JamesBaxter

Seems like your looking for an excuse to stop paying. I said "I don't think"....

Many people I know have always pirated software and TV and said once there was a reasonable way to get it legally they would pay for it. I haven't seen this be the case. I don't think you can convert pirates.

It is possible however to convert legal users to pirates by having systems that annoy people who have legally purchased. I don't know how you strike the balance.

I hate the entitlement of people who pirate stuff, if it's not legally available in your area that's a shame but it doesn't give you a right to it.

While clearly it's not ideal for them to be using XP wasn't the British government one of the purchasers of extended XP support? Has that ended now?

The state of legal TV and film content in the UK is abysmal.

I think it's really important that we consider that just because there's no legal way for me to watch say "The Americans" season 5 legally in the UK[0], I'm not entitled to pirate it. That is the content distributors mistake.

Saying that me downloading it doesn't hurt them doesn't track either because I'll be seeding a file to others who might have legal alternatives.

I've had to adjust how important watching stuff can be to me. Is it really that important that I get to watch some TV? Worth breaking the law for?

[0]https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/the-americans

"There's nothing more annoying than selecting a file and having it removed due to a disallowed file type, therefore all files are allowed*."

CTRL+F finds no other asterisk on the page, what's the caveat?

Yeah I thought about that, you could use the achievement rarity as I noted below.

Whatever system you use developers will try and game it but I think there are ways of cutting out obviously bad achievements

Yep, you could use achievement rarity too. If 100% of all players get an achievement don't use it for recommending or 1% have it increase the weighting?

I think you could use Steam Achivements and playtime to recommend games to people.

If I've played a game to completion on the highest difficulty presumably I like it. Find me other games that people with the achievement also play and have the equivalent achievement on and you've got something basic.

You can't say you love the new MBP and that you recommend that anyone that buys one has a backup computer in the same comment...

I wouldn't describe myself as a VB fan but I don't hate it either.

I would say however that there is harm in picking technologies that less developers know (or will be willing to learn).

For your use of VB6 clearly it doesn't matter but I'm not sure I'd recommend anyone started a commercial project with VB...

Yeah I was meaning storage, but larger screen size phones might see a boost in sales too.

Apple will be happy more people will pay for the extortionate large iPhones.

I just bought a subscription to F-SECURE FREEDOME VPN after a bit of research but also heavily influenced by Troy Hunt's recommendation.

It's currently discounted with the coupon code BlackFriday.

Setup on the iPhone took 2 minutes, setting it up on my OpenWRT router tonight will take longer I suspect...

I wish Nintendo were more open about some of the incredible stuff they've done over the years.

The Stack Overflow developer survey would suggest that's not correct[0].

Mac OS X 26.2%

Windows 7 22.5%

Linux 21.7%

Windows 10 20.8%

Windows 8 8.4%

Windows XP 0.4%

Though it is possible that the sort of developers that use desktop linux don't use Stack Overflow.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...

I certainly agree that Microsoft have been very underhanded in some of their approaches.

What really grinds my gears though is the lack of interest people have in maintaining their tools. If your computer is central to running your business you should be informed about upcoming updates as computer downtime is a threat to your business.

My bad its Nreco

If this gains traction I don't think we'll feel the benefits till a little later down the line.

I've contributed a little to the Swift tag but the real advantages come from technologies that don't already have good documentation.

I'm considering starting a tag for the enreco HTML -> PDF generator I use quite a lot as the official documentation isn't great.

Not especially, I was going to make the 2nd part of my comment regardless.

I am however trying to consider the author more as I read online though in this case I don't think it adds any additional context.

Amanda Petrusich is a woman.

I'm more surprised that podcasts and audiobooks aren't mentioned. I only listen to music at the gym and at work. When I'm travelling I like to listen to stuff that will push me but when I'm working I just use music to block the noise.

I'd be interested in the health and safety of working around these systems.

It feels like the sort of thing it would be very easy to forget the danger of as there's minimal moving parts and no scary sounds.

Surprised a henchman hasn't been thrown into the danger area in a James Bond film yet.

Troy Hunt wrote an interesting post on how he verfies breaches recently[0]

The amount of fact checking tech "journalists" do means wrong information can really spiral out of control. I wonder if Dropbox can sue?

[0]https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-how-i-verify-data-breaches/

I find Thunderbult quite useful (but I'm on a Mac). Not sure why this guy is so against it, presumably there's reasonable peripheral support on other OSes by now?

He talks about editing video on the machine, Thunderbolt should allow for high capacity/speed external storage. I'd prefer the options Thunderbolt provides over HDMI.

But the advantage of not having to switch apps is still missing on Android.

I don't think it's "cramming it in" when that's the main benefit of the system.

It's very odd to me that Google would release this on iOS first. I understand the value of iOS market share but when you have your own platform...

I think this looks really good, doesn't seem to be in the UK App Store yet or I'd have installed it already.

I can see the Cutty Sark out of my window at work (barely), I've never really thought of it as technology really.

So if Google were less open then they wouldn't have to deal with this?

I'm not smart enough to know whether Google is breaking antitrust rules or not but if they are I don't see how Apple aren't too.

Generally I feel if I have a lot of business logic in Javascript than my view is wrong.

There are things like client side validation that I don't know how you'd do another way?

I wonder how well it would work in a noisy environment?