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Re:Sears to close 150 stores, sell Craftsman brand for $900m on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:19PM (#13333129)
Yep. And allowed other retailers to carry the Craftsman line, thus negating a big point to shopping at Sears anyway.

Now he's using his hedge fund to buy up debt.

Suspect he gives zero fucks. Run it like a gladiators arena, let it rip itself apart, privately own all the debt to be first in line of creditors when it implodes.

#winning

Re:Sears to close 150 stores, sell Craftsman brand for $900m on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:32PM (#13332066)
Lampert has a track record of dodgy decision making, so it fits.
Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:53PM (#13322421)
Can't touch Lenovo given their spyware antics and even more recently it was revealed a couple of their mobiles have secret backdoors. Not saying Thinkpads do. It's a vote of no confidence on the whole

That and their sales worm insisted I could run Linux on a t400 I bought new and have no problems with support (paid for NBD repairs.) Screen flakes out and their tech team insisted i reformat to Windows before they're replace an obviously hardware defect

So spying issues and BS salesmen == no more Lenovo for me

Dell developer 13" and 15" can be beefed up pretty nicely. That and Dell is officially supporting Linux through and through; have heard first hand stories of calling in and getting help with Arch related issues. They ended up fixing it in new drivers.

That to me makes Dell the only alternative to Apple (these days I get by fine with a maxed MB Air, running Ubuntu only booting off a tbolt disk into OSX)

Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:40PM (#13322306)
I wish people would stop claiming words from the English dictionary to mean only the thing they're most familiar with.

They explain it plainly.

> SpaceVim is a distribution, a bundle of custom settings and plugins, for Vim. It got inspired by spacemacs.

It's hyperbolic to suggest there's a real issue here

Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:15PM (#13286533)
Not $850 better than this iPhone 6+ purchased at launch.

It's trivial for folks to turn a light on if their pictures are too dark

Unless you're making a living off iPhone photos, most people will do fine with performance and features of the SE even

Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:10PM (#13286490)
What has historically pushed consumer computing is new UX

We're in a lull with no new UX paradigms with mass appeal

VR/AR are still too expensive and inadequate. Plus a lot of people think they're plain silly

AI assistants seem to be the obvious choice but are still pretty meh. And one doesn't need to upgrade a handset each year to use the latest cloud based AI

Apple doesn't do well with services. They make hardware. Which is in a "good enough" state for many users

Re:Why I close pull requests on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @08:36PM (#13275112)
The post in the comments was the one I was referring to. Says verbatim don't make pr's without a ping first. Says nothing of major changes.

You forget maintainers aren't computers. While your logic is correct, social norms for humans are different.

You have voices describing a human view and interest in a certain way. Whether you agree is irrelevant; the project maintainer has no obligation to listen.

It's not all about you and the workflow that makes most sense from your office chair.