madiathomas

Plot twist: Dev Managers tracks your productivity by number of kepresses you make per day. The more the better.

It is not just the US having this problem. We have same situation in South Africa. Currently, majority of waiters and farm labourers are illegal immigrants from our unfortunate neighbouring countries who are experiencing political challenges. I doubt even the poorest locals will even want to work for what these illegal immigrants are working for. There is no political will to end this modern day slavery because it is profitable and making things cheaper. Cheaper to those using them because the benefits are not trickling down to the consumer.

From time to time, there will be xenophobic attacks because of this problem and scores of illegal immigrants will be killed. For over 10 years now, the problem is still there and no political will to solve it. In turn, we decided to make our borders porous. Allowing them to get in. We do deport them from time to time, only for them to come back. Problem is that not every illegal immigrant is here to work for peanuts. Some come to conduct the business of crime. Which is a bigger problem than someone stealing jobs locals aren't interested in doing.

I am starting to believe that the whole capitalism system thrives on slavery of some sort. Cheap labour results in good profit.

Maybe it is a load balancing strategy. Randomly tell people that they need a modern browser to control trafic.

One of those forums was Stackoverflow. I don't know a better programming Q&A forum than SO. Please share so that I can switch to them.

Maybe they are sniffing for OS and assume you are using Safari.

They probably assumed everyone using Mac is using Safari. I have seen lots of code shared on programming forums that simply check for Mac and assume the person is using Safari.

It isn't mobile only. I visited it using Chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) on Windows 10. Works fine.

Well, for every link you paste to prove that IQ is a credible measure for general intelligence, I can also paste links of studies rejecting the use of IQ as the measure of intelligence.

1. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-funda...

2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2250681/IQ-te...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Criticis...

In his defence -> His father was responsible for his taxes. Wait a minute, am I admitting that his predecessor is dumb? He is probably dumb.

Sidenote: I am a Messi fanboy.

Never said he is bad at thinking. All I said is there is a chance he can score less than average in IQ test. Even way less if the test is in English, which he can't communicate wih. I am against IQ as a single measure of intelligence and will never call someone dumb for scoring less than average. IQ tests aptitude of a person.

Wait until you are expected to complete an IQ test compiled using Swahili or some other language you can hardly communicate with.

That's why I prefer using the context of that intelligence as a prefix. Like Messi is a "soccer" genius. Messi will probably score less than average in general intelligence tests.

> As you say, intelligence is relative to context. You can "learn" intelligence measured by these tests, or you can be "dumb" according to these tests, simply because you are ignorant of some things.

This part sums up what I was trying to say.

Please enlighten me about those misconceptions you are talking about. While at it, show me an IQ test that was compiled using my first language since you are dismissing facts I put on the table.

I usually score higher when taking intelligent tests, but I dismiss all the intelligent tests I have taken. I know people who are more intelligent than me who can score higher if they are tested in their own indigenous languages and on subjects that are important to their cultural backgrounds.

For someone who lives in a remote area and survives on hunting wild animals, being able to tell where game is situated, is more valuable than matching some geometrical figures or knowing capital city of a country he will never visit. Such tests that take into account language and cultural differences don't exist.

Not knowing something you are not interested in, doesn't make one dumb. It is just not important to that person. I also noticed that the older I grow, the higher my IQ due to voraciously reading technical books and articles.

I will write an API using ASP.NET MVC framework using C#.NET. Front-end I will use HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.

It was also a surprise for me when I found out that Google Cloud does Microsoft .NET. Within minutes of setup, I was already connecting to my newly created server via remote desktop. The rest I do manually.

My first choice was AWS. Their telephonic verification system failed when I was trying to signup and I wasn't allowed to finalise signup. Tried 3-5 times more and gave up. Just when I was about to rewrite my system using open source technologies, I discovered that Google Cloud does have .NET support. It was a big relief.

People are just excited. Articles I have seen so far don't sound like PR. People are just excited that they will have an alternative to Java.

This is the same kind of an excitement as the one when Apple announced that Swift will be a first class citizen of iOS development. I rarely get excited with programming languages, but this one went straight to my heart. Maybe I am biased because I like JetBrains as a company.

I haven't checked. All I know is that they are happy. I will check and report back.

That's just a quarter of the story. I wasn't happy with their customer service and setup tools too. That's part of the customer experience.

As for Google, I never needed to contact them. Everything just worked. Right information was provided every step of the way, which eliminated the need to contact them. The whole setup took me less than an hour and my site was up and running.

That's what I suspected too. Let me give it to Google who wants it. Even when the company grows and I require more power and more storage, I will still give it to Google.

I only needed a month trial.

I consider it long gone because a permanent solution was put in place. Any problem disappearing for over a year is considered long gone in any country. Not about setting a low bar. In fact, I have heard politicians claiming to have fixed problems less than 100 days after they were put into power.

I doubt it is a loss leader. That's a fair price to pay for the kind of hosting I require. Local web hosting companies who are profitable charge less than what Google is charging me.

SA experienced power challenges few years back, but those issues are long gone. I haven't experienced any power cuts in over a year now.

First I was told that I am not eligible for trial. Google offered me $300 credit which lasted for 5 months because the total monthly cost is $59.00. Azure was expensive compared to Google Cloud. Their pricing was also complicated and full of jargons. Microsoft offering was also not appealing. They were offering less memory and less storage space.

Up to this day, I still don't understand why Google can offer services using Microsoft software cheaper than Microsoft itself. Maybe I am just not their target market.

I am hosting my SaaS site using Google Cloud. All my clients are based in SA. I chose Google Cloud after experiencing very bad service from Azure. I won't go back to Azure, even if they build the datacenter behind my yard. I love the pricing and simplicity of Google Cloud. Ironically, my site is on Microsoft .NET stack, but I still don't trust Microsoft with hosting my site.

I hope Google and AWS will follow suite and build datacenter in SA.

- Use stable tools(language, IDE, frameworks etc) with proven track record

- Use tools and programming language that you personally enjoy, not the one trending on tech sites like Hacker News

- Focus on mastering at least one programming language

I tried using OpenOffice. I didn't like it. I tried to force myself to like it. I failed.

Majority of software I use only available on Windows. Visual Studio, MS SQL Server and Microsoft Office. I tried switching to Fedora.