0xmarcin

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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
If you divide outages / new feature then they are one of the best. Last few years they innovated like crazy. Opening VSCode straight from the repo is still my best feature. CoPilot hype is shadowed by chatGTP, but still it is one of th
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Having a single source of income is becoming more and more problematic in current times. If you are married you have at least two sources of income, that may be the biggest _economic_ advantage of the marriage. Those layoffs make me realise
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
For some reason Japanese culture is quite popular among nerdy types (be it anime? games? sushi?). I was also fascinated by Japan, even tried to learn the language but got discouraged early on by having to learn 3 different "writing sys
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Something similar happened to me, the magic of programming is gone - now it is just another job that pays well. Personally I moved my interests to stock markets/investing/economy and also philosophy (but only basics). I still feel
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Google is so badly managed (e.g. Stadia failure recently) that I am surprised that investors tolerated their insane cash burning for so long. Now the stakeholders want better results than one failed launch per year. It is unfathomable how G
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Germany already took enormous amounts of immigrants from Syrian war. Now they "benefit" from Russian-Ukraine conflict. I think there will be zero/null shortage of the workforce there. The country is still desirable target for
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I agree with you in principle. In practice English is often all you need if you live in a big city. When I look at my country (Poland), I can see that a person can live in Warsaw (capital city) or any of the biggest 5 cities without knowing
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Seems to me that someone "stole" it from F#. F# probably also take this idea from some unknown (to me) language. Here a similar idea in C++ https://www.fluentcpp.com/2019/10/18/piping-to-and-from-a-s
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Something like "Wow! great that you find it!" or "God job, remind me about this when we will be doing yearly salary review" or "Get this fancy tshirt"... What I instead encounter was "Fix it! It's you
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I am from Poland and to be honest I always wondered why US startup outsource their "R&D" to central europe instead of latin america. The time zone difference just makes this unpleasant to both sides. I come to the conclusion t
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
This, I once found and reported a security issue in the code. The prize that I got was to late Friday evening spend of fixing the issue while deploying all 20+ microservices. Most of the "business" people either think security is
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Software engineering vs programming? Sounds to me like work vs hobby dilemma. I love programming but I hate doing documentation, non-conclusive/watered-down meetings, seeking consensus with 10+ people and scrum master "friendly ad
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Potential is great, but so is the risk. For example consider this: apartments in Kiev are now priced at about 50% of their usual price, you may buy one. Now hypothetical scenario: in the Spring there is an Russian offensive on Kiev and your
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
What about those famous experiment that shows that people rarely read letter by letter: > Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
First, the entire point of using abstractions is that you do not need to understand what's behind them. Try to port API layer by layer (ideally if you can also apply vertical slicing e.g. user endpoint, invoice endpoint). Stub lower la
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
From my egotistical point of view it was a great start of the year, I rode a bike, I walk, I sunbathed - so refreshing during those short winter days (and after a sleepless night). Not sure if you are aware but Poland is one of the few coun
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
"Javascript was a nice simple language for a while", wait, what? JS from its inception was a mix of LISP and C and what's not: strange OO inheritance (prototyping), only floating points for numbers (causes a lot of confusion)
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I have a person on my team that does not want to use IntelliJ (we are doing Java), instead it relies on VSCode although the company paid for IJ license. Is this a symptom of strong preferences or being immature? Probably both. I don't
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I am not sure what do you mean by "failed MVC for .NET". I spend a few years writing web apps in MVC. It is basically a way to expose some code as HTTP endpoint. Nothing less and nothing more, there is auth stuff that mostly works
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
He may create a renting service. Recently on a few devcons I saw a retro-corner. It was just a bunch of few popular machines like early apple, c64 and few other machines. You can go there, play with the machines - there where a few games lo
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I never bought an ebook from Amazon, but I bought at least a dozen Audible audiobooks. Putting aside DRM, not-really-your-audiobook stuff the experience was very good. And I am living in a second world country (Poland). The entire process i
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
We may revert the hard truths to get soft precautions: - Always have savings that will cover at least 6 months of expenses, now probably a year (if indeed it takes so much time to find a new job). - Socialize outside work, ideally have a ne
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Loneliness is bad in itself, but it can get worse if you are: - Not going outside every day - Not keeping yourself fit - Eating junk food In my region there is a lot of office only/mostly hybrid (3+ days in the office) jobs, probably f
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
- 10 years on LinkedIn, benefit: none - 15 years on Reddit, there are some obscure reddits that are quite informative, but the last 5 years I saw a huge deterioration of the content, benefit: some - 2 years on TeamBlind, good to know that l
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I grow up in a small village in eastern europe. It is amazing that you can befriend most of the animals. Chickens are too primitive for that, but cows turned out to be quite intelligent. You can do it the same as with crows, but you should
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Interesting that nobody suggested a non-tech solution "Kindly ask this person to change his/her surname.". I think this may in the long run not only save several hundred hours of IT departments work but also save this person
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
Rotary phones where used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch - so they have very simple interface - just generate the number of pulses that is either N or 10-N (I don't remember exactly which one is
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
The lack of usable hardware is the current problem now. I think Google Glass did it right, but was not liked by the average consumer as being overly nerdy. Other than that I think VR in a kind of glasses or a bain interface form would be an
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
I think there is a problem with using money to measure wealth. Maybe a better question may be to check how land or housing is distributed among people? If 10% wealthiest decided one day to e.g. purchase land, the effect would be: 1) equity&
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by 0xmarcin 4y ago
So can this be generalized to other collectable items? If as a hobby I collect, sell and exchange X does it mean I will lose money in the long run? Recently there was a few articles about investing in Lego sets, from this article POV it may

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