unknown2374

Not to start a war, but Python's "there's one right way to do it" is nothing more than an ambitious claim with little ground. Maybe it applies for doing something brainless like printing a string, but the claim completely falls apart when trying to do something as simple as list indexing/slicing or even iteration. I'm not condemning Python in anyway, I am a fan of the latter mention features, but that "zen" of Python is not applicable.

to be fair, he did specify in his comment that they have not been updated but are still a good read, so I don't understand your hostility.

To add to that, I have found that a lot of my friends in the software developer community, who used to have the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality, are finally paying more attention to privacy related issues in light of the new administration in the States. Reminds me of what Snowden said a few years back, "Even if you trust the government today, what happens when it changes?”. I have noticed a similar phenomenon happening among my non-technical family members as well. So yes, I am totally with you that things are changing, I am excited to see how the dynamic changes in Silicon Valley for companies that used to rely on that mentality. However, I am still worried that this might just be an initial reaction to the regime change in the States and it might die down soon as people, at the very least the non-technical people, might become tired of how hard it is to use products that are privacy and "freedom" respecting and might fall back to the convenience of the products and services offered "free" but for the price of their privacy.

I don't think he/she means that they are worse. We all want to work with developers who can help us learn and get better. From what I understand, he/she just means that their process of hiring has no correlation to the quality of code that they produce. Their hiring process is incapable by design of hiring those people BASED on those skills he/she is looking to work with, but sometimes they do end up hiring capable engineers with no credit to their process.

I am in the same boat, even under Linux and no configuration at all, the new XPS 13 lasts an incredibly long time. Just a minor correction, the battery in the previous (early 2016 - 9350) model was actually 52W, not 56.

Nikola Tesla always gets wrongfully overshadowed by Edison for some reason. Although Edison actively shunned down innovations by Tesla time and time again just so he can make more money. He also stole credit for some of the stuff that Tesla did [1].

[1] Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

I am surprised one of the most important point was not covered in the article: the "completeness" of recent AAA games. In recent times, there have been an incredible amount of quality issues with new AAA titles, from releasing an unfinished games to games being full of bugs, glitches and crashing. There have also been the case that these games are overmarketted and full of false promises. A lot of the publishers think they can get away with it due to the current culture of pre-ordering of games. I'm just glad that the gamer community is finally catching on to their scam and calling out their bluffs.

It isn't very likely that you will find much help here. This is a sign of a lack of initiative. So, if you didn't already, I suggest starting to look for jobs yourself instead of letting employers look for you. Just my two cents.

But you have to realize that those applications on Macs are not for everyone. Which basically means that if Mac were to continue having their monopoly, developers like YOU would never look to provide the same kinds of services to people who prefer something else. Not everyone uses software that just because they look pretty.

I am not sure why you think that Pantheon is the only one in this category. Have you not seen the Cinnamon DE?

I have been using Turtl (https://turtlapp.com/) for notes, bookmarks, sharing files and journaling. It runs on Windows/Mac/Linux/Android (iOS coming soon) and have both cloud-hosted and self-hosted options. It helped me drop OneNote and Google Keep. It supports tagging the notes, but reminders are still lacking, I use Tasks (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks&hl=e...) on my Android phone to keep track of repeating tasks and reminders.

For side-projects kanban boards, I just use Gitlab issues' kanban view.

maybe check out https://trakt.tv/, I have been using it for more than 3 years and it's absolutely amazing. It even has multiple mobile apps, I personally use SeriesGuide on my android phone.

name one thing (with the exception of macbooks) that apple did better than anyone else

How does this compare to Matrix clients? http://matrix.org/ Would highly appreciate feedback from people who use both of these.

I just hope someday the general public realize what a poor job Microsoft has done regarding security on Windows operating systems and embrace other (and more promising) alternatives

And the states continue to get away with things like this to this day.