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Comment · 4 years ago
In 1980 - I’m expert in those 3 areas In 2020 - I’m aware of about 10000 different technologies but not expert in anything
Comment · 4 years ago
Every company from here to end of the universe in competition of who can have the most intrusive surveillance shoved down uses throats. It use to be enough to just wipe newly bought laptop to remove manufacturers spyware, but now it comes with OS itself and packaged into big browsers.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don’t see anything super impressive that could be attributed to CoD developers. I think most of this really advances in hardware that allows more lighting, higher quality textures and more polygons. But even with all of that, this isn’t looking incredibly realistic. There are games and engines that done it little more convincing
Comment · 4 years ago
Depends on environment. At work we have official corp communication platform - Teams. Most UI build for browsers and require a lot of complex JavaScript for render.

But most of my work is still done in terminal. Most project I managed ended up with very nice CLI applications, makes things a lot easier in the end, like automations for example. Initially specially younger engineers struggled with decision to build cli instead of web portals. But later realized how effective and productive the decision was..

Comment · 4 years ago
100% agree with your opinion, the business model didn’t make any sense. Also as platform it wasn’t that grate either: lags, graphics quality and many more issues (not it’s not my internet). I’m glad they tried but suits failed the project.
Comment · 4 years ago
Exactly that ^
Comment · 4 years ago
I don’t judge all drivers. Most, majority are nice and professional folks. I’m upset how customer support handled the situation.
Comment · 4 years ago
That issue isn’t only with Airbnb. Many other tech companies have poor customer service and more than willing to just ban you rather than deal with issues. Had incident with Uber. Driver came 30 mins late, she accepted ride, forgot to turn off her location and went to coffee shop. When she arrived, I didn’t say anything. She was rude entire ride complaining about other customers, traffic. I remained quiet. She quickly found out, pretty easy to hear from my accent, that I’m an immigrant. She started to complain about immigrants, immigration system and other nonsense like they took our jobs and how the one, back than candidate, would fix it all.

I left her one star review and very small tip.

Next day I got message that my account suspended. It took me entire day but eventually I found out that she wrote complaint to company that my wife and I physically assaulted her during ride. And based on her word alone it was enough to permanently ban me

Comment · 4 years ago
DRM is insane concept. I haven’t yet seen one that would actually “work” but like other commentator said main goal is to be obstruction enough to prove that you circumvented copyright policy in first place and to add to that it makes big bosses feel safer.

As far as I’m concerned if you have something that is sooo protected don’t upload it to public web; to access anything you have to, first, download its contents, second - eventually decrypt/decode.

Comment · 4 years ago
2 tea pots to this gentleman, please.
Comment · 4 years ago
I’d say it’s all backwards default copy-paste should be just text and then you can go overboard with adding +shift to combination or +alt
Comment · 4 years ago
I actually think the Robot devil is C, powerful, talented and dangerous. If anyone cares I would say The professor is assembly language.
Comment · 4 years ago
Condolences to his family and friends. Man was hero, his action to undergo experimental treatment going to help the researchers.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nah just need overhaul and better control, start with taking legal actions against patent trolls on federal level. People will always look for ways to make money with very little effort
Comment · 4 years ago
Selling patents to trolls, what can go wrong…

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