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I believe he was trying to ratio him (and he succeeded).

That behavior goes all the way back to the mid 90s in IE4 at least when everything was .com

Yup, I found about this when I accidentally clicked on such a link to PlayStore that was missing the colon and was confused when it didn't work and copy-pasted it in the address bar. I am sure it was just a typo on that website.

GitHub is full of similar typos in documentation and code files (74.8k results). I am not sure if there's a way to do a web search based on code and find "live" examples but I can't imaging there'd be a shortage of those either.

https://github.com/search?q=%22https%2F%2F%22++&type=code

Good. Dublin should follow next.

Except this thing is opt-out and would put a whole lot of data on tens of millions of computers including things that were never stored by default (credit card numbers, reset codes, e2e encrypted messages etc).

Recall is a malware.

This is every romance scammer's dreams come true...

Wonder what the author thinks of the Tesla software locked batteries.

and now Google is barely returning any relevant results anymore :/

RoboForm auto-upgraded my "perpetual" license that I bought over 10 years ago and now it's in "read-only" mode (doesn't allow auto-fill or adding new passwords) unless I pay them a MONTHLY subscription AND it synced all my passwords to their server without my consent.

Microsoft has more careerists than most other tech companies. I bet plenty of the key figures are still at the company.

Just use a Google voice number?

I just need search engines to have an option to "block" certain sites from my results for all future search queries. Getting rid of Quora would be a good start.

I thought that was to keep the electronics powered up. The 12V battery isn't enough to sustain them for too long.

> The MSLU was announced in March 2001, and was first made available as a compatibility layer for Unicode-supporting code written for the then-new Windows XP RC1 in the July 2001 edition of Microsoft's Platform SDK.

People had to deal with local language file names since Windows 3.1 at least and it became very common with Windows 95. Good luck if you wanted to deal with files named in more than 1 non-ASCII language (very common in Europe or the Middle East).

Compared to modern IDEs it won't do very well, but do you remember better alternatives back then, at least if you wanted a "friendly" UI instead of a command line one? Would you choose something different if you go back to 2005? how about 1998?

Don't think small clubs suffer from scalping much if at all. Scalping makes sense when there's enough demand to justify the effort and risk.

Visual Studio 6 (1998) is an unappreciated piece of art for what it was back in the day and even by today's standards.

True. They broke the basic Windows search functionality some time in 2007 and broke Outlook search around 2013 and neither of which have been fixed since.

Also because there's no promo or bonus for writing good documentation. It's mostly a thankless task even for internal docs.

Microsoft has literal teams with budgets of several millions USD just for the file open/save in Office which is written in C++.

> new API isn't complete enough and has warts in places where using one of the older ones is better/easier/safer

Describes Windows Forms vs everything else MS has been trying to do in the past 15 years.

In fairness, not that many people (including Microsoft) write native C++ apps for Windows anymore, certainly not without tried and tested libraries.

You can write C# code dealing with reading/writing files once and compile it on Linux/Windows/Mac and it'll work pretty much the exact same.

Now try doing this for Windows 98 or older, specially the non-ASCII file paths part (which was a common use case outside of the US).

Not many people would take a day off or travel out of town if there's a high risk of not getting a ticket either.

I wish they had an option for me to always exclude certain sites from the resulrs

Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

Can you name even one case?

Probably because it's a good way to avoid spam filters in emails I guess, since the group posts would come straight from Google?

Correct, but it hasn't been upgraded in over a decade. It no longer produces apps that are consistent with Microsoft's own the way it was until Windows 7.

> .net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

Yes, but that wasn't the case back in the mid-2000s when VB6 was dying and no one wanted to migrate to VB.Net

WinForms in C# was pretty decent tbh. Not so sure about WCF/Metro/Modern and whatever it is now that Microsoft been releasing. They just stopped caring about consistent UI for apps on Windows altogether since ~2010 or so.