You don't get to decide that, and the fact that you don't realize it is the real tragedy.
See, you don't have to agree with people; if you want a civilized discussion all you have to do is reply and explain why. Resorting to name-calling, or even worse, modding down opinions you disagree with only leads to creating an environment of intolerance and bigotry.
I always disliked Trump (which I believe is a socipath), but ever since the election I realized that the real danger for america is not him and his clickbait politics, it's the unflinching, relentless zealotry of the liberals which has become as disgusting and malicious as the right-wing witch hunts of the mccarthy era.
Shame on you people. You're not fascist-hunting or nazi-shaming, you're paving the way to a truly horrible society and you know what, big corporations are playing look like a fiddle.
So, you're saying that the 500 million dollar deal doesn't exist or is a lefty story? [...] But if you want to just strawman
No. I called out the poster on his "fucking piece of neo-fascist enabling shit" comment, that's it. There is nowhere any mention of any deal in my comment, so if at some point you want to see what a real "strawman" is, read your own post.
to whoever modded that guy up: I hope you people are happy with the echo chamber you're building. Pretty soon there won't be discussions on this website, just a bunch of retards high-fiving each other and reacting to inflammatory op-eds. Bravo.
The guy invited Trump under false pretense, then took part in an ambush to attack him about the trade agreement, and finally "stood up" to him once Trump was gone.
If Trump had done even a fraction of that you'd presently be calling (even more) for impeachment.
^ for the record, anyone who upvoted that comment is adding another brick to the wall of ignorance that is infinitely more damaging to america than trump's fantasy mexican wall
Thank you for showing us the level of discussion we can have with liberals nowadays. We need more of these honest comments so we can look back on those threads a few years down the road and remember how things turn ugly when democrats lose their elections.
What about the past year and a half could possibly make you think Trump cares anything about "American jobs"?
In a nutshell, everything he's done in the past year and a half, including taking some heat during phony summits and ignoring the hypocrisy of pussy-hurting liberals like you
I once worked in a small-ish company where my email handle was my first name + "2", even though nobody was using my first name. Their email admin had created a mailbox with my first name when I was hired, but the post-it with the password was thrown away before I arrived, and apparently it was easier to create a new mailbox than reset the password of the existing one.
Among other interesting things in that company, it was also the only time in my long and distinguished career that I had a desktop with a public ip address, which was great except for the occasional "net send" spam I would get. Good old days.
If you're flush with VC money, you obviously get your own domain name for your e-mail.
Anyone can afford the domain fee ($9/year) and the fancy Google or Office365 email service ($5/month).
VC money should be used for something more useful, like the lawyers at Boies that allowed Theranos to burn through $900 million on 10 years of vaporware without being publicly challenged (it's the same law firm that negotiated Harvey Weinstein's severance, that was hired by Oracle to sue Google over Android/Java, that was representing SCO in their UNIX lawsuits, that defended the Enron CFO, and that represented Big Tobacco when they appealed cancer lawsuits).
Other good uses of VC money is sexual harassment lawsuits (Uber), "company" houses in the Hamptons and LA (Mode media), worthless music streaming platform acquisition (Guvera) or decommissioned Soviet fighter jets (Terralliance).
I've used open source software since the 1980s, and the past 6 or 7 years have been awful. Linux from 2018 is way worse than Linux from 2008.
You are full of shit.
I'm using Linux on my main desktop today, and while possible, it would not have been such a pleasant experience in 2008. Back then, it was also still a pain in the ass to make cross-browser web pages (Boostrap came out in 2011); subversion was sitll bigger than git, so creating branches meant creating folders and committing code was impossible if the central server was down; storing objects in databases still required an ORM; the only server-side JavaScript framework was from Microsoft and it was the opposite of non-blocking. There was no docker, no vagrant, no ansible; nginx was still obscure, and while sluggish distributed computing was possible thanks to MapReduce, actual machine learning was still a wet dream (Spark came out years later) and AI was pure science-fiction (GPUs were still mostly used for video processing).
Don't rewrite history, and stop wishing harm to people who care about making the world a better place with their code.
Or to put it another way - why do the members not do something about it? Are unions in the US not democratic?
Are unions democratic? Well it doesn't matter much if newcomers are voted out of juicy clauses before they get hired. A good example is at GM or Ford where more and more jobs were redefined as "non-core" for new hires, in practice cutting their hourly wage in half for the same kind of work done by "core" workers. This was a decision voted for by union workers as a compromise to protect their existing wages and benefits. Another example is how newcomes were no longer eligible to be part of the job bank at Ford after a layoff, or at best had to accept any position offered anywhere or leave the company, while some people were already on the job bank with the right of refusing three or more position before being kicked out.
