@TimeBandit How the hell does that help fill the gap left by Windows Phone? How is that even... ugh nevermind. Nick Statt is an idiot.
Posts made by blakeyrat
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RE: In other news today...
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@topspin It's great that you apparently agree with my idea, but when you do it ONE POST AFTER MAKING FUN OF ME what the fuck am I supposed to think? You do realize the posts get read top to bottom right?
Bob: "Joe's a motherfucker dumbshit asshole"
Bob: "But his idea's ok."
Joe: "Don't call me a dumbshit!"
Bob: "Why are you angry at people who agreed with you"GEE I WONDER WHY. SOMEBODY GET ROBERT STACK ON THE PHONE, WE GOT AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY HERE (1988 reference for Gaska)
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@topspin said in Proposal for a new category:
Is there even a way to agree with you that you don’t take as an attack?
Agree with me that you think I should be shot in the face? It's already obvious that's what you want.
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@boomzilla Oh right I muted a thread, so you were probably calling me a dumbshit in that but I wasn't reading it. My fault.
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@topspin said in Proposal for a new category:
That would actually be a good implementation that wouldn’t hurt anyone.
But don't you want to hurt me specifically? Because I'm so stupid and awful obviously I deserve your scorn. Can you imagine I sometimes have this weird inkling that I should share my thoughts with others? Haha! What a dumbshit I am. Obviously I have nothing of value to contribute. Fuck Blakeyrat, right? Might as well just shoot him in the head.
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@topspin said in Proposal for a new category:
Since you’re not talking about Boeing, I’m not sure you’re thinking of the same person.
It's hilarious because he's a stupid dumb retard who's literally the worst person ever, but, get this, we're not actually going to type the name! Because he's so stupid he wouldn't know what the fuck you're talking about without that! Hilarious! I love being bullied in every thread, bring it on! Come on.
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@pie_flavor said in Proposal for a new category:
I'm sure you would
Yes, that would be why I posted it. Thanks, Doctor Obvious. I'm sure people on the forums stupider than you appreciated that quick little explainer, if any such people exist.
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@boomzilla Wow it's been almost 3 days since I've been called a stupid dummy idiot moron dumbass retard. You guys are off your game.
I mean if you don't constantly call me stupid, how am I going to know? I could have accidentally for a moment thought that anything I thought or said could possibly have any inherent value! That would have been quite a pickle.
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@Gąska Look, I'm an old-ass mother fucker, and I love Star Trek and even I think your dumb reference from a 1988 episode is too fucking geriatric. Jesus. Bring it into this century at least.
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@pie_flavor Even if they aren't, they are.
Nobody wants to read just two people going back and forth on some bullshit. Whether or not the posts are "fight-y", hiding them is still a good idea.
Like there's lots of threads where some C++ people get in this long-ass debates over some subtle point in the C++ standards, as if anybody gave a fuck, I'd love to see those hidden even if they're not really arguing.
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RE: Proposal for a new category
@ben_lubar I think I made a similar proposal like this:
If there are 2 people who reply to each other, and the last (say) 8 posts are just a back-and-forth between those 2 people you hide those posts by default and replace it with the first result for "slapfight gif" on Google.
Which currently is this:
Users can click the slapfight to view the posts if they really want.
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RE: In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.
@pie_flavor said in In which pie_flavor presumptuously postulates that pilfering of protected property is perfectly permissible; perhaps even preferable.:
But by law every single road in the USA must have a speed limit.
Never been to Montana I see.
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@boomzilla said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Because...it's exactly not what this is? It's just like the Amber alerts.
Amber alerts are also messages that are in the form of text. They are also text messages. Again: I don't understand what distinction you're drawing here.
@boomzilla said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
The law that created Amber alerts was named after a girl named Amber who was abducted.
Yeah but I have to believe that the Amber Alert system causes way more problems than it could possibly solve. Who thought it was a good idea to give every car on the freeway a bleep and a message to read everybody's license plates? How many fatalities from car accidents are we trading for those alerts, because there's no way the number is zero.
