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As an example, VS needs UAC permission to integrate with a local IIS install, so there's a big group of .NET-based web developers that really need it with such a setup.

But honestly, giving a developer non-admin privileges of their own (as in their work environment) computer is like giving a carpenter a rubber hammer to hammer nails. I find it insulting.

I guess we got tired of WordPress.

They don't?

LCHF promoters have a marketing issue because it feels like a cult or a religion.

If they could just focus their message to "eat as little artificial sugar and starch as possible", I think fewer people would cry out in protest.

It's my takeaway, anyway. I lost 10 pounds in a month when I quit eating soft bread, pasta, potatoes and most sweets. My diet was basically hard bread with cheese for breakfast, salad for lunch, meat and vegetables for dinner.

It can be a very effective start to a lifestyle change. It can be hard to keep up, though (and expensive, depending on where you live).

I'm almost starting to believe there are forces in the FBI trying to thwart the case for the FBI, by making so ridiculous claims that the legal precedence will be set for a long time, preventing the FBI or any agency to get this kind of power.

But then again, it's more likely they just completely lost sight of how the real world actually functions, and their own mandate.

If this actually does go through, my view of the US will be closely aligned with Iran and North-Korea.

I think my cups are closer to 200 ml, which apparently is approaching 100 mg caffeine per cup, so I guess you're right.

A "medium-size coffeehouse coffee" (at Starbucks) is 16 fl.oz. Here in Europe, that's not really a normal cup of coffee.

Excessive use of anything tends to be bad. "Normal" intake of coffee [1] may have plenty of health benefits, so why quit? Because self control?

I'll drink my 3-4 cups of black filtered coffee a day with a good conscience.

[1] Not including other high-caffeine drinks (energy drinks) or mixing your coffee with lots of sugar and milk, which would be bad mostly for other reasons than the caffeine itself.

Or just take a Calcium/Magnesium 2:1 (try 500/250mg daily) supplement with vitamin D. Better ratio, no anti-histamin. Vitamin D helps the body utilize the minerals.

My better half had serious acid reflux, but no longer use prescription meds since taking these daily.

> Someone's sexual orientation has no weight on the values system that he/she would subscribe (...)

They _may_ have no weight, indeed, as your anecdote illustrates.

People tend to empathize more with people they have something in common with (some research suggests [0][1]), so I think many of us would certainly have a mindset affected by our minority-held sexual orientation, in matters where our sexual orientation actually plays a role (security being one of the more obvious cases).

[0]: http://psp.sagepub.com/content/36/3/398 [1]: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

That's a kickstarter waiting to happen.

A lot of people don't really know their own email address, then. When based on their name, they might write both with capitalization and without depending on mood...

We lower-case all e-mails in our systems. I'll let you know when we hit a system that actually treats it case-sensitive.

Yes, this is so important to communicate. I think "waiting for inspiration" is a bad approach and bad advice for anyone who want to do something professionally. Unless you are inspired 20-40 hours per week, only hobbyists have the luxury of waiting for inspiration.

Also, how will you ever improve in something if you only do it while inspired? And how will your inspired work be any good if you have no practice and experience to build upon?

Yes. Just ignore people's schadenfreude. They behave like in kindergarten. Just slalom through the maelstrom of lemmings that they are.

Ok, I took it too far. I'll go have a lager now.

Cool. It seems to distinguish words with and without trailing period for some reason ("MySQL" and "MySQL."), which seems a bit too specific. Perhaps a good reason to, though.

Cynical, no doubt. But unwarranted?

The core principle built into our society is that a lot of people on earth must suffer and die so that the lucky few can live the prosperous lives we do. Just saying.

Admitting it is maybe not so popular.

I guess you just confirmed my point.

Do we have any evidence that it won't?

If you believe the Monsanto GM corn documentaries, releasing GM into the wild may have bad effects (intended or otherwise) outside the designated population. Plants are obviously not the same as insects, but I would prefer to err on the safe(r) side.

Edit: Also, a known bad is often better than an unknown.

Sounds awesome. Unfortunately I don't work in my own company. Fortunately, I don't work with sales (much).

Except some of us make a living selling development of projects and solutions to customers that require pretty accurate (cost) estimates prior to even getting the contract.

Crazy world, I know...

I think the "how" is more important. Genetic modification sounds awesome, and really dangerous. If it's not just right, or if the potential of unforeseen mutations occurring is above zero, I think we risk too much regardless of the benefits.

I.e. please be completely certain that the GM offspring mating with female individuals will not result in some other side effect...

> they aren't meant for us

I'm pretty sure child pornography laws weren't meant for teenagers sending nude snaps to each other, either.

I was gonna post the same sentiment.

My dog has such a huge range of emotions, it's no doubt in my mind he feels in many ways like we do.

He even has dreams and nightmares.

It's a bit ironic to praise Microsoft for stability in this context, when they probably have had a major role of causing instability in the web front-end world for more than a decade.

Correctly configured/tagged text input fields usually don't have these issues (Android) and makes SwiftKey behave correctly.

But in Chrome (for example), the address bar is not only for URLs, so your mileage may vary.

Just uncheck Autocorrect. Makes it so much more useful (for Scandinavian languages and multi-language modes), even though it requires a bit more mental presence when typing.

And here I thought I was cynical...

"exclusionary as all hell" is such an overstatement it's hard to focus on the rest of the message in this post, but the response they got from Murdoch was completely out of line.

I would also be skeptical to contribute when one of the project's leads are so quick to ban and flog a contributor, regardless of their misinformed intentions.

> What is rightfully "put down" is incitement to ethnic or racial hatred (which is also illegal in most Europe countries).

In my opinion, this is not the case. Even criticism based on reason and facts with legitimate concerns tend to get flogged for being racist and hate speech. The climate seems to be changing now, though, with major news corps and public figures starting to express more concern than they ever have (also claiming they always have been critical, so it's quite pathetic in my view).

> I assume what you call "large part of the general public" are the usual 20% that vote for far right parties.

I may have a clouded memory, but I don't think 20% voting far right is anywhere near usual when speaking of Scandinavia in a historical context.

Also, even what's considered to be right wing politics in Scandinavia has traditionally been quite socialist.

In Denmark it is as far as I can tell still acceptable to publicly discuss and vent about the issues concerning both crime and immigration. In some neighbouring countries it has been mostly put down by left wing "moderators" under the seemingly well intended excuse of not wanting to cause stigma (stigmatizing the critics in the process), instead causing huge amounts of frustration and a sense of betrayal in large parts of the general public. This is what makes otherwise regular people turn to parties much further to the right than they would otherwise.

I think Denmark will come out on top in this, other countries should take a cue from them.

Note: I live in a neighbouring country.

Edit: Moderated "general public" to "large parts of the general public"