comeonseriously

...however, does not mean it doesn't work similarly in hoomans.

I'm struggling with the headline. Do I trust the article, if I think the headline has issues?

I'm calling it, we're never going to have flying cars. You're probably right about the drone part, though. You drive your car to a parking lot outside of the city and wait on a drone to drop you at work in the city.

>... say, search and rescue operations.

Oh good grief. If that is the use case, you get something designed for that.

They're looking for red flags. If they ask you and your response is along the lines of, "I Hate my manager, she's such a bi*&^", that's a red flag.

As others have mentioned, fix your resume. Regarding projects, in your resume talk about your projects in terms of what value the learning would bring to the company you're applying to. People WILL care that you made a chess game if you can tell them the value that learning how to implement a chess engine could bring to their organization.

Hold my datil pepper sauce...

But, seriously, 16 tons per day. That's crazy. That's a LOT of shrimp in the ocean.

Apple really needs to add SMB support to photos app. Apps like photosync run up against the 3 minute background process limitation in iOS[0].

[0]: > Another common problem may be the fact that an autotransfer is not completing. This has to do with the 3 minute background operation restriction in iOS. PhotoSync can only run - and transfer - in the background for 3 minutes. If the app is still transferring while it is in the background, it sends you a push notification 30 seconds before the background operation time runs out. If you tap on this notification, you bring PhotoSync back to the foreground and it can continue the transfer process. You can even send it to the background again to get another 3 minutes of background operation time.

I think the fist thing I would do is peruse comp.compilers and see what the replies to similar questions were.

Cargo culting is just what you have to learn to accept and work around, because there will always be developers who fall for it. A decade ago, everyone was writing dependency injection frameworks because that was the hotness and debugging became a nightmare, but, hey!, we completely decouple EVERYTHING! Then there was no sql (mongo etc) and if you were still using sql, your system was shit. Oh and way before that there was GoF and you ended up with UserBillingFacadeFactoryFactory abstractions.

None of these technologies are bad. They're just bad in the hands of mediocre developers.

> ... or it was simply so large that the potential ad revenue was too large a carrot to ignore.

I'm always inclined to think this is the case. Investors are always wanting to know how you're going to increase returns THIS quarter.

Think of it this way; you were hired with the thought that after 6 mos they'd evaluate your progress and determine they want to keep you or not. That's how a lot of business work.

So, yeah, leave and don't feel bad about it. It's just business.

Take care of yourself first. Nobody else will.

The patch we went to had a loop with a string attached. Loop went over stem and they wound the string around the pumpkin. String had markings so they could tell how much to charge. Took all of 2 seconds per pumpkin.

I don't really want a teched out pumpkin patch.

Once everyone stops hysterically laughing, I'll pass out the popcorn.

> Many want to be seen as a writer, filmmaker or programmer or they want the rewards.

Some want to be. Some want to have been.

On NextDoor app the other day someone posted a video of a semi trailer, that obviously had taken a wrong turn, completely tear up their front landscaping and didn't stop. Being able to record it, this is the draw for a lot of people.

Major Mono Display for the WIN!

That was actually nicely done. I'll play it more seriously later.

> The problems with electric motorcycles are well-summarised here...

They're also not obnoxiously loud at 2am, either. Apparently, being very obnoxious is a huge selling point for some people. It's an attention seeking machine.

Congratulations on your first child! That's so cool.

My SO and I are both software engineers, so blame me for taking one of the lady devs off the market.

I can be not offended and still feel it to be petty.

I get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.

Ponzi type scheme. They want to use funds from investors for Orbital Reef to fund their existing efforts.

> But it's not a developer system.

I think Apple's idea of a "pro" is not necessarily someone who spends time inside of a text editor all day.

A shame the only option today is the iPod Touch. Might as well just use an old phone...

Probably because of a spreadsheet. If they made the right deals, etc. the numbers they report and the returns to the investors increase.

Any time you ask, "why?", the answer is money for the investors.

We see this happening with TVs, etc. Soon cars will have it.

Fundamentally, it is many times easier to be negative than to be positive. Any (general) social media platform will (eventually) skew heavily towards the negative. Facebook just had a head start is all because of Zuck.

> Not letting the other team get any wins will be known as The McConnell Strategy in the history books...

Absolutely right. He is Lucy with the football to the Democrats' Charlie Brown.

And he's just so damn good at it too.

That's not an arrow. Bezos has a penis infatuation.