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by atraac 3y ago
> Windows sucks in the default install, but if you know what you're doing you can remove all the junk from it and make Windows almost as efficient as, say, Linux (and way more efficient than macOS). I can answer this as someone who,
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by atraac 3y ago
> no way to align or snap windows Just download Rectangle for free. I recently switched from Dell XPS to M3 Pro and that was my gripe to. One install and it's much better, moving windows with ctrl+opt+arrows is also close to Windows
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by atraac 3y ago
It actually depends, developer can block you from using the app until you update, either themselves or through Play Store's 'Immediate updates'.
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by atraac 3y ago
> while apps distributed on other (native) platforms never have such a problem Could you give an example? I was an android app dev over 5 years ago and there was a huge push for lower app size everywhere. Google even made Android App Bu
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by atraac 3y ago
People(old and young) give away their entire life savings to scammers every day, everywhere in the world. You don't hear about it on the internet all the time because we either got used to it or they don't want the publicity. You
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by atraac 3y ago
In Poland(since I'm also from here), biggest chunk of savings when working as self-employed is income tax and mandatory public retiremend fund. Most Software Engineers go B2B/self-employment route because not only taxes are lowe
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by atraac 3y ago
So the fact that everything around is poorly made, forbids him from whining that a certain solution is as bad as everything else? Shouldn't we criticize and point out stuff that is bad, no matter whether it's as bad as something e
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by atraac 3y ago
> In the last year Riot also started to sell severely overpriced skins, despite a lot of outrage from the community. They learned from Valorant. It has extremely overpriced skins from the beginning too, and the outrage lasts a single pos
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by atraac 3y ago
Not arguing over original point of quality of tech workers but... > I've conducted 300+ interviews at FAANG in the last 15 years and haven't seen a meaningful drop in the hiring bar. Are FAANG interviews these days an indicator
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by atraac 3y ago
Would be nice to get a link directly to a post. F.e. links are a bit malformed due to formatting and wanting to see an original post, I had to ctrl+f over the whole thread with parts of the sentence.
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by atraac 3y ago
> Great example to prove my point. They used a framework to quickly get something out of the door and working, validating the business idea, but later migrated away from it They started migration 10 years after original release of the pr
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by atraac 3y ago
> Each business is trying to innovate and do something different in order to make money This might be shocking for you but _most_ businesses do not innovate anything. That's how the world works, very few people innovate. > Also f
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by atraac 3y ago
> Frameworks always hinder more than help in the long term, because once you need to make one step sideways they inflict indefinite pain on you. I read messages like these and I would honestly love an example, because throughout last 5 y
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by atraac 3y ago
> I had similar experiences in C#.NET I honestly cannot imagine writing modern .NET without a framework. When was this? Modern .NET(5+) is so easy to write and maintain I feel shocked that someone doesn't like it. And I say that as
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by atraac 3y ago
1. Most software is NOT competently written - just look how bad your average, day to day software runs. 2. Salesforce, JIRA, Microsoft Teams, Reddit, even Gmail recently takes up to a minute to get content and be responsive, just to name a
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by atraac 3y ago
We've built similar thing to sync certain Salesforce objects to our .NET backend but Salesforce has their streaming all built around CometD which uses something I believe an insane person came up with - Bayeux Protocol. It's essen
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by atraac 3y ago
Ah yes, cause what's better than building a real, working MVP? Learning Rust for half a year just so you can 'optimize' the f out of an app that does two REST calls.
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by atraac 3y ago
> Well that's why, because you already make very good money here. But the vast majority of Poles, or even Europeans in richer countries, don't make anywhere near that money. Sure but we're talking in a technical forum wher
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by atraac 3y ago
I think you got downvoted because you answer like you're being attacked, when someone just stated their opinion/views. He mentioned this is an opinion of people HE knows. This is also an opinion of most people I know(and I work wi
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by atraac 3y ago
Employee becomes a contractor - you change the paper to make sure it doesn't fall under 'employment' category and they pay their own taxes according to the country rules, or simply outsource that to any local accountant. I&#x
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by atraac 3y ago
No partial matches probably related to how they index emails to save on space, I found it annoying once or twice too but not a big deal. As for the rest - well, I don't really want it to 'fix' my typos(especially since I&#x27
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by atraac 3y ago
> fact that the results are objectively worse than Google's for the same terms By what metric? For around a year now I use primarily DDG and I often find much better results, for both work/programming-related stuff as well as d
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by atraac 3y ago
They don't need to ask for any backdoor, there are existing solutions already like Pegasus. It was recently used by Polish government ruling party to spy on opposition under the pretense of looking for 'Russian spies'. Consid
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by atraac 3y ago
I also use SwiftKey and can highly recommend. I use Polish and English, sometimes within the same message and native keyboard was an absolute shitshow for me. It would literally never correct properly, sometimes make up non existing words e
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by atraac 3y ago
> This is a pretty realistic balanced real-world benchmark of web frameworks (and languages): https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ Did you even ever see implementation behind techempower benchmarks? There's
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by atraac 3y ago
To be honest you don't even have to go to universities or schools. Just offer tutoring from the field or around the field you're in. There's a lot of money to be made like this, especially since math in school is fairly easy
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by atraac 3y ago
This depends on the country. In Poland most people buy online these days, but we all use postage boxes(company called InPost). They have 'boxes' everywhere, in every city, even small villages at this point have at least one, big c
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by atraac 3y ago
> I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry. This can be applied to almost everything. Looking at average software developers around, I see people with 10 years of expe
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by atraac 3y ago
It's not you, I'm guessing they removed the 'Try it out' app from Azure, it also won't load for me. Sounds like Microsoft.
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by atraac 3y ago
There's an app description, OP just linked to privacy page instead of actual page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.le... > Sync for Lemmy is a full-featured app for browsing Lemmy

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