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Polish grandma of Google and her twisted life(minakowski.pl)
2 points by fridek 11y ago|0 comments
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ASUS Chromebook Flip(store.google.com)
2 points by fridek 11y ago|0 comments
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Measuring Developer Productivity(nickhodges.com)
1 points by fridek 11y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 11y ago
I've never seen a management role as something related to individual performance. I think it's rather clear that a one person team won't work better with additional manager. On average though you won't get uniform team n
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by fridek 11y ago
I was lucky to see the stellator construction in progress in 2011. It is easily the most amazing piece of tech I've witnessed with my own eyes. Not only it's huge, but it is also built with a stunning precision (to shape the magne
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by fridek 11y ago
Replacing "140 trillion times the total water on Earth" with "enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over." wasn't a particularly good idea.
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by fridek 11y ago
Sure you can. And as I said, I'm not a big angular lover. In fact we used Backbone for REST in it, because of shortcomings of the $resource at the time. And flux is great and React-first, but it's not technically a part of React.
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by fridek 11y ago
"I’m not joking: we were perfectly able to get by in one of the Angular projects developed internally — consisting of around 200 Javascript files and a total of around 10,000 lines of code — using only factories." Funny, I could a
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by fridek 11y ago
Because React solves only the directive part of Angular? I'm not saying it's great BTW, but comparing React to Angular is silly. That's like saying you chose lodash.js over Angular.
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by fridek 11y ago
Ah, so it's one of those moments when there are contradicting studies and without getting a PhD on the subject one can't have a meaningful opinion. I just wish there was a good way of settling such situations.
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by fridek 11y ago
It is interesting to read that burning coal actually produces more radioactive waste than a nuclear plant [1], only because there are loads and loads of it, and there are usually very few regulations involved. Some say that coal is not the
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by fridek 11y ago
We have learnt to not put reactors on top of the water tanks, and to not shutdown all safety systems to see if the plant explodes.
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by fridek 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but the Fukushima's core problem was an older design based on active cooling, that requires continuous water input and thus electricity to run the water pumps. Current work is concentrated mostly on making nucle
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by fridek 11y ago
It's hard to make an argument that loyal customers are lost. Don't they by definition renew the license every year anyway? If not, still no one is lost - existing licenses don't magically expire. This change affects only pote
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Magnetic Wormhole Created in Lab(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by fridek 11y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 11y ago
The same could have been (and was) said for Angular. Weapon choice is part of a duel. At the same time, I worked in a couple places that used better, but less fancy languages/frameworks. I won't name them to not attract a horde of
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by fridek 11y ago
You see, your idea about how the water consumption works is invalid. Water is not vitamin C, there is such thing as drinking too much and it leads to lower sodium levels in blood. It is actually advised to not drink too much water immediate
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Ubiquiti Networks Victim of $39M Social Engineering Attack(csoonline.com)
8 points by fridek 11y ago|3 comments
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by fridek 11y ago
It's funny how people saying ads should be replaced with a subscription model in different threads are going completely bananas about paywalled articles. Couple of web newspapers in my country switched recently to 10 articles a month f
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Ask HN: When the computational power of humanity was lower than of a smartphone?
1 points by fridek 11y ago|2 comments
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by fridek 11y ago
It looks like an amount of space hard to fill with meaningful data. I wonder if they would prevent people from filling it with random junk just for fun.
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by fridek 11y ago
Not that it matters and it was already said elsewhere, but peer bonus can be awarded only once for one thing. And it makes sense in a 50k+ company, where some social interaction happens and a single person can become peer-bonus-celebrity ea
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by fridek 11y ago
You speak as if the money was yours to spend and it was misused somehow. As far as billionaires eccentricity goes, this is a great use of money.
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by fridek 11y ago
From what I've heard Microsoft Edge looks like such attempt. When a site requires some kind of compatibility mode, the not-so-good-but-indeed-old IE is spawned to serve it. Great approach and I hope they set the bar high to make the co
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The Fear Cycle(michaelnygard.com)
1 points by fridek 11y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 11y ago
It's absolutely normal to feel bored with a project around a second year of it. Consider finding an environment where you can switch projects while staying within the company. Most large corporations would allow you to do that, at a co
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by fridek 11y ago
You can view them as huge tragedies or local aberrations, depending on where you live I guess. But if you consider what the modern world is capable of in terms of armed conflict (probably few orders of magnitude more of what WW1/2 was)
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by fridek 11y ago
That would be $20 billion, making it one of the top 1000 companies by revenue globally. I'll leave it to you to decide if it looks like a true information.
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by fridek 11y ago
Oh I absolutely agree, the algorithms and math are described very well. It's complex but clear, and the course I mentioned explains those concepts very well (and is fun, bonus points for that). I of course meant the or-tools API docs.
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by fridek 11y ago
Basically it solves NP-complete problems that are solvable because of small set size and some clever constant optimizations. There are industries where it's a useful thing for scheduling, for example. Or you may want to solve travellin

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