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Hell no. I work with RHEL every day, and while I'm by no means an expert, I would say I'm reasonably proficient with Linux.

Every time I've tried using Linux on the desktop, it's worked just fine until I tried to update something. Sooner or later, there's some broken patch or some incompatible thing here or there that breaks my window manager and throws me to the command line, ruins my network settings, overwrites my boot config or some other maddening mess. Linux works brilliantly, AS LONG AS YOU NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING

I live in a country where income is public information.

It´s not really a problem as far as I know - and at any rate it definitely benefits employees.

Or if you don´t care for fiddling about too much and just want it to work out of the box: http://ohmyz.sh/

2017 15" decked out macbook pro here. Not all that smooth.

Æss a nårvidsjæn itt vassent tu hard tu riid jur vraiting laik dis. Aj vånder håo diffikult itt iss får a slav tu ønderstænd nårvinglisj....

Edit: and now I feel like Petter Solberg. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/Kaeh8FRPANs?t=4s

Five weeks of vacation helps too.

Food in Oslo has improved by leagues and bounds in the past ten years. You'll find it here if you know where to look :)

I'll be honest, it's a little rough. Around late december, the darkest part of the year, I barely see sunlight for a month or two. I'm at work by 8:30, sun rises 10. I leave work at 16:00, sun sets 14:00.

It gets better though, so by february the worst bit is over. It's not really that awful - you really get a physical sense of the year progressing, and in a sense the darkness is cozy. Lots of light in the cities, starry skies in the countryside. Get some solarium tan going and spend a week or two of vacation time in warmer parts of the world and it's not at all bad.

Haven't played it either, but from what I've heard you can do that, but you'll get pounded to a fine paste by said boss in about three seconds flat.

Genesis commit, that's a catchy name for it. We've done the same thing, after some discussion this always ends up making the most sense.

Also, you can hide your crimes and not show off all your "TODO: put more stuff here" commits to the world.

We've published internally developed projects on github after removing anything sensitive and initializing a new repo from the latest version of the code base.

You lose your development history, but you ensure you won't get bitten by stuff like this.

Google Translate has been improved immensely just in the past six months or so, through neural networking and machine learning [0]. It's become MUCH better at translating full sentences and coherent text - in some cases it's hard to differentiate from a competent human translation. They have made great improvements to both speech recognition [1] and text-to-speech[2] as well. It feels so damn sci-fi to just pull up a phone, talk into it and have it repeat what you said in japanese or spanish.

Siri is still mostly useful as a kitchen timer though.

[0] https://blog.google/products/translate/found-translation-mor...

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/SpeechProcessing.html

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12860866/google-deepmind-wa...

Good intentions and heartfelt prayer.

won't that make you look hella suspicious? Blank phone, blank laptop, light luggage?

What I don't hear anyone in this thread talk about is, what happens if you present them with a blank device? Say I have a brand new chromebook, no logins, no data. Brand new phone, five emergency contacts and no messages. No logins. Brand new google account.

Won't that look pretty suspicious to mr. wannabe Jack Bauer in the TSA?

Hell, I love my 9-5 dev job in government sector. Almost never overtime, decent pay, great colleagues and I get enough say and time to shape my work a little.

Sometimes you shape your own crack.

Sometimes your crack shapes you.

I'm inclined to agree. Convincing someone to use a space-age toilet for the first time without giving them instructions is hilarious.

We have a few tie-ins too, but only for Bitbucket stuff like feature branches and occationally Confluence.

What's a better alternative to Jira though?

We use Jira and bitbucket - most if not all branch names contain an issue number and the name of the issue, while commit messages can be more cryptic. This is often helpful when the branch has been deleted, as it usually is.

We use bitbucket server for pull requests and merges, and it does this. It's brilliant, since the branch name often describes the solved problem better than the commit messages.

For work (java + web developer) Linux is what I would prefer. Unfortunately we're a Windows shop.

For play (gaming + photography) it's a no go. Stuck with Windows for a while longer I suppose.

Cool, thanks for the tip. I've been eyeing Tower for a long time, but us being a windows/linux shop it's not been a contender until now.

Do they sell well?

Would you say it's harder or easier to sell on the Mac app store than on the iOs/Android app stores?

"An error has occured" Error message: "error: Is the gateway down?"

- It's down but the reload button had a nice, blue color

- Maybe do a little more load testing?

- Don't be down.

I love what Autodesk have done with Fusion 360, they made it free for students and tinkerers. It's a brilliant tool and I wish more software manufacturers got on board with programs like this.

Meetings and information I will need to reference: One Note backed up to a network drive. It's got a nice integration with Outlook meetings, lets me start a note with info about time, date, subject of meeting, location of meeting and participants present. I also keep a password-protected file with non critical passwords here, but don't tell anyone.

Day-to-day sketches and TODO's and little note lists: I keep a spiral note book next to my keyboard. I'm a leftie so it's upside down. I use the blue Pilot Drawing pens in various thicknesses. They dry instantly, so no ink smudges. Nice.

In addition to these I keep a day-to-day diary in .txt documents on my computer, I just open them in Sublime text or vim and make a new one every month. I try to just write four or five lines about what I've done every day as well as what I need to do tomorrow.

I've never tried it myself as an api but a quick poke around the googles throws this out https://cloud.google.com/speech/

Wow, that was actually impressive. A few of those were hard to distiguish from human speakers. I love how they included breathing and mouth-sounds as well, really brings it to life.

Meh, the site is blocked at my workplace. Websense is really crummy.