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Facebook has also recently started to require a Facebook account to use Oculus VR. It appears they are starting to crack down on the services they have acquired. I assume this more hardline approach of "give us your data or get out" will continue with any other current or future services created or purchased.

Counter-point; that was a one-way street. Data was potentially fed from Oculus to Facebook. Now, what you do on Facebook can impact your Oculus use. Get banned on Facebook and lose access to your purchased software on Oculus effectively making your device useless.

So now it is worse.

You can factory reset it.

My preference would be a flag that you can set per connection.

NULL = Undefined or No Data. Whereas a blank field can, in and of itself, be data. It may indicated something is intentionally left blank.

But for those times where you want to consider them the same, it would be nice to have a setting.

(Note that I admit the possibility that this may exist already, like most my great ideas.)

At larger companies they absolutely do this. And the digital video is stored with an overlay of what is ringing up with it's price as the cashier scans it. So it is easy to see if they are not scanning items for a partner or manually entering the wrong barcode.

Entirely feasible. Also reasonable for you to pay me for the service as it is taking my development efforts to meet your business model. The advantage to you is you have a defined interface that I won't prevent.

The issue here for some, if not many, is a matter of scale. It is one thing if an end-user, whom I am trying to service, comes to my site and gets my publicly available data. Maybe I monetize with ads, maybe not. It doesn't matter, that is the audience I am trying to service, regardless of size.

But when you scrape it my load goes up dramatically. A load I have to pay for.

It is analogous to the privacy debates going on with one said saying "hey, don't track everywhere I go and tag me with facial recognition" and the other side saying "hey, you are in public and people can see you." The issue is not complete privacy, but one of scale. And of intent.

I believe society is soon going to have to come to grips with the scale of things and legislate what are acceptable scales of action as it seems to be becoming a large issue in a growing number are areas.

While stated in what I interpret is a joking way, it is a very real concern. As the average life expectancy increases we either have to plan for a longer period of non-productivity (in the private sector) or work longer. A blend of the two seems to be what is occurring, but over my life time I have seen my expected retirement age continue to push slightly further away.

It depends upon how one defines success. If you mean Bill Gates or The Beatles level success, I will agree that luck plays an integral role.

If you just mean a successful career that takes care of your needs and much of your wants, provides for a comfortable life and a family, I would argue motivation, dedication and skill play far larger roles.

In fact I would say extreme success requires some extreme good luck, whereas a more "standard" success requires good luck less and is more about not having bad luck to counter your abilities.

Assuming that is a legitimate question: No. That data resides in many places... with the loan servicers, the NSLDS, the Guarantors... spread in locations around the country.

To summarize: write a spec for the crime, that way when you get to development it is consistent and focused.

This is true until the company changes the bug-tacking and project-management software without properly porting over everything because they use different identifiers.

I tend to put a link to the external system with a very brief explanation, allowing someone to quickly assess the what and why with the ability to dig elsewhere for more detail.

Somewhere along the line Google stopped being about finding a website and instead is about answering a question with the answer sometimes being a website.

One could argue they have always been an answer engine and they are just getting more direct and precise.

It depends on the group. Some deal with Malware. Most it really is just the draw of the community, the recognition and the fun. I say this from having (formerly) been on the inside.

Not really surprising when you look at how much non-monetary development goes into the open source community.

As a fellow lover of the Windows Phone I went through your pain a few years ago and have lived in both the iPhone and Android ecosystems. I found it was the little things not mentioned here that made me stick with Android.

- My android displays the time and temp when docked. I never found a way to do that on iPhone.

- My android shows that I have texts/mails/etc. waiting without me having to touch it or pick it up to see.

- My android has a back button. It is always there and always in the same place.

- Widgets are nice (and mentioned elsewhere) but I love that my phonetop is not cluttered with icons, just useful info.

Usability wise apple is stuck in their own version of 10 years ago. Android is the better choice of the two. But I still weep for the loss of live tiles and the app menu.

As you likely suspect, it's just meant to get people to actually listen closely.

If I don't like someone's speech that doesn't mean they are not allowed to say it. It means I can go elsewhere or ignore it. If you don't like someone's perfume your right isn't that they stop wearing it, it's that you go elsewhere and ignore it. If you don't like smoke... it's the same thing. You have every right to not want it. In which case it is incumbent on you to do something about it.

Unless you are making a health related argument. That is a different right other than you don't want it, that is a health concern, which is why smoking inside is predominately not allowed.

I'm all for personal rights... but they come with personal responsibilities that are upon you.

Indeed. I setup a rule in outlook to look for knowbe4 in the header to dump those. Although, to be fair, I doubt it is the devs they are worried about.

Yes, but one path is a known bad (marry her) and the other is a possible good/bad. Weighing the amount of bad that the marriage is vs the likelihood of it being worse is key.

Sidenote: I believe in general a Senior developer is 8-10 years with a general expectation that you will mentor junior developers.

YMMV depending upon region and company.

They have a patent for that. Where it actually predicts what you will order and they ship it to a distribution point closer to you.

I have noticed this phenomena a number of times. My theory is that the first article sparks people digging into the matter and related subjects further. This leads to them posting related articles. A bit of herd like mentality.

I hope you don't mind if I appropriate that phrase. Although for comedic effect I may change it to: money, like alcohol, amplifies your character. ;)

As a single father with sole custody of 3 children, yes, I take issue. But I am not surprised, it is a pervasive and socially acceptable bias.

I work in the student loan industry and there are loans specifically for single mother's... father's need not apply. It bothers me every time I see it.

Heck, why my daughter registered an American Girl doll, they sent me an "id card" declaring me the proud mother of my daughter and her doll. So I guess I should be happy to be a mom.

I have spoke up in similar situations several times at a number of companies. Not once was what I said a revelation or surprise. The business people knew already what the possible results would be. They had assessed it and decided to move on regardless. Clearly the potential results were worth the risk in their assessment.

I have learned that my code of ethics are just not the same as a number of business persons'. This may explain, in part, why I have two failed businesses.

Tangential to your point (.com is far more widely recognized) ddg.gg is what I use because it is so much easier.

If you don't want to quit the team/job, then I would recommend trying to adopt the viewpoint that regardless of your manager's shortcomings (we all have them) at least they understand your value as a technical resource.

However, if this:

> I can't stand to report to him

remains true... the only solution in the end that will leave you with day-to-day satisfaction is to leave the situation. It sounds like you are aware of this.

Life is not always fair but in general it is consistent.

Given the use of the word "donglage" I suspect it was a somewhat snarky reference to the iphone and the disappearing head phone jack.

With a Usenet subscription, sabnzbd, and sonarr it's all automated. Subscribe to the shows you want and forget about the cable companies. Is it piracy to download shows broadcast on-the-air?

Ultimately I view it like I did music... give me a reasonable way to access and pay and I'll do so. And when iTunes came out I deleted my 10 gigs of mp3's and paid for music. I'll do the same when the media company come to their senses and respect the cost of scale they now have. I can live with that.

Correct. Which, if one thinks about it, the start of something is one end of it. (said tongue in cheek)