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I remember the days growing on dialup using AOL and 'WoW(? i think)' this is much better

there's collaborative fiction and art all over the place, people easily talking and sharing their work and hobbies from homebrewing and math to the wookiepedia, gamejams, SCP, game mods, whatever is it kids do in minecraft and roblox even when it comes the mainstream there's stuff like (blockclub, the athletic ..etc ..etc ..etc)

If anything I think what all of these "old internet" articles illude to is the authors feeling nostalgic for when they were part of what they considered to be counter-culture or lost interests they want to burry themselves in

I may be weird but I really like the new UI

At the end of the day the corporate branding and hype building is stupid and disingenuous, but people still enjoy interacting with 3d content call it what you want

BGA and basketball gm

Windows11 doesn't have candy crush launchers/installers preinstalled in the start menu, I do have some links to Office programs I haven't installed but I don't find them bad

I play a lot of web games without any of that stuff now

I'm in the same boat, but we really need to update our justice system to compensate for the increase in trivial infractions.

social credit style systems can make a lot of sense here, eg: micro punishments and rewards

he was right i wouldn't want to mess with the people behind covid and 9/11 either

without net neutrality this could be useful for future billing arrangements

That feels like a bit of a stretch their core CPUs are still very competitive, they are planning on manufacturing ARM chips as well

The windows 8 push ruined anything good about windows desktop development since then it's been a madhouse -- makes the JS world look organized

It looks like the original as been updated, the differences don't seem very drastic especially when you consider what the SKU's w/ the m1 max cost

guess it's about a 1.5-2x difference in battery life though

facebook drove your other options to suicide

Sad!

They are dangerously close and may be crossing the line with these moves

mostly unavoidable bing integration, mostly unavoidable edge integration, unavoidable teams integration, bing rewards in the start menu

I'd expect lawsuits to follow in the coming months and years if they don't take some steps back

the marketshare they retain in the desktop space still places them in the classical monopoly position ( > 75%)

it's as if all of his opinions were developed reading marketing material

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, one of the only powers a lot of have is being able to pick who wins by working for them

I think it's alright, the real problem that I've noticed is that a lot of developers tend to misconstrue what they need and bloat their projects in amazingly unmanageable way because it 'the way to do things according to random source x' which could be some weird abuse of state management systems like or redux or general application design

FWIW I've seen it in many projects outside of the react/js world as well

IMO there's been a general drought in books/material on reasoning/thinking about software in general in-favor of the framework/library centric mania we have now which focus on the least interesting aspects of the field -- the cynic in me thinks this is due to how we hire people but there's likely more to it than that

Every company I've worked at that followed some sort of rigid scrum process has suffered from burnout and general failure in one form or another

It treats developers like consultants because it's really designed for agencies working on one-off short-burst projects ( this is the only setting I've seen it have a positive effect )

by nature it just chews people up if it becomes a day-to-day practice, the whole process revolves around the assumption that there's lack of trust and team cohesion

The real problem with religion is that there's more than one

well, a lot of people manage not to.

Yeah, the fact it has a camera taking video of your living space outside the headset makes it even creeper.. same goes for their built in web-browser.

I've discouraged many people from buying one and the world is better for it

facebook is the business equivalent of toxic waste, the only notable thing about them is that they help make some people rich

thanks for making the world a shithole dude

Similar happened to me, for less money though clicking around in visual studio.

I thought I'd deleted the resources but months later I was getting emails about past due charges

that's just dumb, like third parties do all the work and contact you about critical bugs the only effort on Apple's part of verification and some coordination which shouldn't be a huge issue for a company the size of apple.. just hire a team to do it and be done with it the whole 'secrecy culture' is a bunch of hogwash

Just searching for 'dogs' gave me more interesting results than I've seen from google in years

It feels off, before working at facebook I was unable to buy a house and wouldn't have been able to retire at 67

I've worked a for a lot of 'nicer' small companies and they pretty much threw me in the trash

You're thinking about software not apps

if enforced, wouldn't surprise me of flashmob style groups of protestors got together often and started doing it

We really need laws banning devices like this before they become common place, Illinois at least has some laws regarding facial recognition it's probably a good starting point