Cut to a few years from now, when the software he writes kills a bunch of people...

@nicnaknic you *can* also mount system read write from the shell (mount -o rw,remount /system as root), but why would op have typed that? Mounting system rw in the recovery generally doesn't persist to the next system boot- the mount ro is set in the init.rc file in the ramdisk which is kind of hard to change.. And maybe some rom could but why. And yes, you can back up /data from twrp/nandroid or whatever but @kirill578 said the rom itself was destroyed... Maybe he just didn't know what he did.

@kirill578 I don't care if it happened or not. Just thought "I accidentally trashed my friends device when I was drunk because I thought terminal emulator meant the phone was running a VM" is a weird rant to begin with. Kinda like "I'm a Mac guy. A couple of years ago my friend gave me his phone when i was wasted so I bent it in half twice and flushed it down the toilet. Lesson learned: don't be drunk when you have your friends phone and don't name your app appropriately!" Okay....

Spyware. Also, windows.

I don't understand this story at all. On every device I know, /system is mounted read only. It would need to have been remounted.. /data could have be wiped, but then not readily reflashed as described. He would also have had to type su to get the # root prompt...

Also, as pointed out, terminal emulator is exactly the right term. And he may not have installed it as it comes built into some firmware distros.

I dunno. This smells like bs, but regardless, the story in effect is "haha I trashed my friends computer because he trusted me and I don't know what im doing. I then laughed at him."

@Neotelos naw, its been pronounced "jif" since 1987. http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/ It was embedded in a original sample compushow gif as on-graphic text. Perfectly clear and consistent. It never was a hard g, and you've had 30 years to get used to it. Don't be a jit.

Android Studio (based on intelliJ) is Google's standard for android development. Linux version works great.

Something left over from debugging?

Cleared your cookies, practiced free-as-in-beer, dressed like a bum... Sure this wasn't rms?

(no offense to rms or bums)

(or to cookies)

(or to beer)

I'm seeing a lot of buzz here over 3. You guys are the experts, so 3 it is for me.

Anyone have any thoughts on generating a "rando" number? Same algorithm and entropy sources, or different?

@arcadesdude I think it's a reference to the loss of hard function keys, ports, then a final price adjustment up.

Well at least the registration system survived intact.

Didn't add a ' or " to escape from the quote.

@FitzSuperUser invoice them for 4 hours of consulting work.

D) create the item, insert it in the database, return it, and never discuss it again with anyone.

@PoweredByCoffee thanks for the update. Let me know if anything changes.

@alyx agreed he shouldn't break the law obviously but if his account is accurate this company treated him like shit and possibly broke a contract and owe him for his work. He could name names so others aren't screwed, post on yelp, get COMPANYsucks.com, and warn other clients and customers of their business ethics and practices from the rooftops. Obviously he'd have to be telling the while truth to be protected but companies who screw over people should expect there will be consequences. Or they'll do it again and again.

Something something wireshark

I'd use "Facebook" if it hasn't been taken.

That moment when you realize upvoted posts start with the same few words and end with an ellipses...

That was just one of the many dumb and inflammatory things he said (often from his iPhone) that drove volunteer developers away.

No Steve is Cyanogen, developer and project lead. Kirt McMaster is/was the money guy CEO who talked insane shit to media and suckers^h^h^h^h^h^hinvestors.

Directed by: M Night Shamalan'; DROP TABLE DIRECTORS; --

@darksideplease it was actually the CEO of cyanogen Inc who said it. Cyanogen (Steve Kondik) didn't say or agree with that asinine statement.

Im not a Windows user, so can someone explain what's going on? Why does the dialog (titled "Open [long filename]") start with the text "you have chosen to open..." But then it ends with "would you like to save this file?" What's it gonna do? Is this something you see after launching the exe? After downloading it? Opening a document with it? Is opening and saving considered the same thing in some contexts in Windows?

Or is that the joke..? The comments are about visual studio so I guess I don't get it...

I know one-star rating rants are worth their own post, but how about the blackmail ones that go

"★☆☆☆☆ Great app! Add [irrelevant/bad/impossible feature] and I'll change this to five stars!"

@FractalSystems exactly.

Hmm. Unless the pie is being eaten directly off the tin, there may be a few time slices when data is accessed but not yet consumed by the input method, at which point there is a potential latent discrepancy between the forked data and the display.

git a rom you two

@linuxxx opposite of a krowemarf?

@klonky exactly.. Money is good to have, but it's not a full measure of what will make you happy/satisfied/rewarded/etc.

Okay.