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by jakub_g 5y ago
Same for me, hence years ago I started using two mice. It took a few weeks to operate the mouse well with left hand, but now I'm fairly ok with left handed usage. Still using right hand mouse for high precision gestures and when I ne
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by jakub_g 5y ago
My take on FF "decline" is that FF user share (%) dropped because the pie started expanding (especially on mobile). New internet users are likely to be Safari or Chrome users for whom the browser they have is good enough. And Fire
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by jakub_g 5y ago
You're right to some extent but it's worth noting that Flash wasn't killed on a whim. It was the no. 1 vector for catching malware by browsing internet -- for over a decade, and at some point it became clear that trying to ke
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by jakub_g 5y ago
BTW re:google products, sometimes this is really annoying and not easy to find where to change lang in UI. A trick that often works: add ?hl=en to the URL.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
> So you get a small heart attack This is something overlooked by devs and PMs sitting comfortably in their chairs. People using apps in the modern world, especially mobile apps, are tired, stressed, busy, unfocused, and on the move. Sma
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by jakub_g 5y ago
EU being dependent on duopoly of American companies for online payments has been bothering me more and more in recent years. Good to see something happening in the subject. In Poland, there's BLIK which is a pretty cool thing: a syste
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by jakub_g 5y ago
This is my main gripe with GMO those days. With GMO, the farmers effectively buy a one-year _license_ for a seed (SaaS-like) which can't be used in next years. Also there were stories of farmers going broke due to neighbors' GMO c
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Drawing Mona Lisa using only polygons, with genetic programming (2008)(rogerjohansson.blog)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Since I got a WiFi printer (Brother), I print 99% of things straight from my phone, and no longer procrastinate printing stuff because I'd have to boot the laptop, find the cable, log in to download the document etc. It's worth it
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by jakub_g 5y ago
As someone who moved countries within the EU, I started looking at things from global perspective, and what matters today is the power balance between EU, US, China. Whereas within EU most countries still look at their own interest, fueled
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Windows 95: The Most Important Operating System in History(ricomariani.medium.com)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Dailymotion | Front End Engineer - Video Player | Sophia Antipolis (Nice area) or remote (France) | Full time Dailymotion video player is a solution used by Dailymotion.com (Alexa top 400) and thousands of partner websites from France, US a
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by jakub_g 5y ago
At Aral Sea, it literally disappeared, yeah (due to poor engineering in Soviet times to irrigate cotton fields) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Simple solution: whenever a rev is skipped, add a UI warning somewhere: "3 revisions were skipped due to ignore-rev file"
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by jakub_g 5y ago
There's not much about firewalls etc. there IIRC, more about low level concepts like DNS, TCP and so on. Anyway it's a great book. You can also read online at https://hpbn.co
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Yep rosół is excellent too.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
As a slav, I must respectfully disagree! The best hangover cure is żurek (Polish sour soup with white sausage, eggs and potatoes). https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%C5%BCurek&iax=images&ia=images
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by jakub_g 5y ago
In Polish language slang, 'kozak' (Polish spelling of cossack) got cemented as a word for someone brave and fearless. Basically, someone writing that kind of letter :) or someone Chuck Norris-like.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
There's a deeply ingrained conviction (that I'm also a victim of) from generation of our grandparents and blue collar jobs that the work ain't real work unless you put 8hr of sweat and pain and you're dead at the end of
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by jakub_g 5y ago
FWIW The Motley Fool discloses under each article whether they own stock or options on each company they talk about.
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Welcome to the beautiful world of "brand safety". It's not the same but I think the core of the problem is similar to how adtech works: Whenever you visit a website who wants to display an ad, or whether you see a YouTube vid
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by jakub_g 5y ago
patio11 shared on Twitter how he pushed a faulty code to prod *just before changing apartments* so that it started sending email, sms and calling hundreds of people every 5 min for 13 hours: https://twitter.com/patio11&#x2
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“I was CEO and engineering team of a company which sent appointment reminders”(twitter.com)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
IMO the issue here is that: everything that is not carefully specified as a precise algorithm, will be implemented differently. This is why each browser used to parse HTML differently. This is why you'd have compat or even security i
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Something useful about logging that maybe not everyone knows about: If you can't or don't want to pollute your code with `console.log` for debugging (can't edit original code; too long to rebuild; etc.): You can add "log
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by jakub_g 5y ago
My favorites: - `$0` to refer to last selected DOM node - `copy(obj)` to copy something to clipboard (that might be hard to copy manually; for example long strings are often cut when selecting manually for copying)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
At least in France, there's CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) that started going after the top non-compliant websites and sending love letters like "you have N days to become compliant". [1]
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by jakub_g 5y ago
Love CAVE and BANANA acronyms! Very good summary of world in 2021 (sadly).
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by jakub_g 5y ago
That's a valid point. It's free now but they do have some plans for monetization (ads in channels with huge numbers of subscribers etc.)
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by jakub_g 5y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399628 "A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times."

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