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by jakub_g 5y ago
Websites have separate DNS records for ipv6 (AAAA record) and ipv4 (A record). Since ipv6 is not universally supported, the de facto expectation is that if website has ipv6 DNS record, it should also have an ipv4 one for the users who can&#
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Ask HN: Must-know RFC/ISO/IEEE/IETF BCP docs for every developer?
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Definitely. Every option requires $$$/time/effort or combination of them. There are very few good & experienced & cheap & available devs just waiting for job offers.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
There are many people who passively use Twitter and don't follow / comment much. But I agree it's true, Twitter is massive time sink and many people rightfully avoid it. It's just one of places to look, and it attracts s
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I landed my $bigtech work last year via a leetcode process but it was pretty lightweight and tasks were simple (I do frontend, maybe other positions have more difficult tasks). YMMV depending on company but don't assume leetcode = solv
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Also: think about all the candidates you implicitly reject and others reject. They are an opportunity. Hire people that no one else wants (for wrong reasons). Go to universities and hire motivated juniors. Offer paid internships etc. Highly
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by jakub_g 5y ago
SO jobs is shutting down in a few weeks, sadly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023343
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Where are the places that developers show up? On HN and Twitter. Do something to spread awareness of your company. It will be a long journey, but if you don't have $$$ to throw at a problem, you need to find alternatives: - There'
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Do you mean that Spotify has same quality, or that there's no perceived difference between Spotify vs other higher bitrate? (Any links to validate?) Spotify has quality setting in app but from what I've heard it's still lower
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I knew about lead poisoning for a while, but mostly in US context. It's almost a non-topic in Europe since leaded gasoline was banned (I'm actually wondering why: no leaded paints in EU?) If these numbers are true, why this is not
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Side note: this remembered me back in late 2000s there was a Firefox extension called RIP (Remove It Permanently) for the same use case. And Aardvark (later: HackTheWeb) for cleaning temporarily (before printing etc). IIRC they didn't
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I don't use personally but this might be of interest for you: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Famous pic about situational disabilities: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/wp-content/uploads/si... (Google keyword: "microsoft inclusive design situational accessibility"; ironically, the ca
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Maybe they don't want you to file the bug too easily? I imagine Google would getting 10,000s bugs per day if it was too easy.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Check https://edit.photo - it's similar to popular Android native mobile apps.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
By default I don't buy things on Amazon, but just add it to the cart, and keep in cart for weeks. I sometimes go over the cart. If there's something I truly need, it would come up often enough in mind that the next time I check ca
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I didn't find my job on SO, but it was definitely one of the best job boards around, at least the ones with international scope: - mostly good companies putting their ads - often salary transparency - nice visually and on whole UX leve
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by jakub_g 5y ago
One thing unique to N++ IMO is how well it works with lots of files open, and how easy and fast it is to do search'n'replace across lots of files. It has several modes (normal, regex, normal-with-multiline) so you can always choos
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by jakub_g 5y ago
From what I've read, WhatsApp won precisely because of being truly platform independent. 10y+ ago Android/iOS monopoly was not yet that huge, and compared to other apps, WhatsApp had a client (which worked well) on the long tail o
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Having Firefox around for just a few hundred million per year is convenient for Google to not have Chrome considered a monopoly (although Edge getting back the market somehow changes it). Anyway it feels like it would be stupid and potentia
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by jakub_g 5y ago
If the story is true, the most impressive part is that he managed to write it as .bat!
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Fun story time: a few years back I worked at a major EU "traditional" (non-FAANG) IT company, and they were using Apache for handling web traffic. Rumour was that nginx, being already a backbone of half of internet, was dismissed
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Auto-upvoted based on domain name. See all submissions from Bartosz: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I come from Poland (sub-zero in winter; can be anywhere from -20C to +10C but typically 0-5C), but the winter I lived on the Spanish eastern coast was the coldest in my life: thin walls and windows, stone floor, no heating apart from little
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by jakub_g 5y ago
For every major OS and software, as long as there are security updates and the new major release is still in infancy, staying w/o update and waiting out while stupid decisions are reverted and inevitable bugs are reported&fixed has
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by jakub_g 5y ago
These are the worst, but there is another annoying type as well, on FB and LinkedIn based on emoji reactions: "Which is the best city??? (like) for London, (love) for Paris, (think) for Berlin" This type of stuff gets millions of
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by jakub_g 5y ago
It might depend on company size, individual team etc. Definitely important to find the team which is already remote - see my comment one level up.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
IMO the shift to remote is not gonna be reverted (at least in companies above certain size; small startups may work differently); some companies know it under their skin, but didn't internalize it yet enough to be open about it in thei
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by jakub_g 5y ago
I recently changed because all of the above at once: - spent 3y at prev job, which is typical interval where 1) learning starts to plateau, and you realize all the unchangeable constraints that block you from delivering things you'd li
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Or install an extension to view code of other extensions before installing, directly on chrome store pages https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

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