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Years ago, when I was only 50, I bought a high back chair to the office so I can lay back and have a snooze after lunch. I like my power nap although the young whipper snappers are starting to call it my nanna nap.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I take a nap at the desk absolutely ignoring what other might think or say. Days when I come by car, I go to car and sleep. Generally it takes 10-15 minutes of nap to get active again.
There is anyways no point in me being sleepy and trying to be awake as I will anyways not be able to accomplish anything. I find it wrong to make body work when it is already signalling it needs rest to recover.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I have a room where I go to sleep when I need too. It's out of the way and so far I have not been noticed.
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Best advice I've heard for that moment you boss catches you napping is to raise your head and say "Amen"
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I have a little tape loop in my head recording sounds. If someone wakes me, I just refer to the loop for the last couple of minutes of sound and answer appropriately. I did this as a student during classes and apparently foiled instructors who were trying to catch me.
What gives me away is apparently some swelling around my eyes.
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I sleep for 8-10 minutes. That's usually enough to cure the zombiefication. If I sleep 20, when I wake it is disappointing to find that I am at work.
Before my thyroid issue got fixed I would get profoundly tired mid-day. Once, I fell asleep at the keyboard and awoke to find my finger on r. I had pages of the letter r in my documentation.
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honestly. I go to my car and take a short 15 minute nap. Or perhaps a short walk.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Is everyone ignoring studies that say a few minutes of sleep makes the rest of the day more productive, rather than trying to prop up one's eyelids and engage brain cells that don't want to cooperate? IBM gave us a few minutes twice a day for a break. I assume that rule is generally followed in most large, benevolent organizations.
So I can sleep while remaining upright with my hands on the keyboard, and it sometimes happens while I actually have code on the screen. Just make sure that you have the screen saver off, otherwise people will see you staring at a black screen and realize what's going on. I am well over 50, but did this even in my 20's, especially after a late night of dancing. Now, it's just a night of wishing I could fall back to sleep after going to the bathroom.
My boss suggested that I should go to my car for a quick nap, although the one time I tried it, some coworkers were taking a walk around the building, noticed me in the car and knocked on the window to make sure I was alright.
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Eat something every 2 hours (i.e. instead of "meals") and you'll be more "even" all day long.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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With bare-OS I mean the step, that Google is currently doing with ChromeOS.
You know, ChromeOS is capable of running Android Apps directly on the desktop, the current version even allows launching of Linux applications and the latest check-ins show signs of a cooperation, that ChromeOS might be capable of running native Windows-Applications in the future!
To look at this with abstract glasses, this means:
They seperated the "OS" layer from the "application" layer. The OS itself does nothing more than make the hardware work, but the apps you start, all run in their shells/vms/whatever, making the OS independant of the target platform of the running app.
If they make this step to the end, we could have Clash of clans running on the right monitor, while we ctrl-C/ctrl-V from google sheets to microsoft excel on the left monitor. In Background the linux version of Android Studio is running and waiting for my attention.
What do you think of such a step... Make an independant OS, that "runs everything"?
For me, personally, if the vulcan runtime is fully supported, and as soon as steam and battle.net work on ChromeOS, windows is history for me...
I don't mind much, whether I run the windows or the linux version of Android Studio, but "running" my App on ChromeOS "natively", as if I would press F5 in Visual Studio to start my windows app... sounds sweeeeeeeeet 
Share your thoughts!
Cheers Mike
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Googles recent thing with Android Apps running on Chrome O/S, also the lack of any new Tablets on the market. Makes me think the Android Tablet is coming to an end... 
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I like that. DOS was that way. And we had a lot of fun with it.
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The days of wine and roses! The computer was mine right down to its very soul. (+)
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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And manuals of paper that had That smell...
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ChromeOS not rally goes with a separation-of-concerns ides... It simply contains the new Android Runtime (that replaces Java and Dalvik)...
And even so there are lot of problems of how hardware (missing hardware it is) should be handled...
Even you were able to manage to create an auto-loader, that automatically identifies the requested platform and loads the application inside a container with that platform, you still have the problem of the in-platform dependency...
What I'm saying, is that is nice dream, but while wrapping the OS is possible, it is far from being enough...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Damn - I Just thought you miss-spelled that and meant "bare A . . ."
Never mind. I'm disappointed enough as it is.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yeah. Bummer. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Mike Barthold wrote: With bare-OS I mean the step, that Google is currently doing with ChromeOS.
You know, ChromeOS is capable of running Android Apps directly on the desktop, the current version even allows launching of Linux applications and the latest check-ins show signs of a cooperation, that ChromeOS might be capable of running native Windows-Applications in the future!
Does ChromeOS run Android apps any better than Android itself can on an Android device?
Over the years I've owned 5 Android tablets, ranging from 2.x to 6.x, and I've always kept them all relatively clean (I'm rather selective about what I download from Google Play). Despite this, the experience is always the same (across all devices) and ends up with apps that freeze for minutes at a time, randomly shut down with no warning, or (somehow) manage to reboot the whole device. Android to me feels like it's Windows 3.1 all over again, in terms of stability.
Add to that the fact that only one of my 5 tablets has ever had an OS update (4.3 to 4.4) - the devices become abandonware so quickly it's ridiculous, and until the situation changes, I just refuse to spend more money on anything running that platform. With Windows pretty much out of the picture, what's an Apple hater to do?
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Well, actually on ChromeOS they only "look like an android app" so much...
