It's not punishing, IMO. My daughter's school has a complete ban on cellphones during school hours and it's rigidly enforced and everyone (parents, teaches, even my daughter) agrees it's a big win.
How are kids being punished by being phone-free during the active school day? They have all the rest of the time to do whatever, but when at school they need to be paying attention and/or socializing with real-world-humans; that's what school is for.

It's pretty great; even my daughter agrees it's a good thing.

Kids now obvs do all have phones, but (in my daughter's public school in SF) they absolutely cannot use them during school hours at all, or they are confiscated.

Parents are clearly told "if you *must* contact your kid, ring the school office and ask them to pass on a note" - this obviously sounds archaic but in practice almost nothing is "that important" so kids do indeed get to go about their school day from start to finish without touching their phones.

Once the final bell rings, sure, all the phones come out, for all the usual purposes from social media to txt'ing parents arranging pickup, but the school day is sacrosanct. It works really well.

169 euro for a $4.99 seeed esp32 module on a PCB. I don't disagree with the pricing (they won't sell zillions, it's a pro tool, and I appreciate whatever work it took to put together) but they're not giving it away...

good luck with doing anything successfully and some fuck not crawling out from under the bridge waving a piece of paper claiming they invented electricity

Essentially all modern console games "have a PC version", it's just whether it gets released or not. Everyone develops on PCs for obvious reasons.

C'mon MySpace, grow a pair!

"His death was due to medical complications from an accident in the lab, after dropping a monitor on his foot."
No joke!

That is an obscure and tragic way to go. RIP

https://oltnews.com/friends-remember-microsoft-renegade-eric-engstrom-who-suggested-a-directx-console-venturebeat

What's so comedic about seeing "TRUMP 2020" is that we're living right now with fucking TRUMP 2019 and it's the greatest shitshow since pooping was invented.

News just in: World's richest businessman created popular business.

main reason I use it is b/c it gets the whole family YT without the ads (as a side-perk), which I value very much b/c my 8-yr old is a YT fiend on her ipad and I prefer her un-brainwashed by commercials.
Off topic but...
Her personal choice (I monitor her YT history) is to watch endless home-made vids created by other 8-12 year olds, which - while occasionally annoying to overhear - are harmless kid silliness and much richer creatively than the hours of garbage-grade mass produced kid cartoons my generation watched on broadcast TV.
At one point I put netflix on her ipad and took it off two days later b/c she started binge-watching entire series of crap (sound familiar? ;-) - on YT that doesn't happen b/c - like anyone - she can't resist the random links and ends up watching quite a variety of stuff.
The "Annoying Orange" channel tho. Damn. Aptly named. That's fine tho; kids are meant to like some things that irritate their parents. ;-)

Why sink it? That shit sounds expensive. The only thing you're after here is free cooling; why can't it be on the shoreline, or say 50ft offshore? Stick it in a concrete bunker if you like; run a water pump or arrange for natural sea currents to do the work. It's good enough for nuclear power stations.
This sounds like a toy project.

When did FB announce purchase Oculus? End of March 2014. It's now just turned April 2017.
Three years pretty much on the nail. The nearly-exact number of elapsed years very likely isn't a coincidence; one can guess that there was a financially-related three-year clause in his contract. He probably wanted out and this was the most lucrative time to leave.

"...man, you guys must have some serious technical debt"

I built a startup's entire stack on PHP back in the 2003-2006 time, now I look back and SMH at the foolishness. If you want a quick'n'weakly-typed language (which I often do), Python beats the crap out of PHP, as well as being ten times more readable.

You're both right. I do servers and embedded systems (yes, I know, opposite ends of the spectrum; makes life interesting) as a contractor (in SF bay area) and it's great, however I'm aware that's because (a) live here where there's a ton of tech jobs, also salaries are high which means you can charge even more as a contractor, and (b) I have a diverse set of billable skills which a lot of companies round here find some use for. Works well for me, and yes, I think job security is a bit of an illusion anyway.

However - much respec' to Chip Design dude; that's a real career-long skill to build up; clearly very interesting and - to a limited number of employers - a highly valued skill. You clearly need to specialize to excel at that job, and I bet experience counts for a whole hell of a lot when each mask set costs millions. I have friends in biotech who are equally highly specialized and they have had similar issues with limited range of job options.

Yay geekin'

I know you're joking but (as a huge convert to Python) the whitespace thing seems crazy/annoying for about 20 minutes, then you get used to it, and after a week or two (especially when reading other people's code) you realize how great it is. Consistent formatting is a huge win for productivity, I now love it.