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Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

  1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
  2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
  3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
  4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
  5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
  6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
  7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
  8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)
@chrisbanes
chrisbanes / FloatLabelLayout.java
Last active March 15, 2024 06:39
FloatLabelLayout
/*
* Copyright 2014 Chris Banes
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
@chrisbanes
chrisbanes / SystemUiHelper.java
Last active March 2, 2024 18:57
SystemUiHelper
/*
* Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
@chris95x8
chris95x8 / build.gradle
Created October 28, 2014 14:00
Extended toolbar with two floating-label edit texts. The layout was made according to this image from the Material Design guidelines: http://i.imgur.com/x8QsuxU.png The layout below looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/8sOTv7h.png
dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.+'
compile 'com.wrapp.floatlabelededittext:library:0.0.5'
}
@stefanrusek
stefanrusek / Fix for android v4.2.2
Created November 8, 2014 03:37
This is a work around for the appcompat v21 on android 4.2.2.
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH_MR1) {
menu = new MenuWrapper(menu) {
private MenuItem fix(MenuItem item) {
try {
Field f = item.getClass().getDeclaredField("mEmulateProviderVisibilityOverride");
f.setAccessible(true);
@chrisbanes
chrisbanes / CollapsingTitleLayout.java
Last active March 26, 2023 11:58
CollapsingTitleLayout
/*
* Copyright 2014 Chris Banes
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
@dmytrodanylyk
dmytrodanylyk / ShadowLayout.java
Last active August 29, 2015 14:15
ShadowLayout
public class ShadowLayout extends FrameLayout implements ViewGroup.OnHierarchyChangeListener {
private int mBackgroundColor;
private int mShadowColor;
private float mShadowRadius;
private float mCornerRadius;
private float mDx;
private float mDy;
private Paint mPaint;
@mttkay
mttkay / Pager.java
Created November 4, 2015 15:46
A simple Rx based pager
public class Pager<I, O> {
private static final Observable FINISH_SEQUENCE = Observable.never();
private PublishSubject<Observable<I>> pages;
private Observable<I> nextPage = finish();
private Subscription subscription = Subscriptions.empty();
private final PagingFunction<I> pagingFunction;
private final Func1<I, O> pageTransformer;
@neworld
neworld / howto.md
Last active September 15, 2020 11:32
How to make faster Android build without sacrificing new api lint check

Original solution sacrifices new api lint check.

Here my solution:

int minSdk = hasProperty('minSdk') ? minSdk.toInteger() : 16

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
 compileSdkVersion 23
@gelisam
gelisam / exchange-formats.md
Last active September 30, 2023 17:50
A list of every data exchange formats I could find

At work, I just spent the last few weeks exploring and evaluating every format I could find, and my number one criteria was whether they supported sum types. I was especially interested in schema languages in which I could describe my types and then some standard specifies how to encode them using an on-the-wire format, usually JSON.

  1. Swagger represents sum types like Scala does, using subtyping. So you have a parent type EitherIntString with two subtypes Left and Right represented as {"discriminator": "Left", value: 42} and {"discriminator": "Right", value": "foo"}. Unfortunately, unlike in Scala in which the parent type is abstract and cannot be instantiated, in Swagger it looks like the parent type is concrete, so when you specify that your input is an EitherIntString, you might receive {"discriminator": "EitherIntString"} instead of one of its two subtypes.
  2. JSON-schema supports unions, which isn't quite the same thing as sum types because