First tried Aurelia around a year ago. Kinda like it more than Angular.

@pixeltherapy Yeah, I don't have US$350 a month to donate to internet. Not to mention there are only two providers.

Now, as soon as my 'insert business idea' kicks off, I'm moving to a country where I can have like 7 of them.

I understand your pain. I just went through something similar. I even ranted about it.

I'm not going to lie, it was the hardest 10 days of my life

@bkrem From my limited experience, I'd go with pattern matching and generics. Two things I just can't get enough of.

Heck, my disdain for Java mostly comes from the lack of reified generics.

@forkbomber Well, a little less than 3 mil but still a tiny country. It's so small, that if someone lives 5 km from me, I find that to be a great distance.

It's gross incompetence I say. I was on the phone with them everyday mostly because I was trying to figure out how stupid they were. Like who spends a week trying to figure out what is causing an issue.

You'd do well as a technician.

@forkbomber I live on a small island in the Caribbean with a population one hundredth of America.

Waking up to sunshine is probably one of the most depressing things in the world. Unfortunately for me, that's like 95% of days where I live.

@mohammed You probably forgot to save the internet offline.

I'm sorry, I can't help it.

Service out for 10 days (gross incompetence), a week after it's back I get a text saying my internet should be back now.

And this is why I have a new service provider.

By the ways, loving that VS dark theme.

What's that thing in the front left in front of your comps?

Not testing is like having sex with a bunch of different people without protection. You might not initially get a bug but when you inevitably do, it's going to be nasty and it'll be a bitch to figure out where it came from.

@coookie Love Scala. Would not use it for Android dev.

@philcr I usually add a 'with a straw' to it.

@burtybob I actually brought up the school thing. And yeah, they should be commended for the work they've put in for making their software and services easily available to students without it being a financial burden.

A lot of companies could learn from their example and build brand loyalty from that.

@brettmoan I get what you're saying. My point is the act of pirating. If I download a copy of a movie I already own, I'm still getting that copy from someone who wasn't legally entitled to distribute it. And unless I set up my client to not seed, I'm then still illegally distributing said content.

@SithLord I don't have a problem with publishers making money. My issue is when I as a consumer is paying the same money as someone else for a vastly inferior version of that product.

Now, where I disagree with you, is that I don't think you can say it's never justified. For instance, if you went and bought a movie on DVD and went home to discover that it doesn't work so you take it back and they don't want to replace it. I think you're inherently justified if you decide to go online and download said movie now.

@brettmoan To add to your point, I've got a Netflix subscription but get access to around half the catalogue of someone in America even though I pay the same price as them.

And if you think that's bad, I'll try to watch something to only realise that it is in Spanish, even though I don't speak Spanish, all because of some regional bullshit.

@marcqleonard Ha ha. It took them 10 days to fix it so I might just take him up on that offer.

@SithLord Humanity is flawed. No matter how much someone wants to say they won't do something, once they're put into a situation that's dire enough, they will do it.

I'm pretty certain if you went to school where I went to, and your choice was between pirating software so you can actually pass your course or failing, you'd go the pirating route. It might not be you first choice, but when shit hits the fan, you would.

@SithLord There's more nuance to it than that. And some companies definitely put themselves in a position for their products to be pirated.

Case in point, you're a software company and you approach an educational institution to sell them software for them to use as part of their curriculum. The issue is, you've only got Pro and Enterprise versions of your software. What's a student to do?

When there are 250 computers that serve 7,000 students but you've got a project due that's worth 50% of your grade, what would you do? Do you end up failing your course because you just can't get the time to work on your project? No. Do you buy the product that costs half of your tuition when you're already on student loan? No. Do you pirate said software so that you don't fail? Yes.

So in this very situation, that's the company's fault for getting their product pirated.

When I look at piracy, I don't look at the business and say they're losing all that money. I look at the persons who help make whatever it is that aren't really seeing any of the profits. And, a product reaching some set goal can be difference between those persons getting a bonus or not.

On the other hand, piracy does serve a purpose. Let me give some anecdotal evidence. I grew up in a third world country and when I was in school, the only access you had to certain tools were on shared systems. Systems that were generally used for classes and were only available between the hours of 8 and 6. From my experience, the persons who only ever used the tools during class, most of them never even graduated and the rest of them, for the most part, aren't working in that capacity now.

The persons who did pirate the expensive tools are the ones who went on to use them professionally and are the ones who can now afford to pay for them.

@Nexion I am just getting acquainted with the anniversary update. I wouldn't mind teaming up for a client. That is, if @dfox doesn't mind us having access.

@dfox Are there any plans on implementing an oauth flow? That would certainly fix the issue with having users entering their credentials on some client app.

Use version control and enable auto save.

@wax911 RDD is the new TDD.

That 40° is a regular day here. Be happy it actually gets cool in the night. I've got hot and humid 24/7.

@endre86 The zero-ith element is the first element of a list. Duh 😒

@coookie Fancy. 😏