rimantas

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by rimantas 10y ago
The first thing to cone ibto my mind was "Mark it zero!" scene from "The Big Lebowski"
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by rimantas 10y ago
Rational buyer is almost an oxymoron.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Would Alpha go beat the same human on 17x17 or 21x21? Or even 13x13? Let's not get started about self-driving cars…
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by rimantas 10y ago
Regarding point b) there even is a book, aptly titled "How to Read a Book" which pretty much explains the similar approach. Although it does recommend to read linearly at first.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Does this count?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/28/uber-awaits...
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by rimantas 10y ago
Believe or not only few care about that lousy jack. Most will use earbuds that come with the phone, others will permanently have dongle attached to their headphones. And those who go AirPods way will forget jack ever existed.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> When was the last time you thought about the animals > that were killed in order for you to eat them. I don't think of them often but I grew on the farm so I could witness (and sometimes particpate) in the whole proce
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by rimantas 10y ago
Bootstrap was always lazy. The tool was intended for quic prototyping now it is just the replacment for knowning what you are doing. In other cases it's up to you whether you want to provide the best experience or just "this will
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by rimantas 10y ago
Specifying image dimensions is enought to prevent any jumps.
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by rimantas 10y ago
And the requirement for humant to be present brought amazing amount of real progress.
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by rimantas 10y ago
No need for patronosing either.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Learning Hot to Learn course on Coursera (highly recommended) talks about procrastination a bit and they do recommend a Pomodoro technique to fight it.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> That has been the reason I always avoid > huge frameworks like RoR. For others it is the reason to use huge frameworks like RoR. Because alternative is to hunt obscure bugs in the framework you built yourself.
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by rimantas 10y ago
This sounds like somone brings up the email with "I think you are a moron" as an evidence in the psychiatric evaluation that the person is indeed a moron. If person thinks something they should be able to express that and have a
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by rimantas 10y ago
This goes both ways.
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by rimantas 10y ago
In my rather small city (~600k) there are already like 5 different uber-like options. And at least three of them were before the uber came. Dislcaimer: I've never used uber and I hope I never will. I dislike them as a company and that
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by rimantas 10y ago
It used to be a separation of conterns. HTML for structure, CSS for presentation, JS for some bells and whistles. Now, when everyone forgot what the web was about and see it just and app platform that does not really apply.
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by rimantas 10y ago
The problem is that while true web apps experience might have improved, the web as the whole degraded a lot since everyone is treating everyting as the app, whn in reality majority should be just a static content sites. Now you download 4MB
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by rimantas 10y ago
It's psychology I would not place high bets on scientists actually knowing what they are doing.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Many of them are already written by the man himself.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Young ones may be born into this. Older ones are the ones who created this.
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by rimantas 10y ago
I also migrated to Apple Notes after they announced that two-devices-free policy. I miss some features which made it easier to organise notes, but otherwise I'm fine.
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by rimantas 10y ago
So that they continue working in some cubicle at HP?
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by rimantas 10y ago
> We have all the technology. > It's time to get to the next level. Just because you can does not mean you should. Dictating code may be useful is you cannot use your hands, but that's about it. In all other cases
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by rimantas 10y ago
I consider Musk's timeframe a pipe dream.
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by rimantas 10y ago
You can learn Russian to be exposed even to more lies and propaganda :) Source: I know Russian.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> Ruby, Docker, React, etc... Just for the record, Ruby is 21 years old. Ruby on Rails is 10 years old.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Why coal? We have nuclear.
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by rimantas 10y ago
The first book about time travel I read nailed it — The Technicolor Time Machine.
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by rimantas 10y ago
It always reminds me about Total Perspective Vortex.

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