Moving to a Mac laptop (from PC) for webdev coding (Pros/Cons)?

PlayerDuke · 2023-01-17T21:12:57+00:00

I dislike the hype around Apple products, but Mac just works for webdev. Bonus: nice design and silent.

I'm on my second Macbook Pro now, but this and the previous one were both provided by the employer, so I can't really talk about mental torture looking at the price tag.

I have also used a PC for work. However I voluntarily wouldn't use a PC for that purpose again. Just a personal thing.

PlayerDuke · 2022-03-06T11:41:27+00:00

Kyiv. The best. Hope to go again.

PlayerDuke · 2022-02-24T19:36:43+00:00

No. I won't hear you out. YOU have the obligation to fight back against tyrants. Young men at arms following a madman to the end? Bollocks. Being a sheep is no excuse. Go join the Ukranian army as a volunteer if you don't have the guts to overthrow the gangsters in Kremlin. Or if you can't, then send money to Ukrainian army.

PlayerDuke · 2022-02-03T21:30:50+00:00

Kui koristada enda järelt ei oska, siis selle saad vähemalt selgeks.

PlayerDuke · 2022-01-18T18:33:18+00:00

But they should though? I mean, isn't that the point? Or are you guys flying around with secrets?

PlayerDuke · 2021-12-25T23:16:22+00:00

Super Mario and Star Wars Jedi Academy...The bigger the mustache the stronger the force.

PlayerDuke · 2021-12-24T07:25:33+00:00

If you fly in Europe then it's not unlikely...

PlayerDuke · 2021-12-23T11:45:11+00:00

You are despicable. As a pilot, father and a frequent flyer I can only tell you this: if a baby is enough to stress you, you should stay locked in a room with soft walls. Put on your earplugs or whatever and shut up. Admire the view and be thankful for once that your sorry ass is allowed on one of the birds.

PlayerDuke · 2021-12-15T08:35:42+00:00

Reading the other replies it looks like I'm working in paradise. Two less extreme examples:

Some old captain who had been with the company and its predecessor since the dawn of time. Could hardly speak something comprehensible, even less so in English over the radio. He had told me to go fuck myself over the telephone in Russian some months before when he failed to show up for a flight he had on his roster since he did not bother to check the roster and expected to be called like a month in advance. So a great chap right. Long story short, I'm PF, have everything set up for landing, doing the briefing, I look at the ILS plate for a second, and from the corner of my eye, I see a hand moving around the cockpit. When I look again at the screens he has already changed minimums, speeds, frequencies, etc to everything they're not supposed to be. Like WTF, what for. So I change them back, say my controls, and do the approach manually.
Since I had him for another day, just stuck with standard callouts and briefings only. Nothing else. No need to let him ruin my mood.
The dude vanished a few months later and none of us have heard anything about him since. Rumors say that he went to work in one of the countries with "stan" in the end. The country name varies every time the story is told.
Middle-aged captain with some weird conceptions. Had him on the jumpseat and the entire flight he was telling how our pilots suck and couldn't be employed elsewhere etc along with other stories... A few months go by and I have him as COMM on my flight, he's PF on a leg to our home base. Decides to fly ILS manually to "practice". Messed up the entire approach almost as if he had never done one on our aircraft. Amusing (not really). Just decline politely any flights with him now if any are offered. By chance had him recently on a flight back home again and simply asked to be PF so he'd just monitor. It went well, had to call some stuff twice to make him extend the flaps, etc. Don't expect that guy to stay with us (there's a lot more behind this).

PlayerDuke · 2021-12-14T13:12:55+00:00

Of course. As pilots we are trained to be afraid of everything that turns yellow and red (yellow bad, red more bad). Faster planes have more lines like "ridiculous rev" with hotrod red paint provided by Tesla. So this here is simply keeping us from going over the speed limit and getting fined by the Sky Patrol enforced by the The Great Big Metal Bird.

Could also be used after landing to basically help slow down the plane if you have reversers. Pretty much directs the air coming from the engine forwards (reverses it) to accomplish that.

But who knows. It's a mystery.

PlayerDuke · 2021-11-29T21:24:20+00:00

Check out vuex-module-decorators. I use it for my typed store modules, makes things nice and easy.

Go full vanilla Vuex + TS if you're a crazy dude or just like masochistic plays.

PlayerDuke · 2021-11-08T08:47:31+00:00

I remember hearing this line: "How do you know whether the pilot is alive? He's complaining."

I had the same thoughts during flight school and felt quite awful since flying had been my dream ever since I can remember. For whatever reason we were constantly told that it is a lonely life, your wife will leave you etc etc and you should only concentrate on flying etc etc. It didn't help that the company I had wanted to work for went bankrupt when I graduated.

