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The saga continues. A email address is supplied by the Google Support dialog, play-care-priority@google.com, and after mailing the address for assistance I received an automated email saying it doesn't exist, or "Address not found".

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Haha I'm jealous. My tv can only boot to an app and not an input, but the operating system it came with is SO SLOW, that I have to use some kind of casting device.

I would be eternally in your debt if you uploaded that FatBoy UO track :) I had to go listen to the original after reading your comment and I can't believe how great it still is after all these years.

What more would you like it to mention? I just read the article and it was about startups that are introducing newer and cheaper options for people who may have used the 12 step program, exactly what the headline insinuates.

Maybe it was changed since you commented?

I tried 3 crossfit gyms. They all played such loud music that after each session my ears would ring and it made me agitated. Ended up sending the one an email, but apparently it has something to do with motivation.

I have done crossfit, other HIIT gyms, weights, swimming, running etc etc. However the best exercise I can recommend is one you enjoy. Try squash, Rock climbing, yoga etc till you find something you enjoy and you want to excel at.

This business of exercising for the sake of exercising for the rest of your life as if it is some sort of cross to bear is not the best technique to staying healthy! Try and enjoy it.

Dude... I was reading all these comments mega confused. I installed Pop_OS a few months back and it's a million times easier to use than Windows.

From installing applications to changing my background.

One terrible experience I had was when Windows did something to the Linux bootloader and I had to try work out how to fix that, but I can't really blame Linux for that.

Honestly I am so much more productive on Pop than on Windows. I can spend more time actually doing my job and less time manually creating PATH variables for every package I install. As a Web developer Windows is a disaster.

I recently went through an interview process at a few companies. One in NYC, London and Bermuda. The one in NYC required me to do a leetcode style algorithm question. I somehow worked myself into a nervous wreck and bombed out even though I had prepared a lot and could have answered the question in my own time.

I ended up landing the London gig and having a fantastic interview experience with the Bermudian company. They all had VASTLY different interview processes but it really made me realise how stupid that whole algorithm/whiteboard process is.

I think this perception that the big 3 use it as a filter is even a bit lame and lazy. I've heard they do it because it's more costly to hire a dummy than to miss a star, but I would love to see the data around that.

Unless of course they aren't interested in hiring "stars" and just want leetcode monkeys to file in and churn out code with perfect asymptotic behaviour.

Imagine you logged into Hacker news tomorrow and they switched over to that design. I would assume they were being held hostage by hackers.

Not so sure. One developer understands his whole code base and environment quite well. So let's say an error occurs during build it's likely he will be able to check out the logs, navigate to that area of code and troubleshoot.

In a larger team the flow of info is DevOps/Developer spot error in CI/CD, find out which commit/Developer broke the build. Email/slack/ walk over to let them know and sit down for a friendly troubleshooting session.

Resolve the problem. Follow necessary processes to commit change. CI/CD hosted agent is busy building other projects because not enough budget for multiple hosted agents and all CI/CD is handled in the cloud. Time to go home!

Obviously that was a bit facetious but you get the picture.

When he got to the bit about too attractive woman I couldn't read on. Seems really strange to me.

I also use POP!_OS, pretty awesome actually. I have found it to be a really great experience, and I am not sure if this was just fluke, but the installation process was mega easy. Non of the usual wifi driver issues I got with Ubunutu.

The why: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/government/282585-why-governm...

Why not the company? I am not really familiar with any controversy around Discord, I just use the software for chatting to my mates.

I know right. I also just came from an article that had to use an electron microscope to photograph the accelerometer in our phones. I never realised how small things have gotten.

This is awesome. I recently moved from Typescript to plain Javascript for a project and it is quite frustrating.

You don't realise what you had till it's gone!

I would rather there was more competition for Steam to be honest. Discord may hit a spot where the functionality required of the app pushes it into a territory where it becomes a resource hog and justifies a rewrite in C++ or C#, but we don't really have insight into why they ran with Electron to begin with. We should be considerate of that fact that not everyone can drum up a team of C++ engineers to create a suave product in a hurry and at the right price.

Basically my point is let's wait and see and give them the benefit of the doubt. From my perspective its an incredible piece of software, front end and back. It's stunning. We get 100% of the product for free, and those that pay get 105%.

Also it is still quite young. With time some of your issues will likely be ironed out, or it may turn into a mess.

I do agree with it feeling a bit cluttered now.

Glad to see saying Windows users should experiment with Linux is still so controversial ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I had a similar experience with Ubuntu ten years ago. But now I have been using PopOS!_os https://system76.com/pop which is an Ubuntu distro, which has been the totally opposite experience. After the install I kept expecting everything to go wrong, and wifi not to work etc, but honestly "everything just works" seems to be the fitting description.

I still predominantly use Windows 10 due to gaming and doing a lot of .Net development, but I am changing jobs soon and I might just run Linux for a while. See what happens. Honestly my experience in Windows these days is one of pain and confusion. The file system is even annoying me quite a bit. Anyway, I probably just hit the hardware configuration sweet spot that mean't my Pop!_os installation wasn't riddled with driver issues.

That is exactly what I am doing. I just got an Aero 15 with a 1060gb, which I honestly think will suffice for most games I play.

But if I ever get into more graphically demanding games I can hook up an eGPU and throw in a 1080Ti or something.

On windows, but I will give it a try, thanks for the tip

Edit: You are a champion, that worked!

You should give Ubuntu an experimental try. I have only ever used Windows most my life, but for hobby projects I use Ubuntu/PopOS!.

If you are doing Web development I highly recommend that over Windows. Just last night I tried to setup a Phoenix project on a fresh install of windows and after 5 hours I was still installing C++ build tools, setting up path variables etc etc. It honestly is a world of pain.

I remember setting up the same project on Ubuntu in five minutes. Not to mention it is infinitely more responsive.

I don't have Facebook, and I desperately want to get rid of the panel on the right telling me to login. So annoying. Apart from that really enjoy Spotify.

I switched a week ago! But I must say I still have to hitup Google quite often, the search results are not as good.

Yes, thank you! What a great talk.

On topic 1 I was thinking to myself the other day, "I wonder if I can create a static webpage that isn't some sort of SPA or web app."

It took me time to work out where to start... Once you think it through you realise it is pretty easy and obvious. But (and this gives away my age a bit), I have not built a static webpage since school (over 10 years ago), and have become so accustomed to all the crazy shit that goes into web development today like Webpack, NPM, React, Angular etc etc that I had forgotten how to actually just serve a piece of HTML.

My dependence on all these frameworks and CLIs sent me on a quest to find out more about pure javascript, and I came across an incredible talk by a developer who created a pure javascript web app for music notation. I really wanted to link it here but cannot find it.

Not dissimilar to a couple modern wellness tips I have come across...

Zero to me too and thank goodness actually. I received a proper salary instead which worked out a lot better in the end.

You should see South Africa. It is more of a stampede. Everyone I know has either left or is trying. Literally ten out of the twelve friends I have are either in UK, Aus or US.

The ones still in ZA are clammering to get out.