Worked at an office on 2nd and Pine for a few years - every summer, if you opened the windows, you’d get a steady wafting of crack pipe smoke coming in the building. You could tell if any cops were nearby because people outside would be singing or whistling as a warning call. Good times.
I’ve noticed this thing on social media lately where a single image is turned into like a 10-second video...of nothing but the still image (and sometimes stock background music). This is usually done by low-effort clickbait sites, but I don’t get why.
I saw trucks working on all the poles up and down my street. Sure enough, a month or so later their site showed my address eligible for gigabit. Goodbye Comcast!
Yeah, just a portion of it (a modified fork of the GL bindings). We wrap our own framework around the bindings and combine that with SDL2, plus Cairo/Pango for vector drawing and writing text to textures, libogg/libopus for audio files, Assimp for 3D assets, etc.
I second that sentiment. I mostly use C# for work - about half web stuff and half OpenGL-based user interfaces, and it's a real boon to be able to do all my work in Linux. Some other C# devs here work on Macs. We all appreciate the Mono team's hard work.
He's actually surprised me lately. He figured out how to install a spreadsheet app (libre office I think) and has been using it for his work spreadsheets (he's a contractor).
To be fair, he probably wouldn't have been able to set it up initially by himself. But I've had really good luck getting family members on Linux lately. I can Ssh in and do updates or make changes and it's way easier than remotely administering windows.
When my dad's laptop broke, he picked up my spare Ubuntu laptop and has been using it for the last two years. I know it's just one anecdote, but when it saves me a crap-ton of money and time, it seems very real to me. He could have asked me to buy Windows and Office for him... too bad for Microsoft he hasn't needed either. Game over.
I'm so onboard with what you're saying. I've been using mono for the last couple years, so much so that I call myself a "mono developer" and not a ".NET developer".
I worked at Microsoft for a couple years and I could already smell this brewing. The devs I respected the most were also the most unhappy with the platform tie-in. This is a desperately needed political shift for the organization, and I think it will actually boost morale as well.
I was reading that with a big smile on my face. They're doing a lot of stuff I've been wanting for a while, especially the web server agnosticism. My new LAMP stack: Linux, ASP.NET, Mono, PostgreSQL.
There was a pretty good two-parter on DS9 where an admiral took advantage of the fear around the dominion war to over-step his bounds and implement secretive/draconian security measures until Sisko "blows the whistle." Probably came as close as any episode to showing Starfleet dysfunction. And of course there was Section 31 towards the end of the series (starfleet's NSA).
There were also a couple TNG episodes: one where there was a witch hunt to find a supposed spy on board the Enterprise, and another where Starfleet claimed Data was property and not alive.
There's also Star Trek 6 which exposed a Federation conspiracy to sabotage peace talks with the Klingons. Probably my favorite movie in the series after Khan.
Granted it's much earlier in the Trek universe, but Enterprise also tackled xenophobic groups in the last season.
I always enjoyed episodes that featured internal struggles even if they were relatively rare.
I think what we witnessed was a tipping of the scales on those issues in terms of public opinion. Very slow to get to this point, but once it starts moving, it moves pretty fast.
As a person who likes C# and MVC but doesn't like Windows, I've hoped for this for a long time. The fact that Microsoft is going to include mono in their tests is awesome. It's like a genie granted me a wish.
I have both Comcast and DSL available here, but the fastest DSL is 5mbit. That barely counts as connected. So in my mind, Comcast has a complete monopoly here even though DSL is available.
One admittedly crazy theory is that this is laying the groundwork for building iOS apps and therefore would compete with Xamarin. Any kind of JIT would not be allowed on the iOS app store.
It seems like this is basically just the same thing that Mono has done for a long time with AOT. I'm not really sure how it differs from the Ngen tool, though.
He's "weary" of the use of bitcoin? If an elected congressperson is going for a publicity stunt, they should at least have someone proof their letters before looking like a doofus...
Same here, a number of Mono apps in production, both on mobile and desktop. A lot of my recent work has to do with OpenGL-related stuff running on Linux using Mono/MonoDevelop. I have had neither performance-related issues nor stability issues.
Ironically, we have some large-ish C# code-bases that run on everything but Windows.
Also in Seattle, and prime is great, except for when they use Ontrac. I once had a next-day shipment fail to show up, and on the third day I called Ontrac to find out why. The rep told me, and I'm completely serious, "the driver just decided not to do his job."
I actually appreciated the honesty, but I hope they fired the driver.
I love the $4 overnight. When I'm deciding whether to do 2-day or overnight, I always do a little thought experiment: If I'm sitting around tomorrow and wishing my new thing was here, would I open my wallet and shell out four bucks for it to show up today? You bet your ass I would! I'm an impatient bastard like that.
Couldn't this be solved by offering different tiers of service? Say, keep the existing service but add another one at a higher price that allows you to select your preferred carriers. People pay more for first class seats on an airplane, better seats at a ball game, more channels with Comcast, business-grade service with Verizon..