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One argument which some people might give in favor of using tabs is that it allows the viewer to decide how the code should appear to them. And hence, it separates the logic (indentation) from its appearance. The biggest flaw in that argument is that it renders the concept of line length limits meaningless. Line length limits and the associated rules of wrapping bring a good structure to the code. Someone looking at a piece of code with 3-levels of nesting and tab-length set to 8 will see a very different line length from someone using a tab-length of 2....

Java 1 2 3 int getTextFileSize(String fileName) { return (int) (new File(BASE_DIR, fileName).length(); // WRONG } A 32-bit signed int can deal with ~2GB worth of data. And if your code is not going to deal with files larger than 2GB, why worry? But what if someone wants to use the same code for a video file some day? Or What if someone writes another code to iterate over all the files in the BASE_DIR directory?...

General Multitasking - multi-window mode and picture-in-picture mode. This includes the ability to launch window in adjacent activity, and drag and drop between activities. Notifications - Custom quick settings tile for an activity Multi-locale - users can specify locale beyond their primary locale ScopedDirectoryAccess for the shared storage New file-level encryption mode (as opposed to block-level encryption) and the corresponding Direct Boot Java 8, Jack, and ndk support in Gradle GCC deprecated in favor of Clang TechTalk on Image size/compression PNG - Get image down to 256-bit palette (if possible) or compress them using Zopfli. Test the difference with butteraugli Convert PNG to Vector drawable using Potrace. Vector drawable are natively supported on Android 5.0 and above. Use compat to use them on the older versions. Or generate PNG for the older versions (not recommended) WebP is another option (Note: Speaker failed to mention that WebP is natively supported only on Android). Avoid JPEGs. They are usually larger in size.

The book compares a set of 10 pairs of companies over a timeframe of over 20 years to demonstrate what choices the same companies make to become great. The great ones (10Xers) were not led by visionaries, they were not more innovative, they did not try to move too fast, and they were not luckier ones either.

Yes, it did happen, and no, I am not stupid enough to execute rm -rf *. It was a bit more convoluted than that. I was trying to prepare a customized SD card image for the Android emulator. The fastest way to do that was to mount the SD card on my GNU/Linux machine and modify the files. The files on the SD card have root as the owner. Therefore, the easiest way to maintain a clean state was to make all modifications using sudo....

Day 1 Post-immigration clearance at about 6 PM, I took the Airlink Train to go to Patpong market. One can try a wide variety of local cuisines or a Thai body or facial massage there. There are tons of stalls selling unbranded goods of all variety. Overall, a good start the journey. From there, I headed to Khao San road which is the backpacker’s paradise of Bangkok. The area is on party 24-hours a day....

KBB is used in the US for estimating the value of a used car before buying/selling it. While helping friends buy used cars, I felt that it always overvalued the car. I feel there is an anchoring effect in play here. A car owner (seller) feels happier checking the value of their car since it is being reported higher than what they expect. This provides a nice room for providing a discount for converting the buyer....

Background Rohtak is a small district 50 miles (80 km) west of the Indian capital of New Delhi. The city is also known as the Jat heartland for its dominant Jat population. The second biggest community in the district is [Hindu] Punjabis who migrated to Haryana after the Islamic state of Pakistan was carved out of India in 1947. The Punjabis are primarily businessmen and live in the urban areas. They, notably, run the largest wholesale cloth market of Asia known as Shori market....

Philadelphia is a historic city on the east coast of the United States. It was the capital of the U.S. before Washington D.C. I spent two and a half days in and around Philadephia in January 2016. Day 1 I started the day with Indepence Hall National Historic Site. Liberty Bell Center gives a good overview of this historic American cultural icon. From there, I continued onto the tour of Independence Hall....

Standards exist so that products from different vendors can interoperate with each other, for example, sending email from Gmail to Yahoo! mail, and use common interfaces, for example, sockets for electrical appliances. The standardization does not always have to come from imposed standards; sometimes, it comes from the user expectations. For example, the interface of a Calander/Scheduling application is pretty standardized. There is little scope to differentiate a new Calendar application from the existing products like Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar, and iCal while just implementing the standard is still pretty hard....