@bahua there are universal ways, yes. Your desktop allows you to organise by your own structure, and create your own personal access model. That's why its better for the individual.

Windows? Still in the third world I see.

Its far quicker to access applications from the desktop. If you organise your desktop into regions of related applications, you can go straight to the application rather than delving around in a mess of start menus. With the modern start menu and its incessant advertising, this is even more important for not being distracted. Admittedly, this picture is excessive, but the point remains the same.

@AlgoRythm I can taste vomit.

OK, in all seriousness, there's no reason this doesn't work. However, you best be damn sure you have some fault tolerance built in, since locking a file of that size open for that long feels like a recipe for drive failure. Unless, of course, you're opening the media entirely in memory, in which case I hope you are made of money, given the size of even h265 nowadays.

@AlgoRythm why? Do you really have that much media? And are you going to build container, codec and compression attributes into a separate db in a fashion that a modern media player can read?

@AlgoRythm grumble grumble wheel something-or-other.

A scenario in which edits rarely happen is astoundingly rare. Facebook most likely has a shit-tonne of issues with it that don't get addressed because the management structure and attitude there is horrific. Aren't you going to add play counts to your media files? Or perhaps metadata that is automatically collected when you place media on it? What about if you add new storage to your media centre and have to edit your location strings to reflect it? My point is, reel storage was abandoned because it couldn't adapt to an environment that nobody expected to change so quickly. Haystack is the same, but in an era where implementing it is absurd.

Ew. Why.

Haystack is incredibly restrictive. To edit a file, you have to open and extract the entire stack. Or, you have to remove the old file and add the new one to the end of the stack. Or version the file and index the versions, leaving all the old files in permanent storage.

You now have a working emulation of the first iterations of cassette storage. 1959 says hello.

@irene I wouldn't count on it!

Working with python? As in, for money? You poor, poor bastard.

@TitanLannister put his litter tray outside, uncleaned. They can smell it from several miles out, and soon enough he'll pop up.

No video editing? Don't bother with a pro model. Do they still do standard models with 16gb memory?

I'm still trying to get that pantheon 3d mod to work in Elementary. I want my compiz animations back!

@inaba different functionality. That's where the child process relies on the parent process for functional input, not where the sub-process performs a task for the overhead process. At least, that's how its supposed to be, the definition is somewhat murky now thanks to things like multithreading and library frameworks.

@nin0x03 welcome to .NET, where nothing is initialised without two restarts, a Hail Mary, and a strong coffee.

I should have learnt Objective C. Sigh.

@jAsE I really hope that's an attempt at humour...

Translation: We're a .NET shop, but you need to be fluent in js and a few frameworks. Or, at least, know how to Google.

@Condor that's bullshit, and don't you believe it. They seem to avoid tracking, as much as I can tell without analysing what they do with my browser fingerprint, but without a doubt they will be taking money at least for running costs. Certain search terms will yield certain results with a greater bias, and suggestions will be manipulated too.

It is foolish to believe any online service that claims, in 2018, not to be using sponsorship in some form.

@Condor Way. Google manipulate their results so much as to make them irrelevant when looking for specific factual information. There's a huge amount of bias towards social media, celebrity news, shallow events, you name it.

Bing still serves manipulated results to a degree, but they are often of far, far better quality than Google.

The background is an iframe that plays a video from vimeo.

You are hurtling through the sky in a metal tube, with warm air and refreshments. You even have a functioning lavatory. Frankly, it is astonishing we can have an internet connection at all on such a ridiculous contraption.

@electrineer the daft thing is, my machine at home doesn't have vt-x. It supposedly should, but eh. Besides, its just not the same.

I have an XP machine that I've kept purely for the sake of Pinball. Sure, you can download it, but its so much better on XP.

@Marl3x "I'll just Google it" no, that's not a good attitude. You should be able to understand the mechanics of what you're working with, even if you don't understand the language or syntax. Irrespective of the flavour of DB language you work with, you should be able to recognise and fundamentally understand nominal terms and operations. If you don't, you'll continually end up with a clusterfuck of badly written code that only partially meets requirements, and you'll constantly take three times as long to complete work. Google is SUPPLEMENTARY. Not primary.

Trust me, you'll need INNER JOIN more than you care to admit. Just remember, in school its not necessarily about getting the end result so much about learning the methodology behind it.

@vidu sort of. There's a lot more going on than I specified, and not just to do with being a burned out developer. Its the knock-on effects of general stress, social isolation, lack of situational permanence and rampant alcoholism that have really played into my lack of motivation to do anything more than sit behind my computer playing games and ingesting shit content.

It takes a huge effort to get past anything, but keeping momentum is easy. Its getting started that is difficult.

I should also note that when I worked for ****** I worked ridiculous hours. I slept where I could, when I could. I had no time for anything but work, and it psychologically ruined me. I showered, ate and slept at work for a week straight once.

You're going to end up like me. Never at 100%, always kinda tired, not able to concentrate properly. You'll screw up your body clock, you'll do your body and mind irreparable damage. Take my advice, and take it now: choose the internship that you get the most out of. Resign from the other one. Give yourself some free time. Use it to study a little, but don't forget to get out and be social. Do something cool, like learning to play an instrument or working on a pet project.

I'm 25 and feel 60. I worked for one of the big five for just a year and a half, flying around the world and speaking different languages every week. I visited a warzone, saw atrocities beyond measure. I ran a team of my own with no experience of doing so, and still had my own work to do.

When I was made redundant I crashed, and hard. I couldn't concentrate, I drank more than ever and my mental health took a nosedive. Now I'm trying to start a business and I'm barely managing the day to day.

Don't be like me.

I wish I could see how. I'm stuck in that lifestyle with no sleeping pattern, little motivation, not a lot of cash flow.

It'll definitely improve, but its kinda hard to see the wood for the trees at the moment.

I have done this more times than I care to count.

20% development.
30% procrastination.
50% refilling my coffee.