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