Not related to Japanese, but to large numbers in general: I just learned that there are to scales for billions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Here in Italy Telegram is slowly gaining traction. Even the municipality in my city uses it (for traffic notices and other warnings), very useful. Bonus points: bots, Gif search and stickers!

I still own&use one; I upgraded SSD and ram an it is still pretty ok for small web dev and internet browsing.

Manual car with start&stop owner here; I always use it when driving in the city, so do all of my friends. It's just slightly uncomfortable the first times, when you have to train your muscle memory.

That, and the integrated gifbot. My teenage sister went crazy when I showed her how to search for stickers.

They aren't. This is the Italian police investigating Italian products.

I don't see the news here. Shirataki is quite popular and quite easily found. I think it became popular with the Dukan diet.

Shirataki are pure konjac, the article talks about adding wood fibers to konjac to improve the texture and taste.

Thank you, I didn't know that. Do you think that there are key differences between the two?

Nothing more than what's in the article, namely that the mix is supposed to mix taste and texture, which could help selling shirataki and more generally konjac products.

Thanks, this website is a pretty old, and I hope the protocol doesn't change after the firmware upgrade. The 1st hack, I'd like to do, is to use miband for notification mobile. It will be nice have a library or sdk for this purpose. For android : https://github.com/lwis/miband-notifier

Yes, I know... Developers are constantly asking for an API of some sort, but seems that Xiaomi ignores that. Too bad, since the MiBand is a nice little device. Are you trying to use it on Android? There is also an iOs library (but seems very limited) and a Python one (has a lot of functions - http://oscaracena.bitbucket.org/mibanda/api/)

Yes, I am an Android developer, but it is not the point. The point is to increase functionality, and maybe build a sort of library to handle the main functionality ( it should be really nice customize the notification). The python library looks like very nice :-) good job

Very strong in Italy too. All of my friends know it, and a lot of them used it at least once.

I don't know how it is in the US, but in Europe thefts are VERY common, and because of this trust/relationship plays a very important role. That said, the industry is very, very old school, spreadsheets at best. Although with the new generation taking over, the things will change (I hope).