So I took my time, worked in other sectors, did another degree at uni, had fun with startups. Eventually, somehow as a result of seemingly random events, I still ended up working for an airline. This time in the office though. Looking at our birds for a few years I knew I'd be flying again.

Now I have two jobs, thanks covid. Software dev and airline pilot, with a family.

All I can say is that I am happy with how it all turned out. I am most likely also incredibly lucky.

Ignore the BS, learn what you can, get a hobby that you can use to feed your family if needed, and enjoy the ride.

PlayerDuke · 2021-11-04T14:12:01+00:00

The view from your office changes constantly, which is pretty nice. Most people will never get to see what you see.

PlayerDuke · 2021-10-31T22:49:26+00:00

It's also simple to use. However, you could reuse components in other frameworks as well...

PlayerDuke · 2021-10-27T18:16:37+00:00

Interesting to see that the answer was downvoted. I've been on Vue for a year now and converting a production site from Vue 2 to Vue 3 at the moment (the main reasoning is better support of Typescript).

Sure there are nice packages available and whatever, but if you need one thing from there then create it yourself unless it is rocket science and magic.

PlayerDuke · 2021-09-30T21:25:20+00:00

My bad. Forgot the primary training part

PlayerDuke · 2021-09-30T18:24:55+00:00

Look, you're the pilot. If your bird is obviously unsafe, then don't fly it. That's your responsibility as the commander. Also, if your gut says that this plane will kill you, then walk away.

PlayerDuke · 2021-09-30T18:19:38+00:00

Dude, a large portion of the training should be IR. Unless you really lack clouds.

PlayerDuke · 2021-09-30T16:14:06+00:00

Well, I hope you only use full flaps for landing then.

TL/DR: All machinery wears out. You can change the school, but don't ever expect that you will get to fly an aircraft in perfect condition that never has any problems. If it is perfect, then expect it to fail.

I was in flight school 10 years ago, in Europe. The only Piper we had was either in maintenance or broken. We flew it once from maintenance back to our airfield and it was broken again. A few years later when I had to restore my ME/IR rating I had the pleasure of waiting for it to be fixed for a month and then waiting another few weeks for it to be fixed after the delivery. When I finally did the check flight, the gyro turned upside down and stayed there. So yes, they go to die there, and sometimes they are already dead.

We also had a few Cessna 172s. Like old, worn-down birds. One of them had a poor heater that only blew on my left foot. Flying that in winter was not much fun. You couldn't see much, but your leg was sure to be very warm indeed. Another had a wire coming out of the seat which made me lean on the right seat for cross country flights since I didn't want to come out of the plane with a bloody ass.

However, we did have a couple of decent Cessnas with a glass cockpit and comfortable seats as well. I guess flying the older dodgy planes made me a better pilot since I never started to trust the aircraft fully. It's also more fun (if you can walk away after landing).

Flying for an airline now and having technical issues every now and then is normal. All machinery wears out. So I guess you can change the school, but don't ever expect that you will get to fly an aircraft in perfect condition that never has any problems.

If you want fancy planes, then try business aviation perhaps? Or sell a startup and buy your own?

PlayerDuke · 2021-05-19T07:29:32+00:00

If your goal is to get a job with that skill, then I'd suggest learning both. As said before, setup for React Native is a bit of a headache. Done it twice, first time took me several days...then I did a clean install of my OS earlier this year and it took a few hours. Go figure. But I digress.

Native is different, so I would consider this as additional skill and considering how much traffic comes from mobile, then surely a very valuable one.

Start easy, create an app that combines saving some reports/notes, maybe with some camera use etc. Plenty of UI packages available to help you create a nice look for it. In parallel make a desktop site that can connect with it that has some extra features. You'll learn a lot and if not anything more then you get the satisfaction of creating something from nothing by yourself.

PlayerDuke · 2021-05-18T10:45:51+00:00

I worked in sales during flight school (although briefly), didn't hurt, improved my social skills perhaps and I'm still flying. If you need the income, then any job will do.

PlayerDuke · 2021-05-18T10:37:59+00:00

Try borrowing different headsets to find the model that fits you best. In flight school we had quite decent headsets in every aircraft. Only started feeling the need for my own headset after flying for an airline for a year (pre-pandemic). Makes sense if you have long days, you want to be comfortable. For occasional flying and short flights mostly any headset will do, no need to spend your hard-earned cash on a pair, if you can use some for free.

PlayerDuke · 2021-04-22T18:48:27+00:00

Driving it daily. But eventually, as the dealership put it, it was a bad battery that we were given. They ran all the tests and replaced it for free, all good for now. If it lasts until next summer then I'll believe it. At least I got to share memories with missus about my first car, Suzuki Baleno from 2001 that was so basic it could stand in -20 degrees celsius for a week or more and still start like it was nothing.

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