dakics's comments

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 streak of 8000+ step days, it felt as if a switch 'flipped' and I went from a plateau of 90kg to 85kg (what I saw as a target) and surprisingly am able to maintain it at that level for a few years now, without almost any changes in dietary or activity habits, even throughout the 2020 lockdown.

I'm a typical developer/couch potato, I do not avoid occasional junk food, beer, extra slice of cake etc. I try not to eat late, except for nuts and seeds. I wholeheartedly recommend Turkish? (white, large sort) unsalted sunflower seeds, which have nutritious benefits according to Dr.Google, plus it definitely helps the next morning.

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 storm season for Chris Cuomo and AC. :-)

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.org/wiki/IKEA_Heights

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 go through to make a living.

Purely empirical... just figuring out what I did last day/evening, and then noticed how sleep is affected in certain patterns.

Mi Band 3. It appears its sleep quality measurement through gyroscope/accelerator is accurate enough.

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 of several months, I've been able to identify things which affect my sleep quality:

* eating late: bad

* drinking late: one beer... not really that bad

* answering work emails until midnight: REALLY BAD (even while drinking soothing chamomile tea during soft rain) etc.

I'm trying as reduce as many "bad" things as possible as I can feel a huge difference between 30 mins and 3+ hrs of deep sleep, as measured by the device.

I feel much better during the day, can work more productively and, most importantly, my "fuse" seems to be much longer.

Probably best $30 ever spent.

(still missing weekend code binges of early 20s, though :/ )

+ Panoramio

Interesting overview of China as "an island."

https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-china-gre...

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-consuming external methods, which would be called from Clipper, Turbo Pascal/C, Modula-2 or alike. TSR-loaded "Norton Guides" were indispensable. Good times. :)

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)

He could always go for some DYI restoration

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ruined-jesus-church-fr...

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-...

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.

"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 and set up your own business and sort out residency paperwork in couple of years, for about that sum (5-figure USD/EUR) at the end benefits to the country budget and society.

Speaking from personal experience, and let me tell you we make sure we perform 100% of what government expects from us and pay everything that's due.

Also, in case of IT and startups, I feel it creates "cleaner" work environment and more positive and prospective work force than some other businesses (real-estate, natural resources, etc.)

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 easier to get a similar job in EU country, if you have required (IT) skills. Ironically, EU is the forefront of the current migration and refugee scare.

So this could be a good thing at the end.

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...). There will be too much information you don't need to know. :)

Another #protip: the ultimate "get out of jail" card is the red MAN UTD t-shirt.

It's the better universal value than cigarettes, pens or crisp $20 notes. If we had few of those (fakes, obviously) we would've seriously cut our mechanic bills and few other expenses along the way.

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 went through northern Iraq (it was relatively safe back in 2011) and later had to double as Kyrgyz emergency as they were driving an ambulance. Links are mostly broken, but you can read some of it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111122143223/http://www.travel...

We had another trouble in Novokuznetsk, as we were filming clip on factory there, for a project on environment and pollution. Part of the sponsorship deal, so we took Wikipedia and found bad spots along the route. Of course, few minutes after setting up the camera we were busted. Screeching tyres of UAZs as they were coming out, like in the movie. It was tense, but we played Slavic card there and so they just deleted memory cards. At that point after 30 days or so in a van, I guess we were not much of your typical spy. :). We were told it's good it was private security company, because they could just kick us out from the scene without all the paperwork required by regular police.

Good times :)

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 expensive were Tajik GBAO guards, they got headlamps. During my shifts I had 2 encounters but played dumb, even though I'm native in similar language and could communicate. No bribes given. :)

Had a great time in Semey, KZ and later across the border in Barnaul. Must go back some day, driving, of course:). If you love big skies of US west, you'll be in heaven in Kazakhstan.

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 everyone can go that way.