Regardless of the questions stated, thank you for mentioning Starlabs Systems, @mateuszf. I’ll be looking for an Intel-ME-free laptop during my next purchase and I had no idea about that particular project.
I'm trying to use curl the mentioned way via Windows' WSL. It only partially works - the summary is correct, but the compound values are all zeros. Ideas why?
I strongly recommend reading "Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns" by Vladimir Khorikov.
That's going to answer your question and will unveil a whole world of testing without mocking (not that it's better or worse than with mocks). It might be a single best book about unit testing in general.
I'm speechless, @OP.
It ceases to amaze me that people who aren't in a position to generate value for others often generate more of thereof than a regular, healthy individual. I'd like this world to be inhabited with more people like you. I know myself how it's like to live with a deliberating illness, so let me just say that I'll be praying for your recovery (and if that's not possible at least less pain and a better "reinstatiation" prospects in the future if a reincarnation is a thing).
It seems that I'm going to make it regarding my health challenges, so I promise to make a good use of the Linux skills that your course is going to help me to systematize. Thank you.
I'd not get into tech without what have happened to me. Being forced to be on a "lock-down" for 2,5 years I got myself step by step into an amazing world of technology which with my skills getting more polished made me feel I might be actually able to transcendent my body's limitation. I can only hope that something similar could still happen to you regardless of the discipline involved (I know that there's probably nothing worse than not being able fully commit to one's life).
Ha, ha, my original goal was to make a tidy pile of $$, but also a desire to teach and share. The feedback I get is certainly bouying me up as I go forward toward that big unknown. Thanks for your thoughts.
I've plugged my laptop to my Corp WiFi, Brave browser was running a tor client process, I got approached by Ciso within 3 minutes asking to stop torring or get off the network immediately.
What works for me: it's not a problem with tools, but with tactics of communication. Make one person from every company you work with responsible with keeping you in the loop (that doesn't mean to CC you on every mail) and answering your calls when you have doubts; only those two things - not asking for much, right? Make wrap-ups often. Don't read Slack BS, jizz. It's neither pleasant nor valuable. One can spend an entire life in an endless loop of "communication". Slack isn't communication. Real comms has to do with: agreements, negotiation, partnerships (even if temporary ones), taking responsibility. That last one might be the most important one.
And don't attend meetings that aren't absolutely mandatory for you.
Make someone else from the companies you work with to mark your progress on their internal systems however they like to use them, purely based on your to-the-point (calls, mails) communication.
With that approach you can take 5 more customers ;) All of the above sounds kinda crazy, but it's been tested in the battlefield for more than 10 years. Being as pissed as you are, @Op, is the best time to make those changes. Howk!
PS: If someone from you costomers' side isn't OK with that approach - fire the bullshitter. Take one that is going to comply. World is full of morons doing mostly virtue signaling, endless meetings, etc, instead of getting to the point.
Sometimes it's just harder to appreciate and enjoy freedom we've generated for ourselves than actually to make all that work leading to that freedom.
It's a self-resolving paradox though. Later in life we're wiser, and most of us can better understand our life thru complex layers of abstract models. Like how good are we with diminishing risks and what kind of and how many options we can generate for ourselves. Life is good after that. You trust yourself, you have control. For now just enjoy the ride!
This. Being prepared and thinking clearly is the cornerstone of being able to practice indifference to fate.
I'm also in a good shape thanks to that philosophy, and moreover - thanks to a life I've managed to generate for myself. One can't work without the other.
And I'm not a kind of lucky and happy-face hipster taking success in life for granted. Life has been throwing enormous problems at me. I have no idea what I would do without a proper philosophical backbone in order to deal with that.
The most basic definition of stoicism is "indifference to fate". In that scope Taleb definitely is a stoic. His approach toward stoicism, though, is less philosophy focused and more (that's kind of unique) targeted toward statistics. Ancient stoics don't write about their philosophy in such a way, but the logic remains similar. The whole concept of antifragility Taleb has promoted is pure "opportunistic" stoicism. Taleb is like a Seneca the Younger, minus some charm ;)
Regarding his online presence, anyone knowing his works also knows that he's using Twitter purely to mess with people. He stated that many times in his Incerto series.
