What do you consider qualities of the best phone? What do you need it to be able to do? Hardware-wise phones have become pretty similar. It's just the manufactures who would like us to believe differently so they can use numbers to confuse our evaluation/purchasing process.
It also depends on where you live. In the EU, most countries offer an easy way to remove SIM lock so any phone can become unlocked. You may still end up being bound in a contract but hey, technically your phone will be unlocked.
You may also consider another type of unlocking - rooting. Although most phones these days can be easily rooted, there are some which still resist the process or which hackers consider not worth their time or attention.
For me - a person who doesn't use social media or Google software and who writes his own apps - any phone with a 6" screen and decent battery life will do.
Not at all. Only a minute portion of all the content on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video is worth watching at all. The rest is crap which they are trying to stick in your face because their promised content providers "equal exposure" to viewers. Once you've watched the interesting content, you end up hopelessly browsing for half an hour and then turning your TV off just to go through the same process the next day and then another and another...
Personally, I wrote a piece of code which periodically scrapes films and series available on Amazon Prime Video (I gave up on Netflix completely, it's so bad) and pings me if it finds anything with a good score on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.
Another matter is, that online streaming platforms lack crucial functionality, being an option to PERMANENTLY blacklist specific titles. Their thumbs up/down or "Not Interested" scoring systems simply do not work and you end up seeing content which you would never possibly watch unless someone was holding a gun to your head. That's actually one of the problems which my useful scraper solves. Unless it's The Big Bang Theory, Matrix or LOTR, I never get suggested a title I've already watched. I also blacklist all Bollywood, gay, romance, baking, dancing and such likes. Who the hell watches that??
...just so that I can show them a big hairy dick the next time they take a photo from my camera without authorisation.
On a more seriosus note, Freelancing is an equivalent of almost-free work and in developed countries is dead. You can't even hope to compete with Indian cheap labour.
I hardly ever check my phone while at work. Not because I can't but because I don't feel the temptation to do so. I opted out of social media a few years ago so I only use my phone when I need to, for important stuff. I've just put logcat to work and discovered that I checked (woke up) my phone only 5 times today.
1. In the morning (silencing the alarm clock)
2. At 8:50am (fetching 2FA codes for the day)
3. At 12:52pm (news while chewing on my sandwich)
4. At 6:32pm (at the gym, logging my progress)
5. At 7:51pm (stopwatch while cooking)
I also get no nuisance calls. I only give my number to friends and use a burner phone for everything else.
It is my observation that managers don't even know what focus is. They are so distracted by various parties themselves every minute of every da, that they think no one else requires focus to do their job.
Who the hell needs so much padding around tab headers? It's really common for me to have 30-50 tabs open at the same time. How am going to fit them all now?
The new search bar is even worse. I don't want things to look pretty. I want them to be functional. Does anyone know where are they going to stuff the per page privacy controls? (location, camera, microphone, etc)
I can't help but think that this feature has more to do with the recent acquisition of GitHub than we know. Seems like Microsoft has started using your code to power its search engine and monetize your code. What about copyrights? Does it respect terms outlined in projects licences?
Why, oh why, would I install something that is:
- slow
- bloated
- in all likelihood harvesting data behind your back
- trying to replace something which isn't broken (a Linux terminal)
- dependent on.NET
on my machine? {deity_of_choice}, why would I even permit.NET to exist in my system in the first place?
Early in my career I worked for an online retailer. The algorithm for any sales was always the same and very simple: raise the RRP so that the price after all the sale discounts matches your usual price. I don't expect it to be any different this time.
But are you sure you laid out things in the right order? In your comparison it's Amazon Video that's Photoshop. Netflix content is simply crap. I ended up browsing titles for half an hour in order to find anything worth watching. I also don't care about Netflix Originals/Exclusives. There are a few decent ones but most of them are rip-offs.