Give this unfair treatment, you would assume that people would choose to skip the union. But in many cases, either union membership is mandatory for all eligible employees (because of the work contract negotiated with the employer) or people who choose to not be part of the union have to pay a fat fee to "compensate" the union for their benevolent actions such as negotiating the collective agreement. In other words, total racket.
Was it Steinbeck who wrote that poor Americans see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, not members of the working class?
I don't know, I don't read Steinbeck because it's too boring, and if he wrote that his books suck even more than I assumed.
The real reason why Americans sympathize more with the bosses is because that's where the paycheck comes from. At the end of the day, camaraderie and bonding with coworkers is great, but it don't pay for no kentucky fried chicken or netflix subscriptions.
You fuckwits don't realize what you are doing to yourselves and to independent stores.
I'm not an Amazon fan, but I hate independent stores more with their shitty business hours and the usual absence of ways to go back and check previous orders so I don't buy the same season of GoT for mother's days two years in a row.
if Prime video services worked on my non Fire android box.
Amazon isn't in control of that. Hollywood is.
So Hollywood is forcing Amazon streaming to be a piece of shit on non-Amazon devices, but somehow lets Netflix provide high quality streaming even on my grandmother's bloatware ridden Dell Platitude bought at best buy more than a decade ago?
Yeah...and the free shipping thing. I've never seen free shipping cost so much.
More specifically, bad free shipping. I always assumed Prime delivery was great, and that it was just the free non-Prime delivery that was awful for the specific purpose of getting people to upgrade to Prime. But I've used the trial and basically it was the same awful shipping with fancy black tape on the boxes.
I don't consider that my money is hard-earned (I'm in consulting) and yet I'll never spend any of it on Amazon Prime.
Most of the post-WWII prosperity and middle-class growth in the US was thanks to the labor movement.
True, and we're all grateful for it. But just like pony express, steam powered cars or muskets, unions are an important thing of the past that is no longer relevant in the present. Move on, dude.
They provide a counter to the power of corporations to abuse their workers.
This is no longer true. In pretty much any modern union, the good stuff has been grandfathered/orphaned and new members pony up dues and support union strikes with little or no gain for themselves.
The only good union is the union you've been a member of since 20 years ago. Anything else is essentially a cast system with no upward mobility.
you kept with the green robot and now you see the consequences of duopoly.
Who is that "you"? And what should those guilty people have done instead? Specifically buy a product with a tiny market share for the purpose of supporting a collectively diverse phone ecosystem? And how would they have coordinated their buying decisions to make sure not to create any kind of duopoly?
See, you're just blaming a large vague group of people while really all we're seeing is market forces. Numbers show that as the mobile market grows, a vast majority of people prefer higher quality and more cost-effective devices, while a somewhat steady group of loyal brand lovers prefer a unified if a bit stiffled ecosystem that comes with a higher price tag and less advanced devices. There's nothing of significance in between because there's no offering that is more valuable or attractive than the main two.
There could have been a viable third option (Windows phone), and anyone who has owned one will tell you that the metro tiles and the overall experience was great on mobile devices. But once again Microsoft squandered that opportunity by failing to provide an attractive and convenient platform for developers. You can't really blame customers for that.
Actually, we do that because we've been doing it since a time [...]
So what? I started my career working on HP3000 and IBM COPICS. That didn't stop me from adopting new computer thingies as they appeared, and HTML emails is one of them.
HTML offers a richer experience: hyperlinks, pictures, etc. Rejecting that because it's not "how we used to do it" sounds a lot like either a failure to adapt or an Amish perspective on life.
Anyways we're not talking about a flavor of the week kind of thing, HTML has been around for 30 years; it's old enough that most email servers support sending both text and html.
Are you really unable to articulate your thoughts without resorting to using bold and italics? Perhaps when you grow up you'll learn how to control your words and emotions better.
Where did I say or even imply that? Maybe before telling people to grow up you could consider improving your reading skills.
Then I realized you probaly meant that it could not tell if you had read an email locally, which is quite sad, if true.
Happens to me too at work. That and the always exciting (1) problem: randomly the badge next to the inbox label seems to think there's 1 unread email even if I delete the whole inbox. Those are things one would assume are caught by very very basic QA.
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Shut the fuck up, faggot
You don't get to decide that, and the fact that you don't realize it is the real tragedy.
See, you don't have to agree with people; if you want a civilized discussion all you have to do is reply and explain why. Resorting to name-calling, or even worse, modding down opinions you disagree with only leads to creating an environment of intolerance and bigotry.
