@rikling b/c he had retweeted and I wuz replying)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I love how people still think that storing that information is a good idea.
The biggest web retailer, Amazon, does it. So everybody else thinks they should too.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Christ does anyone do testing anymore?
Nope.
Everybody wants to be all open source-y now. And their main strategy seems to be: "never test anything ever! And if someone complains, it's their own fault for not already making a pull request to fix it! Fuck 'em!"
Professionalism? Pride in your work? Concern for the user? None of these things have any meaning to open source developers.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Christ does anyone do testing anymore?
Nope.
Everybody wants to be all open source-y now. And their main strategy seems to be: "never test anything ever! And if someone complains, it's their own fault for not already making a pull request to fix it! Fuck 'em!"
Professionalism? Pride in your work? Concern for the user? None of these things have any meaning to open source developers.
No, it's not 'open source-y', it's AGILE! "We'll just push it in the release next week." Release early, release often!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Release early, release often!
... is the philosophy of a gonorrhea-riddled psychopath whose likes to ejaculate on women in crowded subway cars.
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
in crowded subway cars
TIL Subway has a crowded delivery system
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
(@rikling b/c he had retweeted and I wuz replying)
Did you mean: @riking
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Nope.
Everybody wants to be all open source-y now. And their main strategy seems to be: "never test anything ever! And if someone complains, it's their own fault for not already making a pull request to fix it! Fuck 'em!"
Professionalism? Pride in your work? Concern for the user? None of these things have any meaning to open source developers.
In other news today... @blakeyrat complains about open source.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
In other news today... @blakeyrat complains about open source.
And it'll stop the instant the open source methodology creates really great products I love.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
And it'll stop the instant the open source methodology creates really great products
You should have stopped a while ago then.
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
I love.
Oh, never mind then. Carry-on
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@TimeBandit Lets talk about video editing for a bit. Do you know a piece of open source software that:
- Works with every window manager
- Is easy to use
- Has current versions of the plugins you need
- Won't crash and lose all your work every half hour
I have a friend who tried. And tried. And tried. Who wants urgently to love linux. But every single time, he runs into situations like this.
Seriously, unless all you want to do is word processing and web browsing, why would you use linux?
It encourages abusive relationships. I say get out. Maybe it'll get good, but it definitely is not now.
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@Magus because I dont do any of the few use cases that it's too bad for, like video editing, and it's free and I like it
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@fbmac said in In other news today...:
@Magus because I dont do any of the few use cases that it's too bad for, like video editing, and it's free and I like it
That's one of the cases held up as its specialty.
But I guess all you use is Chrome, probably.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Lets talk about video editing for a bit. Do you know a piece of open source software that:
I don't do video editing, can't help you, sorry.
Seriously, unless all you want to do is word processing and web browsing, why would you use linux?
To do development, and server administration. That's what I do all day, on Linux.
The post I replied to was implying that there is no great product that is open source.
This is wrong on so many levels.As an example:
What is the best video player ? VLC
What is the most used web server ? ApacheWhat was your point exactly ?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
What is the best video player ? VLC
Not even close. The thing spews artifacts like nothing else, and can't pause or skip correctly. No one with any intelligence uses this for video.
The best audio player is windows only.
And most popular web server? Please. People use it so it's good, you say. How did you like IE6?
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Not even close. The thing spews artifacts like nothing else, and can't pause or skip correctly. No one with any intelligence uses this for video.
I use VLC and have never had those issues with it.
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@Erufael It's consistent. I would even say it should be the base installed media player on most systems. But they wrote their own codices, their own rendering, etc. There's a limit to what they can do while they keep it all so close. It's probably improved since I ragequit, but I know that if I want to play HD video on my laptops, I frequently need MadVR, so not a chance I'll be using VLC.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Not even close. The thing spews artifacts like nothing else, and can't pause or skip correctly. No one with any intelligence uses this for video.
TIL, millions of people don't have any intelligence.
I have none of those issues, maybe you are the problem ?The best audio player is windows only.
Please name it, at least.
How did you like IE6?
It was such piece-of-junk that I did like millions of other, and switched to Firefox.
See, even close source can produce total crap.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Please name it, at least.
Foobar2000. The one audiophiles install windows on their macs to use, and give up linux for.
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It was such piece-of-junk that I did like millions of other, and switched to Firefox.
See, even close source can produce total crap.The point is, popularity does not mean quality.
