jakub_g

53 ms·

661.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Yep exactly, it's difficult to learn in isolation. One must try their luck with applying to jobs that you're underqualified. And then seizing the opportunities once in :)
662.
by jakub_g 5y ago
$220M is not pocket money, but Durov's net worth is apparently $17.2B, so he could afford it for a few more years https://www.forbes.com/profile/pavel-durov/
663.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Specializing in anything is good if you have 5+ years of exp IMO. It's always good to stand out from the crowd of generic developers. The other plus is, if you frame yourself as a specialist in X, it might be easier to explain not know
664.
by jakub_g 5y ago
TIL!
665.
by jakub_g 5y ago
I never tried cutting from CD-RW, but AFAIR each burning would append a non-trivial header (like 20MBs or so) so that would be a pretty expensive thing to do :) AFAIR when you "copied" into CD-RW the files would show up semi-trans
666.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Oh boy. I was thinking USB 2.0 is main reason for Android<>Windows copying of photos to suck so much, but the rabbit hole is much deeper. It's sad that with cloud being the solution for everything those days, this will probably n
667.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Plus the constant nag to install the app on mobile, and sometimes even downright blocking access and "see in the app". (For now there's still "old." subdomain which works if you enable desktop emulation on mobile, b
668.
Leaky Abstractions(textslashplain.com)
480 points by jakub_g 5y ago|111 comments
669.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Yep, site-wide corporate pricing is a good idea.
670.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Obviously it would be nice if everything everywhere was always free, but docs and opensource suffer a lot from lack of sustainability when based on voluntary donations. Companies simply have no incentives to pay for anything. There are sure
671.
by jakub_g 5y ago
- https://textslashplain.com/ by Eric Lawrence of Fiddler fame, who's worked for last two decades on IE, then Chrome, then Fiddler, then Chromium-Edge. A mine of knowledge on browser internals, networking, web compat.
672.
by jakub_g 5y ago
While at university, late night coding an assembler assignment, I had a bug in my code, and the compiled code would lead to some CPU violation. After running the code, the CPU started making a super loud high frequency noise. The code was a
673.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Netherlands is actually one of the most attractive countries to have HQ in, due to low tax rates. Sure, if they look around they could find something similar but the bad publicity from this would be really huge IMO.
674.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Isn't there any law saying that "if no one claims it for N years, the state takes it" / "if someone else uses a place for N years and no one else claims it, that person can claim it?" [1] [1] https:/&#x2F
675.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Poland has been strongly anti-Lukashenka for a long time, and since 2007 broadcasts a Belarusian-language satellite TV channel (Belsat). It's probably the only non-regime-controlled Belarusian speaking TV. https://en.wikiped
676.
by jakub_g 5y ago
In early 2000s in Poland, we had a Trabant combi in our family, from the last 1990-91 batch (with a 4-stroke VW Polo 1.1L engine). Apart from funny look, I remember it as a much better and more solid car than other cars available at that pr
677.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Meeting in person and regularly is extremely underrated. This can happen also within a single culture. When two companies do some business together but instead of meeting often and talking directly (or zoom), spend weeks to carefully craft
678.
by jakub_g 5y ago
On the subject: I highly recommend "The culture map" book. It provides a dozen of dimensions on communication and compares on real world examples how American, German, French, Chinese, Japanese and several other nationalities appr
679.
by jakub_g 5y ago
There is a famous picture for that: https://9gag.com/gag/arOAPm6 Basically in Polish (and other Slavic languages) you take several concepts that are separate fixed words / grammar orders in English, and you meld
680.
by jakub_g 5y ago
There's also an... extension to view the extensions: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s... If you trust it :)
681.
by jakub_g 5y ago
BTW if you have N windows and you want to quit Firefox without closing any of the windows: File > Exit (ctrl-shift-q)
682.
by jakub_g 5y ago
If you use tabs, GitHub renders it as 8 spaces, which is... a bit excessive and legacy IMO. I think until this is changed, using tabs for content that you want to be viewable in GitHub UI and has multiple levels of indentation just does not
683.
by jakub_g 5y ago
I think it's a good analogy. Ideally something like this should make it into a law or something similar, because trusting FB to do the right thing is probably not the way to go. (Having said that, that law would apply to only a handful
684.
by jakub_g 5y ago
I don't think the app is evil. More likely it's technical constraints + overly zealous approach in code to simplify UX. FWIW Android has a weird peculiarity where the developer needs Location permission for Bluetooth to work (I do
685.
by jakub_g 5y ago
To be devil's advocate, if someone wants to clear all cookies and still be logged in to Google: it's like eating a cake and having a cake (well, cookie). In Chrome, being logged in to google.com and logged in to Chrome are tightly
686.
by jakub_g 5y ago
I don't know the details of the implementation, so I'm theorizing here, but the most important thing is not whether those cookies are set, but whether they can be read e.g. by other browser tabs and other origins. It could be that
687.
by jakub_g 5y ago
There are many things, but start with the basics: 1st) Tell the salary upfront; 2nd) tell the interview process (luckily it's non-bullshit and not too long). AFAICT there are many permanent senior engineers that are happy in their jobs
688.
by jakub_g 5y ago
Everything Gergely writes (and he writes a lot! Books, blogs, tweets; and also YT channel) is gold, especially if you're into mobile dev, interested in growing as a senior developer, or if you live in Europe and are interested by big t
689.
by jakub_g 5y ago
nvm allows to install and switch node versions, volta does it automatically. It creates a proxy executable which checks package.json, nvmrc, and automatically chooses proper node version; and it remembers the version used when globally inst
690.
by jakub_g 6y ago
IMO the root problem is that government projects in most countries are full of bullsh*t requirements, lack of technical depth of product owner; lots of paperwork etc; on top of that, huge scope, long planning phases, a lot of legal risks; a

More ›