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Indeed, you have package manager interaction but I think that on most linux boxes that is standard? I could be wrong there though, it just goes for the ones that I have used. Still pretty meat that yo…

I have not used PS that much so I am not sure how much can be accomplished with it. One of the great things about a Linux system is that you can use the terminal to install and delete programs. Can yo…

Absolutely! I saw it on the news last night, and I must say I would not have guessed his age if it was not mentioned. His cardio is probably better than mine.. :D

When I started working on Windows again at the end of last year, the first thing I did was pin PowerShell to the taskbar. I have not used the plain CMD for a long time and would not go back to it. Mu…

I would self host. Maybe crosspost to Medium as others have suggested here. Alternatively I do think github pages like has been mentioned is good if you do not want to set up your own blog (even thoug…

That is what I was referring to. They take measures like you said, but do non-technical people even know about it? It is not advertised as far as I know.

Being ethical? Maybe the engineers need to have some ethics but not all products do.

I have not been at events related to startups. Thank you for giving some insights into where they might use that many apple laptops. The events hosted by my former university have a _few_ macs, but mo…

Same here, a lot of people used linux and the machines at university all had a linux option to choose from apart from windows, which was the preferred choice for many courses. I never really considere…

> you simply have to look around during workshops and speakings to see 90% of Apple systems Are these perhaps apple events? But seriously, that numbers seems hugely exagerated, at least from the ev…

I guess Whatsapp's purpose is similar to that of telecom though, but that is my naive interpretation of what is done in whatsapp and telecom using Erlang.

Absolutely! Can I ask if you are taking these nodes the old fashioned way with pen and paper or are you using a program to do this? I myself have found out that during meetings I prefer to use a pen a…

Same here though I only use it for side projects. During my day job it is pretty much Java and SQL.

Eloquent email responsed are not to be underestimated, being able to communicate in clear language is a valuable skill.

So you are saying that the exact same thing could not happen on the apple store or whatever it is called? Except then your extension would be disabled _AND_ you'd have lost $100

Wrote my post before I saw this one. This is in line with what I was thinking, an act of altruism to make yourself feel good is not pure altruism. I also agree that it is about the actions more than w…

Good point, if it is altruism out of self-interest it is not altruistic in the pure sense. I think that I might go as extreme as to say it is only altruistic if it makes you feel bad or puts you in a …

May he RIP. The philosophy of personal identity is one of my favourite subjects in philosophy so his work came up a few times when studying that. Worth reading up on some of his work if you like philo…

This has been the case in Belgium for about 20 years. The law does make it possible for the family to _refuse_ in case they have objections against it. It is the default, but the family is still consi…

If you are not sure if it has spyware installed, you also do not know what the spyware is doing exactly and it could potentially be worse than what the spyware you know of is doing. I guess I could ar…

Similar situation here, and I absolutely agree with you.

To be fair, if it comes with a preinstalled version of windows you can never really be sure what is on the machine, can you? I suspect that if a company really wanted to hide something they probably c…

I have a Lenovo laptop at home that is quite old now (A dual-core machine that I used throughout university). I am not sure which one it is, but I have been running Ubuntu on it for quite some time no…

Same here, when I am looking for something and I know the area I will read the method or whatever it is rather quickly and be like "oh okay, this is what it does so the problem is not here".…

Reading this, as well as the comments in this thread makes me want to play the game again. Might fire it up over the weekend and I will surely go through the code for a while! It was a nice late-chris…

Clicked on the "Don't buy on Steam" button, was worth it! These guys have a sense of humour that is quite inline with what I find funny :-)

I take it to mean that he uses that as a desktop wallpaper. No?

I actually grew used to using Unity after some time, so much so that I now prefer even the windows taskbar to be on the side of the screen and not on the bottom when I am on a windows box. EDIT: Remov…

Most times but not always unfortunately. Had a couple of times that I did not check a small frontend change on firefox because I assumed a small change would be fine, yet had different results in chro…