The saying "those that can't do, teach" applies here 100%... That is not okay.

That is disgusting.

I'd drop the class and demand a refund, that is not acceptable from an educator.

Maybe I should only run LTS... I haven't always liked LTS though.

@iam13islucky yeah, that'll happen after some major updates (like the creator updates).

Depending on what Linux distro you used, it's easy to fix. Just be careful and back stuff up.

On a side note, Hackaday has a new article today about writing bootloader for x86.
It's very encapsulating and I love the simplicity (although some lack of detail might intimidate many)

On a side note, MOD Pizza is very overrated.

It's not even good pizza, but they win people over because it's made on demand Chipotle style.

IntelliJ is the tool of choice for those who are able to get it licensed (or pay for it themselves).

Eclipse is the free tool of choice.

Looks like the bootloader (grub) is erroring out. So, technically, there is no kernel loaded.

Google can't be anticompetitive, Microsoft and Google have a much better relationship now than they've had in the past, and Edge is really fast on slow devices if you can ignore the quirks.

@AndSoWeCode there are very few use cases for that much RAM.

I've maxed out every resource of this machine except for ram.

You can tell whether you should be on a team based on their decisions around this. A bad team with ALWAYS hurry postpone quality. An okay team will ALWAYS get it done "right". And a great team will always leverage their decision against a multitude of factors. I've worked in all environments.

This has nothing to do with software development. This is just a result of product planning.

@lamka02sk brand new 8th gen i5, fresh 17.04 install. Dragging and scrolling has massive tearing. Scroll lags like crazy.

This, combined with all the other issues, is what makes me call the new 17 release junk. I've never had this much trouble with Ubuntu in the past.

@Linux eh... better is subjective, there's a reason I don't call out Ubuntu forks as a suggestion.

@Pauly69 never got into Arch. But I hear a lot of Arch fans sometimes get sucked into Gentoo after a while. My old favorites were Yoper and MEPIS... Yoper is dead and MEPIS is barely hanging on now. It's saddening to watch your favorite distros die.

And don't even get me started on Canonical, they killed all my favorite projects... The more I think about it, I'm ready to ditch Ubuntu for Fedora, Gentoo, or CentOS. Man...

Ubuntu seems to be the only distro that gets worse with age.

I installed 17.04 (yes, I know, it's not LTS - but STILL) and wow... '/swapfile' doesn't mount, recovery mode hangs, and if I don't disable nouveau (OSS Nvidia) I can't even get it to boot.
And on top of all this, the Intel GPU drivers are terrible - the UI works fine on Win10 with all effects and no lag, why is Ubuntu lagging so bad it's barely usable?

Seriously, Ubuntu was never perfect, but when did it turn to shit?

@AndSoWeCode and comparable is subjective. In large volume, HHVM saves a lot of money, it still beats PHP7 in almost every benchmark.

@AndSoWeCode that's some bullish bs right there, I won't touch PHP without Hack syntax.

Only if it runs on HHVM and includes Hack.

Even then, it's a hard sell because it lacks good real-time communication. Ratchet is the best option and it's sooo messy.

Most modern browsers manage a CSSOM and decide how to render based on that. Some of screen rendering is "ignored" until visible.

It's very complicated. Every browser handles rendering its own way - and every site is capable of running scripts to optimize scrolling.

The misinformation, it burns...
The battle against Flash didn't happen overnight and Chrome is far from the first to block it. This has been coming for at least 6 years if you follow news. Six years in tech is a really long time...

And Flash has been a major security issue.

@xalez I suppose I understand, I know of the invisible hand. We've made things easier and cheaper through consumer habit, but the system derived from our habit is not inherently "good" nor "neutral"?

@xalez could you elaborate?

And to top it off, I've had people PM's (mind you, not good ones) argue that this is polite and people like this. No, this is not polite and most people I know get very annoyed by this.

Just ask me "Hey Neotelos, I'm having trouble with #feature#, do you have a second?" I usually say "Sure, come over" we talk (and socialize) a bit and the issue is resolved immediately. Then I resume work and we're all happy.

Is this just a beg for votes?

@AngryDev for starters, how about its successor, JavaFX.

@AngryDev argue whatever you like, but that doesn't change the fact that Swing is mostly a waste of time and the same concepts can be taught more effectively with other tools.

How the fuck are people ok with paying thousands of dollars on a class that's going to spend weeks (likely MUCH longer) on Swing? Swing is garbage, stop letting the laziness of curriculum dictate how to spend your time.

@sam9669 depends on the role.
I've met plenty of PhD graduates that couldn't code at a junior level. In small companies it often equates to higher pay expectations (and on occasion too much of an ego).

Nobody uses Swing anymore. I had to use it 10 years ago and it made me hate Java for many years.

Who the fuck is having you use Swing?
It's been legacy for a long time...