nikolak

I'm one of the people that does that. While I assume it's less efficient than using shift, once you get really used to it I would argue that there isn't a big difference, and that it's not as inefficient as you think. At least for day to day use and writing code.

I come from non-EU country and recently got a job in Germany, you can not get agreement from the federal employment agency to take that position if there are German citizens, or people from other EU countries, who would be qualified and interested in that position.

I think the company also had to agree to allow employment agency to, either anonymously or publicly, publish ad for the job themselves for a couple of weeks.

Source from the federal employment agency:

Die Ausländerbehörde holt die Zustimmung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ein: Dort wird geprüft, ob es für die Ihnen angebotene Stelle bevorrechtigte Bewerberinnen oder Bewerber gibt. In diesem Fall können Sie für diese Stelle keine Zulassung auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt erhalten.

https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/web/wcm/idc/groups/public/docu...

Note: There are different types of visas, and this might not be a requirement for all of them, but it was the requirement for me.

I use it primarily because quicken on mac is completely useless when you have multiple accounts with different currencies. They even list your totals wrong like "100 USD + 100 GBP = 200 EUR" last time I tried it. And there aren't that many alternatives for personal use since i don't need anything extremely complex.

GNUcash is probably the ugliest piece of software that I use regularly, but at least it works. Depending on one's needs YNAB or Quicken might be a better choice though - but neither work well with multiple currencies or even accounts.

I'm from a European, but not an EU member country, and I got offered a senior software developer job in Germany. I applied for a 12 month work visa, even signed a statement that I will return when it expires, and it got denied.

So yes in theory it's "easy", but in practice it isn't always like that. (To be fair you're talking about Blue Card which I didn't apply for because I've heard it's bit harder to get since it's usually issued for period longer than 12 months)

I don't think I've ever seen it not reach at least 100% of the daily goal.

I see no privacy policy on the shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org site though you are correct that they do post that privacy policy on the completely different website www.mozilla.org.

It's on the same subdomain, and it includes link to mozilla.org which has link to privacy policy which also applies to shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org:

This privacy notice applies to Mozilla operated websites, which include the domains mozillians.org, mozilla.org, firefox.com, openbadges.org and webmaker.org. This includes, for example, bugzilla.mozilla.org, reps.mozilla.org, careers.mozilla.org, developers.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, and wiki.mozilla.org.

There’s no account or sign-in required and nothing extra to download. Just start a conversation, send your friend a link and ask them to click it.

I don't think this is such a great idea, at least in my case, if I'm sending someone link for them to open instantly then I'm probably already using a platform that supports video conversations - for example Skype, which also has IM and some other stuff that FF Hello doesn't.

What is the worst that could happen due to this change?

Watching adult content isn't really something that "filthy perverts" do, nor is it considered as such thing.

If someone with access to that data (IPS, government, etc) wanted to know whether you watch porn or not they could just look at your web history.

As far as I remember this is an opt-in feature for developers who host their projects on sourceforge that makes the installer offer additional software, by 3rd parties, to be installed. That additional software may be malicious.

Well they do have money, while they may not have members that possess the necessary knowledge I'm sure they could finance such attacks.

That being said, they do not look to me like a group that would be using, and generally be interested in, such tactics.

It's not everywhere, it has no video chat, and nobody uses it. If it somehow manages to "kill" anything it definitely won't be Skype.

Probably just iOS with a full screen app that's started by default and some changes in the default settings.

I've been out of the loop for a few years, but no the votes aren't manipulated.

Could you then explain the, pretty much on the dot, massive score changes every 2 hours? That was even more noticeable when the downvotes were shown - although they were 'fake' the final score, which is according to the FAQ correct, was changed.

I noticed this when I created a simple graphing script, you can see example graph of what I'm talking about here: https://github.com/Nikola-K/reddit-thread-graph#example

You can see that on any popular thread until the score is "normalized" around 3k points.

Has to be either a scam or it will require a payment after they get few users.

I've had quite the opposite experience. Chrome will use significantly more memory for me. Unfortunately, everything else works better in chrome so I'm sticking with it for now.

In the past I had same experience as you, however this has changed in the past few versions in both browsers. It probably varies from user to user depending on the individual usage.

you are pretty unfamiliar with the space

Rackspace cloud files, as one of the things I haven't used from that list, is not even same thing as dropbox. I've researched software like dropbox when I deactivated it, I did not look into all possible file storage offers that may or may not work with 3rd party clients (such as duplicati, which doesn't have android client as far as I can tell).

Another often suggested option from comments here wuala did not work on my phone, it crashed instantly (not sure if it's fixed now). Spideroak was buggy iirc, I did try it but I'm not totally sure why I dropped it.

Also, both of those options are roughly 10 times more expensive than dropbox when you compare GB/$.

That one seems to be targeted more at periodical backups than what dropbox does, which is more closer to syncing and backing up at the same time.

Anyway, no I did not try it. From the website "It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP"

I've heard of 5 of those, I know how to use 3 for storage, I have accounts with only 2 (gmail, outlook), but 0 of them have clients that work on android and linux.

And using different, non official, clients on different platforms just doesn't sound like a install and forget about it type of deal like dropbox has. Can I take a picture on my phone and see it a minute later on my computer and vice versa? My guess would be "no".

As far as encryption and it being open source goes, I couldn't care less about that. I don't store too sensitive data on dropbox so I don't care if NSA, dropbox or some other government agency has easy access to my data on their servers.

As far as the open source argument goes it's simply irrelevant to me. I don't have time nor knowledge to go over its source and I doubt that many other people do, as far as I'm concerned the fact that it's open source doesn't change anything regarding to either security or functionality of that software.