It's like "a girl was kidnapped, so we sent out an Amber Alert and now we have 27 auto accidents too." Not a good trade, IMO.
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@Polygeekery said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
We need a set of rules for blakeythreads.
Yeah remember when you said you wouldn't post in them any more? You piece of shit liar.
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@boomzilla said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
It was just people freaking out about the possibility of getting text messages (yes, some said that) from Trump, because they really hate him, or something.
They are messages and they are text, why is calling them "text messages" so weird? I don't understand how your brain works.
And the "Presidential" thing is just a terrible name for it FEMA picked. Presumably it's named that because it requires approval from the President before it can be transmitted? But I'm only guessing. I mean Amber Alert is a terrible name, too. What the fuck does Amber Alert mean? Why not "Missing Person Alert"?
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@boomzilla I'm not putting words in your mouth, I'm trying to understand why you wrote that post in this thread.
It's basically saying "haha there's this entertaining thing that happened elsewhere and I won't elaborate or link to it but it was funny trust me", and I'm sitting here going, "why the fuck would someone post that?"
Then it occurred to me that maybe you're trying to group me with the people who are going hysterical over this-- you know what never mind. You just post word-farts with no purpose or meaning, and I'll just cope with that. Why the fuck not.
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RE: "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
@boomzilla Who? Why? Do you think my OP in this thread is "hysterical"? What the hell are you talking about, in short?
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"Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
So FEMA at some point in the past convinced all US cell carriers to implement a nationwide "Presidential Alert" in their phones. You can't opt-out of it like you can with Amber Alerts.
They're going to test the system tomorrow at 11:18 (presumably PST? A local news station told me about it) and I can't wait for Donald Trump to reach out and touch me.
Here's someone who isn't a random internet jackass talking about it:
https://www.nola.com/national_politics/2018/10/presidential_alert_test_phone.html
I bet within 5 years this system is used to send campaign messages for whatever party controls the Executive Branch.
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RE: Oh God not again
@admiral_p said in Oh God not again:
If fast startup gives issues (even just occasionally, and apparently it is not so uncommon for it to give issues; apparently, it's also a nuisance when dual booting),
Yes, it gives issues to 0.000001% of the population, therefore it should be turned off for 99.99999% of the population for whom it's a benefit YOU ARE MASTER WIZARD OF EFFICIENCY.
Look you guys can just sit here and do your "oh windoze be bad" circlejerk or whatever, I'm sick of it, I'm out.
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RE: Oh God not again
@Gąska said in Oh God not again:
when given a choice between "Windows should boot quickly" and "Windows should shut down when told to shut down", any sane person would choose the latter.
Well if your computer's broken, if that's what we're talking about, then tell me that. Sorry your computer's busted as shit.
My computer, which works correctly, does shut down when I select "shut down" from the menu. You may bow before my God-like working computer any time you like.
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RE: Oh God not again
@Atazhaia So if it's only a few seconds faster, therefore it's not faster at all? Is that your reality-and-logic-warping response to my statement?
Makes sense. In Bizarro World.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra They're saying they didn't decide (like, actively) to take the action-- that was decided by whatever creditor reported to them, and then a computer (beep beep boop beep) is the one who fucked you over using its "fuck over everybody one way or another algorithm".
You can read it as:
Don't blame us, we didn't do it; also we don't understand how the computer that did do it does it.
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RE: Oh God not again
@Atazhaia said in Oh God not again:
I have to disable that misfeature to make Windows behave as expected.
I expect my computer to boot quickly. I think your "Windows should boot super-slow" might be a minority expectation here.
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RE: Help Bites
@Tsaukpaetra I'm with Geico. They're ok. All of their services other than car insurance are partnerships with terrible companies, so if you want like condo insurance or something don't even bother with them. (They claim "they" insure everything, but the reality is they just refer you to other companies.)
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RE: WTF Bites
Okay, one last reply:
I counted 3 replies after Rhywden's "one last reply." What a fucking liar. An easily-trolled liar.
But hey, finally a WTF Bite.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
SIA: we're ok with ASICs, and we're even going to make our own ASIC!
