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by smartician 11y ago
There are a few topics on StackOverflow where this gets answered. The short answer: Toolbar is using the "elevation" property, which only Lollipop and above support natively. A simple solution is to manually add the shadow as a dr
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by smartician 11y ago
Major deals website. We deploy once a week. Merging changes to the release branch takes 1-2 hours (depending on how many conflicts there are), the build itself takes 10-20 minutes. Black-box testing takes about a day (2-5 QA working on it).
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by smartician 11y ago
I don't mind slow programmers, or programmers who know when a problem is too difficult for them, or programmers who ask too many questions and need constant confirmation and hand-holding. They are a bit annoying, granted, but harmless,
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by smartician 11y ago
Use AppCompat, and you'll get native MD on >= SDK 21, and an emulated MD on < SDK 21 devices. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/10/appcompat-v21... It's a bit of a hassle (you'll nee
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by smartician 11y ago
Not to mention the crazy price structure of MacBook Pros. The 13 inch model with a 128GB SSD is $1299, but if you want 256GB, you have to shell out $200 more. I don't think this price difference is justified just by SSD prices. Is this
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by smartician 11y ago
In addition to the other options, if your country has an investor visa treaty with the US, you can qualify for an E-2 visa: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/fees/treaty.ht... There is no exp
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by smartician 11y ago
So it sounds like the founders had already told your boss that he needs to reduce headcount, and you solved the problem for him, and also enabled him to do you a favor. Nice!
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by smartician 11y ago
In 2014, I made a grand total of $3,700 (mostly ad revenue, some in-app purchases to remove ads) for my vocabulary training app WordPic, and Sapphire Smash, a hexagon-based match 3 game. Both are only available on Android and Amazon. I also
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by smartician 11y ago
I've been using Mint.com since 2008, and just the other day I contemplated how astonishingly little it has changed since then. The "Investments" section is still as unusable as it was back then (personalcapital.com is running
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by smartician 12y ago
So you're saying that having a job is "slavery lite"? Why not just call it "employment"? You're free to become your own boss and avoid all these downsides (something I'm working on too, by the way).
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by smartician 12y ago
Slavery is when people are being treated as property. They are not free to go where they please, and are typically not compensated for their labor except for food and accommodation. So I don't really see how your quote relates to slave
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by smartician 12y ago
Recruiters scour websites like LinkedIn and email anyone who remotely seems to have relevant skills or experience. Don't read too much into it. In the interviewing process, you'll have the same odds of getting an offer as if you a
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by smartician 12y ago
None: I use a stand-up desk at work, and at home I alternate between standing, sitting on the floor in front of the coffee table, and lying on the couch.
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by smartician 12y ago
> The installment plan monthly amount due to my high cost location ends up being total after tax dollars minus rent and very frugal and basic living expenses So what's the problem? You are highly in debt, and you worked out a paymen
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by smartician 12y ago
Interestingly, there's a documented link between mania and sleep deprivation. And he mentions his lack of sleep several times on his twitter.
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by smartician 12y ago
Wow. Nervous breakdown, live on Twitter.
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by smartician 12y ago
Sounds like Betable before they pivoted to be a straight up casino gambling platform: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/betable-platform/
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by smartician 12y ago
Have you disabled JavaScript? What I see: http://imgur.com/rq68LlY
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by smartician 12y ago
I see, I suspected something like this. Maybe it would work better if it weren't using the traditional HTML link colors for (un)followed hyperlinks. The "Gray" color scheme seems a lot subtler.
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by smartician 12y ago
Seems interesting, but I stopped reading after a few paragraphs because of the black/blue/purple text. At first I thought the author put an insane amount of hyperlinks in the text, but then I discovered that they aren't click
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by smartician 13y ago
One crucial question is left unanswered: What do you need the money for? Why should I pledge now, if I could just wait with my purchase until it's finished?
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by smartician 13y ago
Do acqui-hires go through the same rigorous hiring process as regular hires at Google? I wonder how many engineers that are hired as part of an acquisition would actually pass the infamously hard interviewing process at Google.
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by smartician 13y ago
What's your relationship with California? Do you have an office there? Do you have employees that live in California?
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by smartician 13y ago
I read this article and the comments, and was appalled that the Executive Chairman of a wealth management company doesn't seem to know the difference between marginal and effective tax rate: https://blog.wealthfront.com&#x2F
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by smartician 13y ago
It's not that bad actually. The refactoring tools are pretty good, and other things like CTRL-Shift-T to open any file by name are nice too. Sometimes it throws a small to medium sized wrench into my spokes, but that's pretty rare
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by smartician 13y ago
Possibly related: http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2011/03/uncovering-adv...
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by smartician 13y ago
It doesn't really make sense to me to factor things out like that. Sales tax on groceries should be accounted for in the groceries budget. Property tax is part of your housing budget. Car registration fees and bridge tolls add to your
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by smartician 13y ago
I think you're confusing marginal tax rate with effective rate. As a single person in California making $150k p.a., your take-home pay is about $95k per year, or $7,900 per month.
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by smartician 13y ago
A couple things: The salary quoted by the recruiter is "up to". That figure was created when the recruiter asked the company how much they would potentially pay, max, and the CEO answered "well, up to $150k, if it's a re
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by smartician 13y ago
Did a similar thing, but in a less critical domain (warehouse management). Updated the status of all packages to "NEW", which would have meant that everyone who ever ordered something from that company would have gotten another de

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