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Not related to Japanese, but to large numbers in general: I just learned that there are to scales for billions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Here in Italy Telegram is slowly gaining traction. Even the municipality in my city uses it (for traffic notices and other warnings), very useful. Bonus points: bots, Gif search and stickers!

I still own&use one; I upgraded SSD and ram an it is still pretty ok for small web dev and internet browsing.

Manual car with start&stop owner here; I always use it when driving in the city, so do all of my friends. It's just slightly uncomfortable the first times, when you have to train your muscle memory.

That, and the integrated gifbot. My teenage sister went crazy when I showed her how to search for stickers.

They aren't. This is the Italian police investigating Italian products.

Thank you, I didn't know that. Do you think that there are key differences between the two?

I don't see the news here. Shirataki is quite popular and quite easily found. I think it became popular with the Dukan diet.

Yes, I know... Developers are constantly asking for an API of some sort, but seems that Xiaomi ignores that. Too bad, since the MiBand is a nice little device. Are you trying to use it on Android? There is also an iOs library (but seems very limited) and a Python one (has a lot of functions - http://oscaracena.bitbucket.org/mibanda/api/)

http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr...

This is a nice post about their protocol, although it seems that they are trying to prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating it in newer releases. There are also links to some useful libraries. Remember that MiBand can be connected to just one device at a time.

Very strong in Italy too. All of my friends know it, and a lot of them used it at least once.

I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe thefts are VERY common, and because of this trust/relationship plays a very important role. That said, the industry is very, very old school, spreadsheets at best. Although with the new generation taking over, the things will change (I hope).

I like Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me and Nicole Sullivan: http://www.stubbornella.org/content/

Is that available in the US only?

I think he's from Slovakia, which is part of the EU.

...and it's also strange that people read it voluntarily, and not forced by the school. I hated it so much back then, although Inferno was kinda fun.

Yes, I noticed this as well. Sometimes it also loads the page, but without images.

http://parkorbird.flickr.com

It happens to me a lot! And sometimes I can't find words in neither of my languages, and then turn to English (which is strange, since I learned English at a later point).

I know it's hard. I know that you think that everything sucks, because I used to think that, too. But there is passionate people around you, there are good companies, there is an interesting work. You have just to go and find them. Network and things will go better, I promise.

They come very cheaply (or for free) with most phone operators.

What about a real espresso machine (with standard pods)? You get all the Nespresso pros, and you can choose between a variety of options for the coffee you want to put in.

I check hacker news every morning, scan the titles and read the interesting (and shorter) pieces. Then I have a read later list (which is pretty huge, ops) with longer reads.