cliveowen

Not working on Chrome on Mac OS X 10.9.5, either.

Lollipop is just a bad, bad update. Tap the square button and close two apps at the same time. If you did everything right, now your phone says that Android UI failed. This has been going on since day one. Day one. Which was sometime in November.

Their Hangouts app sucks. I don't know how people in the U.S. use it, but here people use it only for SMS, and they crammed everything in that so it's hard to do the main function. But not to worry, they made Messenger too. So, if you're a sane person, you disable Hangouts, install Messenger and all is good, right? Of course not. Because since the 5.1 update, every few minutes you get a nice message that says "Hangouts has stopped unexpectedly". You know, the app that you supposedly disabled because you have no use for. So you enable it again, and the message goes away, and the app just stands there, unused, taking up space and memory. And by the way, why do they feel the need to make two or three different apps for doing the same thing? Photos and Gallery? Why not. What about Email, Gmail and Inbox? Sure, my app drawer was a bit too empty anyway...

There's so much more that could be said about Google "products" (I hate this word) and their problems, but my blood pressure is already acting up, so I better leave it for another day.

It's what I did at the time, and I did it again now, but it doesn't work. I can change password as many times as I want, but the account is still blocked for no reason.

>Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts. Fingers frosted synthetic white[...]

>Green waddled to the door, his two Chihuahuas, Max and Sammy, following attentively.

How do the authors know any of these (useless) details? They weren't there. Is this a factual recount or fiction?

I hate it when these failed novelists try to make a run-of-the-mill story sound like an Hollywood movie. Next time, just stick to the facts and save me a couple of pointless pages of unsubstantiated claims. Is is that hard to do?

>I don’t see Go as something that is going to serve as a “better C”, so I’m waiting for something new.

This surprised me a bit. I think most people who tried Go would agree that it is, in fact, a better version of the C programming language. It follows many of the same UNIX-y principles and it's a pleasure to work with, mostly because the syntax just gets out of the way. I'd like to know more about his point of view if he's reading here :)

And while I'm at it, I want to thank Salvatore for giving us redis, which is also a pleasure to work with.

The language isn't everything, in fact, it's the least important part of the package. Android has horrible online documentation, iOS has stacks of nicely formatted PDFs and a great online reference. Android tools (Eclipse/Android Studio) are simply horrible, while XCode and related tools are really great. Add to this the performance hit you have from having your code run on a vm and the bloat that comes from using Java itself, and you have yet another reason as to why Android developers are few and far between.

I never heard of this game, but a quick search shows it's an 80s looking video game with very basic graphics (maybe there's another game with the same name?). Anyway, I can't understand what could possibly justify that price.

Well, it's not that impressive, it says the guy ran 3 seconds faster, how is that useful in any context?

I think sooner or later it had to happen, there's a time when everyone realizes they're not so special after all and all those idiots working 9-to-5 like drones are actually people like you and me who also thought their life would be an amazing journey, but then reality came knocking and yanked the rug from under their feet. I guess it's good you realized this now instead of later.