Too many problems and security weirdness and settings that refuse to be set for me to "upgrade"

If I was stuck with an 8.x version, yeah, I'd upgrade. But I'm not, so I won't.

Also not sure how it'll work with my Ubuntu dual boot using grub.

You might be able to use the AlertDialog which is simpler.

I am an android programmer currently learning iOS. I think iOS development is a mess, so I think it's definitely a case where you are so proficient in one thing, your frustration increases because the new stuff isn't so similar. Whichever you learn first will seem easier. Eventually after gaining fluency in both platforms, I imagine you'll come to see them both as having positives and negatives.

Everything I read said that directly showing an AlertDialog was deprecated and to wrap it a DialogFragment subclass, otherwise you can get a crash if the Activity has to redraw itself due to something like a device rotation. But no matter, I just discovered Toasts which are a better fit for my use case anyways,

In a new assignment. I have been given the task of writing real time diagnostics that run in the background for an embedded system that has a DSP and an ARM micro controller. The diagnostics basically need to check the integrity of memory - flash, static ram, and cache. They also need to test the operation of certain microcontroller resources like timers and such. Also test a subset of the instruction set which of course is coded in assembly language. There actually is a code base for the ARM tests. The design is fine but most of the diagnostic code ends up being ARM assembly language which I don't think a lot of people on the project are aware of. Anyway, the DSP has no diagnostic code written for it and has similar diagnostic requirements to the ARM micro. Looks like I'll be writing a fair amount of assembly language for the DSP. I haven't worked with DSPs that much so I have to come up to speed on this particular DSP architecture quickly. The thing has a boat load of I/O pins, 6 separate busses, DMA, and has a Harvard Architecture. A truly remarkable hardware component. I haven't had a coding assignment in assembly language for a long time. It should be interesting. I am pretty far away from C++ 11 on this project.

Yikes, sounds pretty intense. I assume they at least give you a fair amount of time to get up to speed in a situation like that?

Just set an install date for Google Fiber. Very excited. Literally the day after our 12 month contract eith another ISP expires.

I believe just showDialog method is deprecated. It seems you can still use AlertDialog.Builder with .show() method. This seems simpler than DialogFragments depending on your use case.

Anyone lose anything from Google's lightening strike? I lost a few emails. Nothing super important, but kind of strange to see the data loss.

google was hit by lightning?

in other news, screw you database people. All of you. With a rusty poker.

You kept emails in European data centers?

So got a follow up email from one of the co-founders (the person who made first contact with me), stating that today is his last day. And if I don't hear back, to follow up with the technical guy who I had an interview with next week.

Maybe I did so bad at the technical that that the team asked the guy who brought me to quit??

We like it hot, so light that mofo on fire.

(what happened?)

Think our sql book is either poorly written, poorly organized, or both.

"To teach you how to crawl, let's analyze this Olympic gymnastics video."

Basic SQL is super crazy easy so if you cant understand it the book is probably bad.

If you post a problem in the beginner thread I can demo how to think in sql. Its pretty step by step (oooh baby)

That's probably what happened yea.

That sounds horrible, but I guess it is more kid-friendly than relational algebra.

Definitely appreciate the offer, but I'll wait to bug y'all for another chapter or two.

Anyone been to rubyconf ? I'm thinking of going this year. There is such a small number of good software conferences and I have work budget to go to about 2 a year.

Wait , wat? Google is now stororing data in a single datacenter ?

I would be shoccked if email data is not geo replicated.

I just read a short article but it soinds like it wasn't data in persistent storage and more like data coming in that got lost when the power was lost.

yeah, it was a mistake. I found what I was looking for. it was kind of strange. The emails were there then not there. Somehow moved to my trash, and it was pretty difficult to find.

Roger that. It's definitely a thought process that is different to other programming though, so if it's not clicking I recommend asking.

At least it isn't what happened to me in uni, where I had a one-semester subject on databases and we spent the first term, in the year 2000, learning COBOL. That really happened.

:shudder:

If you program in COBOL, you'll never be out of work.

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Had a face-to-face two hour interview / speed talk yesterday. Interviewer said they'd contact me today for next steps (if relevant I guess). I made a few blunders, but I think I recovered okay-ish. Kind of hard to sell myself with no working experience, especially for the difficulty of the work. Well, I expect to be rejected, but it is nice to know I got to speak to someone in person. Keeping my fingers crossed because I really want this job.

Quite a few interesting topics came up. We even discussed Amazon and emacs -vs- vim, which led to the most awesome anti-emacs rant I ever heard. Of course I had to feign shock.

Overall, it was an interesting interview. A mix of chit-chat and hard-core computer stuff. The interviewer was whip smart and I was definitely nervous. I'm pretty sure I can't continue with this anymore. If I don't get this one, I'll probably keep programming as a hobby and leave it at that.

The Angular app I'm writing is going well. So far all the things I've had to consult Google and/or StackOverflow for have made me Kermit-nod at how logical the answers are. I can definitely see how a big Angular app could, if care isn't taken, become a nightmare world from which there is no waking. I still think that Angular 2 will be huge and that the big risks the team have taken will pay off.