(Bitmain builds an ASIC)
SIA: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! WE SUDDENLY HATE ASICS!
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RE: WTF Bites
Look I was too subtle before. Could you dickwads not let Pie_Flavor ruin EVERY thread maybe? He's a moron, JUST. STOP. REPLYING.
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RE: WTF Bites
So what is the WTF Bite here? That people are conversing with Pie_Flavor expecting him to not be an idiot?
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RE: Software disenchantment
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Not every, but some fundametal aspects - yes.
FundaMETAL! Put up the HORNS MAN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
There are some things which you can successfully abstract away, and some that you can't.
Maybe they could have, maybe they couldn't have. Maybe they couldn't, but a more competent development team could have, and they could have hired or consulted this more competent development team.
Most likely they didn't even fucking try.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
You can make some 'simplified' interface, but every time a person not understanding what's behind starts using it, they will fuck everything up.
Yah; just like every time I use Context-Aware Fill in Photoshop I fuck up the image.
OH WAIT I DON'T. Nobody does. For two reasons:
- The Photoshop team has successfully abstracted the algorithm away so it's not "leaky".
- Photoshop has a fucking Undo command! So even if I did use Context-Aware Fill in a bad spot, I can just Undo it and try again.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
In case of Git the fundamental thing is the graph.
If you're Nerdy McProgrammerDork maybe. That's not what the user of the software gives a shit about.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
You can't simplify it to a tree, or a straight line of commits. It's a directed acyclic graph.
Could they have at least drawn it graphically? In this tool made long after every computer on Earth has access to bitmapped graphics? It's almost as if the word "graph" implies it could be displayed as... a graph...ic? Huh!
They. Didn't. Even. Fucking. Try.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
That doesn't mean the ORM is useless - it greatly speeds up writing queries and data mapping. But you still need to know what's behind to use it correctly.
Did it ever occur to you that that just might mean the ORM software/library is also shitty and incomplete? I mean I'm constantly griping about Entity Framework's shortcomings because I foolishly tied my wagon to it, but I don't say "the whole concept of ORM is bad!" I say "Entity Framework is bad!"
Software doesn't have to be shitty. It could be good. Sounds like you've just given up on computers ever being any good at all. Your viewpoint is depressing.
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
@Gribnit WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!
What does:
@Gribnit said in Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass:
@blakeyrat False.
I support "not corrupting user space with garbage" and the like.Have ANYTHING to do with Torvalds saying "hey, maybe don't be a dick?"
Look I'm sorry your OS has bugs where it corrupts shit with garbage or whatever the fuck you're talking about, but at this point I think you're LITERALLY INSANE. Take your meds grandpa.
FALSE!
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RE: Software disenchantment
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Of course it has, locally you can just reset --hard.
Right; such an intuitive command.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Reverting pushed commits cannot be reduced to simple 'undo', because someone else could commit something on top of that, and now what?
You can make a reverse commit from it now, so I don't see why that's such a burden exactly.
But here's the real point: any action you can do in the UI should be undo-able. If it were, people would feel comfortable playing with the UI without fear of deleting all their shit and they'd learn it much quicker.
This was a standard feature in GUIs from 1984, but I guess it's too much to ask from a open source-y developer in 2007 whose primary driving motto appears to be "FUCK USERS! FUCK YOU!"
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
This is possible.
Almost certainly true, from my experience. But sure, "possible", why not.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
But git being distributed solved many other problems (like server failure), and did it first.
Has server failure ever been cited as a problem with, say, TFS or Subversion? Have you ever heard of a Subversion server going down constantly? Seriously?
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Subversion was the most common competitor,
And it's servers, just constantly going down all the time! Man. You couldn't get anything done with those damned unreliable Subversion servers!
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
So people settled for the best universal solution,
No they didn't.
First of all, TFS is a better product all around, and even the only reason you can come up with to not use it is: "MICROSOFT IS THE EBIL SPELL IT WITH A DOLLAR SIGN ME HATE MICROSOFT OPEN SOURCE ROX!!!" which is not a real reason. Remember when TFS server adopted the Git protocol, it took years of patches to get Git to the same level that TFS was at a decade ago. YEARS of patches.
