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borispavlovic··on Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?
Maybe, if it's a beautifully crafted piece of jewelry that elegantly notifies on a subset of events received by your phone.
borispavlovic··on Pronunciation errors that made the English language
I think that the king of miss-pronunciation is prof. Joseph Stiglitz. The guy is genius but the way he pronounces the words 'state', 'etcetera' and many others is hilarious.
borispavlovic··on Why Russians Are Not Smiling (2011)
I believe the roots of this mistrust between people in Russia and the whole Eastern Block can be found well explained in "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn (http://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenits...)
borispavlovic··on Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
This will eventually lead to mobile phone charges balancing all over the European continent. Otherwise people in Denmark will be using Bulgarian or Romanian pre-paid SIM cards buying credit online assuming that mobile providers can't charge the same for the services in richer and poorer countries.
borispavlovic··on The Exodus of Tech from Portugal
Portugal has a long history of oppression that was removed less than forty years ago. Some things change, but the mentality of people doesn't change that fast. There may be no open oppression but a silent one for sure. It's easy to be brave in an organized country ruled on laws. In a highly corrupted Portuguese society it's not that easy. (https://www.google.com/search?q=corruption+in+portugal&s...)
borispavlovic··on Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative)
Visited Tesla's museum in Belgrade week ago. There was a tour of half an hour in English and then they showed a documentary about his life and work. There are several devices being demonstrated.

Entrance is around 2.5EUR equivalent to $3.

borispavlovic··on Kotlin Goes Open Source
Neither Facebook nor Amazon are developer's companies. They will do very well with whatever technology they used. Amazon will run any program written in any language on their elastic cloud. Facebook's apps can be written in any language, too.
borispavlovic··on One Story of Nikola Tesla
There's a pretty good museum of Nikola Tesla in Belgrade. Worth visiting.

http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en.htm

borispavlovic··on In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
Because we don't need it. Our genes are reproduced and they are carrying the best and the worst parts of us and our experience.
borispavlovic··on When did you last use one of these?
Here in Switzerland you can send an email for free using terminals that are installed in lot of these booths
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