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Creativity is illogical and chaotic. Things that work for one, won't for another. Trying to find reason in it might be pointless. Getting it down to a methodology might be ideal for some, but that's because they might be more logic-oriented than emotion-oriented

Ideally you should find how you can extract the most out of your intellect and use that. There's a right way and a wrong way, but not on a collective level, only in an individual one.

Privacy as in, "we'll keep your data only with us and not share it with anyone else"

Which they don't do, don't need to do, and will not do. Since they serve ads themselves, it would work against their own business if the data spread to somewhere else

It can write, build and debug code. It's an IDE.

The plates also had a new slogan – "A Place to Grow" – which drew the ire of some critics, who preferred the previous "Yours to Discover," which the plates had sported since 1982

Both are just as corny as they are useless in a license plate. Why put in novelty stuff? License plates are for identification, and should serve solely that function.

Every article:

Title: Is [x] better than [y]?

Article: Depends on context

It's just 2 empty space characters

If somebody is willing to pay the GrubHub fee, then they’re worth it

That's why they're tacking it on without warning

Yelp Is Sneakily Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Number So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

We want less dark patterns in software, not more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose

330K USD in San Francisco is much, much less than 300K USD in Buenos Aires

"Will you start development, then?"

"Well yes, but actually no"

It was default in Ubuntu 17.10. They changed it back to X.org in 18.04, though

and I just realized that I was mildly exposed to in-game ads back then — in the form of product placement! (or rather brand placement?)

Well of course, ever since OutRun there is blatant product placement in most racing games: car brands

There is a reason your DVD copy of Most Wanted has a BMW M3 on the cover

"There are strings on me"

If the issue is IDEs you can do all that with WebStorm.

As a matter of fact, you can even use IntelliJ for checking function usages and refactoring in JavaScript.

"rate its citizens": The 'that black mirror episode!' clickbait

"The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents": The more accurate subtitle, which you can now see since you gave us your click. Gotcha!

Credit rating is nothing new, be it for people, corporations or even countries.

I'm not paying premium for a device with a worse resolution than my phone's