[00:05] <jrwren> rick_h: did you find reddit /r/learnguitar yet? some good stuff there.
[00:06] <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 :(
[00:08] <gamerchick02> try youtube tutorials
[00:09] <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
[00:10] <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
[00:14] <jrwren> rick_h wants what rick_h wants. :p
[00:14] <rick_h> jrwren: lol
[00:14] <rick_h> jrwren: sometimes
[00:15] <jrwren> I was progressing through yousician nicely then hit a wall... now I gotta do something else.
[00:23] <gamerchick02> well i wish you luck
[01:25] <cmaloney> rick_h: Instructors are a very personal thing
[01:25] <cmaloney> you have to be comfortable in order to learn
[01:26] <cmaloney> There's no shame in recognizing that things aren't working out
[01:43] <jrwren> ha! if only that were true for college professors.
[01:43] <jrwren> Maybe I'd have aced Statics and Dynamics.
[02:01] <cmaloney> Yeah, no joke
[12:41] <shakes808> morning all
[12:43] <shakes808> rick_h: heard that you guys are scrapping Unity and the mobile platforms. https://goo.gl/gSScF5
[12:46] <rick_h> shakes808: looks like it
[12:50] <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
[13:15] <jrwren> when was teh edge campaign? 2013?
[13:17] <shakes808> jrwren: sounds about right.
[13:17] <shakes808> They were estimating 2014 to start delivering them to the backers
[13:18] <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.
[13:21] <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
[13:25] <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!"
[13:28] <brousch__> Sounds like it's going to be just Android and iOS for the next several years
[13:29] <jrwren> hopefull Tizen will break through in US market.
[13:30] <jrwren> remember enlightenment wm? and elibs... that all became Tizen
[13:30] <jrwren> "Tizen Native Display Layer" is enlightenment foundation libs
[13:34] <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
[13:35] <jrwren> brousch__: that is probably over the TV hacks, and... I disagree. I do not think it impacts adoption at all.
[13:37] <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!
[13:38] <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?
[13:42] <brousch__> More options is better
[13:49] <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
[13:50] <cmaloney> and hook it to the "wireless phone network" and suddenly the carriers get sticky
[13:52] <jrwren> cmaloney: so... same for iphones? because they "bankroll them to get past the carriers" ?
[13:56] <cmaloney> That was a pull
[13:57] <cmaloney> AT&T took a gamble and it paid off
[13:57] <cmaloney> though not sure about the particulars of the initial launch
[14:20] <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
[14:21] <cmaloney> Haven't joined the circus as planned
[14:22] <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. :)
[14:27] <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?
[14:28] <cmaloney> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKp_jFxQJc
[14:28] <cmaloney> ^- That'll be me someday
[14:29] <jrwren> cmaloney: i had similar aspirations, but my blog & video series  is titled, "The shitty programmer"
[14:30] <cmaloney> Maybe we can combine forces
[14:32] <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!
[15:42] <cmaloney> So I may or may not have just registered "themediocreprogrammer.com"
[15:43] <jrwren> lol
[15:49] <shakes808> cmaloney: nice
[15:50] <cmaloney> http://themediocreprogrammer.com/
[15:50] <jrwren> bwahahahaha
[15:50] <jrwren> you need a cert :p
[15:51] <cmaloney> Heh
[17:24] <greg-g> ugh, so far behind in my rss feeds
[17:28] <jrwren> same. always behind.
[17:28] <jrwren> feedly has somehow gotten WORSE over the years.
[17:38] <mrgoodcat> I'm always behind
[17:39] <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.
[17:40] <mrgoodcat> the daring fireball article feed is about 1/week
[17:41] <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?
[17:42] <mrgoodcat> yea
[17:42] <mrgoodcat> http://daringfireball.net/feeds/articles
[17:43] <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
[17:45] <mrgoodcat> I also filter macstories.net to only include <dc:creator><![CDATA[Federico Viticci]]></dc:creator> and to exclude <category><![CDATA[Linked]]></category>
[17:46] <mrgoodcat> which serves roughly the same purpose
[18:47] <cmaloney> 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] <mrgoodcat> what feeds do you like?
[19:22] <cmaloney> https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0hkbxcbzqff4lf/feeds.opml?dl=0
[19:23] <cmaloney> That's my opml (with a few subscription feeds removed)
[19:24] <cmaloney> Bah, left one in there by accident. Removed it.
[19:55] <brousch__> 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] <cmaloney> brousch__: Thank you
[20:01] <cmaloney> I was thinking about mediocreprogrammer.club, but I said "screw that; it's a club of one dammit"
[20:45] <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
[20:58] <cmaloney> Wow, that's way less. :)
[20:58] <cmaloney> Mine also includes ars technica and reddit
[20:58] <cmaloney> but they have subscription URLs
[21:19] <gamerchick02> nice. i lost count but i'm trying to stay under the limit for feedly free
[22:16] <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
[22:17] <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
[22:19] <cmaloney> That's good advice
[22:21] <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