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by arnvald 5y ago
It's the first time I've heard about a pen-mouse! How long did it take you to get used to it? I switched from Apple Trackpad to MX Vertical and the first couple of days were challenging due to the mouse profile, but then I got use
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by arnvald 5y ago
We have this saying in Poland: "sooner a cactus will grow on my hand" which is like "till hell freezes over". Just came to my mind, for some reason
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by arnvald 5y ago
Thanks for a thorough explanation! I've heard about NextJS, NuxtJS etc. and I know they're built on top of React and Vue, but didn't really know what kind of value they provided, now that's clearer.
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by arnvald 5y ago
Is is really that bad? I'm not very up-to-date with JS frameworks, so please bear with me. I know that new libraries pop up here and there, but if I'm not wrong, React is by far the most popular, and React has been around for almo
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I relearned typing to save my wrists(notonlycode.org)
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by arnvald 5y ago
> Why not assign each call to a variable for readability? The problem is that if you use a variable, you either: - use a new variable each time, therefore you have to think of appropriate name each time (and having a lot of variables doe
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by arnvald 5y ago
I had JBL earphones and they had exactly the same problem. Also couldn't turn it off. Extremely annoying.
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by arnvald 5y ago
Oh, it seems they raised their prices. I think I'm still on the old plan, cause I pay $48/year. Still, it looks like the cheapest option out there. Matomo costs €19/month, Fathom - $14/month (or $140/year), Piwik Pr
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by arnvald 5y ago
I worked at 2 dysfunctional companies and the most valuable thing I learned from it is never to work at dysfunctional company ever again. I might have a different definition of a dysfunctional place though - for me it's a place that wo
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by arnvald 5y ago
FAANG was coined as an acronym for best performing stocks in mid-2010s. Netflix has some of the top paid engineers in the world, but that's not why they're part of FAANG.
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by arnvald 5y ago
Author's background is right below the article: Mikhail Mikhailovich Khodarenok - military observer, retired colonel. Graduated from the Minsk Higher Engineering Anti-Aircraft Missile School (1976), Military Command Academy of Air Defe
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by arnvald 5y ago
Well said! Companies destroyed employee loyalty - by letting people go while paying bonuses to executives, by giving 3% raises while offering way higher salaries to new hires, by saying "we are a family here" only when they need e
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They do, LinkedIn shows a number of developers working for these companies from Netherlands.
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That's possible, Netherlands and Ireland are kind of tax havens in EU. The point remains - the number of job offers from American companies has visibly increased compared to 1-2 years ago.
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> The real question to ask is: Where are these new jobs? Remote? Satellite offices? New foreign offices? Living in Amsterdam, NL, I can say that I've started seeing A LOT more opportunities from American companies in the last 12 mon
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by arnvald 5y ago
Same experience here. Despite tools provided by the Angular team, the migration was really, really painful. I spent a significant amount of time moving a large AngularJS app to Angular, and despite all the effort we were still far from comp
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by arnvald 5y ago
Besides the reasons mentioned by others, I want to add: discipline. Keeping codebase well maintained requires some effort and often it's very tempting to cut a corner here or there, or to focus on adding new features instead of keeping
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by arnvald 5y ago
> Platforms like OpenSea have a network effect Exactly. Sellers will go wherever they can find the highest bidders. Buyers will go wherever they can find the best products. Eventually 1-2 winners + a few niche players will emerge and 99.
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by arnvald 5y ago
Previous discussion (from June 2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27606066
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by arnvald 5y ago
In general I'm openly against Scrum. Whenever I join a team doing Scrum I can immediately notice how the artificial concepts stiffle innovation and productivity. The "sprint" made sense when we used to release software every
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by arnvald 5y ago
> If you - a tv show, movie, etc - want to use it you can license it from me. That's not necessarily true, from what I understand most NFT purchases are not transfer of copyrights. Let's say I go to a store and buy a CD of my f
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by arnvald 5y ago
This is why I think the 6 years of Jack's tenure as CEO was mostly a wasted time for Twitter and I think it shows that it's extremely hard to run 2 large companies at the same time. I am a regular user of Twitter and I can't
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by arnvald 5y ago
I agree, and I regret waiting for the last 2 years to buy my own place: 2.5 years ago I put it on hold, because with such high prices the bubble must burst. 1.5 year ago I put it on hold, because with COVID and high prices the bubble must b
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by arnvald 5y ago
For the last 8 years or so I've been communicating primarily using global English. I moved overseas a few times, my partner comes from another country, and besides talking to my family I rarely use my native language. My inner voice mo
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by arnvald 5y ago
I can't believe some of the tweets they post. Things like "web3 is the first time you can own a piece of the internet" (I'm paraphrasing) are so bluntly wrong I don't understand why people fall for this.
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Idk maybe I'm still sour after they killed "We are hunted" 10y ago, but I feel Twitter acquired a number of companies and yet remained virtually unchanged for years. They acquired WAH to merge it into Twitter Music that they
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by arnvald 5y ago
One more point from that article I noticed: in a section talking about taking on multiple projects, the author writes "This is how much of Hollywood works." How can you not think: well, if this is how much of Hollywood works now,
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by arnvald 5y ago
I'm not sure that's true. They don't reveal separate numbers for GCP, but they put it under "Google Cloud" umbrella with Google Docs and other products. The revenues are growing, but they're still losing money:
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Currently in The Netherlands the hospitals are bracing for "code black" which means there are not enough beds and staff in the hospitals to treat everyone who needs it. Doctors will have to decide who gets treated and who doesn&#x
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by arnvald 5y ago
Apparently it's not: https://twitter.com/himanshub16/status/1465238053979447296 In the thread someone from JB mentions it's mostly JVM + some Rust

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