I always disliked Trump (which I believe is a socipath), but ever since the election I realized that the real danger for america is not him and his clickbait politics, it's the unflinching, relentless zealotry of the liberals which has become as disgusting and malicious as the right-wing witch hunts of the mccarthy era.
Shame on you people. You're not fascist-hunting or nazi-shaming, you're paving the way to a truly horrible society and you know what, big corporations are playing look like a fiddle.
So, you're saying that the 500 million dollar deal doesn't exist or is a lefty story? [...] But if you want to just strawman
No. I called out the poster on his "fucking piece of neo-fascist enabling shit" comment, that's it. There is nowhere any mention of any deal in my comment, so if at some point you want to see what a real "strawman" is, read your own post.
to whoever modded that guy up: I hope you people are happy with the echo chamber you're building. Pretty soon there won't be discussions on this website, just a bunch of retards high-fiving each other and reacting to inflammatory op-eds. Bravo.
The guy invited Trump under false pretense, then took part in an ambush to attack him about the trade agreement, and finally "stood up" to him once Trump was gone.
If Trump had done even a fraction of that you'd presently be calling (even more) for impeachment.
^ for the record, anyone who upvoted that comment is adding another brick to the wall of ignorance that is infinitely more damaging to america than trump's fantasy mexican wall
You fucking piece of neo-fascist enabling shit
Thank you for showing us the level of discussion we can have with liberals nowadays. We need more of these honest comments so we can look back on those threads a few years down the road and remember how things turn ugly when democrats lose their elections.
What about the past year and a half could possibly make you think Trump cares anything about "American jobs"?
In a nutshell, everything he's done in the past year and a half, including taking some heat during phony summits and ignoring the hypocrisy of pussy-hurting liberals like you
Can't wait to use my VBA skills and my regedit expertise to put my name at the top of the leaderboard, like I used to do with Microsoft Plus games.
Even better, have everyone use the same Gmail account, and pretend you're using Slack.
I once worked in a small-ish company where my email handle was my first name + "2", even though nobody was using my first name. Their email admin had created a mailbox with my first name when I was hired, but the post-it with the password was thrown away before I arrived, and apparently it was easier to create a new mailbox than reset the password of the existing one.
Among other interesting things in that company, it was also the only time in my long and distinguished career that I had a desktop with a public ip address, which was great except for the occasional "net send" spam I would get. Good old days.
If you're flush with VC money, you obviously get your own domain name for your e-mail.
Anyone can afford the domain fee ($9/year) and the fancy Google or Office365 email service ($5/month).
VC money should be used for something more useful, like the lawyers at Boies that allowed Theranos to burn through $900 million on 10 years of vaporware without being publicly challenged (it's the same law firm that negotiated Harvey Weinstein's severance, that was hired by Oracle to sue Google over Android/Java, that was representing SCO in their UNIX lawsuits, that defended the Enron CFO, and that represented Big Tobacco when they appealed cancer lawsuits).
Other good uses of VC money is sexual harassment lawsuits (Uber), "company" houses in the Hamptons and LA (Mode media), worthless music streaming platform acquisition (Guvera) or decommissioned Soviet fighter jets (Terralliance).
I've used open source software since the 1980s, and the past 6 or 7 years have been awful. Linux from 2018 is way worse than Linux from 2008.
You are full of shit.
I'm using Linux on my main desktop today, and while possible, it would not have been such a pleasant experience in 2008. Back then, it was also still a pain in the ass to make cross-browser web pages (Boostrap came out in 2011); subversion was sitll bigger than git, so creating branches meant creating folders and committing code was impossible if the central server was down; storing objects in databases still required an ORM; the only server-side JavaScript framework was from Microsoft and it was the opposite of non-blocking. There was no docker, no vagrant, no ansible; nginx was still obscure, and while sluggish distributed computing was possible thanks to MapReduce, actual machine learning was still a wet dream (Spark came out years later) and AI was pure science-fiction (GPUs were still mostly used for video processing).
Don't rewrite history, and stop wishing harm to people who care about making the world a better place with their code.
Or to put it another way - why do the members not do something about it? Are unions in the US not democratic?
Are unions democratic? Well it doesn't matter much if newcomers are voted out of juicy clauses before they get hired. A good example is at GM or Ford where more and more jobs were redefined as "non-core" for new hires, in practice cutting their hourly wage in half for the same kind of work done by "core" workers. This was a decision voted for by union workers as a compromise to protect their existing wages and benefits. Another example is how newcomes were no longer eligible to be part of the job bank at Ford after a layoff, or at best had to accept any position offered anywhere or leave the company, while some people were already on the job bank with the right of refusing three or more position before being kicked out.
