Google+ Photos now sync to Google Drive. Install the Drive Sync client, take a photo, it shows up on your computer as a file.
OP didn't say if he uses Linux, Google Drive is particularly awesome there.
Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
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#272Try sharing photos you have in your iPhone while travelling to someone with a PC (I wasn't able to do it).
I'd really like a kind of local dropbox, to make the sending and syncing of files directly from one computer/smartphone to another incredibly easy. I suppose that's what bluetooth is supposed to do, but 90% of the time I try to use it for that purpose it fails, either because of glitches or lack of speed.
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And he should be able to just plug his phone into his computer and pull the images right off with MTP. Don't know why that's so hard.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524440
Works for me whenever I need to use it. Little more annoying for when I just want to my phone as a disk, but it still works.
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You say "people" as though you don't put up with it too... It's the same everywhere. Shit flows from the walls, up through the streets, through and within everything we interact with, because we've managed to build a civilisation on "that'll do" and "well, forever!" so far, and through some unlikely sequence of sheer fluke we're here to talk about it. The internet is a bodge job. The web is a bodge job. This finely m…
If you are philosophically inclined, you realize that art is one of the few exceptions to that. Artists are people that try to achieve perfection in a way that ordinary society doesn't allow.
"Hey Botticelli - I'll give you big bucks to paint the Magi. Bonus if you make Uncle Cosimo one of the main guys." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi_of_1475_...
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If you are philosophically inclined, you realize that art is one of the few exceptions to that. Artists are people that try to achieve perfection in a way that ordinary society doesn't allow.
Because art is done for it's own sake, not to sell it. As a painter you don't get offers from third parties that are willing to pay you for including their logo on your work.
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If you are philosophically inclined, you realize that art is one of the few exceptions to that. Artists are people that try to achieve perfection in a way that ordinary society doesn't allow.
Because art is done for it's own sake, not to sell it. As a painter you don't get offers from third parties that are willing to pay you for including their logo on your work.
That's because painting isn't popular enough. If your art happens to be blockbuster movies, you'll get offers.
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> I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. It seems a common feeling that is spreading during the last year... Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074704
What I _can't_ understand is why does Google rave all day about "material design" and such when they have dog crap all over their own doorstep?
Don't even get me started... Just wanted to add a user to my Google Apps domain. Couldn't for the love of god find the button. One minute passed. Tried CMD+F, nothing. Asked my colleague, Google Fanboy. Turned out that button was the only one completely hidden out of sight in the very lower right corner of my 27" cinema display and camouflaged in candy green, in stark contrast to the rest of the serious looking and actually usable interface because "material design" and "mobile first". Fuck that, it's just blatantly stupid and annoying UX. WTF?
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A minor soapbox of mine: agile doesn't say anything about release cycle. What it says is that the goal is working software, not released software. Software can be working but not released until it's working well.
Out of interest, what was the goal of any other methodology?
All methodologies have the goal of working software. Where they differ is in how they try to get there.
Agile came about because people started saying "hey, this process we have for creating working software isn't actually creating working software. Maybe we should try another process."
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#280Phone -> USB Cable -> Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum. Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.
Does this actually work for you with a recent Android phone? On my Moto G, this is more like: connect USB cable, wait 2 minutes while the computer is mounting the MTP. See it fail. Unconnect cable, reconnect. Forgot to unlock screen on the phone. Unconnect cable, reconnect. Wait another 2 minutes. The drive mounts now. Select photos. Copy. Paste to hard drive. Wait 10 minutes while the computer is copying the files.…
Samsung Galaxy S4 + Ubuntu. Plug USB, wait up to 2 sec to get folder on desktop + notification, copy files in few more seconds, done.