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wasyl··on iOS 11 reviewed
Fix for this use case is also in Android 8 - you can turn off wifi, but turn it back on once you're in proximity of known network. Helps save battery too, I suppose
wasyl··on Ask HN: What business service would you pay $100/mo for
What do they usually help you with?
wasyl··on Ask HN: What are the most popular libraries with the crappiest documentation?
One recurring theme with Android documentation is also showing example usages for the absolutely simplest, most straightforward cases - once you try implementing this in a real app, it turns out things are way more complex
wasyl··on React Native at Instagram
> this 65k limit is barely a minor annoyance that only a very tiny percentage of Android apps ever hit

This is not true, you can easily hit this limit because of a dependency that you _need_ that pulls e.g. Gauva, of when you use 2 or 3 libraries from Play Services, which are huge

> (and there are easy workarounds)

Easy maybe, but the issue is still more than _a minor annoyance_ imo

wasyl··on Ask HN: How to learn new things better?
From my experience it's amazing to spend at least 20 minutes every (I mean every) single day on the thing you're learning. Whether it's playing an instrument or learning language, there are days when you seem to not have time for that - but 20 minutes is easily found, and it really, really, really helps. I think I've seen some research regarding that, but I might be remembering wrong. What I know for sure is that it both helped me learn more efficiently, but also helped me through weeks of lesser motivation
wasyl··on Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
What are some Alfred workflows that you'd recommend?
wasyl··on Why Can't Programmers Program? (2007)
Would you say you would be able to code a simple linked list, with `add`, `get` and `remove` support if asked on an interview?
wasyl··on Why Can't Programmers Program? (2007)
Willingness to learn doesn't guarantee much. Actual skill is important too, and for anything above complete entry level position I would say knowing what is a linked list or a modulo operator is, well, necessary
wasyl··on Workman Keyboard layout
I've replied somewhere in in the thread, but you say that learning two layouts is not doable - it's perfectly doable, and I don't see why one would make such statement only based on own experience (unless you have some source for that, which I'd be very interested in)
wasyl··on Workman Keyboard layout
Having changed layout when I started learning Russian (since russian keyboard has letters in different places than their phonetic latin counterparts) I think it's just matter of how you learn. I had problems too, until I started learning by typing the same sentences that I used to learn Russian alphabet, which introduce letters in small batches of 3 or 4. After few weeks I was able to comfortably switch between both layouts every few sentences.
wasyl··on GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations
I would argue that `break` intuitively makes you go back an indent, so if you don't indent after the first `for`, one can assume `break` just exits both loops (goes back from lvl 1 to lvl 0 indent)
wasyl··on Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
Wasn't Pascal supposed to be much more than 10-20% of an improvement for deep learning?
wasyl··on Show HN: Emoodji – Live emoji-powered emotion and facial tracking
Unfortunately it haven't worked very well for me - quickly changing emojis, completely unrelated to my face
wasyl··on New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
> probably

I'd like it to be the case, but they may allow only metro apps, can't they?

wasyl··on Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term
I think what you're describing is something similar to pomodoro technique (http://pomodorotechnique.com/), only on bigger scale (8 hours at once). Maybe you will find it useful.
wasyl··on Amazon Underground
Worth noting that "The Amazon Underground program is currently available in the US, UK, Germany, and France."
wasyl··on Ask HN: Would you hire me as an intern?
To be fair I'm very skeptical when I look at those graphs. "80%" progress would suggest me that you're extremely fluent not only in language (as in syntax), but you also have deeper understanding of how it works under the hood (so at least familiarity with the specification + being able to use that knowledge in practice), and probably familiarity with some most popular frameworks/libraries. And I just find it hard to believe (not saying I'm right) you have that much skill in 2 languages (which would take quite some time of actually working as a dev, I think), and not much less in another 4 (~70%). That's a lot. I'd much rather see language + brief overview of skills (frameworks, is it mostly knowing of syntax or you have actually built some larger scale projects with it)
wasyl··on Two years after LASIK eye surgery
How bad was your eyesight, then? I'm curious, I heard LASIK effects are weaker when you have smaller defect (~2 diopters)
wasyl··on The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’
I'm surprised by (in my opinion) mostly neutral tone, when service they paid so much for is cancelled without warning
wasyl··on Java 8 and lambdas: ooooh that's how it works, then
I honestly expected some insight into internals of Java 8 lambdas or, for example, how `retrolambda` works. Unfortunately this is only introduction to lambdas in general (and I'm pretty surprised many haven't even heard of lambdas before)
wasyl··on Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install
I use Deluge and am very happy, I have been recommending it for non tech-savvy friends and they don't have problems with it, so that's nice (while installing uTorrent by them usually ended up with installing adware)
wasyl··on Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania
There is crapify [1]. I remember seeing other tools as well, but can't find them at the moment.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/crapify

wasyl··on Firefox 36.0 released
On the other hand I read that the review process is quite slow (as in painfully slow)
wasyl··on Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
I don't know if anyone confirms, but my default installation of Kaspersky Internet Security tried to MiTM my traffic as well. I couldn't download some packages (Android SDK I think) beacuse of certificate error. It then turned out some default feature in KIS installs own certificate and proxies secure traffic through
wasyl··on Cheapshot – A map-based multiplayer shooter game for iPhone
I've seen the landing page and "watch in action" video. I still have no idea what are this game's rules. I only saw some flashing images of in-game screens, which didn't really explain anything
wasyl··on Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25
Same for me, I got an email recently that bug I starred has been closed. Pretty disappointing, this would open so many possibilities
wasyl··on Show HN: A simple tool for exploring AdSense with D3.js
Worth noting that you have to disable adblock in order for site to work
wasyl··on Defcon 22 videos and slides
If anyone is looking for alternative, Deluge is open source and very good (http://deluge-torrent.org/)
wasyl··on “Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
The I, as new user, if I mistype my email, will just have filled whole form for nothing (and possibly just gave away my information to someone)
wasyl··on Z Launcher
Hence I wrote

> there's an option to opt-out which (apparently) makes the app no more privacy-invading than any other launcher

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