phatbyte

I can chime in.

My wife is from Germany, and I'm from Portugal, we both speak English with each other which is easier (DE is very hard for me to learn), but she talks DE with the little one and I talk PT with him.

He can speak perfectly DE, PT, and English depending on which language he listens to, which is quite impressive for me as a parent.

He can even maintain a proper conversation and do translations between languages.

Sometimes he adds a word from another language in a phrase but he seems to know what that word is in the correct language.

Never had problems installing any major Linux dist, but 15 years ago I still remember the boring and time consuming on patching the kernel with custom patches so that my wi-fi card or gfx card could work.

I stopped trying to use Linux as a desktop OS since then. But recently I tried for fun installing Ubuntu and everything just worked out of the box.

I still feel Linux is too fragmented, too many package managers, too many UI managers etc...but that's part of the beauty of it I guess.

And at a reasonable price. Thank you for sharing this.

I think the author completely misses the point or never worked in a proper agile team.

Imagine running a marathon without mile markers. Sprints are like mile markers they help you know and adjust your velocity and capacity to reach the end goal.

Without these sorts of tools you are just running without any sense of achievement or tuning to your teams performance.

"...you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes?..."

For the love of whatever-god-or-not-you-believe, don't give them ideas

No thanks.

The article mentions the usual path is from junior dev to product manager. In all my almost 20 years of experience I've never seen a developer go to PM as a natural career progression.

Its not even a technical role at all, no idea where this came from

> They had no version control.

Had to read this two times and check the year of the article to make sure this wasn't from 2001

I don't understand the correlation of PHP in this case. It's not about the stack but about the time vs opportunity.

While I appreciate this kind of solutions, in my brain all I can think is: what the hell is wrong with the web today?

I mean, what did we do to ourselves? How the hell did we ruin the web experience this much?

Looking back in the 90s, the web wasn't the most pretty thing but how simple it was. You went to a news website and that was it. Click, read, the end.

These days however:

- Go to a news/content website

- wait for the 40MB of useless CSS and JS "minified" crap to download.

- Agree with 2 or 3 huge popups to allow collect your data

- Get a new popup to make you disable your ad-blocker plugin. And if you disable it, you need to refresh the page all over again.

- Get a "subscribe to our newsletter" popup

- Get tracked by amazons, facebooks, etc...

- And once you finally click on an article.... get another popup to subscribe to their premium paid content...

Seriously, we broke the web, and now we are trying to fix it with putting more plugins and tools on top of this problem. I just feel the web is fighting against us and our browsers, and in the end everyone will loose.

I see Ableton on that list, is probably one of the most used DAW applications used in music production, everyone who's in audio production, engineering know these guys. I'd take a job with this company any time instead of working for a Google/Facebook as another code monkey

I'm pretty sure no-one from the future will have a way to plug his/hers mini-USB-XC or whatever the usb name will be at the time in the future (USB standards are just a mess).

What are you doing with the data collected? I don't see anywhere a privacy policy, gdpr or anything

Have you tried a co-working space? For me it helped me a lot

Which free alternatives?