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For me Homebrew made me moved back to MacOS. I love having a linux like system. I love having iTerm2 and flexibility to create bash scripts. Just few features I use and enjoy everyday.

I have always liked stripe [1] API documentation. Its very well structured and does have a beautiful documentation.

[1]https://stripe.com/docs/api

Nice! I'm learning German as well. Can you tell me if you used any books/tutorials/apps/classes? Thanks in advance.

This list [1] should cover almost all the essential application for a developer.

[1]https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os

1. Homebrew 2. iTerm 3. Cmd + R for recovery mode 4. A multi touch trackpad. Move quickly between workspaces. 5. Fast! I have 500GB with 16GB RAM. Yes its expensive for I get, but I had bad times relying on windows laptop. 6. Save and restore Application states after reboot! 7. VIM! I love vim. 8. Blend of linux and Xwindows.

This things are top of my list. I use windows PC just for gaming. :)

Some people like it. I dropped my iPhone and took an hour to replace the screen(went around the mall for a walk), not sure I can do the same with Pixel/HTC/Samsung.

I switched to iPhone for many reasons, but the main reason was SERVICE. I owned a HTC and then Samsung. I had issues with both the phones at some point in time. Yes things can go bad. I can't take my android phone to a local store to get it fixed. I need to send the phone to them, get a backup phone, port all my contacts to the other phone. But if I have a issue with my iPhone all I need to do is book an appointment at Genius bar, and they take care of the rest. At least I know I can talk to a real person face to face to fix the issue with my phone.

One of my co worker got an email, saying that they're beta testing a feature, where they need to upload the receipts or else their account will be cancelled. This is such a bad business model. Can anyone else confirm this.

Vim and Atom.

Mostly tech related subreddits. Like r/programming.

I have flipboard app on my phone. I have a feed for science and tech.

Twitter to follow some professionals like John Carmack.

Youtube/Google+

Downtown Salt Lake City. It had a huge screen with touch controls. You can drag planets around run the simulation to see if the system in stable.

This is really nice read! I remember I visited a local Planetarium few weeks ago. They had a game where you will need to pick like 5 planets and design the solar system. It had the asteroid belt. Big planets and small ones. The game will end if the EARTH collides with any other planet and if the other planet collides you lose points. The simulation was just amazing.

I have never tried real time collaboration. What scenarios are there when you need real time collab. I know technical interviewers prefer this. Do you think it causes distraction when you have 2 people writing code on a same file. I would rather one finish and then do my stuff.

When I first heard of slack, I signed up right away and pitched the idea to my supervisor to move to slack. It has all we need. The idea was turned down. But I still wanted to try it out. So, I setup a slack for my family. It has been a great experience. I have multiple channels, trips, events and all. My parents enjoy it. I get asked why not use "Whatsapp Groups". I did tried it, but I felt Slack was a better and I really dont like to get added to random groups without having my consent. So, I stopped using whatsapp.

I integrated Dropbox and kayak and ton of others app. My parents are not tech savvy and they can still use it.

I wanted to try this out, since, my company still has some legacy code and we use swing/applet as our frontend. It has worked very well so far, but after NPAPI support has been dropped from Chrome and Firefox it getting tough to keep that as our frontend now. We have slightly moved to HTML5.

I installed and went to https://www.java.com/verify/ on google chrome and still says "The Chrome browser does not support NPAPI plug-ins and therefore will not run all Java content. Switch to a different browser (Internet Explorer or Safari on Mac) to run the Java plug-in."

Am I missing something here?

One time my Mom got a call from a random number(It was something unusual about the phone number, it was 7 digit). The person on the phone was pretending to be a MS employee and had an accent. What my mom told me. The guy said the they have been informed about a malware/virus which has effected her computer and need to resolve that issue. She is said fine. He gave her some instructions to flow. Asked to her open command prompt. Which my mom didnt even knew exists on a pc. He made her type some commands and later went asked her to look into system logs. Off course there were some failure logs in red. The guy told her that's because of virus. He wanted to her install teamviewer and give her the access details. My mom is not a tech savy person. All she knows, is to open google chrome and watch netflix. She said she need to call my son to find out more. The guy was getting impatient and hang up the phone.

Now, tech savvy people like me can detect spammers/scammers way before in this scenario. But for my mom it took a while. The guy said he was calling from Microsoft and even knew the some ID code of my computer, what she told me. She fell for that. Fortunately, her account doesnt have admin privileges.

Salt Lake City, Utah.

I moved out of California 5 years ago and I think I won't consider back moving back at all. I enjoy my 1K/month 2 bedroom-2 bath apartment. 15 mins commute to work and a decent pay to manage my monthly expenses. I dont get paid in 6 figures, but close and I still leave a pretty decent life. I have a friend who works for vmware and gets paid in 6 figures, and still complains about how hard is to manage and do budgeting.

Most of the friends are in bay area in tech industry, tells me that tech scene here is amazing and I miss out on the cool dev meetups. I agree, but I think I got used to my life style now. Good work-life balance is hard to achieve.

Eva from Ex-Machina.

I got an email for Uber saying my account was accessed from Vietnam and I need to change my password. I verified if this was not a phishing attack and later went ahead and changed my password. I got my email verification though.

But I find it strange, that my account was accessed. This raises some concerns.

I quit facebook like an year ago. Couldnt be much happier. Initially, I started using facebook as my one stop website for everything. Check on my friends and same time I will read and go through news. Later, I was really upset about targeted ads. I'm cant say its dying, all my friends still use it day to day. But I feel is the trend is changing. instead of daily "status updates" people are sharing more content.

For a complete beginner. What kind of applications I can work on using TensorFlow?

I have started learning French few months ago. I started with Duolingo for couple of weeks to get the basics. I liked there tutorials. The APP even has a built-in messenger where you can chat in French with a bot(guessing same for German too).

The first book I read was Beauty and the beast in french. It's a short story to start with. It took me a long time to just read some sentences with proper pronunciation and I'm still working on it. I look up youtube videos for some extra info. The frenchpod101 videos are good. I guess you might have already tried these, but just wanted to mention it anyways. Hope this helps! Good Luck!

> Skype tech support is vulnerable to social engineering, and Microsoft is perfectly OK with that.

This is bothers me alot. My mom got a call from this guy pretending to be MS employee couple of weeks ago. He told her that the PC has been infected by virus and MS has been notified and he is helping her to resolve the issue. For a person like my mom who is not much of tech savy person, the chances are really high to fall for this. Fortunately, she told that guy to call her back later, because she didn't know the administrator password.

I'm not a mobile app developer by profession. But I always wanted to start learning and developing real world apps. The problem I always ran into the tutorials and demos, that they are mostly limited(i.e not close to solving real world problems). I think browsing their code, will give me a good start. And I would know how it's done right! Thank You!

Couple of days ago I tried the "scanning" feature. Had dozens of receipts that I needed to scan. I was really impressed with document edge detection. I was also able to stack 2 receipts and scan as one document. The edge detection was failing in some cases. However, I was able to correct the edges manually. I had a document with 2 different color background, the app had some issues detecting the edges on it. It was detecting the only part of the document with same color. But again I was able to manually select the edges and able to scan entire document.

Ex Machina.

Thank you!

This is incredible!! Great work!

Don't know why the stamp was showing Los Angeles, CA when I'm in Salt Lake City, UT. Switching to wifi was much accurate.

Edit: Will it be a good feature to add, where user can randomly pick paper planes on desktop browser as well? Just to see what's going on.

Page Not Found. When I clicked on Getting started

https://deepstream.io/core/getting-started-quickstart/

Edit: Clicked on tutorials and then Getting started.