AncientPC

I've tried a few and this is my favorite habit tracker app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha...

Ad-free and FOSS: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

As they say in poker, "Play the person, not the cards. But also sometimes play the cards."

A disagreement between two individuals should be initially communicated between those two and ideally resolved privately. Hopefully both sides have enough empathy to understand the other's perspective to reach an amicable conclusion.

Airing out on Twitter as a first response (not sure if that's what happened here) is a sign of immaturity and not what someone does if their goal is to fix the original concern. By airing it out on Twitter, you put the other person on the defensive and they're less inclined to actually help you to resolve the original complaint.

Airing it out on Twitter is an escalation, and a decent outlet for escalating issues that are systematic and/or can't be resolved through other communication channels.

What happens when two countries' laws conflict with one another?

I don't care that the p90 UI latency performance is better, the p99 performance on Android devices is terrible (UI stuttering).

I use a Pixel 3 and iPhone 8 on a daily basis.

You're confusing CPU and memory pressure, and attributing blame to the wrong component.

Android's lack of smoothness is due to thread contention, whereas the iOS kernel uses a dedicated UI thread running at high priority. RAM size has no impact on UI performance, beyond a sufficient amount for the kernel.

Cache version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...

An out of contract iPhone 5 (16GB) costs the same price:

http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone...

That's more accurately described as memoization, as caching is a broader term.

Also, you might want to look into Sieve of Eratosthenes, as you only have to test up to sqrt(n) for primality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes

I'm sorry you've had poor experience with Linux, I've had plenty of them myself.

I'm tired of dealing with ACPI / driver issues as well. That's why now I just buy ThinkPad and Intel-only chipsets. If you're going to use Linux, you have to research your hardware ahead of time (e.g. poor Atom support) or buy Linux laptops (Dell Ubuntu series, unofficially ThinkPad series).

I'm not trying to say everything's happy in Linux land. Printers are still a sore point, as are AMD / nvidia cards (Open or binary drivers? Multi-monitor support?).

Just to add another data point, Arch Linux on X220:

1. 4-6 hrs with 6 cell battery.

2. Yes, Intel everything (HD4000, wireless, etc).

3. Yes, 1 resume crash total this year.

4. Yes, attached to external monitor via DisplayPort -> DVI right now.

5. Never tested.

6. Small, crappy. I'm one of those guys who disables the touch pad in favor of TrackPoint though.

7. Much better IMO, not a fan of chiclet style and Apple's "mushy" keyboards.

This illustrates another pain point for Apple: the inability to change default applications.

Say Google releases a maps app for iPhone. Every time you get an address in a text, email, Facebook, Yelp, etc it's going to open up in Apple Maps requiring you to manually copy/paste everything in another app.

Probably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.

I do it for photos and video (~60GB worth on microSD card). Obviously barrkel does it.

Just because you don't use a niche feature doesn't mean others don't.

There's a saying in photography how everyone only uses 80% of their DSLR's capability, but it's a different 80% for everyone.

There are extensions to get rid of the redirect: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...

htop (and by extension top) is for CPU / memory / load information only.

Normally to get network and disk stats I have to run a combination of dstat, iotop. A simple screenshot comparison: http://i.imgur.com/eQPuQ.png

OTOH htop takes up ~2MB per instance, while glances is taking up ~13MB. Glances also doesn't have the ability to sort by columns except by CPU/mem %. You can't kill browse or kill processes from the list either.

Agreed. I've submitted lots of pull requests and taken over a small, popular project but none of it shows up.

Except there are plenty of other Android devices with those features (except tablet battery part).

I still care about Flash on mobile. Why? A lot of Asian sites (Chinese & Japanese) still use Flash for video and nav menus.

I have a rooted phone, so I'll probably find some way to sideload Flash back on.

To relate this to tech, there was an earlier study done that showed progress bars that updated in smaller increments (~1% steps) felt faster to end users than larger increments (20% steps) even though the time for the smaller increment progress bar to finish the task was the same or longer.

In other words it's reinforcing the primary argument of the article, the perception of waiting is more important than actual wait time.

How so? I'm running Xmonad with GNOME 3.4 right now.

Two factor is magnitudes better than password only, but it's not foolproof.

Security is only as strong as the weakest link. CloudFlare was hacked recently because the attacker was able to redirect voicemail to another account, then use the two-factor backup recovery phone option to take control of Google Authenticator.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws...

I can't find the links at the moment, but some HFT guys have responded to relevant Slashdot articles over the years.

From what I remember from those accounts, traders often like to tweak algorithms at the last second and there is little to no QA before changes gets pushed live.

It's sort of a byproduct of the necessity for speed. Algorithms are quite complex, and even running a basic test suite that takes a few minutes may be deemed unnecessary.

The Zune was too little, too late.

54 days later, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone.

At the time Apple was selling a 5th generation iPod or an iPod mini, and the iPod nano was less than a year away.

It's fun to bash on the most recent security naiveté, but can someone explain why GNU Mailman still emails users' passwords after subscribing?

Mailman warns users that passwords will be mailed plaintext, but why mail passwords to begin with?

It is also free from the Kindle Lending Library:

http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-ebook/d...

I suspect this is a uniquely American thing.

Similar to Dell's failed entrance into Asia, Americans are uniquely content with purchasing plenty of merchandise without ever physically examining the product.

Civilian pilots log plenty of flight time, but their flying experience is nothing compared to fighter pilots'. Time is not a substitute for quality.

My code has significantly improved compared to what I wrote a decade ago (or even a few months for that matter), but it's due to better resources (GitHub, etc), and exposure to better programming practices (SCM, TDD, CI, etc).

Computer science and software engineering is a relatively young field, and there is still plenty of room for improvement.

I did a lot of PHP over the years, trying to migrate over to a Python web stack.

A big hurdle is ops dev. All hosting services support PHP out of the box.

Now I'm faced with the "distro choice". Which server do I use (lighthttpd / nginx / tornado)? Which framework (django / flask / web2py / cherrypy / pylons / pyramid)?

Like the original author, I've had a VPS sitting unused for 2 months paralyzed by choices. I eventually decided on nginx / flask, but haven't had the time to set it up. Maybe I should have just used Heroku. shrugs

I disagree.

I've been to concerts and football games where people are holding up iPads up high to record videos / take photos. It's a distraction and a nuisance. I say good riddance.

I have my phone / DSLR to take photos, but I regularly video chat with friends and family and appreciate the front camera more. A 7" tablet seems more suited for the latter.