arnvald

30 ms·

301.
by arnvald 7y ago
It doesn't matter whether it's hard or not, it's at best a mediocre tool to determine programming skills. Also, it leads to a spiral of becoming worse: 1. being able to solve LeetCode tasks doesn't mean you're a goo
302.
by arnvald 7y ago
I've been to China a couple of times and ExpressVPN works most of the time for me. However the most reliable way to have a decent connection was Algo VPN deployed to AWS. It was far superior both in terms of reliability and in terms of
303.
by arnvald 7y ago
The problem with pay-per-article model is that every article you want to read is a separate purchase decision ("do I want to pay for this thing or not?". In order to make 10EUR from one user, they need to decide to buy 40 separate
304.
by arnvald 7y ago
Congratulations on the release and thanks to core team and all contributors for their work!
305.
by arnvald 7y ago
I think it's still worth paying attention to size of the JS download. If you download 500k of JS, it means that after ungzipping it, it will be 2mb or more. Your browser needs to parse and execute that code, which also takes time, and
306.
by arnvald 7y ago
> Has it occured to you you might simply not understand the advantages of this approach? I find it pretty rude to use the "you don't like it because you don't understand it" argument. I build SPAs at work, I know thei
307.
by arnvald 7y ago
It is still better than local taxis. I've been scammed by a taxi driver in Philippines and had problems with taxis at the airport in Indonesia. I switched to Grab/Uber and even if the quality was similar, at least I was relaxed an
308.
by arnvald 7y ago
Oh, you're right, this is the worst! Sometimes they showed me 3 pop-ups one after another before I could order a car. It was very frustrating
309.
by arnvald 7y ago
From time to time I had similar experience to yours, e.g. a driver in Manila cancelled just before arriving, because it appeared that there was a huge traffic jam close to where I was waiting etc. From my perspective though both Uber and Gr
310.
by arnvald 7y ago
Yes, the Chinese bank. They have a mobile app where they include a bunch of mini-applications developed by separate companies (essentially they're web views that interact with a small API provided by the main app)
311.
by arnvald 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that worrying about your hosting provider going out of business is one of the least important things to think about when you have a startup that's still trying to build its business model. And seriously, not everyt
312.
by arnvald 7y ago
The author forgot to mention that Uber hasn't just left South-East Asia. It was officially acquired by Grab and got 27.5% stake in Grab in exchange[0] Before leaving the market, Uber had a really intensive price war with Grab (for a fe
313.
by arnvald 7y ago
Do others have similar experience? I'm not a fan of Microsoft products however I sometimes have to use them or want to give a try to something like Azure, and so far my experience has been pretty bad. I had to contact their customer se
314.
by arnvald 7y ago
Thank you for considering my comment!
315.
by arnvald 7y ago
I've tried trunk-based development before, and while it provides certain benefits, I don't think it's a silver bullet. > Why you should not use feature branches > Keep reading, all the objections you can think of are wr
316.
by arnvald 7y ago
Not necessarily. There are certain things the core team wants to add to Ruby 3.0 and once all goals are reached, the next release will be called 3.0 (so we might possibly see Ruby 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 etc before). The earliest possible date (and
317.
by arnvald 7y ago
That's true, I've had similar experience. Unfortunately merchants can't do anything about it, since the sites are provided by the banks.
318.
by arnvald 8y ago
There's more to that. Anti-fraud mechanisms that require additional action on user's side, lower the conversion rate. For example 3DSecure mechanism redirects customer to another site where user has to put a number received in a t
319.
by arnvald 8y ago
Small correction: Phoenix is a web framework, not a UI framework.
320.
by arnvald 8y ago
I believe he means polish e-bookstores. They're way more popular than Kindle store because they offer books in polish language. IIRC some of the stores started offering DRM-free books, others followed and generally it became kind of a
321.
by arnvald 8y ago
I said that Vim has built-in shortcuts for that (from what I know, Intellij doesn't) and I added custom ones because I wanted a simpler one. It's a fair point that editing a config file might seem way more complicated than modifyi
322.
by arnvald 8y ago
You're right, basic Vim or Neovim are definitely not easier, especially that you have multiple packages to choose from. I believe it's easier to start with one of existing Vim configurations like Janus[0] or spf13-vim[1]. I tried
323.
by arnvald 8y ago
It's possible, it also might be a matter of preference. I find it hard to become productive with other editors, although I appreciate some features there that are hard to achieve in terminal Vim. It might be true that for most people i
324.
by arnvald 8y ago
I sometimes find myself on the other side. I've been using Vim for close to 10 years. I rarely edit my .vimrc file now, mostly when I want to try out some new plugin or I'm using new library and want to improve some shortcuts. Fro
325.
by arnvald 8y ago
Overall I like this redesign! Some parts I truly enjoy there: * single layer navigation: it looks busy, but it would improve my life a lot; I find the current one pretty annoying * showing statistics on the main page: this is very useful in
326.
by arnvald 8y ago
I totally agree! Tens of times I tried to move to the branches page only to realise that I'm in some view that doesn't display the secondary navigation, and I need to go to main repo page first
327.
by arnvald 8y ago
In many cases companies don't interview all the candidates before making a decision, it's more on a rolling basis. You consider each candidate separately - you interview a candidate and then decide whether to hire him/her or
328.
by arnvald 8y ago
It is already happening. In Poland the salaries among developers are getting closer and closer to salaries in Germany or UK. The reasons are that developers can find a job for foreign companies (therefore local companies need to increase sa
329.
by arnvald 8y ago
Github was always profitable, that's why they only took VC money in 2015, after around 7 years of existence. With VC funding they started looking more at enterprise customers. I believe individual paid accounts were a tiny fraction of
330.
by arnvald 8y ago
Location: Netherlands Remote: yes, preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: I'm primarily using Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, I've learned plenty of frameworks, and have some limited devops experience; I'm more than happy

More ›