rimantas

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by rimantas 10y ago
I've the TV that is very interactive. You can pauser, rewind, watch the missed programs, set reminders, etc.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Programming won't be any easier. It's like claiming that in the future thinking will get easier. I'd claim otherwise: keeping in mind recent trends of "outsourcing" the knowledge many brains just don't have eno
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by rimantas 10y ago
There is also one million other skills that would be beneficial.
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by rimantas 10y ago
And Apple build mobile device 14 years before the iPhone. So?
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by rimantas 10y ago
There is no magic in Rails if you at least give some effort to understand how things work. But everyone is free to invent their own incomplete and flawed versions which has benefit that you know the magic behind your framework. Alas, no on
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by rimantas 10y ago
> Rails has a way of narrowing many people's technical > curiosities. That's, let's say, very odd statement. Especially keeping in mind how many frameworks in other languages were inspired by RoR.
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by rimantas 10y ago
At least on iPhone Touch ID expires too… no need to die, just wait eight hours.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Procedural code is easier to reason about. OOP is easier to change. Unless it is Evil OOP, with deeeeeep hierachies and done without understanding why and what for.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Not sure about your karma sacrifice, but if someone has doubts: > What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the > notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of > applicati
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by rimantas 10y ago
What's a decade when the aim is for XVI century.
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by rimantas 10y ago
It was esier since the day 1.
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by rimantas 10y ago
If single tap is unnecessarily annoying, then web is already dead because opening the web page is even more complicated.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Sandi Metz talks about ifs a bit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPfEXIlTVE
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by rimantas 10y ago
More like ten: 1960, 1970, 1981, 1993, 1997, 2007 — threat of the coup. I hope I got years right.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Found out about this the hard way. I was confused why my Wi-Fi was slow. Disconnected USB3.0 external drive and bam, fast network again. Now I just have this drive as far away from the computer as possible, works fine.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Doing thins faster leaves more space to do more thing faster, not making anything better. And that's how you end up with a pile of technical debt and impossible to change system.
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by rimantas 10y ago
130+ IQ doing anything about any problem does not me give any hope unless those doing have a good understading about it. So far engineers have shown "if the only tool you have is a hammer…" attitude towards the problem than any
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by rimantas 10y ago
Being bored can be very benefitial. A lot of inventions and solutions to hard problems came when people were "bored". Just like you cannot hear a faint voice in a loud environment you may miss some quiter stuff if you are constant
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by rimantas 10y ago
I don't know about US but there majority of fatal accidents are the results of deilberate misconduct, i.e. someone doing knowingly stupid things. Unless self-driving cars become mandatory they will help very little in this regards, be
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by rimantas 10y ago
Being ilegal does not really remove the incentive, only makes the product more expensive?
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by rimantas 10y ago
Wasn't Reddit run by just a few just fine? Or am I imagining things.
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by rimantas 10y ago
But don't expect any images better than Galileo sent. Camera was not a priority for Juno.
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by rimantas 10y ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
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by rimantas 10y ago
But if it cannot be measured it by definition cannot have any effect on reality so can be safely ignored.
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by rimantas 10y ago
One can find much more objective meaning to existence without outsorcing it to some imaginable friend. > Christians believe that for folks who don't know Jesus, > nihilism is essentially true And folks who don't giv
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by rimantas 10y ago
Check out "How we learn" course on Coursera. It deals with procrastination among other things.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Listen to one of the authors of the manifesto itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M (BTW, he is very opposed to the use of Agile as a noun ;).
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by rimantas 10y ago
Talk about throwing out the baby with bathwater. Being unconscious ir a very rare use case for iPhone. In other cases having protection provided by Touch ID beats passcode which is to inconvenient so many would skip and left without ANY pro
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by rimantas 10y ago
And when police gets killed it is OK? Justified?
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by rimantas 10y ago
And much more likely to be shot by another black person (not the police officer). That's also is fact.

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