Next, I read Andrew's post, and the thing I see is: Jarred looks like an achiever, Andrew more like a butthurt childish whiner I also can see why Jarred made the migration, it is not only technical, and it was a great call IMHO

and btw, if it can write code, it can write tests and test suite

Ai has come a long way, 2 years ago, this task would be impossible ! 1 year ago, it would hit a dead-end in the first hours of the execution

This blog post is nothing short of an amazing and fascinating tale, yet in some aspect very very scary ...

It needs a launcher (aka native host client) to start the 3rd party app, in this case mpv with the correct arguments.

The launcher is technically only started (then immediatly terminates) when you trigger the openwith action, so no memory/cpu overhead.

The official openwith solution is a python script (requires python), for windows there is a native and lightweight launcher: owclauncher

With this setup, you can launch any action with a simple right click: play in mpv, play in low resolution in mpv, download video/audio with youtube-dl, play in 2nd screen ...

-sideload apps that cant get to the app store, not just for piracy,example :file manager, adblocker, firewall ...

Sure its doable without a jailbreak, but its restricted and require paying apple a yearly $100 developer fee

And some few extra cydia tweaks can be really usefull

I think its a shame that the linux desktop software is so fragmented.

Sometime, I fantasize about a parallel world, with a parallel linux trovalds working solely and maintaining THE linux desktop manager

Coming from windows, xfce felt the most natural for me.

I also considered implementing the feature, but it was out of my skill set(probably doable with enough effort and time).

I see it as very basic feature for a modern desktop/window manager.

I tried setting up other window managers in xfce, and come to the conclusion it is not straightfoward, and the integration with the rest of the system is not perfect.

Also it was a feeling of imperfection that pushed me back (I am sure you can setup the linux desktop for your liking if you tried enough)

But, there was this 1 simple thing that made me lose faith in the linux desktop:

For xfce's default folder viewer: Thunar, there was no possibility to adjust a per-folder view settings. At first I did not beleive it, but there were multiple discussion complaining about the same issue, including a 12-years old bug report(https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521 )

For a desktop manager endorsed by major distrubitions, I find this to be mind blowing and enraging.

It gave me the feeling that linux desktop is an un-finisehd, unpolished, hacky piece of software

I've been using a combination of firefox/chrome with youtube-dl/mpv+youtube-dl for a while

This comes very handy for playing high quality youtube videos on low end machines or downloading audio+/-video directly from youtube.

On the pre-webextension era of firefox/chrome , "open with" addon was the perfect fit.

Now, a special native messaging app needs to be installed to launch mpv/youtube-dl

"Open with" addon solved this by a python script (that obviously required installing python, and few other steps)

I decided to create a new tool to make this step easier and faster on windows: owclauncher[1]

Basically a lightweight native messaging host for "open with" addon: it is not running on the background, and only started (and immediatly terminated) by the browser when passing a command to any other program

You can check and compile the source code or the .bat windows installer/uninstaller

[1] https://github.com/mbooga/owclauncher

Comparing to Venezuela on the other hand is ... an overstretch at best.

Being an old RAC then vWorker freelancer, I totally share weland's view.

Lately, I restarted on freelancer.com, and the amount of WTF moments that I faced are quite substantial. Let me give you a summary (and why I decided to move to elance):

-- The worker being constantly extorted in every corner of the site:

-Pay $5 in order to take a test.

-Pay more $ to get your bid in the first row/highlighted

-Pay some $ to unlock more BidsPerMonth and Skills

-Pay upfront 10% of every job you are awarded, even if the employer is determined to scam you and never pay

-What about a constant Ad to remind you that you can always choose to pay more. ...

-- Milestone payment is not defaulted, if the employer didnt made a milestone payment, we couldn't care less, we wont give you back the initial 10% fee (even if both agree to cancel), and you'll have a permanent "Work in Progress" job in your profile (until you decide to constantly harass the support team and wait few weeks)

--The website is a hassle:

- Everything is dynamically processed, slow loading, excessively simplified, and most pages cant be bookmarked

- Forced facebook-like communication!! seriously!!

- Using game mechanism to motivate workers is interesting(levels, badges, XP points ...), but most of it is actually useless/funny (Exp: 78000 credit point to have a 20min call with the CEO)

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Anybody who started late, and still like it?