I can't imagine how people can get anything done without support for many multiple screens. Two external units are my bare minimum. Most laptops however, either support only one or make you turn off your built-in LCD when you connect the second one because they can't handle the total resolution. For me, a professional programmer, desktop is the only viable choice.
On a different note, I'd be inclined to risk a statement that the PC market growth has something to do with the declining price of bitcoins and GPU prices reaching sane(r) levels again.
Team sports have too much entropy for me to enjoy them. If I need a pseudorandom value I simply go and get it instantly from/dev/random. If your algorithm needs 90-odd minutes to generate a sample of two positive integers then perhaps you should consider choosing a different career path.
At some point someone will fill in for a patent on this technology. The end result will be rather sad - 1 group of people will be earning billions; the rest of the world will continue breeding lab rats.
Like with any other valuable device, if I owned an iPhone I'd be constantly worried about losing or damaging it or drowning it in sweat at the gym. With my 5 years old Nexus 5 I don't have that problem. Should the worst happen, I can replace it at almost no cost.
I lead kind of a minimalistic life and I follow the same principles with regards to other electronics. If someone burgled my house, I could probably replace all my possessions from a single monthly salary. This doesn't mean that I live like a hermit. I own a number of computers, TVs, consoles and what not but they are no more expensive than what they should cost for their purpose. I find very little sense in buying supposedly high-end devices because someone simply tells me they are worth the price.
All in all, not having much too lose lets me lead a joyous life and focus on really important things instead of worrying.
I hear my work colleagues discussing smart devices, assistants and what not all the time and I don't understand why would you ever want to put such an intruding technology inside your house. Is the promise of convenience and being able to boast to your neighbours really worth giving up every information about you? Soon enough those devices will be capable of recognising their surroundings and reporting back what you own, what you do, perhaps even what's written on your correspondence if you read your letters in their proximity. You'd be sitting in front of your TV one evening and your personal assistant would ask you whether you'd like to purchase a new tube of vaseline and have it delivered by Uber Instant Sex Supplies within next 30 minutes because it noticed that you usually wax your carrot around that time and you're low on supplies. Oh, and would you like a girl with that? We're having a 50% discount on blowjobs today.
In the past there was a physical barrier between you, your home and people who'd like to build your advertising profile. That barrier was your house door. Impenetrable. These days, however, we willingly carry trojan horses painted with various logos and brand names into our houses. Are our homes still our castles?
I stopped drinking coffee and energy drinks 1.5 years ago. I had realised I was simply having too much. On an average day I would usually have 2-3 Monster Energy + 5-10 big mugs of coffee (ever seen Sports Direct ones?). I got to a point where my hands wouldn't stop trembling to the rhythm of my heartbeat because of such a high blood pressure.
Naturally, I started drinking coffee out of necessity. Projects, deadlines, not enough hours in a day. The usual stuff. However, it then struck me that heading to the kitchen and having a cuppa (ok, big flippin' mugga') had become my way of dealing with stress. Whenever under duress, I'd retreat to the kettle.
So one day I said enough. Quit overnight. I don't know what a drugs detox feels like but I'd bet my experiences for the next few days couldn't be much different from ditching A class drugs. I didn't know where I was or what I was doing. Attention span... well, it'd have to exist first. A proper withdrawal syndrome.
Since then, I replaced coffee with 7.5 hours of sleep each night. I've never looked back. The benefits of regular sleep in my opinion greatly outweigh the benefits of coffee.
Apart from only few good ones, almost all Netflix originals are so damn boring. There's nothing original about them too. Most are lowly remakes of previously successful films which Netflix turns into its own series, injects with political correctness and destroys in the process.
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What do you consider qualities of the best phone? What do you need it to be able to do? Hardware-wise phones have become pretty similar. It's just the manufactures who would like us to believe differently so they can use numbers to confuse our evaluation/purchasing process.
It also depends on where you live. In the EU, most countries offer an easy way to remove SIM lock so any phone can become unlocked. You may still end up being bound in a contract but hey, technically your phone will be unlocked.
