Yeah, I once was on the hardware side for mobile, got the info that my designs got produced and sold about 500 million times. Sure, I made just a tiny part with dozens of other developers, but still, it's cool. Not much of that went into Android phones, those were still doing baby steps...

The way I remember is that he was (usually? mostly?) pro Microsoft and anti Linux, anti FLOSS, which is morally and ethically wrong for any individual, even if they have no use for FLOSS and enjoy using Microsoft products...

Not sure what exactly they convinced you of, but it apparently means you ended up on the wrong side in gweihir's mind, so tread carefully. Or just ignore the guy. Either way, been there, done that,...

Thank you for you explanations and the good work to make Android secure.

No need to steel, just share, and I'm glad to have made sense. Happens all the time to myself, but to others, well ... ;-)

Yeah, thank you for answering. I was still a bit sleepy in morning public transport,...

I later realised it's like seeing a twirling baton moving forward in stroboscopic light, then figuring out what area it paints.

I've not finished wrapping my head around this, but is my intuitive assumption correct that for a 360 degree rotation, one should pass through the point of 180 degrees? Or does one stay in the same 2d plane?

In visualising this, the triangle is actually how you invert a parked car. Well, doing it twice might be just for exercise...

Hate to break it to you, but it sounds like only now your eyes have been opened.

Personally, I don't get people being fans of corporations. None of them truly have your (the little guy) best interest at heart.

In the digital world, this means you have to take the choice of free and open source software wherever possible.

Whenever that's not an option, go for the second or third biggest, to put your consumer money on the right side of the balance.

Meanwhile, in Korea Samsung is really really big and into everything and anything. Former coworker story, who joined Samsung Semiconductors for a couple of years, working in Seoul, dropped by at the department secretary to inform her he'd been ill. She types something on her computer, turns sideways back to him and says without blinking:
Your story checks out, I see your pharmacy credit card transaction that confirms it.

Yeah, speechless or wtf are the only reactions to that...

Reminds me of a former coworker's T-shirt, which would totally fit that:

Very well said, I enjoyed reading that. Thank you!

Contrary to other replies to your message, trilling or telling you're up against windmills, I just wanted to chime in and say thank you. Your comment was wel reasoned and to the point. The person it responded to will not likely learn, but it's a good example on how one can voice a reaction. Have a nice day.

"I uninstalled Facebook as I got depressed seeing my friends post their relationship and marriage.

I uninstalled LinkedIn as I got depressed seeing my colleagues post their job change and promotion.

I uninstalled instagram as I got depressed seeing my friends travel and enjoy their lives.

But I'll never uninstall reddit because you guys are more miserable than me ."

Contrary to other comments, I'm on agreement with you here, from all the way over in Europe. Naturally, HR may help out, but they primarily look out for the interests of the organisation (yes, I've first hand experience with the public sector too), then for the biggest or most important group or person.

So flag misbehaviour that may be detrimental to the company with high likeliness to be found out, you're likely good. Flag a conflict with an internal VIP, you're not likely going to win. Flag something they don't care about, you may get branded as problematic.

I have no idea why that would only be true in the USA. I've worked in 3 different Western European countries, have (had) colleagues from all over Europe, no one ever said differently.

Thank you, I was confused as well, until I realised what you wrote must be the case, then I found your comment to that effect.

Indeed, talking about KDE needing an extension for anything but the most remotely interesting window management features (if there even is such a thing) shows the author hasn't actually used KDE seriously.

Then, raving about stacking windows, what useless feature that seems to me, to be honest. Sure, you can stack windows, then move them together. For what purpose? If they belong together in any way, why wouldn't you ever want to see them side by side? Even Windows gets that right... And just stacking without the windows being tab grouped together will do fine as long as you don't have to move a window. And virtual desktops mean that you don't actually need to move windows once you've placed them where you want them.

Please tell me about the essential features of any window manager, can it do all of the following: maximize only horizontally or only vertically on a single click?
Can you move or resize windows without having to move the mouse to the border / frame?
... Without the window being moved or resized getting raised and made active?
... Whilst going to full / half / quarter screen fill snapping when the mouse hits the screen edges / corners?
Can you have other windows (a terminal, web browser, etc.) overlapping the active window that you're typing in or otherwise interacting with?
Can you have a different backdrop per virtual desktop? (The only one on my must have list that KDE sadly can't do anymore...)
Can you have edge resistance and magnetism on window borders?

I think there's likely more, but these are the important ones that come to the top of my head.

All the way over there? Different times, I guess, with the dinosaurs and all... Today, it's likely Spanish if anything gets pushed, I'd guess. In Western Europe it's English, then typically French, German and neighbouring countries or regions' languages. But language oriented middle/high schools may offer Chinese, Japanese and or Korean too.