Googlers still have to use the terrible python dsl (“mash”). Even worse: they have to use it wrapped in a different terrible python dsl (“gmon”). Sigh.

I was mostly using th new notation when I left in 2018.

windows and apple tend to keep terribly inconsistent time, though, and windows time goes nutso at leap smears.

Do you have a citation for this? I've been monitoring NTP servers for years and Apple's are among the closest to my GPS reference.

It is much better. iOS and Windows Phone are actively antagonistic to user freedom. Android is just potentially threatening.

So Google refused to hire Apple employees, but presumably didn't refuse to hire Microsoft employees. What a bad move for their culture.

Well, it will solve the problem of supporting Microsoft, a known bad actor.

Plex Media Center.

I grabbed an app called "Avia" which will do streaming of local-to-the-device content. Chromecast support is a $3 in-app (i.e. per-device, not per-account) purchase once you download the app, which is itself free.

It works. Note that the chromecast has very limited codec/container support, so lots of my library has to be transcoded.

Does it/can it work headless? It would be great if it had a nice interface on the phone and could send my NAS content to the Chromecast.

It has no "head" to begin with, so yes it works headless.

NOTE: Requires MONTHLY FEE to enable streaming to ChromeCast

You only have to be a paid Plex supporter for early access. This will be a free feature soon.

Plexpass is only $29.99 a year or $74.99 lifetime.

Personally I think everyone using Plex on a daily basis should be a paying member and support future development.

Or a one time $75 payment.

> Seems to me to be very lynch mob-ish.

Really? You are comparing calling your elected representatives to a lynch mob? wtf?

Why people think California is awesome (other than the weather) is a mystery.

Having just gotten back to the UK after my first trip to SF I can see why people like it - it's got a great buzz, and the culture is varied and attractive.

My biggest concern - though it might just be because I was downtown, or that I've not spent much time in US cities - was the large number of homeless. Maybe the Googles and SalesForces in the area could help those guys out?

I just got back to the UK after my first trip to SF and was disconcerted at the lack of culture shock. Evidently I moved into a J. G. Ballard short story some time ago.

I love the food and the the fact that the Bay Area has a high concentration of brilliant minds in a very small area. Attending Meetups and talks from some of the leading thinkers in technology has been something that isn't as accessible elsewhere.

edit: Rent prices are crazy though.

PHP is not well done. Even its creator agrees.

They stole a few domains from me years ago, as well. They simply transferred them to someone else, rather than me. What a bunch of jackasses.

Maybe this is the sort of fee that would have prevented that transfer. Kind of - "gee that's a nice store you have here, pity if something happened to it".