You may also consider another type of unlocking - rooting. Although most phones these days can be easily rooted, there are some which still resist the process or which hackers consider not worth their time or attention.
For me - a person who doesn't use social media or Google software and who writes his own apps - any phone with a 6" screen and decent battery life will do.
Not at all. Only a minute portion of all the content on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video is worth watching at all. The rest is crap which they are trying to stick in your face because their promised content providers "equal exposure" to viewers. Once you've watched the interesting content, you end up hopelessly browsing for half an hour and then turning your TV off just to go through the same process the next day and then another and another...
Personally, I wrote a piece of code which periodically scrapes films and series available on Amazon Prime Video (I gave up on Netflix completely, it's so bad) and pings me if it finds anything with a good score on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.
Another matter is, that online streaming platforms lack crucial functionality, being an option to PERMANENTLY blacklist specific titles. Their thumbs up/down or "Not Interested" scoring systems simply do not work and you end up seeing content which you would never possibly watch unless someone was holding a gun to your head. That's actually one of the problems which my useful scraper solves. Unless it's The Big Bang Theory, Matrix or LOTR, I never get suggested a title I've already watched. I also blacklist all Bollywood, gay, romance, baking, dancing and such likes. Who the hell watches that??
...just so that I can show them a big hairy dick the next time they take a photo from my camera without authorisation.
On a more seriosus note, Freelancing is an equivalent of almost-free work and in developed countries is dead. You can't even hope to compete with Indian cheap labour.
I hardly ever check my phone while at work. Not because I can't but because I don't feel the temptation to do so. I opted out of social media a few years ago so I only use my phone when I need to, for important stuff. I've just put logcat to work and discovered that I checked (woke up) my phone only 5 times today.
1. In the morning (silencing the alarm clock)
2. At 8:50am (fetching 2FA codes for the day)
3. At 12:52pm (news while chewing on my sandwich)
4. At 6:32pm (at the gym, logging my progress)
5. At 7:51pm (stopwatch while cooking)
I also get no nuisance calls. I only give my number to friends and use a burner phone for everything else.
It is my observation that managers don't even know what focus is. They are so distracted by various parties themselves every minute of every da, that they think no one else requires focus to do their job.
I've had enough of incomprehensible Indian accents.
Who the hell needs so much padding around tab headers? It's really common for me to have 30-50 tabs open at the same time. How am going to fit them all now?
The new search bar is even worse. I don't want things to look pretty. I want them to be functional. Does anyone know where are they going to stuff the per page privacy controls? (location, camera, microphone, etc)
I can't help but think that this feature has more to do with the recent acquisition of GitHub than we know. Seems like Microsoft has started using your code to power its search engine and monetize your code. What about copyrights? Does it respect terms outlined in projects licences?
I quit. ;-)
Why, oh why, would I install something that is: .NET .NET to exist in my system in the first place?
- slow
- bloated
- in all likelihood harvesting data behind your back
- trying to replace something which isn't broken (a Linux terminal)
- dependent on
on my machine? {deity_of_choice}, why would I even permit
I think too many Python programmers are trying to solve this problem.
You're selling one of the most ridiculously priced, 1st world phone in a 3rd world country. Gee, what can go wrong?
In all likelihood your execs are quitting because once employed they come to a realisation of how detached from reality your sales targets are.
Early in my career I worked for an online retailer. The algorithm for any sales was always the same and very simple: raise the RRP so that the price after all the sale discounts matches your usual price. I don't expect it to be any different this time.
Just close all the excess tabs. There's no reason to keep 50 of them open at the same time.
But are you sure you laid out things in the right order? In your comparison it's Amazon Video that's Photoshop. Netflix content is simply crap. I ended up browsing titles for half an hour in order to find anything worth watching. I also don't care about Netflix Originals/Exclusives. There are a few decent ones but most of them are rip-offs.
