| jrwren | rick_h: did you find reddit /r/learnguitar yet? some good stuff there. | 00:05 |
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| rick_h | jrwren: no, thanks. I kind of put it down as I didn't like my instructor and so start with a new one on monday | 00:06 |
| rick_h | so not a lot of playing the last couple of months :( | 00:06 |
| gamerchick02 | try youtube tutorials | 00:08 |
| gamerchick02 | there's plenty out there. if you can learn the chords and how to read tab, then you can watch the tutorials to figure out strumming and stuff | 00:09 |
| rick_h | yea, I found a couple of good folks | 00:09 |
| rick_h | the big thing I I'm the kind of person that has questions and such | 00:10 |
| rick_h | so I just don't do as well w/o that interactive element | 00:10 |
| jrwren | rick_h wants what rick_h wants. :p | 00:14 |
| rick_h | jrwren: lol | 00:14 |
| rick_h | jrwren: sometimes | 00:14 |
| jrwren | I was progressing through yousician nicely then hit a wall... now I gotta do something else. | 00:15 |
| gamerchick02 | well i wish you luck | 00:23 |
| cmaloney | rick_h: Instructors are a very personal thing | 01:25 |
| cmaloney | you have to be comfortable in order to learn | 01:25 |
| cmaloney | There's no shame in recognizing that things aren't working out | 01:26 |
| jrwren | ha! if only that were true for college professors. | 01:43 |
| jrwren | Maybe I'd have aced Statics and Dynamics. | 01:43 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, no joke | 02:01 |
| shakes808 | morning all | 12:41 |
| shakes808 | rick_h: heard that you guys are scrapping Unity and the mobile platforms. https://goo.gl/gSScF5 | 12:43 |
| rick_h | shakes808: looks like it | 12:46 |
| shakes808 | I am kind of sad that the mobile platform is going away. I really wanted to see that thrive. The indiegogo teaser of the Ubuntu Edge was very inticing. I would have loved to make that my new phone. https://goo.gl/RrpLzI | 12:50 |
| jrwren | when was teh edge campaign? 2013? | 13:15 |
| shakes808 | jrwren: sounds about right. | 13:17 |
| shakes808 | They were estimating 2014 to start delivering them to the backers | 13:17 |
| jrwren | a lot changes in 4 yrs. | 13:18 |
| jrwren | Canonical is not alone. Mozilla dropped their phoneOS too | 13:18 |
| shakes808 | didn't that mozilla had one too. | 13:18 |
| shakes808 | by glancing at the images of it, it looked just like android. almost like the BLU phones | 13:21 |
| shakes808 | at least the Edge looked completely differernt from what is out there and it looked like it was doing its' own thing | 13:21 |
| jrwren | well sure, but edge is vapor. | 13:25 |
| jrwren | You or I could make up some imaginary specs, draw pretty pictures, and say, "LOOK!" | 13:25 |
| brousch__ | Sounds like it's going to be just Android and iOS for the next several years | 13:28 |
| jrwren | hopefull Tizen will break through in US market. | 13:29 |
| jrwren | remember enlightenment wm? and elibs... that all became Tizen | 13:30 |
| jrwren | "Tizen Native Display Layer" is enlightenment foundation libs | 13:30 |
| brousch__ | Some security guy just outted Tizen as the worst code he's ever seen | 13:34 |
| jrwren | meaningless. | 13:34 |
| shakes808 | jrwren: i thought they had working models? | 13:34 |
| jrwren | "oh no, its C, it must be bad!" | 13:34 |
| brousch__ | http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/04/05/researcher-calls-samsungs-tizen-os-the-worst-code-ive-ever-seen | 13:34 |
| jrwren | shakes808: I think you may be right. prototypes. | 13:34 |
| brousch__ | That won't help its adoption | 13:34 |
| jrwren | brousch__: that is probably over the TV hacks, and... I disagree. I do not think it impacts adoption at all. | 13:35 |
| jrwren | brousch__: same source pub wrote this: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/31/flabbergastingly-insecure-googles-android-is-the-new-flash | 13:37 |
| jrwren | its almost as if appleinsider writes articles slamming anything that isn't apple. go figure. | 13:37 |
| jrwren | Not that its all that difficult :) | 13:37 |
| brousch__ | See, Android would be at 99% adoption if that hadn't been written! | 13:37 |
| jrwren | brousch__: lolz | 13:38 |
| jrwren | brousch__: would that be good? or would we need some new startup with funding from a sabdfl who creates a bug one that says, "android has 99% adoption..." and goes on to fight for freedom and justice? | 13:38 |
| brousch__ | More options is better | 13:42 |
| cmaloney | I still maintain that the reason there's Android and Windows phones at all is because Google and MS can bankroll them to get past the carriers | 13:49 |
| cmaloney | Put a radio in something and suddenly the FCC gets rather sticky | 13:49 |
| cmaloney | and hook it to the "wireless phone network" and suddenly the carriers get sticky | 13:50 |
| jrwren | cmaloney: so... same for iphones? because they "bankroll them to get past the carriers" ? | 13:52 |
