I was about a week from launching a react native app on iOS/Android, so decided to go through all the administrative motions to get things going in case there were any delays in getting that moving.
Google Developer account cost me $25. A few days go by and I get an e-mail asking for identification documents and a bill that shows that I live at the place I'm at. I send my passport and utility bill with my name on it, those get rejected with absolutely 0 reason the next day.
Zero explanation. I raised about 8 different support tickets and DMed several people on twitter and linkedin that worked for google and emailed a few higher up people.
At one point I got some communication from a completely different department that wasn't accessible to the support lines publicly available, and it looked like they were going to help me.
But in the end nothing.
This was a copy/paste response I saw for every support ticket:
Thanks for contacting the Google Play team.
As much as I'd like to help, I’m not able to provide any more information. Unfortunately, we are unable to verify the documents you provided and are unable to grant your appeal.
If you are located in the EU, you may have additional redress options. Learn more about those potential options in the EU Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution Help Center. Routing ID: ZLFS
Thanks again for your understanding.
My final response after a week of relentless effort:
I'll concede in understanding that:
No one has actually looked at my documents
No one wants to give me a reason why you won't help me
No one on your entire support team is capable of performing basic customer support tasks.
Thanks for treating me like some untouchable beggar when you were the ones that stole $25 from me.
Apple/iOS cost me $100 and my developer account was verified within two days with zero hassle.
Every Macbook user I've seen seems to have an ultra smudged fingerprint screen as if they were using an iPad with so many layers of oil it shimmers as a rainbow, with sprinkles with various unique flakes of dandruff, and dirt encrusted on their trackpad and keyboard. It stirs up conniptions.
I have the EXACT same issue. I'm getting nowhere with support. I have a huge document showing how ridiculous this is. I was given no explanation as to why the identification failed nor any opportunity to upload new documents.
Didn't have to look long to find a comment mirroring how I feel about these devices. To me it feels like they're just adding power to an artificially castrated device I can barely do anything with. See no reason to upgrade from my original iPad Pro that's not really useful for anything. Just an overpowered device running phone software.
I got extremely sick in 2017 for about a week. Went through about 6 boxes of tissues in that short time period and was barely able to feed myself. Only months after when someone was vaping near me did I realize I wasn't able to smell.
Only after a few years after long and intense cardio I would sometimes regain some sense of smell for about 20 minutes. Now in the last month seems to be coming back more permanently.
I'm someone who spends a lot of money on expensive perfumes like Creed and regularly burn incense in my house.
I honestly didn't feel like I was missing out on much with no sense of smell, definitely did not feel like I was missing 1/5th of the human experience. It really didn't bother me and I never went to a doctor for it. That said, I'm glad the sense is slowly coming back again.
I have emacs, terminal, and chrome bound on a hotkey so I don't need to fiddle with alt tabbing. Also have custom mappings for volume control (way easier than hitting the laptop's default fn-f2/3 combo) and three pre-determined screen brightness levels that set the brightness perfectly when my ambient lighting is dark/normal/bright.
Also I have mappings that basically clone all the keybindings from MacOS that I cannot live without, so alt-t is new tab, shift-alt-[ is prev tab, alt-q closes application etc.
https://sayartii.com/ is using Datomic stored on postgres that I have set up on Linode. That was all done back in 2020 and haven't needed to touch it. Site now gets ~180M monthly reqs and I store an enormous amount of analytic data on Datomic (was supposed to be temporary) so users can see impressions/clicks per day for each advertisement. I'm surprised it's still working.
Development experience is extremely nice using clojure. I've used it for two other projects and has been very reliable. My latest project didn't really need any of its features compared to a traditional rdbms but I opted for it anyways so I don't have to write sql.
My personal experience is that using reagent is so intuitive that I had launched a non trivial form to post ads on a production site within a week not knowing both clojure/script and anything about react.
I was writing a longer comment and deleted everything after it started to look like bragging.
All I'll say is that I'm extremely grateful to Clojure for the life I've been able to live and what it's allowed me to accomplish. This is truly a language for beating the averages.
AC was my first MMORPG, fond memories indeed. I remember the sheer adrenaline I got when "going red" and watching PK drama and battles unfold at the subway, dominated by a build called the "OG mage," slidecasting all over the place casting drain health until finishing with a missile spell. I would cast Blooddrinker 6 on monster weapons and giddily laugh as they sliced through new players starting out. I remember staying up the entire night during a school day when housing was released and being one of the first people on my server to claim one. I even remember being a vassal to a very generous asian guy in his mid twenties living in LA named Kyoto and my countless interactions with him and his brother under a specific tree.
Countless memories I could keep going on and on, but what an experience!
I use emacs daily with doom emacs. Spent a few minutes answering questions then had to drop out because the survey had several required questions regarding packages, discovery and use-of that provides no relevant answers for me to because I don't really stray afar from what doom emacs provides me.
Was skimming through comments sure that someone would confirm this exact thing.
In addition to this I have a USB-C hub that includes 2 HDMI inputs, my M1 Max Mac Pro doesn't recognize two monitors connected to it but my Windows laptop does.
There are loads of wealthy people living in Dubai without issues. Every country has its tradeoffs, but whenever I leave UAE I'm suddenly conscious about my wallet and dread using public bathrooms. It is what you make of it and there's a lot more here than the fake glamorous life everyone likes to moan about.
Aceplace is a brand new booking platform launching in Dubai. Customers will be able to book all kinds of spaces for example meeting rooms, events halls, and yachts.
Primay components of the stack includes:
* Datomic
* Re-frame
So ideally candidate would have experience with either. We're a very small team so the work you'll be doing will have an enormous impact on the success of the company.
Google Developer account cost me $25. A few days go by and I get an e-mail asking for identification documents and a bill that shows that I live at the place I'm at. I send my passport and utility bill with my name on it, those get rejected with absolutely 0 reason the next day.
Zero explanation. I raised about 8 different support tickets and DMed several people on twitter and linkedin that worked for google and emailed a few higher up people.
At one point I got some communication from a completely different department that wasn't accessible to the support lines publicly available, and it looked like they were going to help me.
But in the end nothing.
This was a copy/paste response I saw for every support ticket:
Thanks for contacting the Google Play team.
As much as I'd like to help, I’m not able to provide any more information. Unfortunately, we are unable to verify the documents you provided and are unable to grant your appeal.
If you are located in the EU, you may have additional redress options. Learn more about those potential options in the EU Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution Help Center. Routing ID: ZLFS
Thanks again for your understanding.
My final response after a week of relentless effort:
I'll concede in understanding that:
No one has actually looked at my documents
No one wants to give me a reason why you won't help me
No one on your entire support team is capable of performing basic customer support tasks.
Thanks for treating me like some untouchable beggar when you were the ones that stole $25 from me.
Apple/iOS cost me $100 and my developer account was verified within two days with zero hassle.