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by jakub_g 3y ago
Same about music. In good ol' days, one would meet a friend to listen to cool new music together, share CDs with mp3s etc It's actually really weird. I wanted to buy my niece some CDs for Christmas to discover 90s music, but kids
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Very off-topic but I can't help, the pace of change reminds of the "Bates 4000" sketch from The Onion Movie: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fw7FniaeaSo
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by jakub_g 3y ago
This has been a standard practice in many countries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_silence
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Every internet-of-shit device should be legally required to go through a security audit, and the vendor should commit to mandatory 5 years of API being up + 5 years of security updates, with N days to fix CVEs with severity over a certain t
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by jakub_g 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDN_Web_Docs
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This is mostly a question of costs & availability of developers. There's simply not enough native developers on the market, and the good ones can ask very high salaries. Hiring N teams of M developers for N native apps, compared to
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by jakub_g 3y ago
This. "How difficult would it be to write a custom implementation of scrollbar in JavaScript?" (whose performance would be 100x slower than native browser scrolling, but who cares, we all have Macbook Pros, right?)
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by jakub_g 3y ago
In my experience it all depends on what kind of codebase it is (product? library/framework? private company? opensource?), commit velocity, release cadence & how the codebase is used in general. In low-velocity opensource libraries
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Linking to previous and previous-previous discussions: ś is not the only disappearing Polish latter. See also: - ł and ć: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988553 - ą: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Very relatedly, there's a potential similar footgun related to hours , due to the fact that dates initialized without hour default to 00:00, and that JS dates are in user's current local timezone . It's possible then that a
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by jakub_g 3y ago
$3M per month, 15k residents, so roughly $200 per resident per month. Not bad.
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Sometimes, building / running / doing the flow that produces a bug takes a lot of time. Or the bug is in external lib which would make it hard / cumbersome to instrument with logs. In that case, properly placed debugger will
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Say thank you to the advertising industry ("is this video long enough so we can slap a midroll ad in it?")
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by jakub_g 3y ago
> When a company is granted a utility patent on a type of seed, it doesn’t just own the seed. It also owns its traits (color, texture, ... > So, if a plant breeder like Morton develops his own variety of lettuce and the lettuce matche
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by jakub_g 3y ago
FWIW Huawei smart watches are quite popular in some EU countries, but the Huawei health app needs to be installed on newest Android by downloading an APK because Google kicked it out of Play Store. Even for me, setting this up and giving ne
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by jakub_g 3y ago
No 90s/00s website would be complete without a "best viewed in 800x600 resolution" button. If you wanted to go fancy, you'd also put "Valid HTML 4.01". Another goodie: ads used to be simple standard sized <i
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Do you mean the one which popped up from the browser UI before anything on the page has loaded? (aka "HTTP authentication") Wasn't this abysmal? You navigate to some page, and out of nowhere it asks you for login, before you
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Just TIL from side comment [1] > Apart from the speed cap, every Volvo car will now also come with a Care Key, which allows Volvo drivers to set additional limitations on the car’s top speed, for example before lending their car to other
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by jakub_g 3y ago
The mechanism for caching seen certs dates back to Internet Explorer / Netscape times https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399324#c16
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Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno(bbc.com)
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Apart from money not being everything, it's also much "averages vs medians" (vs distributions) again. People love using averages because they're a single number, and easy to calculate. Medians are more difficult to calc,
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by jakub_g 3y ago
> "inadequate and incompetent new hires" * *citation needed From what I've read last week [0], the main problem is that there's not enough (qualified) candidates being hired, and current ATC employees are routinely wo
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Previous threads on same news: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632033
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Since we talk GH code search, a frequent issue raised on community forums is that some repos stopped being indexed, and yield 0 results. (Happened also to repos in my bigcorp). Has there been a systemic fix for that issue, other than asking
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Exactly. If they "fell victim to cybercriminals" who entered backdoors in the code (that they didn't know about for over 2 years!) then Newag should instantly recall all trains for inspection. Contrarily, if they _knew_ about
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Of course they won't straight admit they've been screwing their customers, so they need a bullshit excuse. It doesn't make any sense either: "falling victim to cybercriminals" who entered GPS coordinates of all comp
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Google is solving problems at Google scale, where improving something by 2% yields millions. Re: "distracting other companies", there's however this famous essay by Joel Spolsky (2002): https://www.joelonsoftware.c
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TL;DR fault is not on HP side but on Windows side. 90% of commenters didn't read the article. (Yes I hate HP too. Use Brother.) > It's likely that whatever bug is causing the problem made these PCs believe they had an HP printe
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by jakub_g 3y ago
I used to have cable TV without box (direct stuff via analog cable) until mid-2000s, and man, 15-ish years forward, the order of magnitude slower channel zapping still bothers me as hell. (To be fair though, nowadays we have UHD/4K cha
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Curiously, I was riding a TGV in France few weeks ago, and due to some track problems, we had to change the direction and go back to previous station (and then use different track to go forward again). It took more than 1h to start going ba

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