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Re:Careless People on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:09PM (#43789519)
The author of the post tries to use this as an example of Kaplan being an idiot but (having read the books) struck me as a rare case of him being the only sane man in the room - Facebook pivoting from "we have to give free internet to refugees" to "we have to sell it" smacks of broader leadership not considering the wider context.
Re:Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub on Monday August 29, 2022 @07:19AM (#32636807)
Enabling/disabling systemd services is done via managing symlinks. Unfortunately, when disabling a service in systemd, it follows and remove symlinks which can remove your symlinked service files.
Re:Google Internal Comics on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:20AM (#27793970)
There are arrows on each side of the comic. They're transparent, but they're there.
Re:Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:55AM (#11430358)
> > Shitty sexist comments on a daily basis. A real toxic work environment

> That's also a price of equality, sometimes you just eat shit at a certain job.

You can't be serious. Not only is sexism the opposite of your supposed equality, it should never be tolerated in the workplace.

Re:Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:51AM (#11133411)
This is the company that bragged about having 18,000 classes for their iOS app [1] and having to patch the Dalvik Virtual Machine to support new features in their Android app [2]; they are not infallible.

[1] http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

Re:Spacemacs 0.105.0 released on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:56PM (#10838524)
Probably modal editing and plugins that aren't constrained by Vimscript.
Re:How I develop with Nix on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:43AM (#10052586)
I love Nix, but I wish there were a way to easily install packages without having sudo access. Programs like pip only need a '--user' flag, while Nix requires you to use chroot magic[1] to be able to install packages in your home directory.

[1] https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_(on_anothe...

Re:Steam Discovery Update on Monday September 22, 2014 @10:36PM (#8353746)
A long-overdue update, IMO. With Greenlight Steam has been cluttered with far too many games for the average user to delve into and gauge their worth.

I am intrigued by displaying the overall rating (even if it is overwhelmingly negative) next to the title on the deal pages; at those prices people are willing to take a chance on less polished titles, and in these showing the community's opinion will only serve to hinder purchases. As a consumer, however, I am indifferent as I (and I hope everyone else) read reviews before making a purchase.

The addition of having curators is an interesting development. Not having to read reviews but instead click a curator's page to see what is worth playing will give enormous power to these personalities which will be shifted away from the companies that produce them; no longer can publishers withhold games on launch since diehard fans of say, Totalbiscuit, may only purchase games with his seal of approval. However, these curators may lose hits on their original videos (like the aforementioned "WTF is...?" series) as it is so much easier to scroll through a list than pay attention to a video for thirty minutes.

EDIT: One UI complaint, though: when hovering over a game, a bubble with information (with user tags) shows up. It would be great if I could click these tags (as well as everything else displayed) and go to the related page.

Re:Vim Plug – A minimalist Vim plugin manager on Saturday September 13, 2014 @08:20PM (#8314140)
Don't forget neobundle [1], which I find more useful than either as it allows loading for specific filetypes and asynchronous plugin installation.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim

Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice on Saturday August 16, 2014 @10:20AM (#8186270)
I had a similar experience with Chrome (or rather, Chromium) on my netbook. It consumed so much memory with normal usage that I had to switch to Midori[1] so I could do other things while browsing.

[1] http://midori-browser.org/

Re:SQLite now supports recursive CTEs on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:20PM (#7440280)
Fantastic news! My major gripe with SQLite was that it didn't support recursion (and subsequently had to move to a different database despite filling all of my other requirements); I'm glad to see this is no longer the case.
Re:Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @02:24AM (#7377754)
Piracy doesn't offer automatic updates, cloud saves, (usually) multiplayer, support when the game breaks, and a guarantee of not containing malware. I'm obviously using Steam as an example here, given the context.
Re:`three = 1` in the linux sourcecode on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:50AM (#7297262)
Not really, the problem lies in its naming. Comments that explain what the variables represent signify that they should have been better named in the first place to avoid any confusion.
Re:Humble Indie Bundle 9 released on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @10:57PM (#6371783)
Are you talking about the Special Edition DLC? It's already out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/239570/

Hopefully it will be included in the bundle as the week progresses.