Three days ago:
Found my eOS had crashed. Got on my dad's spare Dell Latitude (by God, the keyboard is awesome) and downloaded an image file for Ubuntu.

Fast Forward to today morning :
Apparently, my dad never did down either of his laptops, or even lock. The Latitude had a update but it then started reverting it. It went into a loop.

My dad: what did you do?! It was working perfectly before, you must have crashed it.

What the fuck dad... Thankfully, he got it up and running later.

Opened my beloved laptop after a week of sickness.

ACPI error...

Spent the evening taking a backup from initramfs. Then installing Ubuntu 17.10

Now, I love me some penguin but that shit gets too crazy too often.

Not that I didn't enjoy spending the day setting up the system, there is some stability I always miss from a Win/Mac environment

To the Linux users, what's your system like? And how do you use it?

Dear digital ocean, don't sponsor an event and have the entire development challenge on digital ocean if your website won't accept my and 40 other contestants' cards.

Dear YouTube, I am confused as to why the ad, before my video plays, is for YouTube itself.

I am already here!

Event Head: There is a theme available to save you some time.

*Sends over a Wordpress theme*

EH: I got us this new service where you can create a website just by drag and drop.

Sure, why not. How foolish of me to not know of WordPress and Website builder tools.

!rant

I am building a side project to build a recommendation system for research papers. Since it's my first attempt, any tips? Also, my plan is to get it in the cloud, build a separate webpage to summon data from it. Honestly, most of it is three-fourths imagination, one-fourth google queries. The cloud idea is solely to provide it means to train real time.

I plan on using Python for this, other than the html/css frontend.

As someone who is very new to such a project, what should I know before I start?

Thanks,
S.

!rant

When devrant takes over your mind, body and, soul.

As an undergraduate junior, programming beyond basic data types is very overwhelming. Web and mobile seem great. So does ML. Open source is amazing to use but scary to contribute to. Seriously, being a programmer or even trying to be can be hard.

Just learnt python for data science online. Suddenly, have this awesome idea for an app. Thanks to kivy, I could work with python. But wait, X websites find it good enough, Y websites not. And cross platform frameworks seem to be all Js. Basically, pursuing new idea means starting from literal scratch.