@writeascript weird. Mine is quite happy to let me select headphones (rather than headset) and still use the mic.

Maybe it’s Skype doing something weird to select the mic and leave the headphones mode active?

Who knows! But aye, I agree, it is a massive pain in their design, and the only other thing I don’t like is that they’re not super resilient to knocks and wear/tear. The plastic switch on the H8s can give out quite easily, and the cups on my H9is split when I dropped them. I’ve not been able to use them since, because a replacement pair of cups is £100!

They sound and look so good though, I just wish they were built a touch better.

@writeascript yeah that bugs me too, but it’s because it has a headset Bluetooth mode.

When paired with Windows you can pick the regular headphones mode instead (sound mixer) and it sounds just as good as usual and still uses the mic; no such luck paired with a smartphone tho.

I have a pair of B&O H8s and H9is and I doubt I’d ever use another brand for headphones.

Fun fact.

Most CS grads can’t code.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-c...

If a place relies on a degree for what is fundamentally a creative role, then they’re no good.

Unless they’re working on the super bleeding edge of advanced algorithms or AI then I wouldn’t trust anywhere requiring one.

If you have the experience and the knowledge then that’s all that should matter.

If they do it to weed out candidate CVs then they’re also not worth it; anywhere that’s willing to make such an arbitrary decision on a candidate is not someone that would be your friend once you got the role.

Aha. Haha haha. Keep chasing that dragon.

I do this so much.

@platypus I do next to none, the platform / framework handles most things.

I prefer the higher level abstraction stuff as opposed to the raw algo and mathematics; that’s just because I suck at maths. 🤷‍♂️

A lot of it is dumb luck I’m afraid, the whole meritocratic rags to riches thing only works some of the time and only to a certain extent most of the time.

🤷‍♂️

Them’s the breaks kiddo.

@jeeper weiiiiird. Could just be a browser thing? Does it happen in *all* of them?

What font are you using? Is it one delivered via the browser or a system provided one?

Nope. But a lot of the time VSCode and VStudio might fail to synch their source control ops with the repository files.

It’s why I usually always just use the CLI.

It’s super handy to learn, and it allows you to do things the GUI doesn’t (like saving your ass thanks to the power of the reflog).

@LlamaMan homos *should* apply.

I would quit on the spot tbh.

I honestly don’t know why people continue to believe that these cross platform solutions are ever going to be any good.

They’re never designed from the ground up to be platform-native at the core properly, and always shoehorn a terrible tech for apps (html and JavaScript) in there for good measure because the web is soooooooo automatically cross platform.... right?

Either stick with something like Xamarin if you absolutely need some sort of shared code, or shunt all your business logic into an API and develop natively for the devices you’ll be running on. 🤷‍♂️

“Our commitment to a more powerful web”

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“Our commitment to ever increasing the scope of how we can collect data about you”

My employer has just launched device management profiles for personal devices to prevent data being leaked by 365 apps.

It can’t stop screenshots on iOS.
It can’t stop people from sending files out as emails.
It can’t stop people taking photos of sensitive data.

Honestly, the sorts of decisions made by people with just enough knowledge to be dangerous, but not enough to be useful are utter bullshit.

A lot of projects use emojis for internal statuses on commits. Useful for automation and for the contributors to know what’s going on.

Random emoji for emoji sake is ridiculous, but let’s not get bent out of shape, they’re just characters at the end of the day, they just happen to be more pictoral than the standard alphabet.

You can edit it. Any app that exposes Touch Bar data can be configured.

Somewhere in the menu and preferences for the app will be a Touch Bar configuration.

You can reorder them / remove them etc.

@TitanLannister and if that were the case I’d be totally fine, but it isn’t sadly, and I’m hardly an intern. 10+ years experience, a broad range of companies etc etc

@telephantasm yep. They’ve never actually completed their story point estimate for a sprint.

I’ve never had issues after a software update for my Mac :/

@FuckJava don’t 👏🏻 be 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 fucking 👏🏻 gatekeeping 👏🏻 piece 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 shit 👏🏻

@musician try telling that to the theorists.

Getting my head wrapped around functional programming concepts.

It’s made me a better developer, but as with most learning, it only serves to expose the gap in one’s knowledge even more.

But still, the fact that I’m fairly confident with general ideas like monads is pretty ace.

“Oh no, my internalised homophobia and misogyny from societal cues are being challenged by realistic representation, I don’t know how to handle this”

1. Don’t be so puritanical
2. Don’t have an issue where you wouldn’t for straight people you heteronormative fuck
3. The fact you felt “safe” to come and express such an opinion here either speaks to your assumptions about this community, or to the blundering ignorance typical of the cishet experience.

It warms the cockles of the ‘eart to see this kind of education going on, GG DevRant.

@irene B I G M O O D

We have one daily, 15 min allocated, and we have scoring sessions rolled into them twice a week.

It does consume a lot of time, but I’ve come into a team where agile is still fairly new-ish, and it’s a good way of ensuring visibility and accountability.

I tried. I really did. It was cool, did some cool things, but honestly? You’d be better off just hand rolling the XAML unless you’re doing some truly mental animation stuff.

iOS does this too, it’ll report 4G and a seemingly strong signal (even though signal bars are bullshit and subjective to each manufacturer), but then it’ll completely fail to get anything.

I think it’s something related to the tech you know, and without the OS actually trying to see what the response time is like (and burn through your data in the process), it just doesn’t know that switching to 3G would be a better idea.

It is crazy annoying though, so I always try and turn off 4G just in case to see if that solves my issue.

Ever since getting familiar with F# I now straddle the OO and FP boundaries in my regular C# work.

I can’t be doing without:

- higher order functions
- monads & monoids
- generic types
- runtime expressions for dynamic compilation

It just makes expressing what I want and need so much easier.

I refuse to spin up a bunch of interfaces and factories and factory factories just for adherence to OO bullshit.

It’s easier to stub a lambda function, so imma keep doing it and drag everyone else to the one true path, kicking and screaming if need be.