10 Mar 2014 Evernote seems to be great tool for note taking and keeping pretty much everything you want organized. I used to use a wiki but recently I decided to give Evernote a second or third or fourth try. I am not sure what the number here is but this is the first time it actually clicked with me and I think I am actually going to use it instead of my wiki and switch to it completely. They just didn't have the the ecosystem in place when I tried it the first X times. Now they cover almost every platform and the support on the desktop is just great!
There are some limitations for every account be it a free account or premium or even business account. When I first thought about the limitations I thought - that sucks... But then I thought - hey, let's put this in perspective and see how "real" these limitations are.
So the limits are:
Number of notes | 100,000 | If you crete X notes daily and never delete single note then:</p> - If you create 30 notes a day (every day)– it will take you a little over 9 years to hit the quota.
- If you create just 5 notes a day (every day)– it will take you roughly 55 years to hit the quota.
- If you create 30 motes a day (every day except w-ends) - it will take you a little less than 13 years to hit the quota
- If you create 5 motes a day (every day except w-ends) - it will take you roughly 80 years to hit the quota
So, after putting it into a bit of perspective – it doesn't look that bad, right :) Besides, even in 10 years I bet the computational power would jump to such a level that the limit would be raised to 1 million notes and then it would be impractical to hit the limit in a lifetime (of course we need to take into the account the fact</td> </tr> |
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Tags | 100,000 | There are many speculations but many linguistic experts agree that an average adult has a vocabulary size of 20,000 to 35,000 words. Including the most obscure ones that you can think of. So I would say you are pretty much safe here as you are going to run of any meaningful means of managing the tags before you run out of quota |
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Tags per note | 100 | That's a lot for every give post. And this limit is not even interesting that much. |
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26 Feb 2014 A recently popular new startup that is making waves, namely Secret.ly was quite soon hacked after it was first released, giving the attacker access to the identity of the poster, effectively defeating the purpose of the secrecy. So they said "We take security seriously" and threw a public challenge to the hackers around the world... Or so it seems becase there are no real incentives besides curiosity and pride and maybe some swag from secretly.
On the other hand, the not so known messaging app created by the brothers Nikolay and Pavel Durov. While the latter is well known being the founder of the most popular russian social networking site VK.com, his brother Nikolay is less know and he was the one to device the new communication and open source protocol MTProto for the Telegram. Telegram is non profit, partially open source (the Protocol and API code is open so every one who is skeptical can make sure that it is truly secure) and is absolutely free. It is available for Android and iOS. And if all the above doesn't blow you away yet, there's more. To make sure their implementation is secure, they are running a crypto challenge and the winner will get $200,000 in Bitcoin currency. Now that's serious.
25 Oct 2013 Here's a simple function that will remove curly quotes aka smart quotes from your strings. Very useful if you enter data from MS Word files or other sources that may use weird unicode characters. Use it as an input cleaning step before saving the string data.
function remove_curly_quotes($text) {
// First, replace UTF-8 characters.
$text = str_replace(array("\xe2\x80\x98", "\xe2\x80\x99", "\xe2\x80\x9c", "\xe2\x80\x9d", "\xe2\x80\x93", "\xe2\x80\x94", "\xe2\x80\xa6"), array("'", "'", '"', '"', '-', '--',
'...'), $text);
// Next, replace their Windows-1252 equivalents.
$text = str_replace(array(chr(145), chr(146), chr(147), chr(148), chr(150), chr(151), chr(133)), array("'", "'", '"', '"', '-', '--', '...'), $text);
return $text;
}
25 Oct 2013 I needed to hit a number of files on a remote HTTP server with an index ranging from 1 to 150 and my first instinct was to use wget with some sort of a loop (bash script seemed like the most logical thing to do).
Then I realized that I can do the same thing in a simple oneliner using ‘curl’
It’s super easy using the following info:
You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets within braces as in:
http://site.{one,two,three}.com
or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using []
as in:
ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros) ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each other:
http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html
You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter:
yo
http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt
08 Sep 2013 Here’s a simple code snippet to calculate approximate physical size of the screen of any Android device. If you find that useful or have suggestions to improve, your thoughts and feedback are welcome in the comments.
/**
* Calculates an approximation to the diagonal size of the screen. Based on the width and height pixels, the # of pixels in diagonal are calculated and then using the density DPI
* the pixels are translated into physical dimension in pixels
*
* @param activity
* @return
*/
public static double getDiagonalSize(Activity activity) {
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
return Math.sqrt((metrics.widthPixels * metrics.widthPixels)
+ (metrics.heightPixels * metrics.heightPixels))
/ metrics.densityDpi;
}