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I think its probably a hit job to smear Putin once again, especially because of rising conflicts in Azeribaijan and Armenia.

"Big Leak of Data" but doesnt actually make the data public. I mean, seriously???

> a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay

You mean /pol/ just spamming the 'repeat after me' command to get the bot to parrot anything they wanted?

Didnt the guy that made the "Twitch Plays Pokemon" do this? He probably made an absolute killing.

That or amazon did for sure (owns Twitch)

In case the site isnt working properly for the stream - heres the twitch channel/link - https://www.twitch.tv/bwatanabe

I make roughly $20 an hour (about 16 after taxes :( )at the moment as a junior full stack intern working part time (I live and work in US). Sometimes I wonder if I should move on to find some other job, even if its remote...

On the other hand, my work is not that stressful, and I'm still going to school so my job is very flexible on time.

Anyone else been in a position like me?

> Whats funny to me, is that I stopped liking imgur when when added the community/context stuff. I liked it when it was small and simple. It's gotten so bloated that it's become a pain to use.

Yep, its a pain on mobile, is bloated (so non direct image links like i.imgur/garbage.jpg) load slowly. The sponsored content is annoying too with the adds.

I also find it ironic that the Imgur people hate "reddit" and redditors, even though imgur was pretty much made to service reddit.

I watch a bit of YouTube, but I only use YouTube-dl to doownload videos I really like - like abridgements or YTPs - stuff that can easily be copyright notice'd down

I disagree, if anything Republicans WANT the backdoors and encryption to be removed because of "terrorism".

Even though they usually communicate via SMS or other super low tech ways (at least during the Paris attacks). It's laughable really.

> videos through youtube-dl these days

how do you find the video you want without using youtube? do you just use the youtube search interface then download the video by copying the url (w/o even clicking on the link to start the video buffer)

Current senior in Comp Sci here - I'd say a good portion of my classmates just want a cozy job doing programming for some enterprise company. They know CS degree pays well, like an engineering degree. For myself, I also just want a cool, less stressful corporate/enterprise job. Maybe in 5 years I can see myself doing some startup or SaaS business or something.

Then again, I go to a state school and a lot of my classmates (if not all) are not super into programming scene(like maintaining a GitHub, doing side projects out of school, etc)

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> IDEA is a high-quality, well-supported professional-feeling product. In comparison, eclipse looks, smells, and acts like a kludgy, bloated, long-lived open source project.

Proprietary, closed source development vs. Open Source software development in a nutshell.

I'm really glad a friend recommended IntelliJ IDEA to me. It's a great product. Having used both Netbeans and Eclipse on a rather powerful machine, the UI would lag. I don't like to wait for computers to finish computing things when I'm programming pretty much in just a text editor ("writing code mode")...which brings up another point - Atom is not a great text editor either because it is so UI laggy it slows down development.

Yep this is what I'm realizing after a few years of programming. I can pick up a language easily, however learning it's APIs is almost as hard as learning the syntax for the language itself.

Like how do I open a file? Ok cool. How do I close it? Do I need to explicitly close it? Ok.

Also, learning APIs for other peoples codebases/software is task of learning that isn't trivial too

Perhapd they have no idea. Ie they are pretending. So they use fancy terms and language amd jargon to show off like they know, but they dont

I have a coworker like this.

Coworker: "Im going to instantiate an instance of this Class and assign it these values from one of its constructors"

Me: "cool - you made an object. go on..."

Are single quotes the preferred way of making strings nowadays then? It seems to be pretty common among new JS frameworks/libraries source code that I see nowadays.

    var asdf = "asdf";

vs

    var asdf = 'asdf';

I really haven't been doing any JS programming for quite a while now.

Wow. Many thanks! Such a dumb UI decision.

I just think that for some programs or interfaces, like YouTube, it is fine for a while. Works great.

But then they hire a new UX person, or the incumbent UX person gets bored - so they keep refactoring the interface to put out an image of "getting work done" or "adding features and enhancements".

Basically making work for themselves and refactoring an already fine interface that user's are familiar with and just introducing new headaches to users along the way.

I have iOS 9.2 and updated Music to the latest version. There is no "view all songs". But perhaps you found some way? Like I just want to see all songs, not playlists, not genres, everything. I'd love to find out :)

Two apps I use the most on my iPhone are Podcasts and Music. On my PC (windows) I use iTunes often.

Both the iPhone apps and the modern version of iTunes are an utter, over-designed mess. It felt like the core programming functionality was there, until some UX designer got a hold of the front end of those apps and decided to fubar it beyond recognition.

There is _Literally_ no way to just look at all music on your iPhone. You have to have it in playlists or add the songs you want to a playlist, or just shuffle all songs.

*Edit: No way to look at all iPhone songs while not using iTunes with your iPhone plugged into your PC.

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On a serious note I was confused too. I guess it's the swiping left/right to read/answer that resembles Tinder

Most "tech savvy" people support him and how he made us aware of the NSA bs, but a lot of normal people who just watch the news view him as a "traitor" to 'Murica (America).

Sadly, people think "I have nothing to hide, so I don't care if the government/NSA monitors my internet usage/history/etc".

Personally, I think the terrorists have won in a small sense. TSA is a joke (American airport security), NSA monitors everything so nothing is really secure, backdoors are built into all devices, encryption across several companies is being questioned because "terrorists" use it (even though the Paris attacks communication were over SMS).

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The branding of the surface has been pretty successful with the removable keyboard and especially the pen. The pen makes it really easy to take notes on lecture slides so you do not have to have mess/organize/maintain physical paper.

I support two YouTubers on Patreon - mainly because they dont get a ton of views but their quality is on point.

As a YouTube maker, AdSense money is an absolute pittance (1000 views+ for $1 or less). Patreon is a great way to support these video makers.

Another big part of the Patreons I see are for YouTubers. If YouTube's donate/support YouTuber option was better, it could hurt Patreon a bit.

What are the alternatives to photoshop? Gimp? Luckily I still have photoshop cs5.5

I'm interested in some financial programming. Does everyone use Haskell or other functional languages? Where can I learn some basics?

Aside from that, its a neat way to consume art or nature/sport/hobby photography without the fluff of facebook

And having friends and family that know you are tech savvy so they always come to you with their tech woes.

"But you love doing it! You love this tech stuff!" Sorry. Not if I have a solution of the top of my head. 30$ of help please.

I've heard a few bad things about "Learn C the Hard Way", but I have heard good things about K&R so I'm gonna see if that book is at my library (it absolutely should be).

Another idea I had was maybe to just program in Rust. I'm not sure :)

open up command prompt (or shell if mac) on my less tech-savvy friends computer. Then type in some commands

eg:

    dir

    netstat -b

    systeminfo

etc

They usually freak out thinking that I'm hacking them. I act like I am too.

I downloaded Atom as a cool new thing to maybe use on my netbook.

It was more resource intensive than Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition lol.