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My name is Andrei Pervychine, I've been working as a fullstack developer in PHP. And doing side projects with Java for Android.
Same here, I have kids, and used to show them legal content on Youtube. Now I download everything because YouTube was showing horror movie ads between episodes.
My issue with cheaper phones is: I don't mind it being slow, I don't mind it having a bad display. But I do mind the camera quality.
I take a lot of pictures (multiple a day) which I treasure because it's pictures of my kids. But I hate having a camera with me, so my phone has to have a good camera. There aren't cheap phones with good cameras.
And that's likely heavy use. My Z3 lasts three or four days of moderate to light use, five days if you don't mind being at sub-20% on the final day (power saving mode). It isn't quite classic Nokia levels of battery life, but being able to charge it every few days is a massive improvement.
The Z3's camera disappoints me at times. I was trying to take a photo from a dark hotel room of the Vegas strip, and the camera was struggling to focus, and manual focus was a non-option. It was in difficult conditions, but with more control (or smarter auto-modes) it would have come out.
I like Android and would never move over to iOS because of lock-in and limited app API freedoms, but I still feel like even now Android's cameras fall behind Apple's version of the same (picture quality in bad light, speed, etc). All cameras work basically fine in good light, but in diminishing conditions is where you really "test" them.
Camera and slow (or no) OS updates are my biggest gripe with Android. Although OS upgrades are less of an issue than years ago now many of the core apps update via the Play Store.
I have the same phone for the same reasons (and being waterproof) but it definitely doesn't last 2 days anymore. 25 hours is probably my limit, with my reasonable amount of usage.
If I'm in an area of good service (i.e. not my cement and steel coffin of workplace), my Z3c lasts 48-60 hours -- 3 "days" of use -- with ~5 hours of screen on time. I don't do much gaming on it, which probably helps.
When I'm at work though, poor reception brings me down to 30-36 hours, still pretty close to 2 days of usage though
Same here. I'm sure there are some decent Chinese manufacturers with quad core phones using 8mp+ Exmor chips under $150, just haven't had time to look into it yet
As someone who left the valley. I think not. I think we are the lucky ones.
The valley is only useful for VCs and having an enourmous choice of startups.
But honestly life is better away from it. Unless you can afford a 3M$ house.
I don't think this is the first time I see this type of concept (not sure).
One thing is, you'll have to get a ton of users at start. Unless people start actively using it everywhere, everyone will slowly stop using it because there will be no content. I do believe it will be hard to achieve.
Technical leader is here. Yes, there are some similar ideas out there but Floatalk is going to be really different because mainly we use semantic web features to develop Floatalk.
Also, we will release a public api access for developers that make sharing and commenting much easier on the web.
I don't think so. There is a website, so you can explore through. this will help prevent facing no content. of course it makes I still feel the need to facebook-type commnities
I love Trello but I use it for myself (I don't share it with anyone else). I am using it for personal projects and work. But I wouldn't be really interested by a such analytic tool (probably because of my usage). Not really information that would help me improve productivity.
As a Millennial with a 2200 sqft house, a job and no student loans I don't feel the same way.
But I guess in some way I was lucky (no student loans because I studied in an international school, which was much cheaper). And housing because I moved to a cheap area and telecommute to a company in Silicon Valley.
Don't try to get money while you are 16. At least if you don't need it badly. Build stuff, you'll learn so much more. I am 27 and two kids, getting paid a lot but I regret the time where I could spend hours on my own project. Now if I have an hour per week I am happy.
Strangely, my only hobby is programming. I program during the day, and then when I have some free time I like to program some more. But it can be very different programming, mobile instead of web etc...
Why do I still enjoy programming after doing it for a whole day? I like to be creative, and working for someone limits my creativity. Programming for myself allows me to create projects in a complete different way.
Remote: Yes (I can commute to NYC or Boston monthly)
Willing to relocate: Possibly to Austin if everything is perfect
Technologies: Mobile and Web, mostly PHP/Javascript/Java
Résumé/CV: http://files.pervychine.com/andrei_pervychine_resume.pdf
Email: see CV or use form on http://andrei.pervychine.com/
Spoken Languages: English, French, Russian My name is Andrei Pervychine, I've been working as a fullstack developer in PHP. And doing side projects with Java for Android.
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