Information systems project manager for most of the French ISP and telecommunications operators since 1997. Arguably one of the worst PHP, Bash and Perl script authors in the world.
I call it Eurospeak, for extra outrage - though that word currently has European Union civil service connotations (cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eurospeak)
Eurospeak is definitely the language of international corporate meetings !
This French person has taken to writing in en-GB, as a token of protest against current USAian politics. I thank the USA for this step in French-British rapprochement !
Also, in the late 90's, The Register made me love British English... Local accents are great branding.
... And that is the straw that broke the camel's back - and convinced my elderly father to accept my offer to migrate to KDE.
Also, I can now shield him from most of the incomprehensible unsolicited dialogs that triggered support calls. I haven't had to field a single complaint since I tuned his desktop !
I tried posting the correct URL at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386203 - but HN mangled the it again... So, I had actually posted it right the first time and there is a technical issue !
Programming sequencers visually and with tons of help from the tooling pushes the ear sharpening later in the learning process - and I'm only now starting to realize that maybe making music is about deciding what sounds right... I suppose the trombone and violin's "sink or swim" approach ensures the early acquisition of that skill.
I suppose one's ear gets sharpened fast, out of necessity - but I recoil at imagining what the other band members have to get through meanwhile. The process for violin is the same though.
> But, how can a trombone ever be better than the piano when there’s so many variables? Well, unlike a piano, where each key produces a fixed pitch, a trombone lets me subtly adjust every note as I play.
Thanks, but I'll stick to my keyboard's pitch bend control.
The trombone's great expressiveness comes at a steep learning cost.
In Harare in 1998, I remember the pleasant surprise of finding a good "internet café" in some downtown office building... Was Fidonet still active in Zimbabwe at that time, or had Internet access supplanted it already ?
Early KDE made no sense for me - I went Gnome, then migrated to xfce in disgust... I saw myself using an increasing number of KDE applications (I was impressed by Dolphin and Kate), I thought I might as well go the whole way and setup my Debian with KDE. I was immediately awed by the sane defaults and how everything is a mutable parameter... KDE Plasma is my dream desktop nowadays !
> Hosting a Minecraft server was pretty big for me.
This seems to have been the gateway to systems administration for a surprisingly large number of contemporary young people - just like IRC, Quake and Counterstrike servers in my teen years, and futzing with config.sys & autoexec.bat for DOS games when I was a kid... And the hacking soon becomes more fun than the game itself !
The user legitimately considers the application as hostile - hence sandboxing... Notification spam filtering is now the obvious need at the sandbox's edge, with the whole customizable arsenal we have come to expect for our inbound mail. Of course, Google will not cooperate with anything likely to reduce sacro-sanct engagement !
Forwarders work with batches: small batches (consolidate packages in a suitcase to travel as airline luggage) or large batches (up to a whole 40 feet container)... So, delay is a matter of luck - ask around if a batch is due to depart and available slots remain. Express remains the province of traditional players - though I've managed to find a forwarder to urgently ship a small blister of drugs, but such service isn't guaranteed.
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