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   by ivanche 12y ago

   Would be interesting to compare performance/memory footprint of native Android app, and that same app after going through Java -> j2objc -> apportable -> Android...
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   You have to consider that in some countries devs with no experience are willing to work for $300-400 a month...
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   I also recommend documentary shown on National Geographic about this flight. I believe it's one of the Air Crash Investigation series.
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   Ditto. If JVM is good enough for, say, Twitter, it's sure that performance of Java programs got better and that "Run time" and "Final image size" from Figure 1 in OP pdf would look different. OTOH I'm not in th
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   Richest YouTube Stars(businessinsider.com)

   1 points by ivanche 12y ago|0 comments
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   Ain't Amazon unstoppable by now?
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   "According to Spanish law, private drivers are not allowed to use their own cars to provide transportation services for-profit." I wonder if private drivers are allowed to drive someone else'e car to provide such services?
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   by ivanche 12y ago

   So you can always ask your girlfriend "Do you want 163 * (pi - e)" :)
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    TRWTF moment for me while reading this article was that my wife's uncle actually broke his ankle while playing Ingress :)
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Being professionally involved in somewhat similar industry, this is definitely one of best articles I've read about lottery. Well done!
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Agreed. Couple of blurry photos (especially second one, from 2013), plus angle in which second photo is taken is very misleading - people can look younger or older just by changing angle. Good, no-BS article must have 2 clear, crisp, hi-res
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Looks very nice, kudos for the implementation. Just one question, am I doing something wrong or you can add just one meal per day?
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    I worked for 6 years in a company which makes online (gambling) games. I can tell you that anyone who even thinks of using Collections.shuffle() for shuffling cards in production code is an amateur.
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    I remember reading once that best musicians actually worked less than the average ones. But, the difference was that the best had 2 highly focused 1.5-2hrs practice sessions per day (deliberate practice) and rest for the remaining of the da
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    You are far from crazy, it's just the opposite - you're doing exactely as one should. For (very) detailed explanation I warmly recommend "Good sleep, good learning, good life" [0] by dr Piotr Wozniak. [0] http:/&
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    I'm sorry but I still don't share your opinion, even after looking at 1:1 screenshot. Just look at the 'crisp' letter w - for me it's not crisp, it's jagged. I can clearly see vertical line after vertical line
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    Italy's GTECH to buy U.S. slot machine maker IGT in $6.4 billion deal(reuters.com)

    1 points by ivanche 12y ago|0 comments
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Oh no, it's not you. I say that without DirectWrite font looks nice and smooth. With DirectWrite it's broken, it looks like some Win 3.11 font without anti aliasing. Just look at letter w - you can see pixels forming diagonal li
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    "Following the Nokia acquisition, completed in April, Microsoft had roughly 127,104 employees[...]" I don't have knowledge about managing a company, but is it at all possible to efficiently lead 127000+ employees? Has MSFT be
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Software engineering radio (The podcast for professional software developers) - http://www.se-radio.net/
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    One of the coolest things I've seen in a while!
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Thanks for the correction! And I wondered why I got all those downvotes...
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Just to add, regarding value of (real world) coins and their relationship with precious metals one can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Ah, by the title I thought it's about crypto currencies and X11 algorithm...
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    It depends heavily on your place of living. In my country $445 is about or over the monthly salary for vast majority of people.
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    I agree that median salaries data would be nice to have, but I believe that a lot of people have use-case in the lines of "I consider moving from city A to city B. In city A my earnings are XYZ. How much would I have to earn in city B
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    by ivanche 12y ago

    Well, not exactely. When you try stock Android keyboard and then switch to Swiftkey, you realize that Swiftkey is intelligent. Stock keyboard becomes... hmm, ok, at best.
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    by ivanche 13y ago

    If you want to normalise sleep patterns, I strongly recommend text "Good sleep, good learning, good life" ( http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm ) It is quite long but IMO very well worth it.
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    by ivanche 13y ago

    Let me try, quoting first sentence from Mark Rippetoe's book "Physical strength is the most important thing in your life."