Apparently Linux is great as long as no one ever sees any part of it ever.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Foobar2000. The one audiophiles install windows on their macs to use, and give up linux for.
The same audiophiles that buy $1000 HDMI cables ?
The point is, popularity does not mean quality.
And Windows proves that.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Lets talk about video editing for a bit. Do you know a piece of open source software that:
- Works with every window manager
- Is easy to use
- Has current versions of the plugins you need
- Won't crash and lose all your work every half hour
I have a friend who tried. And tried. And tried. Who wants urgently to love linux. But every single time, he runs into situations like this.
Seriously, unless all you want to do is word processing and web browsing, why would you use linux?
It encourages abusive relationships. I say get out. Maybe it'll get good, but it definitely is not now.
I use Linux on my laptop exclusively, and for much more than just web browsing and stuff. There are things it's bad at, but it's much lighter weight and faster than my Windows install.
I'd never use Linux for video editing though, given how badly most video drivers operate on it... that's definitely not its strong suit.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
The point is, popularity does not mean quality.
It has a great correlation. Popularity always happen for a reason.
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@TimeBandit ignoring any of the other points brought up during this discussion, let's talk about screen tearing under X. Because I swear, that refuses to go away and it looks like windows doesn't have it. I say this as a Linux user.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Seriously, unless all you want to do is word processing and web browsing, why would you use linux?
Engineering. Every chip, and probably every board, in every computer, phone, TV, radio, console, electronic toy and gadget you have ever used has been designed and verified using EDA software that runs on Linux. A lot of it also runs on Windows, but nobody uses it; the Windows versions are definitely the little-used, poorly-supported, ugly step-sisters of the Linux versions.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
(@rikling b/c he had retweeted and I wuz replying)
Did you mean: @riking
No.
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I for one welcome Promobot as our new robot overlord. Let him rule us like a robber bandit!
*edit Unfortunately I have little hope in our would be otter overlords...
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O_o
Back in my day you did it yourself!
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OMFG! Rick Ashley released a new song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc91EfoBh8A&feature=youtu.be
What are we to do with this?
*edit OMFG he's still alive!
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit let's talk about screen tearing under X. Because I swear, that refuses to go away and it looks like windows doesn't have it. I say this as a Linux user.
I don't have this problem. I use an NVIDIA card on my desktop (with the proprietary driver) and a f***in Intel on my laptop.
My work desktop is also Intel.I don't watch video on my work desktop (except occasionally here) or on my home laptop.
Not saying X is perfect, far from it. But your tearing problem probably depends on your video card/driver.
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@DogsB There's only one thing we can do!
Hey guys look, Microsoft just announced a new linux distro!
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@Magus nah, you can't replace rick rolling, its a tradition.
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@fbmac I'm not. It's still rick rolling. It just has an extra triple take.
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@Boner One job...
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@fbmac said in In other news today...:
@Magus said in In other news today...:
The point is, popularity does not mean quality.
It has a great correlation. Popularity always happen for a reason.
Violent suppression of dissidents? Mandatory purchasing? Neglecting to get checked for
VDSTDs?
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@DogsB There's only one thing we can do!
Hey guys look, Microsoft just announced a new linux distro!
But does it reboot for updates?
Oh sorry, wrong
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Subtle. And since it redirected to another URL, I can't easily see what scripts there are to block surgically.
Heh, probably not worth it.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Subtle. And since it redirected to another URL, I can't easily see what scripts there are to block surgically.
whatever script it is was blocked (or not triggered) by ublock origin....
so there's that.
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@Zecc www.theguardian.com redirected you to nypost.com?
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@anotherusername I have no idea what you're talking about.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Zecc www.theguardian.com redirected you to nypost.com?
that confused me too, but i figured he clicked a link in the article to go to nypost....
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Subtle. And since it redirected to another URL, I can't easily see what scripts there are to block surgically.
They don't want you to block surgically instead. They want you to unblock everything.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
And most popular web server? Please. People use it so it's good, you say. How did you like IE6?
Apache is probably better than IIS but Nginx is far superior to them both.
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Tragedy strikes Newfoundland:
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@pydsigner said in In other news today...:
Apache is probably better than IIS but Nginx is far superior to them both.
I'm not sure about that, it was easier to me to configure PHP in apache without a separated process. Don't know if it can even be done in nginx.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
Subtle. And since it redirected to another URL, I can't easily see what scripts there are to block surgically.
Heh, probably not worth it.
Use NoScript or ScriptSafe and it'll go away