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by jacobr 5y ago
As with many words, monorepos can mean different things to different people. Some people use it for a repo where a single product is developed and typically deployed/published together, but happens to be distributed through separate pa
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How Europe is territorialized by Big Tech(twitter.com)
6 points by jacobr 5y ago|0 comments
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by jacobr 5y ago
Is the work “writing code” or is it “solving problems for the business”? If it’s the latter, communicating with others in the organization and advocating for change in some direction (aka “politics”) is part of the work.
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by jacobr 5y ago
People are mentioning that pinning versions lead to overhead in updates. These people have probably not used Renovate https://docs.renovatebot.com/ Renovate is smart enough to understand that a task such as “Update Node to
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by jacobr 5y ago
I just went into airplane mode to try, and the app works fine on iOS. It shows a message about not being able to fetch new emails.
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by jacobr 5y ago
Train from Copenhagen to Hamburg goes from 4.5 to 2.5 hours. As a Swede, this makes vacations to the continent via car or train much more attractive.
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by jacobr 5y ago
SEO before Google PageRank was basically submitting a site multiple times in an online form to Altavista and it would rank higher. As a teenager I automated this with the only programming language I knew, mIRC scripts.
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by jacobr 5y ago
This quote is worth translating for the HN crowd. It's a typical Nils van der Poel answer, from an interview with Swedish Radio. When asked how he did it, how he could sacrifice so much for a gold medal, his answer was "I think it
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Let’s agree about nice leaders(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by jacobr 5y ago|1 comments
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by jacobr 5y ago
To me it’s about giving advice and sharing experience. A senior engineer or tech lead might have a problem and I give more context, and talk about similar situations I’ve seen in the past or put them in contact with another team, but they m
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Age and high-growth entrepreneurship(aeaweb.org)
148 points by jacobr 5y ago|68 comments
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by jacobr 5y ago
I’m currently reading 4000 Weeks ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-w... ), which is something as interesting as a time management book that starts with a chapter quite similar to this arti
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by jacobr 5y ago
Do you still ultimately do product engineering, picking tickets of a backlog, after 10 years at a FAANG if you’re not in management? Are the promotion levels mostly salary bumps? I spend some but far from most of my time writing code, I wri
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by jacobr 5y ago
The TypeScript documentation even states "In modern TypeScript, you may not need an enum when an object with as const could suffice ... The biggest argument in favour of this format over TypeScript’s enum is that it keeps your codebase
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by jacobr 5y ago
It’s interesting that this is a government service in the US. That would probably not be politically possible in Sweden - there are already online stores where you can buy tests, the government would be competing with them. We also don’t ha
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by jacobr 5y ago
I called my classless (even though it really wasn’t, just like in politics) CSS library marcssist https://github.com/jacobrask/marcssist Barely even used it myself though, if anyone else likes bad puns feel free to ste
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by jacobr 5y ago
It’s also 74 additional kb to parse and evaluate on the main thread before it can continue doing more interesting things like rendering the main content you came to the page for. On many devices (a huge number of users globally are on dirt
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You have 80k hours in your career(80000hours.org)
3 points by jacobr 5y ago|0 comments
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by jacobr 5y ago
Have a look at the Career Guide from 80k hours https://80000hours.org/career-planning/ “You have 80,000 hours in your career. This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world. If you’re fortun
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by jacobr 5y ago
There’s a difference between for example killing animals for sport, for food, or by not taking enough precaution to avoid it (e.g. sweeping the road for bugs before walking). The agency matters - if your salary is explicitly tied to bad out
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by jacobr 5y ago
Lack of browser support is mostly about using -start/-end suffixes, postcss would indeed be useful for this but the majority of the complexity is around requiring 2 different CSS files (ltr and rtl). I’d say with some simple aliasing w
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by jacobr 5y ago
Most sites should be able to switch to CSS Logical Properties to remove the need to flip directional properties https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Logical...
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by jacobr 5y ago
This looks amazing, can’t wait to play around with it. What’s the story around migrating from GTM? We could easily switch out `dataLayer.push` for `zaraz.track` in our internal GTM wrapper, but is there feature parity?
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by jacobr 5y ago
It only knows your location when you open the app, why is that a problem?
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by jacobr 5y ago
TBE is another terrible tick borne neurological disease that’s increasing rapidly, currently only in Eurasia. There’s no cure, but at least a decent vaccine. It requires booster shots every 5 years though. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by jacobr 5y ago
BankID works ridiculously well. Would be interesting to know how the project is run, and how they managed to be so successful.
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by jacobr 5y ago
The width and height attributes are used by the browser to determine the aspect ratio https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/setting-height-widt...
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by jacobr 5y ago
Are responsibilities really this neatly separated? I’ve worked in both huge, small and medium sized Scandinavian companies and apart from EM and PM, the following people would also have a say in answering these questions: * designers
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by jacobr 5y ago
You then respond with “is x% worth y% longer time to market for new features, and n milliseconds longer load time for users on other browsers?” Also don’t forget to check actual conversion and other important metrics for different browsers,
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by jacobr 6y ago
Volvo cars will notify other Volvos about slippery roads and other road hazards, and there’s work to share this data with other car manufacturers as well. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volvo-european-data-task

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