lgieron

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by lgieron 11y ago
Comparable in terms of specs. On paper, this machine looks almost as good as the discrete GPU MBP - the only major difference is worse battery life. In practice, it's worlds apart.
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by lgieron 11y ago
> I mean you'd hope that it'd stick, but it doesn't. Nothing more infuriating than people talking the talk whilst you're walking the walk. My reading list is longer than your business plan, so fermez la porte and do s
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by lgieron 11y ago
These are Thinkpads. I recently bought a non-Thinkpad Lenovo (y50-70 gaming laptop) and it's a piece of crap. The keyboard and touchpad are mediocre, fans are pretty loud under load, the numlock key has fallen off (!), and it sometimes
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by lgieron 11y ago
> Interesting, I didn't know that most appliance production happens in Poland. From what I've read, their weight and bulkiness makes shipping from Asia to Europe costly, and this negates the potential gains from moving producti
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by lgieron 11y ago
Ha ha, actually, I'm in a "foreign" country (Poland, biggest producer of home applicances in Europe due to proximity to West EU markets and low cost of labor), so moving back is not what I would consider a good thing :)
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by lgieron 11y ago
> We allow the production of wasteful packaging, we accept planned obsolescence, Regarding planned obsolescence, it seems fairly easy to legislate away - just pass a law that mandates a minimum of 5-10 years warranty for consumer goods (
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by lgieron 11y ago
> (...)it is pure propaganda that society fails without a state. It is certainly true that wherever states fail, others come like vultures to pick apart the corpse. I basically agree with that, with the caveat that there will always be o
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by lgieron 11y ago
> Rules in society are also pretty stupid. I believe the contrary: the rules (do not kill, do not steal, pay your taxes etc.) are the thing that prevents society from breaking down. There are examples of states which were too weak to enf
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by lgieron 11y ago
> the wearable market will dwarf mobile to the same extent that mobile dwarfs PCs When you compare the numbers in the two links below, it shows that the PC market is bigger than mobile: http://www.statista.com/topics&#x2F
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by lgieron 11y ago
I've seen an estimate that allowing everyone to come to work in the US would result in about 1 billion people moving to States within very short timeframe. I think it could very well be the end of the country (as even the army + the po
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by lgieron 11y ago
Have you ever been inside a mine?
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by lgieron 11y ago
Java was pretty terrible in the EJB 2.0, Java 1.4 era. I guess the current sentiment is at least partially a remnant from that era.
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by lgieron 11y ago
> What's wrong with working from mainland Europe assuming one can work within UK hours? People from mainland Europe (EU) are legally able to work in UK.
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by lgieron 11y ago
> If I could do it all over again, I'd have thrown that temper tantrum at 17 and gone to animation school rather than a normal university. Is animation that different? It's also "create on demand on schedule".
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by lgieron 11y ago
> This is a horrible comment. There is 100x more to a career than living a comfortable existence. I thought so too. However, the funny thing with market economy is that it IS pretty efficient, so jobs that are regarded as satisfying and
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by lgieron 11y ago
I'm not sure I understood you right - are you saying 7% Canadians are illiterate?
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by lgieron 11y ago
Yep, a very good book. Also, it shows that being a spy is mostly drudge work. For example, he would observe a place for days/weeks before he was convinced it would be a safe pick up point.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Lack of credit can stand in a way of getting a job?
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by lgieron 11y ago
Ugh. Sounds interesting, but I'll probably be saving it for retirement.
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by lgieron 11y ago
At "super corporate" companies people are at their desks for 8 hours, but hardly anyone is working that much. It's all a game of pretending to be working hard (desks where people walking by can't see your screen are high
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by lgieron 11y ago
If I had a year to live, I'd probably go about writing that physics (game) engine idea that keeps nagging me, but has way too low profitability prospects to put months/years into it.
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by lgieron 11y ago
> So I quit and traveled. It does seem like traveling is the "default" thing to do to cure one's ennui. What I can say is that being in a new locale doesn't magically give you newfound motivation/inspiration etc,
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by lgieron 11y ago
No one's making money of BitTorrent, and yet it functions. I think that P2P Dropbox or even youtube (without ads) is a pretty good idea.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I wonder why you are downvoted. This sounds like a pretty accurate description.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Jobs and contracts are pretty good?
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by lgieron 11y ago
Cracow office is pretty cool. It's located in a (not very large) historic building, so there's no open space. Also, the location is amazing - it's right by historic/touristy Market Square, with hundreds (thousands?) of c
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by lgieron 11y ago
> Majority of israelis don't come from Europe, so I doubt this would work now. Do you have any sources on that? I was under the impression that they actually do. Edit: I've found some stats. According to wikipedia, 61% of Israe
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by lgieron 11y ago
> I would assume mainly because the polish word for a tank is still a tank ;) The word is actually 'czołg'. My assumption is that Polish was used because a significant part of Israeli Jews came to Israel from Poland (or former
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by lgieron 11y ago
That won't be enough unfortunately - a lot of solid brick/concrete buildings have cheap non-load-bearing walls.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I don't know about current Russia, but in communist Poland (with a terrible currency) you could exchange the USD for a local currency in an instant on a black market, and at an extremely favourable rate (which reflected the weakness of

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