I can't imagine how people can get anything done without support for many multiple screens. Two external units are my bare minimum. Most laptops however, either support only one or make you turn off your built-in LCD when you connect the second one because they can't handle the total resolution. For me, a professional programmer, desktop is the only viable choice.
On a different note, I'd be inclined to risk a statement that the PC market growth has something to do with the declining price of bitcoins and GPU prices reaching sane(r) levels again.
Now we need to use it to detect those stealthy space ships passing by.
Team sports have too much entropy for me to enjoy them. If I need a pseudorandom value I simply go and get it instantly from /dev/random. If your algorithm needs 90-odd minutes to generate a sample of two positive integers then perhaps you should consider choosing a different career path.
What really needs coming back are physical function keys on MacBooks Pro.
At some point someone will fill in for a patent on this technology. The end result will be rather sad - 1 group of people will be earning billions; the rest of the world will continue breeding lab rats.
Like with any other valuable device, if I owned an iPhone I'd be constantly worried about losing or damaging it or drowning it in sweat at the gym. With my 5 years old Nexus 5 I don't have that problem. Should the worst happen, I can replace it at almost no cost.
I lead kind of a minimalistic life and I follow the same principles with regards to other electronics. If someone burgled my house, I could probably replace all my possessions from a single monthly salary. This doesn't mean that I live like a hermit. I own a number of computers, TVs, consoles and what not but they are no more expensive than what they should cost for their purpose. I find very little sense in buying supposedly high-end devices because someone simply tells me they are worth the price.
All in all, not having much too lose lets me lead a joyous life and focus on really important things instead of worrying.
I hear my work colleagues discussing smart devices, assistants and what not all the time and I don't understand why would you ever want to put such an intruding technology inside your house. Is the promise of convenience and being able to boast to your neighbours really worth giving up every information about you? Soon enough those devices will be capable of recognising their surroundings and reporting back what you own, what you do, perhaps even what's written on your correspondence if you read your letters in their proximity. You'd be sitting in front of your TV one evening and your personal assistant would ask you whether you'd like to purchase a new tube of vaseline and have it delivered by Uber Instant Sex Supplies within next 30 minutes because it noticed that you usually wax your carrot around that time and you're low on supplies. Oh, and would you like a girl with that? We're having a 50% discount on blowjobs today.
In the past there was a physical barrier between you, your home and people who'd like to build your advertising profile. That barrier was your house door. Impenetrable. These days, however, we willingly carry trojan horses painted with various logos and brand names into our houses. Are our homes still our castles?
You know:
- Top 10 submitters
- Top 5 bad drivers
- Driving catastrophes in your neighbourhood.
And lastly, a special protocol for dashcams. If it spotted someone with a proven history of bad driving, it would sound an alarm.
I stopped drinking coffee and energy drinks 1.5 years ago. I had realised I was simply having too much. On an average day I would usually have 2-3 Monster Energy + 5-10 big mugs of coffee (ever seen Sports Direct ones?). I got to a point where my hands wouldn't stop trembling to the rhythm of my heartbeat because of such a high blood pressure.
Naturally, I started drinking coffee out of necessity. Projects, deadlines, not enough hours in a day. The usual stuff. However, it then struck me that heading to the kitchen and having a cuppa (ok, big flippin' mugga') had become my way of dealing with stress. Whenever under duress, I'd retreat to the kettle.
So one day I said enough. Quit overnight. I don't know what a drugs detox feels like but I'd bet my experiences for the next few days couldn't be much different from ditching A class drugs. I didn't know where I was or what I was doing. Attention span... well, it'd have to exist first. A proper withdrawal syndrome.
Since then, I replaced coffee with 7.5 hours of sleep each night. I've never looked back. The benefits of regular sleep in my opinion greatly outweigh the benefits of coffee.
Apart from only few good ones, almost all Netflix originals are so damn boring. There's nothing original about them too. Most are lowly remakes of previously successful films which Netflix turns into its own series, injects with political correctness and destroys in the process.