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I just finished "Becoming Steve Jobs" by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Not a full bio but has some great stories about Steve Jobs at NeXT, Pixar, and his return to Apple.

I have this eerie suspicion that GDPR cases will be a haven for trollish and/or opportunist behavior. Instead of huge corporations having to shell out significant money to swallow up start-up competitors, they could much more cheaply pay EU citizens to exploit the huge burden of the law on small companies or even solo endeavors. I hope I can be convinced to be optimistic.

Honest question: is it worth calling my Congress person if they are already vehemently against repealing the current net neutrality rules? Does it count for anything?

I'm not sure I understand the complaints. What will a "stable" tag offer that isn't available already via dev builds? Are there things that are limiting your productivity or effectiveness? How will formally calling it "stable" change your life as a developer?

Looks very promising! Are there limitations on the length of recordings?

I'm not sure if this is addressing the question precisely, but I think it's relevant. One of the main things I've learned over the years is that you have to be your own advocate when it comes to raises/promotions. I've known a lot of developers who became disgruntled over years because they didn't think the company was taking the initiative and giving them what they thought they're worth.

It wasn't until it sunk into my head that, generally speaking, there's an inherent conflict of interest between employer and employee. The employer wants to get the best bang for their buck; have talented people work for them at the lowest reasonable price. On the opposite end, the employee obviously wants to get paid the most they can get. It's because of this that (most of the time) an employer won't proactively seek out reasons to pay you more. Once I truly realized this, I became a stronger advocate for myself (because nobody else will be). This is usually the advice I give to younger developers who are working their way up the latter.. aside from saying that you should actually build your case for why a raise/promotion is appropriate. Do the work - do more than is expected of you - and be your own advocate.

I had the exact same reaction. These photos may has well be Upstate NY.

I try to use Android Pay when I can just for the security benefits of the one-use tokens. Sometimes it's easy, other times it takes forever.. particularly if my cell reception isn't great in the store. Once all stores truly make use of the card chip in the United States, I'll probably just use that because it's essentially the same thing. At this point probably 95% of the stores I shop at still want me to swipe the card rather than enable the chip receiver.

Surely it's Amazon's fault that Prime Video doesn't work on Chromecast. Amazon would get a lot more of my digital goods dollars if they took a "Kindle" approach to streaming video -- make it available everywhere.

So this process re-introduces the brine back into the ocean, in turn making the ocean water more salty. What type of ecological ramifications does this have on the wildlife in that area?

I'd love to see more development in the Git GUI space; a GUI really enabled git adoption and comprehension on my team. SourceTree has been my go-to for over a year now and it generally gets the job done, but it can be flakey at times (on Windows) and it seems like Atlassian has taken a hiatus from active development. I hope Atlassian takes up the reins again - this tool is pretty essential for me and I'd be happy to pay for it.

Do early-round investors bank off of later ones? I don't really know anything about fundraising, so my perception is that money it just getting shifted around from one investor to the next.

That's exactly what hotfixes are for. A completed hotfix will merge directly into develop and master simultaneously (practically speaking). This allows you to keep your unrelated develop commits out of the master until you're ready to merge it all.

I've used Sublime for a number of years now and have recently (over the past few weeks) been making a concerted effort to use Atom as my daily driver (mostly because I appreciate the open source nature of it and am familiar with Node). My experience thus far has been good. I use a Windows machine and half a year ago Atom was practically unusable; it's come a long way since and now I'm comfortable using it as my main editor.

I do notice the occasional performance hiccup -- I'll try jumping through settings and the application will hang for 20-30 seconds. I would say this happens probably 1-2 times per day. Other than that I don't really have any complaints. The package/theme community is vibrant and updates/improvements arrive frequently. Sublime is still a more stable and capable application, but given Atom isn't even at a 1.0 release I think that's acceptable. I think it's only a matter of time before Atom overtakes Sublime in terms of stability and performance -- the current velocity of V8, Node and Electron have it well on its way.

When the vehicle is autonomously parking itself is where this really comes into play.

I'd prefer a keyless system over the "key with anti-theft chip" alternative. I just had to replace one of these keys for my car and it was over $300 USD. That much for just a KEY that needs to be "programmed." Such a scam by the manufacturer...

I've found you'll never get a 100% accurate representation with these "emulators," but it's certainly a good starting point. You're better off using a service like BrowserStack for your in-depth testing.

Mozilla adopted a rapid release cycle, similar to what Google does with Chrome. Everyone is always automatically updated and version numbers are less significant.

Love that this is open source and developed with Laravel. Great job!

Wait.. so what can I do if I don't use a Mac?? I feel helpless!

I've never heard of Patch. It's unfortunate that I had to learn of them this way, because the premise seems useful. I don't think I would participate now based on these bad vibes.

Regardless of the product itself, I think the name alone is going to turn people off.

Can bitflop games be monitored or recorded?

The answer to this may be a little misleading. There's nothing really stopping anyone from recording their own screen (which includes the opponent's video broadcast).

Google Music, Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Pandora as well. I'd be shocked if it didn't offer more services in the next few months.

EDIT: And as of today, HBO Go.

The Internet never ceases to amaze me. Why does everyone act like a child throwing a tantrum when something changes? Are people that incapable of adapting? It's really not that big of a deal.

I respectfully disagree with "And still is not up there yet."

Android 4.0+ has fantastic design, in my opinion.

Exactly how effective will an online protest be on a day that so many people spend outdoors; away from their computers/devices?

DC you say? I'm in Arlington/Alexandria, any info about their coverage there? I'm definitely interested in switching from Verizon soon.

I hope they don't neglect the vertical-split view with this update. It's easily the most productive way to to use Gmail IMO.

What type of license does it come with?