Secondly, even if the best solution was distributed version control (which it is not), there are distributed version control systems that are far better-designed than Git.
Thirdly, Git's really shitty. It's not the best anything. It's pretty close to the worst of any category you can fit it in.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Mind you, even MS uses Git now for their development.
Yeah it took them YEARS to make Git almost as good as their previous SCM software; what a glowing recommendation.
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
@Gribnit Oh yeah you should stay away from those imaginary kernels.
Look do you seriously believe that people being jackasses somehow makes your computer faster? Seriously?
Or are you just in 100% full-blast GamerGater Hateful Misogynist Mode right now? Like everybody else on this fucking forum, which is a complete lost cause?
Because your argument makes no fucking sense. BTW you should read that BBC interview where Torvalds specifically said he made this change because while he's an asshole, he's not a GamerGater Hateful Misogynistic asshole, and he's sick of being bucketed in with people like you. He did this to spite your Nazi-ass. Specifically.
Or put another way:
FALSE!!!!!
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
@Gribnit said in Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass:
Because I want a performant kernel.
Then use Windows.
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RE: Software disenchantment
@Gribnit said in Software disenchantment:
@blakeyrat so it's even easier! Anyone can fly the Concorde!
Nobody can fly it, they're all mothballed. Idiot.
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
@Gribnit FALSE! FASELFOFaself false falase FALSE DFLALSE FALSE!!!
@Gribnit said in Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass:
This was the wrong move for the kernel.
Telling people not to be assholes is not the right move for the kernel? What should they have done, created a "be MORE of an assshole!" policy instead? Why do you want the world full of assholes?
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RE: Software disenchantment
@Gribnit said in Software disenchantment:
False.
Poop.
@Gribnit said in Software disenchantment:
These decisions are made based on, aeronautics, and an understanding of the particular vicissitudes of the Concorde would fall in somewhere on the path to infinite aeronautical understanding.
Of course they are, but that's not the point. Imagine this is Concorde:
In my hypothetical, you're piloting the plane, not writing the procedures. The pilot, co-pilot, and engineers don't need to know exactly how those figures were derived, they only need to know what those figures are. And they're written down in a handy binder.
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RE: Software disenchantment
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Git is easy to use once you understand its data model.
That's like saying it's easy to fly Concorde once you understand aeronautics. It's complete gibberish. One thing has very little to do with the other. No matter how well you understand aeronautics, it's not going to tell you when to advance the throttle on take-off, or how to calculate fuel load for a Atlantic crossing. (In fact, if you knew all the procedures, you could do the entire flight without knowing jack-shit about aeronautics, barring some terminology that would appear in the procedures.)
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Some posts in this thread reveal serious misunderstandings, like @Gąska trying to make 'git branch --delete' delete remote branches automatically on next push.
Sounds like he's trying to make it predictable. Like "hey if I say delete, how about actually delete?"
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
I don't know how this particular patch works (now you can't push a deleted local branch), but if it replaces the present meaning of 'git branch --delete' it would effectively force you to track locally every branch you ever touched until it's deleted from upstream, which is wasteful and wtfish.
I don't even understand this sentence. I won't pretend to.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
You can't abstract inherent complexity away.
Maybe not; but could they fucking TRY? Because they haven't even fucking tried to.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
My take-away is that people whining about Git (like the one lone windows user in my team constantly 777ing random text files) try to use it as a black box without understanding what happens,
So why wasn't it written with a teaching interface, so users learn how to use it as they use it? Or a discoverable UI, so you can take a look at just the program itself (without having to rely on external resources, like manuals or websites) and figure out how to accomplish the task you want accomplished? Why doesn't it have a simple "undo" so you could experiment without risk of losing all your work?
People use Git as a "black box" because that's how Git wants to be used. That's what you get when you install it. That's the only UI they wrote for it.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
which is probably impossible given the problem being solved (distributed version control).
