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AJ Henderson

00:04

@ThorstenS. on chat or the site?

On chat you check the user profile

I'm not sure if you can tell length for site suspensions but

The rep will drop to 1

Aditya Somani

00:43

@ThorstenS. Haha. Beautiful right? Nah, I just got like super lucky this last month :D

@andra This is too much fun. I'm telling people about it haha

@AJHenderson I'd definitely go for a Windows tablet too if they had a great battery life. But as far as I can see, the Surface 3 or some Intel Atom based tablet too are pretty good and I'd rather carry a additional battery with them.

I have an iPad right now and I'm sick and tired of it. Good battery life but completely closed software. Can barely do anything with that garbage. :(

@MarkMayo @Flimzy My current profile picture. I agree, "Bowties are cool"

Also, I absolutely LOVE Doctor Who. :D

Please excuse the iPad selfie. Please? :/

AJ Henderson

01:42

@AdityaSomani haha, you've made a new friend

it is safe to say I am not an Apple fan

it is also to say I literally hate the company with near every fiber of my being

because I find them to be greedy, dishonest, manipulative, and just about the worst decission maker the industry could possibly have since they don't make any ideas themselves, they just take the ideas of others, figure out how to make it "pretty" and then sell it to people in such a way to maximize their own profits by making it so you can't use the hardware without going through them

Thorsten S.

02:14

@AdityaSomani I worked for a company creating iphone/ipad apps. Now I have a Nexus 7 because I could not stand it anymore and I am very pleased so far (Not using Google Android, but cyanogenmod). Strange, I am also using bowties, it is very common for engineers.

I hate normal ties with passion >:->

@AJHenderson What, the golden bars are wonderfully designed and delicate.

Good night.

Aditya Somani

03:01

@AJHenderson Haha. It is safe to say that I absolutely detest apple too. I guess I have made a new friend! ;)

@AJHenderson They are not innovators per se. They are great marketing people selling ridiculously overpriced products.

@ThorstenS. I'm glad you like it too. I use a Custom ROM based on AOKP on my Galaxy S2. Poor thing is nearing its end of life. Almost 3 years old, have dunked it into water sooo many times, but it seems it's made of steel or something. I actually feel sad for it.

Aditya Somani

05:14

andra

Am I the only one here who doesn't hate Apple?

Mark Mayo

@Flimzy that's the same pack as I had, before Beijing security confiscated it :(

andra

Their pbcopy/pbpaste feature on the command line is genius

Mark Mayo

typing on my macbook air :)

(my only apple device, ever...so far)

Aditya Somani

Gosh. Well I do own an iPad

BUT, it's because someone close to me gifted it to me :D

andra

05:21

But the again I guess i'm from the generation where my epic dislike goes to microsoft

Aditya Somani

I just think apple products don't suit "me" too well.

Mark Mayo

Apple hardware = beautiful. I prefer android software.

Aditya Somani

I'll be fairly honest, download music, Android :D iOS :(

andra

No i hate android

Aditya Somani

Downloading torrent Android :D iOS :(

andra

05:22

Screwed my phone multiple times

Aditya Somani

Sending anything except pictures as attachments Android :D iOS :(

Android does have it's own issues

But to me, all those things are far more important

Mark Mayo

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andra

Using multiple wifi system apps android :( ios :)

Mark Mayo

worth clicking on for the very first sentence

Aditya Somani

@MarkMayo LOL

andra

05:24

But on server level I am a big linux fan

Aditya Somani

@andra I don't understand what you're trying to say. Multiple wifi as in connecting to multiple wifi NWs at once?

My iPad connects to only one WiFi at a time... :/

andra

No i use fon extensively with their app, same with skype wifi

Aditya Somani

Still not sure what you're trying to say :/

andra

This way i can mostly use wifi over 3g when travel where the apps automagically hops from wifi router to wifi router

Aditya Somani

:O Android does that too!

andra

05:28

I know, but only when you use one system

Aditya Somani

Oh wait, lemme guess. These all have different passwords

Yes, it will hop routers when they are all on one system

I think you mean like different wifi hotspots from the same company

This "fon" sounds super cool! :D

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakley.fon&hl=en

App is available but it seems to have some issues. But I won't hold this against android. I'm quite sure the functionality is not restricted.

It's like blaming apple for the shitty Google Hangouts app (Which. Like. Crashes. Once. A. Day.)

I blame apple for making Facetime an apple only service

andra

Oh no, it is just to recognise some beauty in a very restrictive app policy

Aditya Somani

I don't like that "we're too cool" attitude for something as simple as iMessage or Facebook. RIM did this with Blackberry did this for a long time, see where it got them.

andra

I see ios mainly as a consumer product

Aditya Somani

@andra ABSOLUTELY! I agree.

It's a great entertainment product

But anything a little more than Netflix or Youtube or listening to music. And it fails. :(

I occasionally download stuff to watch on my phone, because internet at home is very skippy. But I have almost no way to watch all that stuff on my iPad.

I end up streaming using a wifi hotspot from my phone using the VLC app for iOS.

And all that time I cannot access the internet because the wifi is connected to the phone on the iPad and the phone is hosting the hotspot. So I have 2 devices with zero internet connection

andra

05:36

Hmm' there is a program that converts allmost all to ipod format

Aditya Somani

If only they had a micro sd card you know.

