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I was talking to someone recently that had worked there and they said the first step for integrating with any client is to convert their data into a proprietary format called PXML, which I assume is XML with the added feature of vendor lock-in.

Is there any storage-related cost (i.e. retreival or egress cost) when you call this on a file stored on Google Cloud Storage?

As a frequent LA bus rider, I agree that the biggest problem is simply the infrequency of service. I can deal with the ride being bumpy, or sitting next to crazy people on occasion. Even the slowness and frequent stops don't bother me. When you subtract time for parking, your trip takes not much longer than driving, especially when traffic is slow.

But 20 minutes between each bus during rush hour is just indefensible. It's not a viable transit system, it's just a last ditch option. When two buses get bunched together, now it's suddenly 40 minutes. Throw in a transfer and things can get ridiculous.

The Red Line train comes every 13 minutes but at least it actually comes when it says it will (most of the time). The bus is scheduled to come every 15-20 but in practice it's more like two come five minutes apart and then you wait 25-30 for the next one.

For me it is doing big data processing that your average laptop cannot handle well. I have the top Core i7 and I see it as a challenge using it to the fullest. You can run the heaviest clunkiest IDE with ease. Also the flexibility and resiliency of having multiple hard drives (a sacrosanct SSD for the system, and a HDD for messing around). Plus I can run VMs with ease when I get tired of Windows.

Easily extendable RAM, tons of usb ports, the list goes on... Plus it was fun to build and I learned a lot.

I have gone through several periods in my life where I have obsessively played video games, usually followed by me selling the console in disgust with myself and buying a new one ~1.5 years later.

What has changed for me lately is building a gaming PC. I have found that this beast new PC, and the things I can do with it, are more interesting to me than most games.

My single favorite game that has drawn me in the most is Metal Gear Solid V. It's very slow paced and tactical but still an action game. You have to make a lot of intelligent decisions and formulate your own strategy to infiltrate the buildings. Plus there is a whole Civilization-esque aspect where you build your own paramilitary organization and deal with things like personnel and budgets. Add on top of that the insane supernatural geopolitics of the story and it is a very engrossing experience.

When I was playing around with WSL a few months ago, I came across this emphatic caution from the devs to not modify any files in the Linux subsystem using Windows applications (aka anything with a GUI)[1]. Apparently it destroys file metadata and breaks things.

I know it's not that hard to keep your stuff in /mnt/c or wherever, but I wonder if there is any plan (or if it's even possible) to eliminate this last bit of incompatibility.

Is it possible to run a GUI version of the Linux version of VSCode on WSL?

1. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...

I use it at work. I am also a relative novice programmer (~2 years exp) so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Pros

- Dependency management is so easy and portable.

- I can write really concise code while keeping it readable (and dare I say aesthetically pleasing) with ParEdit. Compare this to Scala which tempts you to write gnarly and dense one liners. In clojure these are so unreadable that you feed compelled to indent them properly.

- Clojure feels like playing with Legos. Each individual piece is small and easy to understand, and it's easy to build something bigger by stacking them together.

- I have never once missed OOP

Cons

- ClojureScript is cool but for a production app I would rather not use it. Not enough availability of libraries and JS interop is not intuitive. When I'm debugging CLJS, half the time the stack trace is unreadable transpiled JS

- Proto Repl (atom plugin) does not consistently work right for me. I still have not found a good REPL workflow so I am frequently restarting REPLs which is just sad.

Chuwi Hi10, it's a touchscreen Windows 10 tablet with 2 usb ports, HDMI out, 4GB ram, 64GB storage, 64-bit Windows. Currently on sale for $170. Unfortunately I dropped mine and broke the touchscreen but I still use it on my TV.

http://www.banggood.com/Chuwi-Hi10-64GB-Cherry-Trail-Z8300-Q...

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