@wizzzard if it's really a conversation that requires written record it is definitely not hard at all to send a "follow-up" email confirming the details of the physical conversation. That's how we do it in our company and it doesn't feel like double handling at all.

It is extraordinarily easy to stand up and walk the 12ft to your coworkers desk and have a 5 minute discussion with them. It's even easier to call them if it's not possible to walk over to them.

Text/messengers/emails are fantastic for exchanging information ("Here's the report you wanted", "The meeting is at 12pm") but it's absolutely the most inefficient way to communicate emotionally or collaboratively ("How was your weekend?", "Can you help me understand this." These sorts of conversations shouldn't be handled over text.

It's been my personal experience that if I proactively approach people I work with, our conversations are a lot quicker, we understand each other much easier and there is a stronger sense of collaboration and team work. I.E. we trust each other more.

@ThatDude did you fart?

A lot of people have said "websites need to make revenue to keep sites running" and I completely agree with this. But have you noticed how smaller, less well known websites will politely ask you to disable Adblock but still allow you to access content and it's generally the very well known websites with thousands of hits every day that will outright block you from accessing their content unless it is off. That's been my experience at least and I think there is a point where it's less about maintaining overhead and more about making money. And generally you can tell the difference.

@FMashiro some sites will redirect you to a whole different page if they detect Adblock. I've attempted that and realised that the "overlay" was actually a static background image blurred to look like the page was still behind the "pop up". It wasn't a pop up/overlay.

Can you elaborate a bit more?

It's so good to read that you have overcome this obstacle and found a place that you fit into. I'm genuinely happy for you! Congrats! 🎉🎉

Thanks for the description @dfox, muchly appreciated!

@TerriToniAX we'll have to look at my usage in the next sprint, clearly a bug :P

@CWins nice shoes :3

@Haxk20 just rubbing it in now aren't ya :P

@CWins *gasp* how did you know?

@TerriToniAX it could be? I'll run a control tomorrow (full charge, no settings changed w/ normal usage) and then, the day after, I'll change my notif settings so it doesn't light up my screen every few minutes and then run the test again. (full charge, settings changed w/ similar usage to the day before)

If I notice a huge difference, I'll log a ticket with devs.

Oh man, so many times people would just give me the answer to the questions I didn't even ask when I was in customer support.

Me, "Which browser are you using when you experience the bug?"

Them, "It's on the home page after you login and click the button."

Me, "Uhu, I can see that from the screenshot you sent me. I need to know which browser your using though."

Them, "I've created another account and it's still happenings. Here is the URL and login details, can you see the issue?"

Me, "No because I still don't know which browser your using and it works fine on Chrome."

Them, "I'm not using Chrome..."

This was a real conversation in my old role, I'm so glad I moved departments.

Ninety percent of the meetings in the place where I work could and should be company emails instead.

I had tried to learn programming in high school several times. I tried C, C#, JS and Python but nothing seemed to click. I found Ruby on a blog talking about how, in part, Twitter was written in Ruby before it switched to PHP and I got interested so I ran through a tutorial and it was the first time that programming and "talking to computers" actually clicked and made sense.

I mean, sure, partly it's to do with where my head was at in high school (video games constantly) but discovery Ruby has been like opening Pandora's box and I'm loving it!

I'm still learning Ruby because that was only 4 months ago and it's my first language. I want to make sure I understand what is going on when I write code but I've never been happier. I haven't felt like this since grade 3 science!

The only downside to devrant is that you can't make your avatar sit on the toilet looking at their phone...

Other than that, yeah, it's great all-round!

@gilgameshcoder, which website is that? Easiest way to know for sure is to let someone actually look at it or, as mentioned, inspect it yourself with the F12 dev console.

Also I'm personally curious too so please share the link :F

This is my life right now! I found and used Spark for a while, it has sexy modern looks and the smart inbox works for how I email https://sparkmailapp.com/ but it's OS X specific.

I'm missing it so much on my work pc that's running windows and you're right, I have not been able to find a modern mail client on windows that has any sort of sex appeal.

Open source cloud & desktop IDE
https://github.com/CodeboxIDE/...

Was it worth it? I've been wondering whether I should learn it or not and if the benefits are substantial enough to really make a difference over the other OS out there.