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by jakub_g 4y ago
*in US. Honestly, I was expecting an article about some ingredients being harmful to coral reef hence disallowed, or similar. Instead, the issue is slow process of FDA. > The FDA hasn’t added a new active ingredient to its sunscreen mono
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by jakub_g 4y ago
In JS/TS world, until recently yarn was a de facto tool for monorepos. Recently pnpm looks like getting traction. There are a few other new tools recently getting popular as well, it's a hot topic.
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by jakub_g 4y ago
> While it is still used by many tech businesses (including the author’s), it has no real network effect — that is, users can switch to a competitor product like Asana, Basecamp or Monday.com with minimal cost (other than the initial has
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by jakub_g 4y ago
According to stats from GitHub, 12% of their traffic is from Firefox. 3x more than Safari. https://github.blog/2022-06-10-how-we-think-about-browsers/ Of course this is just part of the story. In every country it'
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by jakub_g 4y ago
On Android this is called "Bedtime mode". You can also have a shortcut in the menu that slides from top.
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by jakub_g 4y ago
Not a native but for a good while I thought that "breaking news" was TV specific term meaning "we need to break the regular things that were about to be shown because we've got this last minute urgent thing to tell"
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by jakub_g 4y ago
When I was a student and wanted to get a small job to get some pocket money, I couldn't, because after reporting it, my mom would lose some family benefits and we'd be worse off at the end of the day. This was a recurring theme un
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by jakub_g 4y ago
There's a HN classic for that: "Just remove the duck" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137736
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by jakub_g 4y ago
I'm not an expert but the mixed system is used in Hungary, and the result is that Fidesz (Orban's party), with ~50% votes, gets ~68% seats (just above 2/3 they need to have infinite power), third time in a row
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by jakub_g 4y ago
See also https://github.com/gi11es/equal-pay-for-equal-work (seems there's a big overlap)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
This is a real problem in my current place (huge monorepo, 100+ devs, 100+ merges per day). Like others said, "merge queue" is the solution. GitHub's one has been in beta for many months now. There are also dedicated companie
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Handy link with the name for the concept: https://contrastrebellion.com/ Personally when this happens and reader mode not available, I typically open devtools, use element picker to select text, and change color of text man
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Same issue with Slack. IMO the PRs should be by default opened as drafts, or at least there should be a per repo or per user option to enforce that. Often someone opens a nonreviewable WIP, or messes up something with branches, and dozens o
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by jakub_g 5y ago
The story about monkeys shifted all the time between groups, and the status-seeking ones being most stressed, made me think about my experience changing teams/jobs. I'm generally not a status seeking person, I don't care abou
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by jakub_g 5y ago
It's fun how the expertise of the person ("I know how those various systems work, and how everything is duct-taped together"), and being accustomed to things being shit with the banks, has turned against them.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
This article has insights from folks who actually tried: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-fr... TL;DR you need a lot of money and users (catch-22). Also, massive scale and massive noise. Y
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by jakub_g 5y ago
At least one good thing about GH is that while things break, the status page is updated relatively fast compared to other companies, when all HN knows about outage for 1h+ until it's acknowledged.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I only read it briefly but the HN submission title talks about erasing files on RU/BY computers, while the blog post talks about creating files on desktop. Could someone verify which statement is true?
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by jakub_g 5y ago
By "services" I think the parent means "getting married at the church" etc.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
The article talks about Microsoft, and boy, it's even more terrible in some respects: for example, language of some Office tools like Excel is bound to the organization ! I worked for a French company, and I was forced to use web Exce
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by jakub_g 5y ago
To be more specific: for example, (non-FAANG) senior dev salaries in Poland are pretty much in line with senior dev salaries in France. Before the covid, typical senior dev net salary in Poland was around ~12-18k PLN per month, while in Fra
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Note: article was updated saying Visa also joined the blockage. Current title: Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions
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by jakub_g 5y ago
> what it would have cost United Airlines to do it “the right way”, versus what value it brings them It may depend on the app, but Uber noticed that the bigger the app, the fewer people install it, unsurprisingly. I also had friends who
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by jakub_g 5y ago
What are "security robots" for the uninitiated?
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Yep. This is kinda useful as an indicator whether you wrote login correctly (wrong pic = wrong login) and to weed out the lowest quality phishing, but for anyone who's not a clown it should be easy to recreate the flow and hence, it&#x
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Semi-related HN classic: "Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956 A handful of curated weird stories like this: https://500mile.email/
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by jakub_g 5y ago
See also: https://matzjb.se/2015/07/26/deconstructing-swirl-face/
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I noticed "I think through writing". Whenever I need to implement a new feature I first explore status quo and write it down on confluence, jira etc. Then write down that I'm gonna do, alternatives etc. It takes time but make
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I don't have hard data to back it up but I don't think Firefox is spoofing UA for compat, at least not on a massive scale.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
This. When I joined my prev company in mid 2018, I checked some graphs, and mobile users market share was around 45%. When I checked the same graph in mid 2021, mobile market share was >60%. Many people don't have a desktop anymore

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