angryteabag

I'm a New Zealander and have been trying to relocate to the states for many years. It basically comes down to finding someone to marry me while I am there on my 3 month visiting visa.

Problem is, it's hard enough finding someone to hold my hand in NZ, let alone marriage in another country.

I had high hopes that Clinton would win and I'd have my dream realised. I guess, it was never meant to be.

I don't know where all the hate for GitLab is coming from, but for my use case, their SaaS git solution is almost exactly what I have been looking for.

It's so good, I am both surprised and angry I didn't find it sooner.

I dont know much about where to find these chip or what I am looking for but...

http://i.imgur.com/mRdk6ZD.jpg

This is an ancient chip, however I also found MediaTek ones for ~ $10, which had 4 cores and were 1.6ghz SoC.

Sounds to me like we could seriously see $100 laptops that actually function soon.

Might be costly to emulate x86 - negating the power-saving benefits of ARM, however as it'll be using an SOC, they would have a lower physical presence.

Imagine the motherboard on your phone, but in your laptop. The rest of the space would be used for batteries.

Generally speaking, I really like OSX/macOS. I am starting to grow a disdain towards Windows, with it's insistence on changing the default browser to IE + Bing on every update.

Linux is great, but it just doesn't do it superficially for me. I can make it look great for screenshots, but as soon as I click a button or engage with the DE, the facade falls apart.

macOS/OSX seems to be like a Linux distro with a very well developed desktop manager.

The only problem is, I need to buy a Mac. Who the hell can afford that, holy sh*it

As a New Zealander who wants to move to the USA, swap? (jk immigration laws make it impossible)

Philosophy, desktop environment and pre-installed packages probably.

From my understanding it is, in fact, a cross distro/cross version package manager.

I am getting confused and you nailed it. I'm referring to Snappy

Can I get someone's opinion on Snap? Is it worth paying attention to?

My understanding is that it's a package manager that installs applications in their own isolated Linux sandbox, meaning you can install/distribute them on any distribution.. right?

Does that mean software like node.js or nginx/apache will be available via Snap?

How do you know you're stressed?

I'm a Jr dev who spent a year sneaking into lectures, studying, stealing food before I became employable. I now work 70 hours a week for peanuts and although I feel fine, I am pretty sure I am about to rip my hair out.

Oh yeah, I'm probably pretty stressed.

What do I do about this?

I think they need to focus more on encouraging developers to get into making Apps for their platform.

In my opinion, we don't need another platform to learn - you can see how many people agree with me when you look at how prevalent web > native technologies are right now. PhoneGap, ReactNative, NativeScript.

If Microsoft decided to focus on Edge, not as a token "we still make browsers" gesture, but with a genuine interest to innovate.

They focused on web technologies, providing native support for web within their operating systems. Support in ways other manufacturers haven't.

Imagine if their app store was a place where you could publish a progressive web app (along side their current apps).

How low would the barrier of entry be then?

What is considered significant experience?

As a New Zealander who is unable to move anywhere else due to immigration laws. I am happy for you, but the Jealousy is real.

Easy fix, bring macOS to non Apple hardware.

Please open macOS to non Apple hardware. I'd actually buy a license for that.

This is awesome

What is your daily carb limit?

Why sweet potatoes, they have more carbs than regular potatoes.

How do you achieve an adequate fiber intake?

I almost agree.

I dislike the full screen overlay you get with the start button. I'm all for animation, but the fade and slide of all the windows is objectively bad. The full screen nature of the menu is also full screen metro levels of bad - and even MS ditched that.

I personally get "dash to doc", "activities configurer" (remove activities button), "pixel saver" + Albert - binding it to the start button.

This is the minimum I need to make it a functionally intuitive experience.

I mean, I work as a developer at a company - so I can't get them to raise the desk for me or turn up with cinder blocks

For a developer without the luxury of a standing desk, what alternatives do I have?

As a novice developer, coming from Java, I was taken aback by how forceful and messy JS's async programming style is (I started with node.js then moved to the browser).

Callbacks, promises, generators are all there to essentially make async code sync, which seems to make the code hard to follow, difficult to scale, modularise and debug.

I think JS took this approach because of the limitation of older browsers, which were unable to use threading, so as to not block IO they forced concurrency using queues requiring async style code.

We must have just stuck with it because it's just been around for long enough and it would be hard to get everyone to change.

it's 2016 and I like being able to use the return values of my methods without sweating. PLEASE, for the love of god, replace JS with something with the same cushy syntax but makes sense.

Then again, I could just be bad at programming and not know what I am talking about - I sincerely hope that is the case.