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I think companies such as MelodyVR are going to be pretty big because of the effects of COVID-19.

It’s an interesting problem-space and it’ll take a while for people to acclimatise to the changes, but I think we’ll start to see a lot of this.

I came for the TOP reference and I was not disappointed.

I use PiP for various videos, whilst I’m working and not splitting the screen.

I’ve actually just started a new podcast on discussing mental health in the software development industry. It’s called Happy Dev https://happy-dev.transistor.fm

Episode one will be out tomorrow morning!

I’ve heard that “charities” such as Cancer Research UK are actually business who invest very little of their income to actual research, instead paying relatively a lot more for media and payroll?

I remember seeing The V Motion Project [0] when it first came out. It'd be good to see other people approach this too!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERtJ-5wlhM

Could you imagine donating to everyone in `node_modules`?

The 2015 is the last model with the decent keyboard, so that's not the problem here.

It’s easy to see how - when you’re not in the know - this would be seen as a UFO...

My thinking would be more efficient driving.

Why the downvote? This is a genuine question!

> [...] its defenders should focus on actually showing what modern PHP code looks like.

Laravel does this very well, not just by being a great framework but also in its ecosystem (Envoyer, Forge, Spark, Nova, Horizon, Socialite) and its documentation (https://laravel.com/docs/master).

> Won't your prototyping be faster in Go/Python/Node/Ruby anyway, with a more stable surface to build upon it?

One of the most understated pros of PHP (IMHO) is that it's so easy to get setup with. You can start hacking on something so quickly. In my experience, Go has not been like that. Node.js also was never as quick.

Why does the number of methods in the global namespace bother you?

* Genuinely interested in the rationale behind this. Sure, it's a lot, but why does that matter?

> but it is still the worse mainstream programming language.

Please back this up.

Yeah, that's not a thing anymore.

I heavily agree with this. The standard library, whilst great, has so many inconsistencies which I wish they'd fix and standardise.

Xdebug remote debugging is great, especially when paired with Laravel Valet (which supports more than just Laravel apps).

My 2018 MacBook Pro arrived last week £2.6k and I turned it on to find the right speaker crackling. I now have to make a trip to Apple to get it fixed.

I heard about this on Gimlet's Reply All podcast[1] last week. It's a great overview of what went down with Evan Ratliff himself.

Immediately after listening I bought the book from Amazon. I'm only a few pages in and there's already so much more to the story which is great as I found it really fascinating.

It's a big book, so be prepared for some good bed time reading!

[1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/the-founder#episode-pl...

This is very true. I'm forever being recommended things I searched for once for a parent or a friend that I have no other interest in.

It’s interesting to me that the majority of those suicides are by gun. Only one is a hanging which fails, two jump and another is implied on the train lines.

Surely just a basic spell and grammar check is enough without over-engineering solutions...

Can someone explain the significance of this?

You can tap the share button and then Create PDF. Or, hold down the reader mode.

On BI solutions, we’ve been using Metabase[1] a lot at work and it’s been fantastic.

[1] https://Metabase.com

> add VPN on/off to control center

I really hoped they'd add this in iOS12.

In Bury, England there is something called The Arcade Club[1] which is a two-storey factory converted into an arcade. One level is all retro games and the next is PC, Xbox, PS4, Wii-U and VR. It’s incredible.

[1] https://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/

You mean https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc?

Because the content is still decent.