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Comment Re:No Microsoft IDE will ever be as usable as VB6 (Score 1) 93

I was really focussing on the GUI side of things. Many of us were really disappointed when it was revealed that the GUI functionality in the latest .NET Core was basically just a wrapper for existing Windows GUI functionality and not to be supported on Linux and Mac. It would be great if they could port XAML based interfaces for example to Linux and Mac and then their GUI support really would be cross platform like the rest of Core.

Comment Re:Jif... (Score 1) 453

Acronyms don't have to be pronounced the same as the words they stand for, and in fact rarely are.

As for the hard "g" being more natural, no it isn't. In fact the first time I ever saw it I naturally pronounced it "jif". Or are you disputing the pronunciation of gin, genie, genius, gym, George, general, gentleman, etc.?

Comment Re:Getting tired of this (Score 2) 294

One thing that I've always found very annoying about Chrome's UI is that there are always close buttons on every tab, until you have like 100 tabs open. On desktop, you can use middle-click to close tabs... and I do. There's a long Google Groups thread somewhere with hundreds of users saying "please provide an option to remove close buttons on tabs" and Google did their usual arrogant thing of saying "no, it makes the product better [somehow]". I wouldn't say I accidentally close tabs all the time but I do maybe once every few days, and it is fucking annoying. Tabs should be buttonless!

Comment Re:Was Article Summary run through google translat (Score 1) 193

So, "renewable" energy isn't renewable at all. An "effectively" unlimited supply is not unlimited. The sun will burn itself out one day. The kinetic energy from wind and water is extracted by turbines, so nothing is renewed. It's just plentiful. Same with nuclear energy. So you could actually call them both renewable, or say that nothing truly is. It's just marketing.

Comment Why are wind and solar better? (Score 4, Interesting) 387

Could someone explain to me why wind and solar are better than *MODERN* nuclear plants, particularly fast breeder reactors, that output very little waste and are relatively safe? Nuclear plants don't vary with the sun and wind and so have no need for expensive/complex energy storage solutions to go along with them. Is the replacement of nuclear purely down to the green lobby not liking the word "nuclear" or is there any justification that has a scientific basis?

Comment Re:Teaching CS: The Least of our concerns (Score 0) 162

Are we talking about whites who don't want to be a minority in their own country? Because if so, I'm here to tell you that THEY'RE the rational ones.

Here's a fact: minorities get treated like shit, whatever the circumstances. Especially if whites aren't in the majority.

Comment Re:Piss on it ... (Score 1) 177

I think it's because I'm running it on one of the ports that Chrome considers to be "really dangerous" because it's used by another common protocol, as specified in this list:

http://tech-stuff.org/which-po...

It's really rather annoying that they assume they know better than me when I explicitly specify the port in the address bar. We're not talking about XSRF here.

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