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  1. I can't hear myself think on 58% of High-Performance Employees Say They Need More Quiet Work Spaces (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I'm in the office I can't hear myself think, and anyone I'm on the phone with hears everyone around me. It loses us customers as they believe it wholly unprofessional. My employer has an open layout approach and no white noise along with no noise cancelling headsets, so all my customers and I hear is everyone around me. And some of these assholes take pride in being loud("you're telling me to change who I am!"). Luckily, I work from home or on the road the majority of the time, so I don't have to deal with it, but, ultimately, fuck open layouts. Give me offices, or at least tall cubes.

  2. There are umpteen kinds of utilitarian ethical theories alone. I'm not confusing anything, AC.

  3. There are many ethical systems. Unethical to you is ethical to someone else

  4. You are not entitled to ad revenue

  5. Which phone? The G4, G5, V10, and V20 all have raised camera apertures that are next to the power buttons(which are all flush or recessed compared to the body), and on the G3 the camera aperture is flush but the power button is recessed. There is no way to set the device down on a flat surface and push the power button without bending the phone enough to crack the screen.

  6. Re:rear is better on Why Samsung Ditched On-Screen Fingerprint Scanning For Galaxy S8 (theinvestor.co.kr) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Grip around sides.. index finger rests right in middle, where the scanner is. The only time that doesn't apply is when holding landscape style.

    When gripping the phone to activate frontal fingerprint readers you actually need to let the phone hang loose a bit to get the thumb onto the reader, which is problematic on large format phones. I have an iPhone 7 and an LG V20. The V20 is more natural to hold and activate.

  7. You don't have to be careful. The volume and power buttons are recessed into the rear casing.

  8. rear is better on Why Samsung Ditched On-Screen Fingerprint Scanning For Galaxy S8 (theinvestor.co.kr) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Rear fingerprint scanning is the better option for large format phones anyways. This is one thing that LG has managed to get right recently.

  9. Why would you even want it anymore? All they'll do is build it and sell it to Frontier and turn it into garbage

  10. Re:HP printers on HP Top Level Executive On Life After the Split (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    That's not because we won't pay for quality. It's because ink and toner have become the profit drivers. Buying a better printer doesn't make the ink cheaper. It costs less for an inkjet printer than it does for a package of ink.

  11. There is no sexual harassment claim, only a claim that they're being paid less because of their gender.

  12. Most people just look for a better job. They don't care about "what the company stands for". Shitty work conditions are normal in startup culture.

  13. I'm assuming the culture at Tesla is similar to the culture at SpaceX, which is a culture of "fuck you, work 90 hour weeks because you're just here building your resume and I can work you to death if I want to", which is to say any pervasive harassment isn't a female problem, it's a cultural problem that is applied to every peon in the building. If that assumption holds true, the fact that she was paid less isn't because she's a girl, but because the market bears that salary for that position for a girl and Tesla can and will get away with anything it can to further its goals in the most cost effective way possible. Basically, it's the assassin saying "It's not personal, it's just business", which the courts tend to be okay with because it's not special treatment.

  14. no one asked for this on Google Releases Open Source File Sharing Project 'Upspin' On GitHub (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    This reads like a business product, but is clearly targeting "home users". No home user asked for this. It's unnecessary. Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox all provide near universal multiplatform support for file sharing and storage, and protocols like FTP, SFTP, DCC, BitTorrent, etc exist and are well supported for providing more direct transfer methods for home users.

    Now, if you want a business product, sure, you could probably fit this in somewhere, the somewhere where people don't use network shares, VPNs, or have OneDrive already setup(so, non-Microsoft shops)

  15. In your case agile would help to avoid the eventual trouble when the client brings a phone for you, and you notice it's a Windows Phone instead of Android, and graphics need to be done in Direct3D, not OpenGL. That would not be unheard of. Having no client solves that problem, though.

    Statement of work: Build engine for Android architecture

    Sales Order: Pay me money net-30

    Where's the confusion? If the customer provides a Windows phone, too fucking bad they signed a goddamned contract that explicitly stated what they needed and that was produced and delivered. Problem? See you in court. -Signed, Every corporation I've ever worked for

  16. Re:Pale Moon is very nice on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 1

    Does Pale Moon support Firefox addons directly? Or is it a separate library?

  17. Re:Going to get folded into Fi any day now on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is where legislation like the Telecommunications Act of 96 comes in. Force them to share the wires.

  18. Re:They're onto something. on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck you and your wireless latency

  19. Re:Going to get folded into Fi any day now on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're not fighting cable monopolies, they're fighting cities that allow and enforce cable monopolies. This is purely a municipal issue and in some cases a state issue. I squarely place the blame on the people making the laws and taking money from people to make skewed laws. In many states, cities can address this fairly easily. In some, you have to go to the state level. Or for the nuclear option you go federal. Either way, fix the laws and the rest falls in place. This is not the first time nor the last that this is the solution(the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is just one example that can be cited)

  20. Re:flip it around on Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    RTFA? It's not about geolocation. It's about account home location. Use context, which is what, second grade reading comprehension?

  21. flip it around on Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The issue was brought to a head last year when Netflix began blocking the known IPs of VPN providers, often used by subscribers to access the catalogs of their home countries while travelling.

    I guess that's one way to put it. I'd say most people use the VPNs to access content blocked in their home country, and it sounds like this order actually harms that since your country remains the same regardless of your physical location(or your VPNs physical location).

  22. Re:GitHub attempts to autodetect. on GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine are in DataBASIC...

  23. Re:Somewhat selfishly, I look forward to this. on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How is it more convenient than rice?

    Rice is very water intensive to grow. Quinoa is no where even close.

  24. At the end of the day, the most important use case for a smartwatch remains dealing with notifications.

    Well, in general, maybe, but I got mine for golf and many golfers I know use them. Distance and hole layout just with a look, tracking shots is very easy, etc. There are a number of very specific use cases that they're one of the best tools on the market for

  25. Re:Shame on LG Continues To Bleed Money, Thanks To Smartphones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The G5 is a flop because it isn't what the G3, G4, V10, and V20 are.