Give this unfair treatment, you would assume that people would choose to skip the union. But in many cases, either union membership is mandatory for all eligible employees (because of the work contract negotiated with the employer) or people who choose to not be part of the union have to pay a fat fee to "compensate" the union for their benevolent actions such as negotiating the collective agreement. In other words, total racket.
Was it Steinbeck who wrote that poor Americans see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, not members of the working class?
I don't know, I don't read Steinbeck because it's too boring, and if he wrote that his books suck even more than I assumed.
The real reason why Americans sympathize more with the bosses is because that's where the paycheck comes from. At the end of the day, camaraderie and bonding with coworkers is great, but it don't pay for no kentucky fried chicken or netflix subscriptions.
You fuckwits don't realize what you are doing to yourselves and to independent stores.
I'm not an Amazon fan, but I hate independent stores more with their shitty business hours and the usual absence of ways to go back and check previous orders so I don't buy the same season of GoT for mother's days two years in a row.
Amazon isn't in control of that. Hollywood is.
So Hollywood is forcing Amazon streaming to be a piece of shit on non-Amazon devices, but somehow lets Netflix provide high quality streaming even on my grandmother's bloatware ridden Dell Platitude bought at best buy more than a decade ago?
no, cisco makes ios, numbskull.
no, Blackberry makes ios (or at least the kernel).
Yeah...and the free shipping thing. I've never seen free shipping cost so much.
More specifically, bad free shipping. I always assumed Prime delivery was great, and that it was just the free non-Prime delivery that was awful for the specific purpose of getting people to upgrade to Prime. But I've used the trial and basically it was the same awful shipping with fancy black tape on the boxes.
I don't consider that my money is hard-earned (I'm in consulting) and yet I'll never spend any of it on Amazon Prime.
Most of the post-WWII prosperity and middle-class growth in the US was thanks to the labor movement.
True, and we're all grateful for it. But just like pony express, steam powered cars or muskets, unions are an important thing of the past that is no longer relevant in the present. Move on, dude.
They provide a counter to the power of corporations to abuse their workers.
This is no longer true. In pretty much any modern union, the good stuff has been grandfathered/orphaned and new members pony up dues and support union strikes with little or no gain for themselves.
The only good union is the union you've been a member of since 20 years ago. Anything else is essentially a cast system with no upward mobility.
you kept with the green robot and now you see the consequences of duopoly.
Who is that "you"? And what should those guilty people have done instead? Specifically buy a product with a tiny market share for the purpose of supporting a collectively diverse phone ecosystem? And how would they have coordinated their buying decisions to make sure not to create any kind of duopoly?
See, you're just blaming a large vague group of people while really all we're seeing is market forces. Numbers show that as the mobile market grows, a vast majority of people prefer higher quality and more cost-effective devices, while a somewhat steady group of loyal brand lovers prefer a unified if a bit stiffled ecosystem that comes with a higher price tag and less advanced devices. There's nothing of significance in between because there's no offering that is more valuable or attractive than the main two.
There could have been a viable third option (Windows phone), and anyone who has owned one will tell you that the metro tiles and the overall experience was great on mobile devices. But once again Microsoft squandered that opportunity by failing to provide an attractive and convenient platform for developers. You can't really blame customers for that.
Actually, we do that because we've been doing it since a time [...]
So what? I started my career working on HP3000 and IBM COPICS. That didn't stop me from adopting new computer thingies as they appeared, and HTML emails is one of them.
HTML offers a richer experience: hyperlinks, pictures, etc. Rejecting that because it's not "how we used to do it" sounds a lot like either a failure to adapt or an Amish perspective on life.
Anyways we're not talking about a flavor of the week kind of thing, HTML has been around for 30 years; it's old enough that most email servers support sending both text and html.
Those are not stars.
Sorry I didn't mean to trigger aspies with that comment.
Are you really unable to articulate your thoughts without resorting to using bold and italics? Perhaps when you grow up you'll learn how to control your words and emotions better.
Where did I say or even imply that? Maybe before telling people to grow up you could consider improving your reading skills.
I generally get between 200-300 emails a day at work, more than 75% of which require my attention.
That's like an email to process every 2-3 minutes.... What do you do? Sell penis enlargement pills?
Then I realized you probaly meant that it could not tell if you had read an email locally, which is quite sad, if true.
Happens to me too at work. That and the always exciting (1) problem: randomly the badge next to the inbox label seems to think there's 1 unread email even if I delete the whole inbox. Those are things one would assume are caught by very very basic QA.