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I could give some in Latvia...

Li-ion batteries work differently - there is no memory effect. Discharge 60% -> charge 100% -> discharge to 40% = one cycle First article on google http://www.howtogeek.com/169669/debunking-battery-life-myths-for-mobile-phones-tablets-and-laptops/ Edit: About the first charge - the only bad thing is that your battery indicator might be wrong but that will fix itself after first full charge

To me it looks like you really should have 2 lists...

Small engine can eat more fuel on highway than bigger so this should be taken into account too.

I arrive at work at around 10, there's no strict time you need to be at work unless there's meeting or something. Read/reply to emails get some work done - everyone have tasks assigned through Pivotal or Jira have lunch Read/reply to emails get some work done daily stand-up - share with team in short what you are doing/problems/next tasks get some work done Of course there's meeting with clients in between. And I try to work at least one day a week from home. There is a 4-5 people teams but you do stuff individually but we freely discuss problems, design decisions or whatever with other team members or even with other teams. Sometimes we do pair programing No one is really just on one project, but something like 6 months to year could be average. After that there is support phase for fixing bugs and minor features. Some projects are with ongoing development. Finished project sometimes is really finished when the application is taken down or rewritten I use Sublime Text as editor, Sourcetree for git, oh-my-zsh as shell - this is like for every day stuff. There a bunch of other stuff like SQL Developer for plsql stuff/SVN, SoapUI etc. I'm on OSX as I'm a Ruby on Rails developer but could easily use linux too. Windows is real pain for RoR development. Servers are running Red Hat so you have to be familiar with Linux and forget about UI here. Anyway it's not like there is THE OS in this profession, one is better suited for one thing another for other. Yeah, I like what I do. I wish there where no deadlines Another thing that I sometimes hate is (gu)estimations - don't be optimistic or this will bite you. For practical skills it gives almost nothing. There was a lot of math witch I personally don't have much use for but this could depend on field you are going to work. There was some good course about programming concepts, networking, databases, hardware and some other that shows the big picture which imho was the most valuable. Some courses felt out dated. So imho it's worth for getting bigger picture about the industry.

Doh, shame on me, guess what the D stands for in DSL. So only the phone/fax stuff is analog there.

I'm quite sure cable and DSL is not digital.

Have a home server running Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS/Virtualmin/Plex/Deluge/Samba. Pretty happy with this setup. Have used OpenSuse/KDE as daily OS few years ago but kinda was missing some stuff from windows world. Currently work gets done on OSX Mavericks and this thing sometimes is driving me nuts. Maybe it was a bad upgrade from Lion or something, but some programs just stops responding, time to time just crashes. Lion was damn stable. There's also bunch of annoying things I wouldn't mind switching to Linux. Sorry Windows, you can't handle Ruby developers needs. Using Windows 7 and 8.1 at home. So I'm all for choosing best OS depending on situation.

I don't think so, it was a damn good port. It was running ok even on my dell inspiron 6400 with gma900. GTA IV on the other hand was a total mess.

Modem basically translates analog signal to digital. Router is a device that redirects digital data. DSL modem is combination of modem and router. So modem is not always just modem.

Good suggestion. Would not start with python and not because I'm a ruby developer. High level languages hide basics so Java or C++ in my opinion would be better starting point. Of course in high level languages you can visible results faster (like Rails 5 min blog) but I don't think it's best for learning principles.

Then just open the repository directory in explorer from the gear icon, create drectory 'blog', create index.html in there. Then in the github client app click sync if the changes aren't picked up then in the 'Uncommited changes' enter some description and push 'Commit to master'.

What OS are you using? I did it from osx terminal but that should work on linux too. Do you use some kind of git GUI?

So did quick test: mkdir blog && cd blogecho "Hello World from blog dir" > index.htmlgit add .git commit -m 'blog index'git push And that's it.

Haven't tested, but by looking at http://pages.github.com/, creating directory 'blog' should be enough. Then put blog related stuff there.

These two could get some boost from this. Calc already was pointed out. Another thing that could benefit is batch file format conversion like doc to pdf.

Great. Have you used our Electronic declaration system? Their 'next-next-finish' sounds unreal.

Usually don't pay much attention to linked-in news but as I'm from Latvia topic about neighbor country caught my eye. Really impressing how far Estonians have taken their e-services. We have some quite nice e-services here but theirs are totally different level. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140128232020-162988-estonia-the-little-country-that-cloud