dakics

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by dakics 5y ago
In my case 8000 steps (around 5.5 km) is something I am able to pull every day. Having a dog makes it more fun. I've tried also 10000 steps for a while but it was non-practical, just couldn't fit that extra mile. During the 6-week
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by dakics 6y ago
There are Arwa Damon and Clarissa Ward. Then another female anchor, who people-smuggled herself through Africa with a hidden camera. They are all serious badasses, I don't even watch movies that tense. There will always be another stor
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by dakics 7y ago
Worth remembering "IKEA Heights", a soap opera filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/user/IKEAHeights/videos https://en.wikipedia.o
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by dakics 7y ago
devRant Aside for stupid memes, every now and then there is a story that temporarily cures my impostor syndrome / helps my everyday struggle seem like a fun day at the beach compared to crap some (fellow 3rd world) developers have to g
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by dakics 7y ago
Purely empirical... just figuring out what I did last day/evening, and then noticed how sleep is affected in certain patterns.
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by dakics 7y ago
Mi Band 3. It appears its sleep quality measurement through gyroscope/accelerator is accurate enough.
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by dakics 7y ago
I've bought recently one of those cheap wrist bands. One of the most important features for me was ability to measure sleep quality in terms of "daily hours of deep sleep," whatever that scientifically means. Over the course
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by dakics 8y ago
+ Panoramio
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by dakics 8y ago
Interesting overview of China as "an island." https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-china-gre...
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by dakics 8y ago
I remember having great time writing this little 256-byte game: https://github.com/dakics/asm-tie-fighter Back then, it often made a huge usability difference if you optimized in asm critical inner loops or other time-
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by dakics 9y ago
Applause from Slovenia to Buffers' Croatian developer! I'm sad to see actual reduction with this new 3.0 salary scheme. One would also need to factor in another 10-12% loss this year, which is depreciation of USD vs. EUR (HRK)
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by dakics 9y ago
He could always go for some DYI restoration http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ruined-jesus-church-fr...
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by dakics 9y ago
Speaking of pools, Greek government in their efforts to collect more tax, used to search for pools using Google Earth http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/finding-swimming-...
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by dakics 9y ago
Unity's multi-platform track record is quite solid at this point in time. I wouldn't bet on exotic Java attempts of "write once run everywhere" though.
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by dakics 9y ago
"people who just have a lot of money and want to live in the country" What exactly is big problem with this? Not speaking about becoming tax-resident of Monaco or similar, but your example or an EU country where you can open LLC a
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by dakics 10y ago
A company I work for remotely would love to bring me over and pay me at the market rate. However, that's practically impossible due to current immigration process and H1-B scheming, caps, paperwork, expense and what-not. It's much
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by dakics 10y ago
Follow their FB page, there are many people who are looking for a partner, or additional team member to share costs. In fact, if you need to spend a month in a car, it might be better with a person you don't know (friend, relative...).
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by dakics 10y ago
There are plenty of videos and blogs, and in fact 2016 MR just started, so you can follow teams. This is how they got me, took me few years to prepare. We were with convoying Mongolia with bunch of cool guys from AUS, NZ and UK. One team we
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by dakics 10y ago
Great story! 5 years ago we went on a Mongol Rally. Driving European vehicle through the Stans makes you easy prey for local policeman. My co-driver had a strategy of befriending them and sharing small gifts (pens, lighters etc.). Most expe
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by dakics 10y ago
Invoicing 1500 eur/month as a company, minus operation costs, minus taxes, gives 800-850 eur/month, which is barely livable. Lawful minimum is about 750 eur. Swizec is right, there are ways to incorporate to pay less tax, but not
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by dakics 10y ago
$48k/y gig for US client converts in less than 2000 eur/month net with some creative book-keeping. Rent and utilities in Ljubljana cost us about 800 eur. What is left is maybe enough for one person, who will never own any property