God I feel so smug right now for being a Linux user and not giving a f***k about what MS does or doesn't.
veggen
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RE: Windows 7 Extended Support date announced
Latest posts made by veggen
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RE: Gmail ordering of emails
Mine also behaves rationally, but that is only because each time Gmail introduced a new order-raping feature, I chose not to use it.
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RE: When even PHP programmers call each other lazy
Random question. What is the right way to include a header/footer in PHP these days?
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RE: Gmail ordering of emails
You are aware that Gmail will rape your ordering to oblivion unless you force it to stop? It will order based on calculated importance (the algorithm for which is worthy of a WTF), read/unread flag, and other completely opaque factors.
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RE: Windows 7 Extended Support date announced
God I feel so smug right now for being a Linux user and not giving a f***k about what MS does or doesn't.
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RE: Adventures of Sharky! - Cheaper is not always better or cheaper.
I must note your companies seems utterly unable to interview people. Multiple companies I worked for often used what's called near-shore developers (same time zone) that produced twice as much of quality code for a third of a price. I've personally interviewed and worked with many of these people (mostly from Balkan area and Ukraine, but also Brazil and other places, as we have a few branches so 'same time zone' might mean different things) and have nothing but good experience. Sure, some are juniors and some are seniors and we interview and pay them accordingly. The only downside has been the loss of ability to quickly double-check things and to do meetings efficiently as absolutely all remote meeting solutions are shit. Including the expensive ones, which are honestly less shit, but are shit nevertheless.
It's worth noting though that many companies figured this same thing, so good devs from these areas are becoming increasingly expensive and rare. -
RE: Is it time for a new Firefox thread yet?
TRWTF are "developers" who find the concept of immutable variables new and confusing. Seriously people, a gazillion languages have everything immutable (all the functional ones, to begin with) and the benefit is inherent thread safety, and thus - easy concurrency. I'm not sure who here just enjoys playing dumb and shitting on everyone and everything and who is actually dumb, but both groups should pull heir shit together and stop the lame rant.
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RE: Why do I need an "app" to browse a website?
Ok, I now understand the hate. Still, almost none of the reasons apply to me. I couldn't care less about the comments, never read them. Two days old is perfectly fresh for me. Theme might as well not exist, I just don't notice that stuff. Infinite scroll is an abomination in my opinion. Codebase? Not my concern.
So, yeah, I can now see where you're coming from, but for me it works quite well for reading science related abstracts. -
RE: Why do I need an "app" to browse a website?
Doesn't 80% of mobile apps consist of one-site browsers?
Btw, what's wrong with Slashdot? I find it a pretty good source of tech/science news. And don't say the commenters are the issue because that's true everywhere. -
RE: Eclipse is broken (but we knew that)
Ok, I'm hooked. What are the features you're speaking of?
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RE: Eclipse is broken (but we knew that)
I no longer have any understanding for people using Eclipse. There simply is no excuse for succumbing to that garbage. Even if your class requires you to, do all coding in a decent IDE (IntelliJ IDEA first, NetBeans second) and import to Eclipse when done.