Is it just me or are Discord's status updates legendarily bad to the point of being entirely useless? As a user of the discord app, don't tell me the "API is having issues." Just tell me, "Discord is currently down. We are working on it and apologise for the disruption." Everything else is unnecessary line noise.
The Discordapp status page is written to by developers, and as a developer I really like the insights as to what is going on. As a user, I expect you to just look at it and see it's "Having Issues, We are working on it".
Really? What in their status update read to you as "the problem is on our side, not yours"? Understand that I'm a programmer and couldn't figure that out.
Garmin is the perfect example of a company that could have been displaced by the advent of smartphones with built in GPS receivers (which probably cannibalized the market for dedicated GPS devices in cars) but has remained relevant due to how they've explored other form factors.
My Garmin FR235 is an indispensable part of my running gear, and no mobile phone has come even close to replicating it.
More than just form factor, Garmin has done an incredible job of using GPS technology to make products for enthusiasts, rather than the masses. Cycling computers, running watches, golf range finders, marine, aviation, hunting, etc. If you're a nerd for any of those activities there's a good chance you use a Garmin, not an Apple or Android.
The customer service is also excellent; my son has a Vívofit Jr, and when the screen went haywire they replaced it—no questions asked. Quite happy with my experiences with Garmin over the years.
They even have a comprehensive line of dog tracking products, best in (surprisingly underrepresented) class. It is sad they've decided to augment them with electric shock correction features, which modern k9 science strongly discourages (acceptable only for e.g. correction of severe aggression cases, and such dogs shouldn't be roaming free with a GPS tracker anyway).
> My Garmin FR235 is an indispensable part of my running gear, and no mobile phone has come even close to replicating it.
I like a standalone self-contained GPS over a smartphone-based GPS because of (a) no dependence on a cell network (in theory, a smartphone GPS shouldn't been dependent either, but they often give problems if you don't have an active connection), (b) durability/ruggedness, (c) water resistance, (d) swappable batteries, and (e) privacy (no phoning home, movements not sent to the cloud, and untrackable, although unfortunately all of these are becoming less true with newer model Garmins).
But the biggest problem with all standalone self-contained GPS units (not talking about car units) is the horrible screen resolution. Neither Garmin nor any other handheld GPS maker makes a model with anything approaching even the cheapest smartphone. They have screen resolutions like 240 x 400, and often worse, which makes using maps a terrible experience compared to a smartphone.
There's an unfilled market for a handheld GPS with a decent display.
It's funny to see this. I have a similar story about a MMORPG I've been playing for the better part of 20 years. It's got more in common with MUDs than typical MMORPGs and is an enforced roleplaying environment.
I've personally been volunteering my time to help add new features on the client and server for the past few years. The game is entirely free to play -- no adware junk or anything like that -- but sadly the community is tiny.
I have, generally, 1-2 drinks per day, where a drink is 1.5oz of something like bourbon or whisky or scotch. I use it to unwind when I get home from work, usually whilst working on personal projects. That being said the definitions you've given above are interesting. A "light drinker" who drinks a fifth of Jack in one night drinks significantly more than I do, but if he/she only does it once a week are they truly light drinkers?
Volume/time is probably a more accurate benchmark.
Yes, it makes searching for a job harder. If you start looking for a position outside the banking/finance industry as a developer, nobody understands what a "VP" or an "Analyst" is and that it's meaningless (especially if you don't live in the US or on the east coast of the US).
Recruiters encouraged me to change it and/or edited my resume to read "Software Engineer" and then "Senior Software Engineer."
The recruiters are probably right but you could always just put (aka Software Developer) in brackets of something if you want to represent yourself with the title you were given.
It's interesting the different experiences people have.
I've found LLBG to be downright pleasant. I get there at most 90 minutes prior to an international flight, breeze through security in about 15-30 minutes depending on queues and often have time to spare to get a coffee and browse through the duty free shops at my leisure.
Full disclosure: I am an Israeli citizen, but I've had this experience even prior to becoming a citizen, when I was only a US citizen.
Regarding your last sentence: May I ask whether you
a) speak Hebrew
b) are jewish?
Both seems to help a lot (got some friends from DE and the US that had less trouble than I did and .. well, that might make a difference).
I'd certainly even agree that I'd prefer the treatment in IL to any body scanner/groping experience "elsewhere", but I don't like the experience one bit and get singled out more or less every time.
I get this comment a lot. I agree that it makes sense to compare also local salaries to see which city is the cheapest one to live in as an employee.
However, Expatistan is not about finding cheap cities to work in. It's about comparing cost-of-living, independently of your income. Expats are usually not linked to average local salaries in any meaningful way, anyway.
While actual salary might not be interesting, how much taxes will affect your gross income is. Tax rules are often very convulted. If you collected gross salary and received salary after taxes numbers, that'd be a great resource. I've moved abroad and all you get usually is vague statements about tax pressure (ie. asking a range of people you get wildly different answers). Often this is related to your income level in non-obvious ways as well. A table for each city with mapping from gross income -> income after tax would be very helpful.
True, and another key component, which will become even more important once median incomes are taken into account, is public services.
For instance Paris is described to be about as expansive as San Francisco. But in Paris, you have your kids' school and your health insurance for free (well, included into your taxes). Plus, if you studied there, you don't have a student loan to pay back.
> wouldn't make sense unless they also included taxes.
Or simply give salaries net of taxes. In many countries, a large chunk of the taxes are paid by enterprises, and never appear on your salary sheets, although they're part of your compensation package (they're paid by your employer, because he has to in order to legally hire your workforce, and they serve to fund services you'll benefit from).
I don't think it's possible to meaningfully take salaries into account unless they also have a database with salaries for each profession. In my opinion, it's much better to leave that adjustment to the user.
E.g. if you compare median salaries in San Francisco and Tokyo, you might get similar numbers. But if you're an ESL teacher, you might get paid quite a bit more in Tokyo, whereas if you're a software engineer you'll get paid a lot more in SF.
I don't think salary is necessary at all for this data to be useful. In fact, I think accurately portraying salary differences in different regions is a far harder problem than accurately portraying general COL differences.
In particular, this data can be immensely useful if you live in X with a known salary and you have an offer for a different salary in Y, and you're wondering how it'll stack up. This will answer that question for you.
I agree that median salaries data would be nice to have, but I believe that a lot of people have use-case in the lines of "I consider moving from city A to city B. In city A my earnings are XYZ. How much would I have to earn in city B to maintain same quality of life?"
Every time you talk about "Yo" an angel loses its wings or a kitten dies or... whatever.
If you stop talking about it, it will just fade into obscurity like Doogie Howser - only to appear years later as a successful, charming actor that can --- wait, where was this going?
Right. Stop talking about it and it'll go away. Don't be bitter about Yo; there's no point in it. Just let it go. Keep calm and carry on.
Whilst we were in lockdown the first time, I wrote a small Logo interpreter for my son with almost exactly the same commands: https://freememory.github.io/azlogo/ (https://github.com/freememory/azlogo)
My code isn't nearly as elegant, not at all animated, and my parsing is awful but I had a lot of fun doing it.
There's something magical about Logo, and even now as an adult of almost 40 I continue to enjoy playing with it and making pretty line graphics.