@peemee I guess one could say so. Also, if the WiFi connection keep failing my quality screening, I need to think about using an alternative connection.
Today I had to fight with WiFi at the customer premises. The connection just seemed to pump up and down constantly. It turned out that the root cause for these problems was the external monitor the laptop was connected to. If I disconnected it, the connection was rock solid. I swapped the monitor with a colleague (who has used it before), let's see if the connection stays up for the whole day tomorrow.
@phoneboy A tool with limited capabilities, to be precise. Which makes the tools, as @larand so nicely called them, complain that it can't do everything what they want as fast as they want even though it eventually does it within the given limitations.
In the end, technology is just a tool. That doesn't prevent humans from attaching so much more meaning to it.
@streakmachine People like to complain how the web service APIs (read: iCloud) are difficult to get working, but based on what I have read once you get it right it just works™ perfectly. Google's offerings, on the other hand, seem to be easy to get working, but there are a lot things that need to be just right before they work as they should.
Apple doesn't get (online) services! Oh wait, did I say Apple, I meant Google…
Spent the afternoon banging my head against the keyboard just because 2 Google services can't talk to each other due to version mismatch. And I can't update the one that should be because it's running on an emulator and you simply can't do that. Why? Because Google reasons. #fuckthisshit
@kdfrawg Yes, but assuming that the number of external events going down just for the sake of San Jose not being San Francisco is just plain stupid in my opinion.
@thedan84 Also, this is the first time in my 5-yo developer career when I get to start a project from scratch. I have always dealt with existing code base, and in most cases with a big legacy app/system.
@thedan84 Bluetooth device and a C library that needs to be rebuilt with Android NDK to be used in the app. I find both tasks equally challenging and interesting.