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Re:Did Pizza Exist in the Soviet Union? on Saturday July 27, 2024 @01:52PM (#41088214)
The pizzeria opened in the early 80s, it wasn't a cooperative. Even before perestroika started, there were plenty of state-owned restaurants. I think that pizzeria was the same, just a state-owned restaurant with a twist.
Re:Did Pizza Exist in the Soviet Union? on Saturday July 27, 2024 @01:03PM (#41087883)
Haha. I lived in Simferopol, Crimea and fondly remember the pizzeria there. It was hugely popular; the queue would often spill over into the street outside. The pizzas were different from classic Italian pizza; they would bake them in an electric oven on trays of twenty or so. Still, they tasted very good.
Now, where these days would you get a parallel port to plug it into?
Re:Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:54AM (#13317491)
They didn't release new 0.92 packages for Mac and apparently don't plan to.
Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning? on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:36PM (#12954335)
Small to medium sized apps (not games) where you can sacrifice some UI polish to get them delivered quicker and on both platforms. Have a look here https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html If you know React, learning React Native would be pretty easy, plus you can use many of react libraries like redux, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning? on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:27AM (#12950349)
I've several React Native apps in both appstores. I think while React Native is not suited for all types of apps, there is a sweet spot for certain projects where it really shines. The development speed is really unparalleled, with hot reloading you can see your app changes as soon as you hit 'save' in your editor.
Re:Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:09AM (#12899569)
Use open source alternatives in a first place. For authentication there is RedHat's http://keycloak.org, thanks to containers it's really easy to setup if you want to try it out. See https://medium.com/@ak1394/simple-social-login-for-react-nat... for an example.
I'm using it in my React Native app. Pretty happy with it so far. Haven't tried anything else, as Realm looked like the best choice at when I was selecting the data store for the app.
I'm using react-redux 4.4.5 in React Native app, no problems at all.
I had the same experience. I've been doing intermittent fasting for several months, and after a while I felt that hunger doesn't bother me that much anymore, so I decided to go for a three day fast. I do get slightly elevated blood pressure from time to time, but on the third day of fast I noticed that it dropped to lower than 120. I did a bit of googling, and found that there even were some medical studies looking into effect of fasting and lowering of blood pressure.
Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 on Monday July 25, 2016 @12:35PM (#12159801)
Spacemacs is great! What like the most, is that it's very easy on your hands. No more emacs pinky!
Re:Emacs 25.1 RC1 on Monday July 25, 2016 @12:30PM (#12159765)
Yes. I recommend running it off master branch instead of release, for better es6 support.
Re:iTerm2 version 3 beta released on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:44AM (#11814257)
Worked for me as well.
Re:Estonia Embraces Uber and Taxify on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:15PM (#11197494)
Few days ago I had a chat with a taxi driver in Tallin, very nice Estonian fellow in his 50s. On average he ends up working 80/hrs per week and he gets to keep (after tax, etc.) about 1/3rd of a fare paid by a customer.
Re:Spacemacs 0.105.0 released on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:54PM (#10838504)
I switched to spacemacs because its key bindings don't use ctrl key as much as normal emacs does.
Here is tracking bug for Firefox Media Source Extensions API https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617
Re:MongooseIM version 1.6: Riak, DevOps and more on Thursday November 26, 2015 @11:33AM (#10633629)
MongooseIM is a fork of Ejabberd. One feature I liked about it when I had a look at it (that was while ago) that it had websockets support which Ejabberd didn't have back then.
Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:48PM (#10475880)
This is quite simple board to use, it provides UART interface to the LoRA module and can be used with microcontroller or USB com port interface: https://www.tindie.com/products/DORJI_COM/long-range-semtech...
Re:Show HN: A Platform For Self-Experimentation on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:04PM (#10402310)
And it's been banned in EU in 2011.
There is a somewhat similar russian documentary about people leaving in the small settlements in Siberia: Happy People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA
Re:Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer on Sunday August 09, 2015 @09:21AM (#10030239)
I don't think this book deserves that much hype. I have mostly read it (hasn't quite finished the last chapter) but really didn't think much about it.
Same here, although I skip entire days not eating. Also, I think it get's easier to go without food for a day after a couple of months doing it.

I would attribute the improvement in blood pressure to an exercise, not IF (at least this was my case, as I've started going to gym before I started IF and seen the blood pressure drop).

This. It removes so much of cognitive load compared to other diets.

You don't have to care about choosing your food according to the diet or to count calories.

You don't have to figure out if you are withing the limits of the diet, or feel bad if you've eaten something extra.

On the days you're not fasting, you can eat whatever you want.

I normally don't have any breakfast either, just because I prefer to spend extra time in bed in the mornings.

This haven't prevented me from gaining weight though. So just skipping breakfasts in the long term wouldn't be enough.

What your perception of Varoufakis is? He seems reasonable in his assumption that more austerity will not work, and Greece needs a new approach to solve its economical woes?
Re:Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:14PM (#9742158)
I've been doing 5:2 style diet since March. I absolutely love it. Going through the day not eating is relatively easy for me, and for the rest of the week I don't have to care what, when or how much I eat. So far I lost about 5kg.
Re:The Life of Joseph Stalin's Daughter on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:50AM (#9704869)
Yeah. I was closely following the news, and the separatists bragged about shooting down another Ukrainian plane (they downed few helicopters and planes earlier).

Of course as soon as they knew it was foreign civilian plane they started to deny it.

This might be of interest, this the intercept of several phone calls by Ukrainian intelligence service (SBU) where separatists discuss the indecent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAyXVS-Qj8

Fair enough, sorry.
Yep, I guess I've overreacted about borgia.
I don't see the connection? I've nothing against Soviet rocket engines.

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