| cmaloney | That was a pull | 13:56 |
| cmaloney | AT&T took a gamble and it paid off | 13:57 |
| cmaloney | though not sure about the particulars of the initial launch | 13:57 |
| shakes808 | cmaloney: how is your job hunting going? It has been a while. | 14:20 |
| cmaloney | Yes, yes it has | 14:20 |
| cmaloney | I have two coding interviews on Friday | 14:20 |
| cmaloney | Haven't joined the circus as planned | 14:21 |
| cmaloney | Thinking about starting up a blog called "The Mediocre Programmer" | 14:22 |
| cmaloney | with a video channel | 14:22 |
| cmaloney | turn that into a brand and get some internet money. :) | 14:22 |
| shakes808 | haha, I would spread the word! haha. Surprised that it is taking you this long to find something. Are you going through any head hunters? | 14:27 |
| cmaloney | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKp_jFxQJc | 14:28 |
| cmaloney | ^- That'll be me someday | 14:28 |
| jrwren | cmaloney: i had similar aspirations, but my blog & video series is titled, "The shitty programmer" | 14:29 |
| cmaloney | Maybe we can combine forces | 14:30 |
| jrwren | :) | 14:32 |
| shakes808 | programming twin powers activate! in the form of a slightly better programmer than a shitty one but almost as good as a mediocre one! | 14:32 |
| cmaloney | So I may or may not have just registered "themediocreprogrammer.com" | 15:42 |
| jrwren | lol | 15:43 |
| shakes808 | cmaloney: nice | 15:49 |
| cmaloney | http://themediocreprogrammer.com/ | 15:50 |
| jrwren | bwahahahaha | 15:50 |
| jrwren | you need a cert :p | 15:50 |
| cmaloney | Heh | 15:51 |
| greg-g | ugh, so far behind in my rss feeds | 17:24 |
| jrwren | same. always behind. | 17:28 |
| jrwren | feedly has somehow gotten WORSE over the years. | 17:28 |
| mrgoodcat | I'm always behind | 17:38 |
| mrgoodcat | I wish more outlets would post 3 quality articles per day rather than 30 questionable ones | 17:39 |
| mrgoodcat | or at least offer feeds of curated high priority content | 17:39 |
| mrgoodcat | to filter out all the garbage | 17:39 |
| jrwren | i'd like 1 quality per week plz. | 17:39 |
| mrgoodcat | the daring fireball article feed is about 1/week | 17:40 |
| mrgoodcat | the master feed is a few per day which is too much for me | 17:41 |
| jrwren | there is a master feed and an article feed? | 17:41 |
| mrgoodcat | yea | 17:42 |
| mrgoodcat | http://daringfireball.net/feeds/articles | 17:42 |
| mrgoodcat | feeds/main is the master feed | 17:43 |
| mrgoodcat | which does articles, talk show, and stuff he links from around the web | 17:43 |
| mrgoodcat | I wish more bloggers would split their feeds like this | 17:43 |
| mrgoodcat | I also filter macstories.net to only include <dc:creator><![CDATA[Federico Viticci]]></dc:creator> and to exclude <category><![CDATA[Linked]]></category> | 17:45 |
| mrgoodcat | which serves roughly the same purpose | 17:46 |
| cmaloney | I just wait for Daring Fireball stuff to flow through the usual channels until something perfectly digested floats on by | 18:47 |
| * cmaloney has way too many feeds | 18:48 | |
| mrgoodcat | what feeds do you like? | 18:54 |
| cmaloney | https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0hkbxcbzqff4lf/feeds.opml?dl=0 | 19:22 |
| cmaloney | That's my opml (with a few subscription feeds removed) | 19:23 |
| cmaloney | Bah, left one in there by accident. Removed it. | 19:24 |
| brousch__ | cmaloney: The fact that you bought a .com address instead of one of the trendy new TLDs speaks to your mediocrity. Well done. | 19:55 |
| cmaloney | brousch__: Thank you | 20:00 |
| cmaloney | I was thinking about mediocreprogrammer.club, but I said "screw that; it's a club of one dammit" | 20:01 |
| mrgoodcat | that is way more feeds than i have | 20:45 |
| mrgoodcat | haha | 20:45 |
| mrgoodcat | https://vorte.xyz/s/DCCgcL2bVph5qDt | 20:45 |
| mrgoodcat | there's mine | 20:45 |
| cmaloney | Wow, that's way less. :) | 20:58 |
| cmaloney | Mine also includes ars technica and reddit | 20:58 |
| cmaloney | but they have subscription URLs | 20:58 |
| gamerchick02 | nice. i lost count but i'm trying to stay under the limit for feedly free | 21:19 |
| mrgoodcat | I'm trying to stay under the limit of my sanity | 22:16 |
| mrgoodcat | I can't pay attention to more than a small handful of feeds | 22:16 |
| mrgoodcat | and I feel like i have to at least read the headline for every item to see if it's worth reading | 22:17 |
| mrgoodcat | If an outlet isn't worth at least the time for me to read every headline, then they aren't worth subscribing to | 22:17 |
| mrgoodcat | just that alone severely limits the number of subs | 22:17 |
| cmaloney | That's good advice | 22:19 |
| mrgoodcat | i'm thinking about giving 9to5mac the boot | 22:21 |
| mrgoodcat | macrumors covers all the important stuff and 9to5 has a lot of garbage articles | 22:21 |
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