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by jakub_g 3y ago
I wonder if someone didn't "forget" on purpose, so that people learn about it. Or, someone very diligently followed the orders - there was an order to set up a cert, but there was no requirement that it has to auto-renew :)
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Desktop to mobile was also a big shift from the perspective of wanting to offer the "continue your journey" experience + having the same experience on both. Which initiated moving features from being done locally to "log in a
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Which is why EU has mandated 2FA for online payments https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authenticati...
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Going deeper, this is like discussion about "static types vs dynamic types" or "relational DB vs freeform JSON" and so on. Having dynamic types and freeform JSON sounds nice when doing toy things, but at some point you&#
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by jakub_g 3y ago
FWIW when you open a bug on bugzilla you don't have to fill all those fields. You fill a few, and others can be changed later - by yourself, people who triage, process it, fix the bug etc. GH issues as a bug tracker feels really too si
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by jakub_g 3y ago
I'm not an area expert, but common issues raised over the years: - HTTP/2 as implemented by browsers requires HTTPS, and some people don't like HTTPS. - HTTP/2 was "designed by a committee" and has: a lot of fe
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by jakub_g 3y ago
I bought Pixel 6 after using Pixel 3a. "On paper" size-wise it seems nearly the same (1mm+ in each dimension) but in reality I feel like having a brick now, to the point I still prefer using my 3a on the go. I didn't realize
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Opera Android supports reflow FWIW. Needs to be enabled in settings (appearance > accessibility)
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by jakub_g 3y ago
My URL editing routine on Android: - copy the URL to clipboard - open "Fast Notepad" app, paste - edit, copy, paste I agree, URL editing is infuriating especially with long URLs with massive tracking query strings (e.g. anything o
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Sounds like a better and cheaper deal than in Berlin! (Semi-joking. Never lived in Berlin, but the mind-blowingly bad infra for such a big EU IT hub is a recurring meme).
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by jakub_g 3y ago
From my experience, Google is better for "I''m in a big western city and need to find a supermarket and check its up-to-date opening hours". OSM-based apps are much better for "I'm in a middle of nowhere and wa
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by jakub_g 3y ago
I used this a lot in early 2000s when my only internet connection was at school or internet cafes, and the data transfer was via a bunch floppy disks I carried with me. The floppies often had issues, so a single corrupted byte would normall
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by jakub_g 3y ago
I watched a documentary on this a few weeks ago. In France, there's 2 big groups which control outsized % of whole market. They squeeze producers really hard. They have a lot of abusive rules in contracts which are unrealistic. Like, y
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Also, there was an article recently that (at least in US) the CO2 emission norms are not absolute but relative to car size; to the absurd point that to fit into the norms, it's easier to make the car bigger, rather than to lower the em
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by jakub_g 3y ago
It's trivial. Only took Amadeus hundreds of developers working for over a decade to migrate off TPF. /s [0] https://amadeus.com/en/insights/blog/celebrating-one-year-fu...
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by jakub_g 3y ago
It's been a long known issue [0] that cert providers had to account for, but apparently not anymore [1] from Android 14 > Android 14 makes root certificates updatable via Google Play > Android's root store used to require an
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by jakub_g 3y ago
(For those confused: when not logged in, Twitter doesn't show replies anymore, only a single tweet, like if they didn't exist at all; it doesn't show almost any tweets on anyone's timeline also, except a few old random o
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Non-latin fonts also have different glyph widths. For example cyryllic text might be same "length" but glyphs in a system font might be wider hence overall the string needs more space.
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Good article. Knowing some Slavic, Latin or Asian language helps immensely when dealing with i18n. I wrote an article on a similar subject (with some additional technical details about Android and iOS) a few years ago, with a few similar co
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by jakub_g 3y ago
In "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" show, they take a popular song, translate to some language and translate back, and have the guest sing the massacred version. Search for "jimmy fallon google translate"
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by jakub_g 3y ago
A few years ago I was doing Android native development. Back then Samsung as well as Huawei (and other cheap Chinese vendors) have been known to be doing weird things to the operating system and in Google Play console there'd often be
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by jakub_g 3y ago
A good MQ impl allows you to make the MQ checks different than in PR. And you choose for MQ builds only a subset of tests which are known to be non-flaky. Merge queue builds should be fast and rock stable, following the 80/20 rule.
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Not feasible if CI time > time diff between two merges (e.g. CI time is 15m but there's a PR merged every 5 min).
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by jakub_g 3y ago
A followup blog also worth checking: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/URLPresenceNotG... > URLPresenceNotGoodSignal > There are a variety of situations where you (in the sense of prog
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by jakub_g 3y ago
FWIW if you use Datadog, the "CI Visibility" product allows to query GitLab jobs by name, status, duration etc. (as well as set up alerting on all this). (One current limitation though is that only finished pipelines show up, no o
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by jakub_g 3y ago
"(...) Nordstrom never sold tires. But in 1975, it purchased three stores from a company that did –Northern Commercial of Alaska. (...) When Nordstrom took over the locations, it narrowed the merchandise mix to apparel and shoes."
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by jakub_g 3y ago
HTTPS everywhere is not only about privacy but also about integrity. You don't want internet randos (including ISPs) to swap your content with ads, bitcoin miners and put other batshit crazy JavaScript in it. Also, a lot of ISPs blackb
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Just this week I was reading the average rent in Lisbon those days is more than the local salary.
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by jakub_g 3y ago
There's an... extension for that :) "Chrome extension source viewer" aka CRX Viewer https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s... Alternatively: https://robwu.nl/cr
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by jakub_g 3y ago
Do you have some links / google keywords about the teenagers working in healthcare/social services in Austria?

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