But I need a PC. I rarely use my laptop these days.

andra

Do you use dropbox

Aditya Somani

Yeah. But the videos are like 700MB.

Remember the skippy internet connection. :/

Like a season for an old TV show or something you know.

Mark Mayo

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Q: Can you enter the uk via eurostar on an eu passport with only one month of validity?

I'm like two hours away and just realised my passport will expire in September.

customs-and-immigration

Aditya Somani

Sometimes there's like a bunch of videos. So I must stream them one by one. If I had an android tablet, I could just use the micro sd card.

@MarkMayo She can enter using her ID card as well...

Mark Mayo

05:43

if she has it :)

Aditya Somani

Of course. haha

But I don't think there would be an issue. Trying to find more info...

Dirty-flow

08:51

vietnam-visa-spam-wave

Aditya Somani

09:51

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What a question. I am mesmerized.

@Dirty-flow Yeah. Terrible. I feel super sorry for the mods. :'(

I got like 8 active flags now. :/ Sorry @mods :(

Dirty-flow

10:06

maybe they like it to delete spam posts and destroy users

and btw 6 spam-flags are enough for autodelete

Aditya Somani

I see. AWESOME. :D

Dirty-flow

the community has more power than you think ;)

Aditya Somani

10:22

@Dirty-flow This is true. :)

andra

11:08

@dirty-flow sometimes it is really nice to have multiple email addresses ;)

It is tempting to make 6 additional stackexchange accounts on travel ;)

Aditya Somani

14:05

@andra Haha! :)

Aditya Somani

14:31

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Q: Immigration (plus Visa) on Arrival in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

Denpasar Airport in Bali recently expanded the international terminal. Prior to the expansion, arrival in the evening would usually be accompanied by an hour-plus wait to get a visa voucher and get through immigration due to the large amount of flights arriving around the same time. Has the wait...

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@jmac Have you been to Bali before?

jmac

@AdityaSomani Every year.

Aditya Somani

OHHHH YEAH! You live in JAPPPAN

@jmac My bad dude. It's a popular spot for the Japanese. ;)

jmac

@AdityaSomani More popular among Australians and Europeans, but yeah, there are some Japanese too.

Aditya Somani

@jmac My boss got married there. :D

It's a beautiful place. One of my favorite vacations ever. I'd like to go there again too!

But a super cramped airport.

jmac

They just made the airport bigger last year or this year, I forget which

So that may have improved things a bit.

Aditya Somani

14:37

Hopefully, it's a pretty big tourist spot.

I didn't go to Jakarta, I went to Bali and Surabaya

Shortest flight I ever took

Starts at 11:35am and reaches at 11:30am ;)

jmac

I am going to Bali as well.

Been going every year for...6 years now maybe?

Give or take.

Aditya Somani

Nice! Why every year?

jmac

Because it is a wonderful place to be?

Good food, cheap beer, great people, and plenty of time to read.

Aditya Somani

This is true. Do you go all by yourself or with someone else too?

jmac

I go with the better half.

Aditya Somani

14:48

Solid. I never asked, where are you from?

jmac

The US originally.

Aditya Somani

And your better half?

jmac

Not the US.

Aditya Somani

Haha. Japanese?

Were you married before you came to Japan or after?

jmac

(sorry, as much as my identity is now out, my better half's isn't, so I will endeavor to keep it that way out of respect, etc.)

Aditya Somani

14:50

(of course, my bad, feel free to not answer anything which you feel is too much, I would agree with you 100% :D)

So Bali, where do you plan to visit this time around?

There are many Hindu temples there, I'm sure you must have visited them.

I actually went there and spoke a little Hindi. Was super fun! :D

jmac

I usually sit with a beer and a book by a pool or in a cafe.

Aditya Somani

Nusa Dua? ;)

jmac

I don't do much but read, drink, sleep, and enjoy the atmosphere.

Nope, Ubud.

Aditya Somani

Are tickets to Bali super cheap or something?

:/

jmac

Nope, but I have an absurd amount of miles. Really, an absurd amount. I have flown enough in the past 10 years to go around the world 10 times, or one-way to the moon.

Aditya Somani

14:57

Holy smokes!

How does this even happen! I need this to happen for me :(

jmac

openflights.org/user/jmac

I had a lot of business trips with my last company.

And I fly a lot in my free time.

Wow, I left out a bunch of flights from that too...

Aditya Somani

That is really intense. You and your better half should do like an Asian trip once. :D

jmac

We have done many Asian trips. Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia.

Aditya Somani

I see. No love for India? :(

jmac

Hot places and me, we don't get along too well. Maybe Northern India. Maybe.

Aditya Somani

15:02

Ah right, I remember that. How in god's name do you tolerate Japan.

jmac

But with so many places in the world to visit, I have to admit that India isn't that high on my list.

I don't tolerate Japan. 24 hour a day air conditioning. God awful electricity bills.

Aditya Somani

True true

Don't you take public transport to office?

jmac

@AdityaSomani What office? I work for SE, I'm working at home.

Aditya Somani

I mean earlier...

jmac

Yes. And I hated every second of it.

Aditya Somani

15:14

lol

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