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Balkan person here: I can (mostly) understand anyone from Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Czechia, Russia) if they speak really slowly and use basic words and phrases.

For the past ~3 weeks Medium has blocked virtually every article I wanted to read and is asking me to pay. Most of these are programming tutorials related to some obscure Rails features. Honestly, I feel like Medium is the worse place to put your content.

EDIT: For context, I don’t mind people monetizing their content, but in that case I’d rather pay them directly (like GoRails), and not a “subscription” for something I might check once in a while.

1password for Teams. Also saved us a lot of hassle with on/off-boarding people.

Just yesterday I was almost killed while driving back home, because some jackass left a camo-painted trailer in a poorly-lit alley right next to my home. There is no “autopilot” that could spot it in the dusk / sunset. Until Tesla adopts a Lidar, I wouldn’t use the “full self-driving system”

The real shitshow starts when the CFO becomes the CEO (as is usually the case), so Intel is pretty much dead as is US tech innovation on this scale (until VCs do what China does and start pouring money into hard stuff, not just fluffy software).

I remember my college professor (back in 2007) betting his career that XSLT would become the defacto standard. It’s always a reminder to myself to not get blindsided by being stuck/locked into a single technology.

Maybe you disabled internet on your machine? /s

Apple Music is shit. Period. I rage quit the 6 month free trial the other day after “Siri, play the US top charts” resulted in “Sure, here’s the top charts in Serbia”. I’m not in Serbia. Their discovery is crap, YouTube has better music recommendations, most EDM is missing. No value in it at all.

But Western Europe (EU) has the benefit of temporarily importing cheap East European (Romania, Poland etc) under skilled workers to do the heavy lifting.

I think it’s 10x faster matrix calculations “for ML”

> dog owners will have to ensure that their animals are walked at least twice a day

OK, makes sense, but my dog is old and can't walk for longer than 10 minutes without literally dying.

> for a total of one hour. They will no longer be permitted to leave their dogs home alone

This will only lead to people getting rid of their pets. If you have a full time job, how will this work?

I still firmly believe it was a marketing stunt by Apple.

The title should mention the videos are in French

Elixir is a super fun language but suffers (at least in my opinion) from a serious lack of remote jobs. And I suspect it’s because of the nature of Elixir jobs in general: load-heavy and systems-heavy tasks for critical roles (fintech etc), which means it’s tricky to hire someone thousands of miles away to do the work.

Depends, us old people who saw both sides of the coin feel like today’s youth is crippled, they have no motive to study or be competitive, it’s mostly look pretty and be out with friends all day long.

Isn’t Laravel the worst performing framework out there right now, like even Rails looks like a viable option in terms of speed?

Missive is nice, we integrated our tools directly inside of it.

Honest question: does it make sense to learn Ruby in 2020, with the hopes to actually have a job with it for the next 5 years? I want to leave JS world for something different, and I’m evaluating Elixir, Python and even PHP. What I’m looking to work on are basically SaaS sites, nothing too crazy. Would appreciate any thoughts.

Interesting, I on the other hand remember things “geographically”. It’s like I have precise GPS locations in my head attached to memories. In order to recall something, I usually try to remember where the memory “happened”, once I figure out the associated location - there comes the vivid memory as well.

This. Oh my god this. I can't believe people put up a TikTok-value photo on a professional site and wonder why they aren't getting 6 figure offers - no matter how technical they are.

The timezone (US/Central) is mentioned in the article.

Are you using an external TB3 dock? That's what's causing KPs for me. If the MBP goes to sleep, it goes into endless reboot cycles. Currently keeping it running 24/7.

I’ve had Siri disabled for years. Even the basic “call home” works every 3rd time. I try it for a few minutes with every new iOS update only to see it’s still the same dumbster fire.

We run a fairly large business on it, and it's great from a UI standpoint, but for anything complex (such as reporting) we do dumps to Google Sheets where we run formulas to extract what we need. If I was starting all over, most likely I'd go directly for Google Sheets next time.

AFAIK they purchased Yammer, it wasn't an in-house product.

What I find irritating is the fact that you have to get the 2ghz CPU in order to be able to get 32gb RAM. It feels like artificial price inflation because the refresh is definitely not as exciting as people had hoped (no 14" micro LED screen, like every single "leak" suggested).

Also, the base CPU is an 8th gen chip, you need to fork out a lot of extra $$$ to get to 10th gen.

For the unfamiliar, OP makes awesome Rails tutorial videos and is really knowledgeable on the subject.

I honestly wonder if the "5G is causing Corona" nuts will try to shoot down Space X satellites?

“We aren’t in your region yet” - OK, I’ll go back to my AirPods then.

Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!