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Comment Definition (Score 1) 304

It's a matter of definition; Priority in its normal sense should be interpreted as the order of importance for /all projects/.
However you, as is customary (to be able to present primary-colours-only pie charts to dim-lighted management) do /not/ order all projects, but instead make a very limited number of classes (low, normal, high), and allow an increasing share of the projects to "migrate" to the "high" class.
That way you yourself are defeating the very concept of prioritizing.
Either prioritize each project in the full set (so for 100 projects, you have priorities 1-100), or only allow a maximum number of projects in each class.

Comment How to get developers to send meaningful bug repor (Score 1) 360

After reading only the title, I was too shocked already to read the rest.
Developers, lowly-intelligent and lowly-educated as almost all of them are, are themselves amongst the people that deliver the worst imaginable bug reports. Give me a normal "user" anyday; their lack of developer arrogance makes them a functional partner in getting the report right. Developers on the other hand tend to mistakenly concentrate on technicalities, their own warped view of "what users want", or even already on what they "know is the solution".
Have a nice day! :)

Comment Tears of happiness (Score 1) 181

I almost cried of happiness when I saw they fixed the position of the URL info.
It is behavioiur that is in stark contrast with that of e.g. Gnome, which never listens to "user uprisings", or Ubuntu, which moved the 3 window title buttons to the wrong location and, despite fully justified comments on this, never even thought of correcting that bug.
Good to see there are still development teams that listen to reason.

Comment Re:Tabs on titlebar (Score 1) 537

On my system, the tabs ONLY go to the title bar when the whole window is maximized. Possibily because some drunk developer thought we would only need the extra vertical space if we indicated we would need extra spcae by maximizing the whole window?
Another bad choice.
Far worse is that I always have my browser vertically maximized only, because I'm specifically missing VERTICAL space. But this braindead behaviour only gives me the extra vertical space if I also horizontally maximize my window (so the result is total maximalization).

Comment Mr Taco (Score 1) 265

"I remember laughing years ago when I would see users who had modified their user agent string with some sort of defiant pro-privacy message, without realizing that their action made them uniquely identifiable out of hundreds of thousands of others."

Mr Taco must have laughed the laugh of a naive person.

These people made a /statement/, /trading/ this little aspect of their privacy in the process. Seeing they were at least smart enough to see there is a thorny privacy issue with the user agent string, it's also logical to assume they were very much aware of this trade.

Comment Just a character with a serial number (Score 1) 688

Just a character with a serial number.
All other information can either be automatically gathered, and thus should be, or belongs in an administrative CMDB. And b.t.w. the same holds for servers.
Really: just a number. If you don't do that you shoot yourself in the foot with having to maintain information in a place where it is inconvenient to maintain, AND you risk administering the same information twice, which is a burden, and a source for errors.

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