Android vs iOS

Several days ago I bought iPad Pro 12.9
It's really cool device.

But it isn't ideal.
Biggest problem is iOS.

Now I'm on my old Pixel C, and if I will navigate from Pocket to Chrome and to Maps I simply need to use back navigation button in Android.
I just have similar journey on iOS and going back to Pocket wasn't so easy. I needed to lift whole iPad (which was resting on my belly), find Home button and click it twice times to go to screen showing last apps and to chose Pocket from there.
It's not nice.
It's shows that roots of iOS are in times when only one app was running.

Of course iOS isn't bad in all aspects.
For example they have much better done working with multiple apps on one screen.

But again launcher in iOS is less friendly.
To move app from one screen to another I need to use this "docker" line.

But again iOS wins when we talk about software.
It's maybe less consistent, but generally is nicer and more useful. And more popular. For sure in Android world I will be able to find something similar to Pythonista app, but Pythonista is very well known and installing it I now that a lot of people checked it.

Google+ is much nicer on Android than on iOS. Especially if we compare tablet versions.

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Being in US I bought Alexa...
Exactly Amazon Dot.
Partly because I was always interested in this how she works, partly because my friend works in Amazon and she is working somewhere nearby Alexa ;-)
Problem is in this that daily I'm using Google Assistant in Google Home.
I'm very content user of Google Assistant. I'm using it to listen music, set timers, set alarms, get knowledge about weather, time in world and to control my hue lights.
I even created my own action which says me about air quality.

In theory Alexa is able to do most of those things too, but she is worse than Google Assistant on it...

So now I'm thinking about moving her to my bathroom ;-) when I'm taking shower I sometimes need to know time and asking seems to be most natural way.
I have only one Home, which covers my living room, so maybe Alexa will handle this? ;-)
But from other side it doesn't seem ok....

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I'm thinking about buying iPad Pro, and because of this I'm using more my Pixel C.
And I'm starting to thing that I understand why many people thinks that tablets like iPad Pro may replace computer as a productivity tool.

I think most important part is this that tablets lets you focus more.

By nature tablets are more single tasked at given moment.
Of course iPad Pro (especially with iOS 11), and Pixel C let you to split screen and use more than one app, but usually in such cases you use those apps working on one thing at the time.

And lets be honest ;-) working on one task at the moment is something what is the biggest productivity tool for most of people*.

* - except those called supertaskers.

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Yep, I'm waiting for US visa.

I have planned business trip to US, where I will met some people (mainly architects and UX people) who will show us (me and my colleagues) how we may do our project better for customers.
We have also some tourist ideas ;-)

Among those visit in New York City.
They have there Concord and Space Shuttle Enterprise, and The Book of Mormon.

Sadly my previous visa expired in February and now I'm waiting for new one.
I hope that I will got it :-)


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It uses 2 ultrasound detectors, one is looking on ceiling, second is looking from desk in direction where I should be.

And it works :-)
It even sends me e-mails each day with info how long I spend sitting and standing.

And everything would be perfect... but sometimes something cause whole detector to hang.
It seems that somehow code doesn't return from GPIO reading.
And my detector stops to work.

I was trying to identify problem, but its rare and difficult to catch.
So I used other solution ;-) tested multiple times in microcontrollers...

I added watchdog ;-) if main program of detector will not report longer than 60 seconds whole Raspberry Pi reboots :-)


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It is a chance that in July I will visit again Silicon Valley...
Important word is chance.

Still some decisions must be made. Budgetary decisions ;-)

So I tried to calculate how much it will cost to ship my team for 2 weeks there...

Answer is: a lot...

So I'm not so sure if I will visit my favorite part of US...

And everything because of math... and this that I can use it sometimes...

Meh.... Stupid math...


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I always wanted to become vegetarian.
I will probably never become one on 100%, but I'm trying to go in this direction.

Only cause for me to want to be vegetarian is ethical.

I don't like idea of this that we need to kill animals to eat those, and lately I started also think about this how animals are kept.

Those are my causes. I think that other people may don't share my point of view. It is OK.
I may don't like it, but its theirs choice.
And too be honest I prefer those who prefer not to see problem, than those who try to rationalise bad things which are happening to animals.

But wanting to be vegetarian is one thing, going in this direction is different ;-)

So I started to practice kaizen vegetarianism ;-) I simply try to eat as much as possible dishes without meat :-)
Lastly I eat only pizza during our company Thirsty Thursdays, so usually during a week I eat meat once, or twice.
And it is working for me.

So if somebody want to try, this is quiet easy way.

And you always need to remember that soon, we will have cultured meat and problem of animals wellbeing will disappear ;-)

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