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by jakub_g 5y ago
I tried to use FF on Android, and while it's capable and works rather well, perf-wise Chromium is just years ahead (I use Brave). You can see it well on JS-heavy sites like Twitter, the difference is very easy to perceive with loading
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Why losing marketshare? Because it's a statistical error on mobile, and world is going mobile more and more each year. 60-80% of visits are now mobile, depending on country and website type. Without mobile, any investment in desktop no
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by jakub_g 5y ago
My main issue with keeping in touch with people is that texting someone you only vaguely know is kinda weird. You don't see the other person, you don't hear them, you can't know what's in their mind. Those exchanges ofte
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Just to add a few bits: I'm not an infra person so can't tell about managing a H2 deployment, but from frontend web performance perspective H2 is very interesting and somehow not used to its full potential. H2 has built-in support
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by jakub_g 5y ago
If your website has a lot of small files served, H2 and H3 offer dramatic improvements: browser says "gimme those 100 files" and server sends them all over a single connection in a streaming fashion. Whereas with H1 browser opens
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by jakub_g 5y ago
3. No whiteboards, random chats with coworkers - the barrier to start a discussion is a bit high if you don't want to spam people on Slack with stupid questions. As a result I sometimes dig for hours into things that could be a quick d
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I've been thinking about this because it's true from my observation, and I wonder what's the main reason: - Is it because they are "not evil enough" compared to FB in tracking people? - Is it because they can't
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Teams tries to be Slack, Zoom and more and it's been terribly confusing and bad a few times I had to use it. However when people in suits take decisions then "why pay for N products instead of one?" becomes compelling for man
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I documented a bunch of hidden links here: https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5 Re: "vouching", what is this? Is it to un-dead something? I have also a question about flagging: What's th
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by jakub_g 5y ago
BTW: Sumatra PDF by the same author is also worth checking.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Speccing something that is under-specced before coding and splitting big fuzzy task into a list of less vague tasks is a critical skill. There's some similarity to big tech interviews: you often get an intentionally fuzzy task and your
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Interestingly, I started following a few tech people on LI who create interesting content (no cringe) and use it similarly as Twitter, but without the 280 char limit. As a result, my LI feed is now probably more interesting than FB feed. (T
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by jakub_g 5y ago
"I've been interviewing someone for the last 5 years. The person doesn't even know" is peak LinkedIn
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by jakub_g 5y ago
HN is definitely not SV only, but I often observe discussions where folks involved write something country-specific, do not state where they live, and assume implicitly everyone in discussion lives in the same country, they understand the c
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by jakub_g 5y ago
There's also ' (apostrophe) for "quick find, in hyperlinks only". I sorely miss it when using Chrome.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
IIRC There was some decade-plus Mozilla bug over here on HN a few months ago where the newest comment was like "So the OP was my dad, and he's now dead. Anyway, here is some additional info"
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by jakub_g 5y ago
This; "adaptive streaming" is the keyword. A video on the web is actually a series of mp4 files which are a few seconds length each. They are generally assembled at runtime via JavaScript or native technology into continuous playb
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Kinda hack, but if you choose a different currency, the tiers are lower. (With Revolut you can use almost any currency and FX fees are 0-0.5%). For example with PLN min tier is 12 PLN = 2.64€
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Never heard this, thanks for sharing. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_bonds_robbery Pretty crazy they would just walk around with £300M in a briefcase.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Take my money.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Most letters look like at 20% angle, while a few others at 10% angle. Compare uppercase I vs lowecase t. Also m and a few others.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Garamond is a fine font, but using Garamond Italic should be banned by law. I scream internally when I see it and how the different letters don't match visually. Printed books using Garamond Italic are the worst. https://duc
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by jakub_g 5y ago
100% agree. Someone (who?) had to take time and write the detailed requirements. In real jobs you rarely get good tickets with well defined expectations; it's one of most important developer's jobs to transform fuzzy requirement i
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I recently came across this while searching for some old discussions / retweets and found a tweet by someone who I know changed their handle; after clicking RT/QT/reply (don't remember) somewhere in the thread, I saw a f
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by jakub_g 5y ago
E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti 64k karma in 2 years Checking current front page... Yep there's one from him :) Not every submission gets to page 1 but since he posts several links per day,
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by jakub_g 5y ago
FYI Chrome Canary has a "dark mode for websites" in incubator. It allows you to darken every website. On mobile it works very well on HN; the desktop exp doesn't have UI affordances yet though. It's also in stable (incl.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
There's simply too many things being submitted. Hundred items per hour. Some people treat HN as a bookmark engine or something like that and submit way too much, others self-promote/spam heavily etc. I noticed often things make it
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by jakub_g 5y ago
AFAIR someone bought EV certs a few years ago that visually looked like apple.com and paypal.com which showed the EV thing was useless.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
https://www.ssl.com/article/dv-ov-and-ev-certificates/ There are several types of certificate. The most basic is DV where you only need to upload a file or modify DNS record to prove you own a domain. EV certs use
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by jakub_g 5y ago
OTOH Apple is a public company and whatever they do and spend money on is scrutinized by the shareholders who will calculate ROI and ask questions.

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