Sometimes it's easy to forget what is the actual core of a given philosophy / enterprise / etc. Hence my whole comment. It's worthwhile to know, I think, that stoicism has a very important component comprised of pure logic, which Taleb seems to be hyped about (not without a reason).
I wouldn't call Taleb a member of the top-3 stoics though. He's balancing on the verge of being an outcast rather than hanging out with mainstream stoic crowds.
He reminds me of Ayn Rand hating on government handouts while taking them. He promotes stoicism while practicing the opposite.
You can say he’s promoting “logical stoicism” just like Ayn Rand fans can say that “it’s okay to be ideologically against handouts while taking them,” but we both know deep down that these people aren’t practicing what they preach.
I like Taleb a lot but it took me a little while to understand that he was writing an idealized version of himself and his philosophy that is frankly fictional but still has great value.
That's true. OF is the king of all GTD task management systems and have been since always. It's the only thing I miss after abandoning Apple ecosystem years ago. People who don't do GTD religiously (and believe me - for them the GTD management system IS far more important than anything else in their toolbox) and other similar methodologies tend to have no idea what kind of difference a good system like OF makes. The guys behind the product nailed it and even now, as far as I know, no one was able to replicate their success.
I'd be in heaven if the company behind it - the OmniGroup - would be willing to: 1) Develop native or semi-native apps for multiple OSes + a web app; 2) Cut down their pricing a little bit. A similar strategy got Evernote a lot of users (although they still don't have a native Linux app) - I mean cross-platform and the fact that they offer reasonable discounts to their loyal customers.
It's also a fact that there's a lot people grounded in Apple's ecosystem purely because their dependence on OF (some even write about that here in this thread). I'm sorry for you guys. Really. Leaving OF was probably the hardest technological decision I've ever made, and even now - years later - I feel a thrilling fear remembering how I was struggling with myself about that, but I really can't afford being into a vendor lock-in with Apple or anyone else for that matter, whether it's in enterprise or my private life. That's dangerous and must have consequences in the future regardless of your current views regarding what Apple does (take a look on how many Fortune 500 companies went off that index during a typical lifespan - Apple isn't eternal too).
But somehow MacOS is a very important thing in OmniGroup. Their choice... But I miss you guys and I hope you'll mature to a similar decision I made - that Apple isn't "the one" and life has a lot more to offer ;) We could be friends again. I'm sure there are many others like me...
PS: People recommending some simple task management systems they use have no idea what they are talking about trying to compare it with something like OF... It's like comparing Windows' Notepad to Vim. Yes, they both are text editors, but the latter one is kind of "on-steroids" to the point where it makes no sense to even compare them.
There is a web version now but it's still missing basic functionalities, let alone the more advanced ones.
I have been using the web version on Linux box for almost half a year (because I don't own a Mac right now) and found it to be acceptable _only_ as a companion to iPad or iPhone version. It's not usable standalone at all (for example, you cannot create recurring tasks, or even move a project into a folder, or even _create_ a project in a folder). I hope they improve the web version, but the development doesn't seems very active[1]
That said, I've tried everything else, including Todoist and even org-mode, but found myself come back to OmniFocus in the end since I found Perspective to be essential to my workflow (even though web version doesn't support Perspective at all, at least I can use it on my iPad). Org probably come closest to fully replacing OmniFocus, but syncing between a Linux box and iOS devices has been... not fun.
I feel you, man. Thanks for the info about the web version, BTW. For my taste even the mobile versions of OF aren't a real thing and are acceptable only on-the-go, even the iPad one isn't rich enough. But the desktop app for OSX... That's a beast (the one I can't have, since I don't use Macs anymore).
Plus I see that the web version has no persistent offline storage / mode. That isn't going to work for me. So, not only lack of features might be a problem.
OmniFocus for iPad has improved a lot to the point I don't feel I'm missing too many features from the Mac version (though there are still some awkward parts in the UI, e.g. moving/creating folders and projects) and even has support for Omni Automation Plugins now, in addition to Shortcuts support.
Web version sadly has no persistent offline storage as you said. It's also veeerrrrryyy slow since every click requires a roundtrip to a server that made slightly acceptable thanks to WebSockets (I don't live in the U.S. where their servers seems to be located). I'm connected most of the time so offline storage is not that much of a concern for me. I wish Omni Group put more effort into it though, given they charge $50 a year on top of a standalone app, which is way more expensive than Todoist. :(
