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Chit-Chat: In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.

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Oryx said:
I have a mobile app on the app store that I'm working on adding payments too right now. A little nerve-wracking because I'm working with peoples' money, but in the end it will be nice to stick that on my resume.
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What's that app about? :D
 
I can't really say, because it's linked to a really small company in which I'm the only woman so it would make it easy to find who I am in real life and I don't want that to be the case.

To be vague though, it's a backend database that organizations can use to create a member list and organize it and a frontend app that members can use to find other members and a few other cool features. It's nice because it makes money through the organizations buying the backend databases for the most part, so I don't have to deal with microtransactions since I'm kind of...against them on principle.
 
Oryx said:
I can't really say, because it's linked to a really small company in which I'm the only woman so it would make it easy to find who I am in real life and I don't want that to be the case.

To be vague though, it's a backend database that organizations can use to create a member list and organize it and a frontend app that members can use to find other members and a few other cool features. It's nice because it makes money through the organizations buying the backend databases for the most part, so I don't have to deal with microtransactions since I'm kind of...against them on principle.
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I understand. You never know who might be stalking :p

I'm against microtransactions as well, especially in games. Turn F2P into P2W :(
 
In my opinion programming for mobile really doesn't compare to writing and compiling web applications or assembly for the desktop PC. Also I'm kind of bothered by how everything is rendered in some GUI and that a built-in command console is nowhere to be seen on Android or iOS. :(
 
It took me a while to realise this is the DCC thread, I thought for whatever reason it had been deleted lulz.

It's good to be back :3
 
More like the Technology DCC thread at the moment...
 
Ah. Fraid I know very, very little about technology D:

My parents seem to think i'm some sort of computer whizz for whatever reason (possibly the ungodly amount of hours I spend online?), they're constantly asking me how to do stuff.
 
I think parents are like that in thinking their kids are tch savvy just becatse we live in such a time where it's a rarity to see people without tablets and phones all the time
 
Snubbull said:
I think parents are like that in thinking their kids are tch savvy just becatse we live in such a time where it's a rarity to see people without tablets and phones all the time
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Well in their defense, a lot of theme didn't even grow up with Internet, so even the simple use of Microsoft Word is foreign to them. Our current generation (as in people born in the last ten years) have essentially grown up with the invention of the cell phone and the Internet so I think it's fair to say that they will have the upper hand on how to use these applications.

That being said, I don't like this. I think that people are becoming too attached to technology (i.e. their phones, computer, etc.) I'm guilty of it myself - it's unfortunate because I don't think a lot of people are living in the hear and now and rather are too preoccupied with their little gadgets to notice this.
 
Ah, I disagree - there are always tradeoffs with new technology, all the way back to the use of tools.

We'd be so much stronger if we just lifted everything ourselves instead of using cranes and pulleys.
We'd value our friendships so much more if the only way to contact them was to travel to where they are unannounced because no mail or phone.
We'd have so much more patience if we didn't have cars and had to take days to get anywhere we want to go.

Because this technology is new and in our faces, we can compare to how it was before and complain about how people are worse now, but in a few years people making those complaints are going to be the same as people complaining cars made us impatient or encyclopedias made us stupid.
 
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Because this technology is new and in our faces, we can compare to how it was before and complain about how people are worse now, but in a few years people making those complaints are going to be the same as people complaining cars made us impatient or encyclopedias made us stupid.
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Oh no, I'm not saying that this new form of technology is a bad thing. The introduction of all this wireless communication and advancing technology is excellent for society. Sorry if maybe I had misspoken. I'm just saying...I wish there was a better balance between everything you know? For example when people go on vacation, I know a lot of people care about capturing the moment and putting it on social media instead of being there in the moment (I've done that on numerous cases unfortunately.) I guess what I'm saying is there's a here and now for everything, and I think sometimes we don't completely understand that.

Team Fail said:
Although, most of my friends turn to me first when needing technology fixed. I've fixed the home computer so many times, and I've fixed or given advice on so many bits of technology that I've had handed my way it's not funny. My next project though, is to take an Arduino, GBA SP, and a SNES controller, as well as a clock adjustment card, and make an Arduino-powered GBA SP control unit, complete with ROM dumping, ROM running, and A/V out. I doubt that all of it will come to fruition, but I'd like to at least implement the SNES controller, as well as the clock speed adjustment via Arduino. I'd just hardwire them to the GBA SP hardware.
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:3 But in all seriousness, that sounds really cool. Computer tech talk has always been something that I've been meaning to look up on and try to understand, but never came across to doing it. Did you just self-teach yourself how to do all that, or did you learn from someone?
 
What bothers me with such behavior from the older people among us is they are unable to differentiate between different subsets of the vast realm of "technology" – by this I mean its kind of a bother when my mother comes to me asking about how to fix our cable or our car radio, or how to program a new remote she's got. I know nothing about any of that. Just a PC/console tech here, and I can do tons of stuff with that, but anything else… >_>
 
Limey-chan said:
Ah. Fraid I know very, very little about technology D:

My parents seem to think i'm some sort of computer whizz for whatever reason (possibly the ungodly amount of hours I spend online?), they're constantly asking me how to do stuff.
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XD My parents are the opposite actually. Even though they know I'm always around technology, and am in a computer programming program, they still don't quite grasp the concept of being comfortable with all kinds of technology ;-; They only recently found out my passion for them so maybe that's why.
 
I'm the family tech support gal. I get bombarded with messages, phone calls, texts, and visits almost every day because I got my IT edumacation. Not that I'm complaining, taking computers apart and killing viruses is actually fun, but I wish my family members would be more mindful of what they're downloading or what they're installing. ugh.
 
I'm pretty much the person who knows the least about electronics and IT and all that kinda things, mostly because my school didn't offer IT sciences or any such things .-.
 
I work hard to pound the different types of "computer people" into my family's head - just because I like to program doesn't mean I like to or am able to fix problems with your computer. I only fix my own out of necessity, not ability.
 
Catholic Nun said:
This is why the older generation can pretend to be as superior as they want to be, but in the end they have to rely on us haha
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Over here they almost literally do; if you are 65 years old or older you'ren't allowed to work anymore and you get pension (basically much monies for doing nothing), and this pension money is taken off the workers as one of the largest taxes we have over here...
Right now statistically 2 and 1/4 workers have to come up for one pensionist, 10 years ago it was 4 and 1/2 workers... (that comes because our population slowly entirely turns into old farts)
 
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