I still stand by my statement that literally not a single piece of software exists that does the same as dropbox in terms of stability, functionality, ease of use, and cross platform compatibility.

I did, and then I reinstalled it when I saw that it's the only thing that works.

Alternatives aren't as good as dropbox. Google drive is a close second, but without official linux client it's borderline useless to me - also their photo backup system is too complicated with g+, private/public albums, sharing, galleries etc and I don't want to spend time figuring it out when I just want simple photo backup service that I enable with one click.

I don't want spend time setting up my own servers, I don't want to use beta software, I don't want buggy 3rd party software, I don't want to compile stuff from sources.

I want to install something that works out of the box and is cross platform, and right now dropbox is literally the only option there is.

Requires too much watching of progress bars, for example if I click to download the software from the web just run it in background and once it's done let it show in software tab, going to process then clicking "complete" for each individual file is just too boring and the primary reason why I stopped playing it after few hours.

Some of them seem like they're running only when being watched.

A way to earn money, such as missions, should be available at all times - maybe based on some sort of rank.

Gathering money at the start is very very slow.

Users should be able to "bookmark" IPs both hacked and unhacked and organize them.

Upgrades are too simple and too similar so the whole gameplay is just repeated set of actions, you need to integrate the "multiplayer" aspect more into it.

Or you could just use gfycat to create both gif and webm versions (up to 15 sec long) directly from youtube, vimeo etc.

Isn't that like the whole point of the app?

Sorted by sum of comments and votes, age is ignored.

Then it should not be compared to adblock.

I don't see how this is different and/or better than trakt.tv. And what the hell does "automatically track what you're watching" mean. 3rd party software? Like xbmc+trakt plugin?

I also don't like how wherever you click on that website, including the search box, you're redirected to kickstarter campaign.

I don't know if it's just the tab count or longer browsing sessions/history (I usually have my browser open for days without closing it) or whatever, so don't quote me on that.

But FF is definitely uses more memory than chrome and with few other resource hungry applications running it becomes practically unusable on my low end laptop.

Firefox uses less memory only on startup and when I have few tabs open. As soon as I start opening more tabs and browsing longer the memory usage is much larger on FF and the whole UI becomes less responsive and so do pages.

Even on startup it isn't that better compared to chrome.

Chrome 11 extensions 1 tab: ~300MB

FF 2 extensions 1 tab: ~200MB

It's not FF 29, it's 28 - but I doubt the memory management improved much in 29.

But to be fair, it's a lot better now than it used to be.

If the 2 items on the frontpage are irrelevant for the subreddit that would make it impossible to post threads which are actually relevant.

Relevance of the posts on frontpage is also affected by problems I described above, meaning the thread that shouldn't be posted in /r/technology has (almost) equal chance of being on frontpage as the one that's relevant.

I have no idea how to solve the issue, maybe a modqueue like page where moderators can isolate specific threads until they're approved?

But just removing all threads if 2 (similar) already exist has too many issues.

Aw dang, really? No other options except to remove 100% of threads containing the words "snowden" and "national security agency" and "tesla"?

No. Either allow the posts and remove them once the discussion start and then deal with 100 "MUH FREEDOM OF SPEECH, !!CENSORSHIP!!, MY PRECIOUS KARMA!" threads or remove them as soon as they're posted.

Then only threads that a majority of people like would make it to the top

That's part of the problem. People want to see thread like this - you'd see "NSA spying people" thread upvoted in EVERY SINGLE default subreddit if it was posted and allowed by moderators.

Votes are horrible for determining what kind of content should or shouldn't be allowed. Especially for default subreddits since majority of people vote from frontpage and are not familiar with subreddit rules, or don't even notice which subreddit it is.

People don't even read more than titles! You'll often see threads marked with "false information" flair, or people pointing out in the comments how the whole story is fake/wrong/etc. Those threads continue to gain upvotes after it has been proved to be wrong information. Do you really think that people would notice the subreddit and/or rules regarding that submission?

If you think about it, a system like this would allow for stories that only partly relate to technology, but are still hot topics that tech enthusiasts want to talk about, to make it to the top.

Nope, read above. It would allow for stories people like (upvote) to make it to the top.

And plus you have threads linked in other subreddits, IRC etc. that skews up votes too.

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tl;dr: votes work in theory but fail miserably in practice, especially when dealing with large amount of voters.

Without better moderator tools to manage large subreddits they didn't really have an option other than remove all threads seeing how majority of bitcoin, tesla etc related stories was not really for /r/technology. Even for that they had to use 3rd party tool.

Just because Tesla Motors is more tech oriented company than its competitors that does not mean every mention of teslas should be posted in /r/technology - and pretty much everything was posted. Same goes for bitcoin related stories.

It also depends on personal interpretation of word "technology", I'm sure that pretty much any topic can be somehow be tied to technology sector but that does not, and should not, mean that every news article about a topic should be posted in /r/technology.

On the other hand the vote brigading that happens from related subreddits is, even though it is against reddit rules, ignored by reddit administrators...

Install was a breeze (I'd have been surprised if it wasn't these days), everything worked out the box

It depends, I guess.

I installed xubuntu 14.04 the day it came out, and I was surprised that I encountered 3-4 bugs within the first hour that affected my work and about a dozen smaller bugs that, while noticeable, aren't that serious.

After few years without running (x/k)ubuntu, I was surprised that stuff like language selection is broken upon release, that network manager about 20% of the time just doesn't work after booting etc etc.

I always had this experience with ubuntu, and its derivatives - it looks great, and 90% of time it works great, but nothing seems to be really polished/stable. But YMMW.