My understanding is that there are several products that solve the same problem and are significantly easier to use than Git.
There's also the minor point that 99% of those horrible people using Git as a black box probably don't want distributed version control in the first place, as they have no need for it. The only thing the "distributed" part of Git gets them is you can work offline, but guess what? TFS 2013+ lets you work offline and it's centralized as heck.
@sebastian-galczynski said in Software disenchantment:
Those who get it, usually have no problems, unless there's a massive merge conflict, but that would cause problems with any system imaginable short of some god-like AI.
Once again: even if you know what the program is doing, it doesn't (necessarily) help to figure out how to use the program. Which is moot anyway, because if your defense of this program is, "once you read 12 textbooks it's easy!" isn't that just a way of saying it's not easy at all?
Look, let's take Photoshop. If I use Context-Aware Fill in Photoshop, I have no idea how exactly that algorithm works. But I don't need to know that to use the feature-- the developers of Photoshop did a good job of abstracting the bullshit away so the artist can focus on the task they want accomplished. Why should they have to know exactly what math Photoshop is doing to grab context-aware textures from the surrounding image? What would that gain them, if all they're doing is repairing a blotch on a photo? Nothing. It would be a waste of their time to learn it, and the developers of Photoshop understand that.
I'd say the developers of Git did a bad job of same, but the real issue isn't that they tried and failed (like, say, Lotus Notes), but that they never even tried. The product's been around since, what, 2007?, and they still haven't tried. It's hopeless.
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RE: Alert
@Tsaukpaetra You know the difference between me and you? I make this commit look good.
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RE: In other news today...
@japonicus I really hate when stuff like that's described as a "security breach". Like what security was breached? There was no security.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@DCoder Chinese miners never upgrade. Bitcoin's fucked.
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RE: Inspired by Escher and Penrose...
@Gurth It's kind of a plot point in Fawlty Towers that the hotel is like a conglomeration of row houses hastily combined, or something similar. Look at any of the scene in the main hallway, and that episode where they wanted to cut a new door so they wouldn't have to go through the lobby to get from the kitchen to the dining area (IIRC).
I do remember the scene where the professional contractor comes to look at his work and he asks:
"Nice door install, what did you use at the top? Concrete header? Steel I-beam?"
And Fawlty, proud as hell, replies, "2x4!"
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RE: Internet of shit
@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
I think getting a creamy coffee from a Siemens machine feels awkward.
Considering they're big makers of scary medical machines, I'd be worried that that coffee has like radioactive tracer for PET scanner machines in it.
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RE: Jump to definition
@marczellm said in Jump to definition:
I don't know why, but Xcode refuses to index a project that it cannot build.
I find it difficult to reconsile the above statement with this one:
@marczellm said in Jump to definition:
FYI, Xcode does the indexing automatically and separately from the building.
If it can index without a build, why does it matter whether it can do the build?
I still wager that (frankly) you're incorrect on the second point, and once you get the project to the point where XCode can build it you'll find that the Intellisense works.
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RE: Where am I standing as a programmer?
@HardwareGeek said in Where am I standing as a programmer?:
When did that program start?
ONCE AGAIN I AM NOT LORD AND GOD OF ALL APPLE HEALTH REQUIREMENTS I DO NOT HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. Christ, people.
@HardwareGeek said in Where am I standing as a programmer?:
so I wouldn't have been eligible for Apple Health any more.
Based on some random spew some asshole put in a forum? Did you apply? What did they say? Christ, people.
@HardwareGeek said in Where am I standing as a programmer?:
Still, I don't remember anybody ever even mentioning it.
Generally speaking in the US, it's a person's responsibility to know their own rights. The government does have a marketing budget, but it's usually not huge.
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RE: Linux Torvalds finally figures out that he's a jackass
New BBC interview with jackass:
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Had a large frog (several inches long) fall from my colleague's lab vent today while I was in her room. That's a first.
You need to frog blast the vent core.
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RE: Where am I standing as a programmer?
@Gąska If you clocked 30+ hours every week for 3 months in a row you were a full-time employee according to the ACA.