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wilsonnb commented on Want More Time? Get Rid of the Easiest Way to Spend It   raptitude.com/2017/06/wan... · Posted by u/w23j
aschearer · 8 years ago
Why not go one step further and get rid of internet at home? I've been doing so since April and it's dramatically reduced my time spent on social media or watching TV/movies. Instead of binging TV I go out and do something.
wilsonnb · 8 years ago
Presumably because most people don't think that "going out and doing something" is inherently superior to "watching movies and TV".
wilsonnb commented on Apple introduces macOS Mojave   apple.com/newsroom/2018/0... · Posted by u/ihuman
headcanon · 8 years ago
Not sure what you mean, I can download battle.net on MacOS and play every game on there, although admittedly I haven't tested them all. SC2 runs pretty flawlessly too.

There are some games not available for MacOS but they seem to be less and less common. Almost everything now is cross platform, in part thanks to Unity making cross-platform games easy.

wilsonnb · 8 years ago
I don't think Overwatch runs on MacOS.
wilsonnb commented on Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)   mako.cc/writing/hill-free... · Posted by u/bcaa7f3a8bbc
rglullis · 8 years ago
No one is asking you to host it yourself. Gitlab is open source and they provide the service as well for those that don't want to manage it.
wilsonnb · 8 years ago
Gitlab CE is open source, but Gitlab EE is not. EE does have some features that CE is lacking.
wilsonnb commented on Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple   nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
joe_hills · 8 years ago
You can find the judgement at: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

It's clear from the text that the lower court's ruling was thrown out because of prejudicial behavior by Colorado's Civil Rights Commission during the hearing about this matter.

The Supreme Court didn't decide anything about the baker's actions, only that he wasn't given a fair process by the state.

wilsonnb · 8 years ago
Personally, I think that their evidence of prejudicial behavior was pretty weak, which is the stance that Ginsburg and Sotomayor took as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens the next time a case like this makes it to the Supreme Court. I was hoping we would get a decision that would set more precedent about this kind of "freedom of expression vs freedom of religion vs civil rights law" debate.

wilsonnb commented on Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple   nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
wilsonnb · 8 years ago
I suggest that anyone interested in the case read the actual ruling. It's not that long and not hard to understand. [1]

Personally, I thought that the majority ruling and the dissent were both pretty compelling. I'm not sure where I would have come down on this issue.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

wilsonnb commented on Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple   nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
dorp · 8 years ago
It is the baker's right to bake a cake for who ever they feel like baking a cake for. You can't force someone to do something.
wilsonnb · 8 years ago
You can't force them to bake a cake for someone, but you can fine them, throw them in jail, or put them out of business for refusing.

However, I suggest reading the Court's opinions to see what reasons they actually used in their ruling.[1]

Their ruling focused largely on how they felt that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) didn't properly respect the baker's religious beliefs, and that the CCRC has demonstrated inconsistencies with their rulings on other similar cases.

[1]https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

wilsonnb commented on Microsoft acquires Github   blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/okket
pbhjpbhj · 8 years ago
How do you envision them forcing^W encouraging use of Azure, or other MS paid offerings, through GitHub?

I can see that working if they don't meddle with GitHub for the next decade, and keep it running well; then people might be convinced to try MS's other offerings.

Maybe Heroku style "run this project on your own Azure instance now" (perhaps GitHub does this already?)? Is Azure's rep good enough to pull that off?

wilsonnb · 8 years ago
I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about Azure that can't be said about AWS, GCP, or whatever IBM calls their cloud hosting service.

That is exactly the kind of feature I think they will implement. They will probably add more support in Visual Studio and VSCode for GitHub as well, although their support is already pretty good as far as I know.

They can also throw paid GitHub features in with their Office 365 package, like they currently do with Skype. That would further consolidate companies on the Microsoft platform by ensuring that they don't have to leave it for code hosting.

wilsonnb commented on Microsoft acquires Github   blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/okket
StreamBright · 8 years ago
Yeah just like Ubuntu, FreeBSD + XFCE and a bunch of other systems. I need something solid, featureful and simple as macos is, that has _great_ UX and I don't feel like fighting against the OS. Good example is when to update feature in macos vs windows is. One is pleasant, co-operative and feels right, the other is disruptive and I need to disable basic stuff not to lose some unsaved work. Just a great example how UX matters.
wilsonnb · 8 years ago
I don't really care if you choose MacOS over Windows. Plenty of people do. There are good reasons to. I even agree with you on some of your points.

My contention is that you implied that Windows 10 does not even meet the low bar of "barely usable" when you said that you have to delete half of the OS to make it barely usable.

That is a lie. Windows 10 is usable out of the box without any modifications. Saying otherwise is spreading misinformation, which I don't support.

wilsonnb commented on Microsoft acquires Github   blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/okket
sGatling1788 · 8 years ago
> Seriously? Windows 10 is a perfectly usable OS out of the box. I can open up the included web browser and go to whatever website I want. I can install Office, Visual Studio, a Linux subsystem, VLC, a VNC client, VirtualBox, Chrome, Firefox, and every other piece of software I need without any hassle.

Ditto for dozens of Linux distro's.

> Yes, there is something called "Bubble Witch 3 Saga" in my start menu that I did not install. I understand why people are upset about things like that even if I don't care.

What other things have they installed that is difficult to find out about? How about all the spying? Some game you don't use is the tip of the iceberg.

wilsonnb · 8 years ago
I'm not sure how Linux's viability as a desktop OS is relevant to Windows being usable or unusable.

I have no idea what else they've installed, just like I have no idea what MacOS or Linux install. They're all black boxes to me. I see no reason to think Windows is any worse than it's competitors.

I assume by spying, you are referring to Windows 10's telemetry. Personally, I think concerns about it are overblown and calling it spying is misleading at best. It's for diagnostic information. You can set it to only send basic diagnostic data if you so choose. I am in favor of companies collecting diagnostic information about their products to improve them.

wilsonnb commented on Microsoft acquires Github   blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/okket
mo3gut · 8 years ago
Yet they have numerous defenders on this site, all the more peculiar considering those companies' collusion to avoid paying market rates to developers. The preference to be a sharecropper on their plantations is evidently strong, for no very clear reason.

And let us not forget the EU's efforts to support incumbents and deter new entrants, with their complex, vague and punitive regulations. These also receive much approval here; perhaps a fruitful field for study by some enterprising psychologists!

wilsonnb · 8 years ago
I'd love to see some sources on your claim that they are colluding to avoid paying market rates to developers.

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