I'm a fan of jetbrains IDE's, I think they're smooth and clean and get the job done.

You might have to change which version of gradle is set directly in your app. It's a line in one of the main config files for the project I think.

It's probably exactly what was going through their head when they made the changes.

Love this. Just goes to show how unpredictable life can be! :D

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

It's because of the reputation arch has for being difficult to install. It isn't super difficult, but to the average person it can be intimidating.

Once you do, it's like bragging rights.
"Oh, you did xyz? Hah, well, have you installed Arch Linux? Because I have. Many times."

Hahah. It takes a bit to get used to recompiling every time you run the program. The beauty of old coding languages! :D

I've used the XPS for the last year+, it's definitely a solid choice. My only complaint is a lack of a dedicated hdmi/ethernet port, but they have adapters for those.

The screen as well can be kind of annoying in brightly-lit areas. An anti-gloss screen protector works fine for this however

@RadiatorTwo Windows has pros and cons. I use it myself after all.

As for linux, it all depends on the distro you choose. ;)

@RadiatorTwo I can't find any sources that say that those ads are only in the Insider Preview builds. The closest thing I found was this article: https://theverge.com/2017/3/...

which seems to suggest that these ads were included in the Creators Update, Version 1703, which was released over a year ago.

Regardless of whether you can turn them off, the business practice of including multiple different types of ads built directly into the operating system that people pay full price for is scummy.

@socksAndSandles @sarrea Not only those 'recommended' tiles, which are more often than not just bloatware or stupid games, but also advertisements like these. It's one thing if I upgrade free from Windows7 or Windows8, but if I buy a fully-priced license key it's fucking ridiculous to have targeted ads like these built in

@dontPanic Built into the lockscreen and file explorer. How I can pay $100 for an OS license and still be advertised to is fucking mindblowing to me

@dontPanic I could understand paying for windows if it A.) actually worked half the time and B.) didn't have FUCKING ADVERTISMENTS BUILT INTO THE GODDAMN THING JESUS CHRIST

Smoke signals on the roof of my apartment building

Distros are (mostly) just preference. If you want something easy-to-use out of the box, check out Linux Mint or Debian.

If you're more of a tinkerer or have some experience with unix systems, something like Arch may be more suited for you. Too daunting? Manjaro is pretty close, but much easier to set up.

Your idea of a VM is a good place to start. Lots of distros also support live installions, that way you can boot the system up on a USB drive and test drive it.

That's one of the problems with using books for academia. They're usually outdated in a few years, especially for subjects like web development.

Backups my friend... Though it may be too late for that. :(

You can also do @googlemail.com !

Prof: "Make sure you bring your entire project, including all code, screenshots of it working, and documented design process, into class printed out!"

Me: 😠

At least you don't have to worry about it until Monday!

"We've been working on a new, self-replicating AI that has been working on deep learning!"

Devs: It's just a bunch of if statements lol

@Teknas Was there any particular reason to bring race into the discussion? It's pretty much guaranteed to start an argument :P

"Only women can multitask" Hahahaha what an idiot! I feel bad for your team (especially the women)

@graic I wasn't feeling that great. An hour long commute, plus it being my only class for the day, made me figure one day wouldn't matter that much.

Hahahaha. I got into contact with their support a while ago about some Windows activation issues I was having. Super simple fix, but when I went to leave the remote session the rep wouldn't let me until I filled out the feedback form. I just typed in "helpful" and they let me go.

@neodite It's not the difficulty I'm worried about. It's the fact that I have almost no idea what he wants from the project.

The thing that irks me about modern day internet isn't the fact that some sites snoop on us and sell our data. It's that a majority of sites do it, and that having your personal information collected and sold without your consent is so commonplace that a majority of people have accepted it by this point.

Look at Equifax. Fuckers took millions of American's personal and financial information, made it impossible to opt out, and stored it with terrible security measures. Then, when they got hacked and all of that info got leaked, they offered "protection" so that customers couldn't sue their ass.

It's seriously fucked up, and makes me paranoid when I think of how many other companies out there have similar data on me. I don't know how secure they are, so why would I trust them?

If data collection and sale was done by only a few companies, people could easily avoid them. But it's fucking everywhere.

@Root How long ago did you take it? I can't imagine the basics have changed much at all, but I'm wondering if they've introduced anything new in recent years.

@milkybarkid Mininet looks pretty lightweight and usable, and being able to deploy working setups on actual hardware is definitely a plus. Not too sure about Quagga but I'll definitely check both out, thanks for the recommendations.

Assembly level programming should definitely be second/third year, at least. Anyone taking that as their first introduction to programming is going to have a bad time.

It's interesting and useful, yeah, but only if you have an idea of what you're doing with it. A majority of beginners aren't going to benefit from it being taught first.