You have everything, from resizeable windows, multiple apps open side-by-side... Ctrl-C Ctrl-V like in normal windows... even from a browser tab into an android app and vice-versa.
not to mention a desktop-sized screen, physical keyboard, mouse/touchpad (or a touchscreen // depends on your chromebook model).
AND you can get 3 or 4 chromebooks to the price of one single windows-notebook.
No backup problems, all is in the cloud... hard to stop naming the benefits... they are too many.
Oh, and zero setup/installation!
New Chromebook, start it up, log in with your google account and go!
Your bookmarks, settings, addons, extensions, apps... everything gets replicated.
Yes, if you ask me that way, chrome OS launches android apps better than android itself.
And you don't have the "abandonware" problem, as the runtime is updated from google - say, currently my chromebook runs 8.1 and if I want, I can run Android P on my chromebook.
So yes, ChromeOS will have even more of a big future than it already has. Even when Fuchsia gets added to the mix.
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I don't need to be sold on the idea behind ChromeOS.
I need to be convinced ChromeOS isn't as flakey as Android. Like one bad app taking down the whole OS randomly.
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I don't know whether I can convince you there 
For my personal taste, I like it more to work with ChromeOS than I do with windows, but that depends on the tasks I am up to.
Gaming, of course, is still a thing for windows (big games like WoW and Steam stuff).
But when I am only up to some casual Android gaming, ... yes I'd rather boot up the chromebook than to grab my phone/tablet.
I never experienced anything of what you wrote here - but my hardware is always quite up-to-date (have only A8 devices that are not older than 12-15 months and I change them every 1-2 years - so I never had that abandonware effect too).
Some of the older devices I keep for development to support old hardware too (at least smoke test on those devices but honestly, they are not in my focus. If the app runs, ok, if not, even more ok).
Even in the company we stopped supporting anything below API 21 (= Android 5.0) and very likely we will climb up to a minimum version of 6 for Android by the end of the year. 95% of our customers have 6+ anyways. even android 6 is on a very low percentage meanwhile, so by end of 2019 it will be likely that we set up minimum android 7 for our apps.
We are going more the apple way with the OS version, means... The most recent version plus a maximum of two versions back is supported. not more.
Even Samsung announced a stock android device, finally they stop their silly stupid f**** android customizations with crappy launchers and forced bloatware. Nokia made everything right so far, and I really hope, many will follow, so we can look at an android market that is more streamlined with lesser excessive customizations where we app developers find ourselves in the coders hell.
And this is what chromeOS does, too. You are online with your google account on a stock device. perfect setup.
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Mike Barthold wrote: my hardware is always quite up-to-date (have only A8 devices that are not older than 12-15 months and I change them every 1-2 years - so I never had that abandonware effect too).
Let me repeat (and perhaps clarify) my stance on abandonware: Buying an Android tablet, for me, has always left me feeling like it was already abandonware the moment I purchased the device, just like the old saying that driving a brand new car off the dealer's parking lot automatically makes it drop $1000 in value. The sale is done, they don't want to see you back.
The last one I bought ran 6.0, when 6.x was still pretty new. It's never got any OS update (apps--sure, it seems every time I turn it on, it's got to catch up with dozens of updated apps). Which means that OS-level vulnerabilities still exist. I wouldn't ever do anything important on an Android device for that reason or even link it to important information (like a Google account - which ironically means that ChromeOS, to me, would become a liability rather than an asset as ChromeOS is intrinsically linked to it). I have tablets from Dell, two from Acer, and the other two are so old I don't even remember. They're sitting in a pile somewhere.
After owning 5 such tablets, I certainly don't have the...lets call it..."enthusiasm?"...for Android that some of its more rabid fans have. I'm done spending a few hundred bucks every year or two, and moreso if that's what manufacturers expect me to do. As an end user, I'm not sure how Android 8.x is any different than 6.x or 4.x, but I can't justify the money - and I'm a gadget guy. But, I'm a gadget guy who's stopped drinking the Kool-Aid. If the reason to upgrade is simply "this is what app developers are now targeting", I, as a user, don't see any incentive in that justification. All I see is less and less apps that work on my devices. Honestly, what functionality is in those apps that couldn't have been implemented with an earlier version?
Mike Barthold wrote: 95% of our customers have 6+ anyways.
Self-selection? It only makes sense you don't have any 4.x users if you don't support it.
The graph here, which covers 2013 to 2018, shows that, for the longest time, and only until recently, 4.x represented the largest portion of the market by a fair margin. Even 5.x has never reached 4.x's peak numbers, and 6.x is already on the decline. What this tells me is that the market is badly saturated and fragmented, and the version upgrade pace is increasing, which means older versions are only going to get abandoned even more quickly. I'm not playing that game. I've spent thousands on computers over the decades, but at least here I can wipe them and install a brand new OS to give them a bit of a new life. Why can't I do the same with a tablet sold by manufacturers who aren't interested in supporting their hardware?
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I know the spread of the android versions. Our company's app is a business app (paid monthly) and it's a mainly managers who use them. those ppl normally have highend phones and it's very natural that they have "always the latest model".
Our customer base is not representative to the normal worldwide spread of phones/models.
But anyway, it seems we are totally different kind of users, as you say you don't want to link to a google account... I **live** in the cloud, I have no local data anymore, not even source codes (except while writing them of course, but they are all saved in cloud repositorys - not github)
Basically it comes down to: do you trust your cloud provider or not?
But every time when I see friends having trouble with another defect hard drive and tears about lost holiday photos and all that stuff... manman... it could be so simple.
modified 27-Jun-18 1:49am.
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