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Just like everybody else's sign up tricks.
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I'd say worse, though some just automatically put you on their mailing list. I use Amazon occasionally and every time have to hunt (more than once) for how to reach the next checkout step without signing up for a free trial of Prime. Even then, they want to give you expedited shipping, so you also have to override that if you're happy to wait a couple of extra days to avoid paying extra.
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So those who aren't signed up are Prime Prime targets?
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So the root of this issue is right in the first paragraph of the article.
Someone at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has had it with free trials that turn out not to be so free months later
As I pointed out in my first response, Amazon isn't the only one who does this. Netflix, OnStar, Apple, Google, your local fitness club, etc., are all guilty of this. I hope this is just the start of a more widespread investigation into all these corporate paid signups.
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In fairness, I've yet to see one that didn't clearly state that you'd be charged after the free trial period. When you have to submit credit card details for a "free trial", you know what's up. They're hoping you'll forget to cancel before you're charged, just like auto-renewals. The decent ones send a reminder before it happens so that you can cancel, and the shysters don't.
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A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner. Dispose of obsolete APIs in a responsible manner. Do not throw into fire.
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Now that Windows 11 has launched, what’s next for the hybrid office? Is hybrid work where it's only partly powered by gas?
If so, anyone want some spare cabbage and beans?
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A new "What's new in C# 11" post explains new features available in preview with the latest tooling bits: NET 6.0.200 SDK or Visual Studio 2022 v17.1. Just a plain, ordinary attribute in a yellow box?
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It takes only a second to crack the handful of weak keys. Are there more out there? Good thing there aren't many 379 year-old hackers out there
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Go 1.18 marks the culmination of over a decade of design and delivers the features most demanded by developers, says Google. Here's what's new. It collected $200?
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Microsoft packs the search box and home in Windows 10's taskbar with more content. But users can switch it off. 0 items found. Wheeeeee!
And maybe one of those slide whistle noises!
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Careful, they might add the Debbie Downer video with the sad trombone sound.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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It’s now been 25 years since the first release of Visual Studio in 1997 and such a big milestone deserves a proper celebration. Will there be cake?
I'm sure there's a joke about C# make[^] that could be made, but not by me.
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Game developers around the globe: Great news everyone, even if we no longer spend time optimizing the load speed it's almost as fast as before... Saves us from having to do that tedious task.
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I hate that you're right.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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For 99% of games, like any other platform enhancement, it'll only show up as a performance gain when it's baked into the default API calls for the engine (Unity, Unreal, etc) that the game is running on.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has some advice for starting off your Monday morning: Write down three to five things you want to get done that week. Apparently it's not "develop a case of the Monday's"
Silly me.
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Has nothing to do with developing software.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My list is not KSS.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Huge step towards the project's goal of being a drop-in replacement for older Microsoft operating systems OS like it's NT 4!
If only there were another OS that supported symmetric multiprocessing
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ReactOS reached a crucial milestone: it is now only 29 years behind.
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An increasingly large part of the learning curve for any developer is navigating the organizational tooling and processes to get their ideas into the hands of users, and much of that tooling is often outside their expertise. Fallacy 0: that there's a single internal developer platform
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