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by jakub_g 6y ago
The post is written in a way that might mislead some into thinking that 1) connections are kept after closing the browser , 2) connections are kept indefinitely . This is not true: - Firefox keeps it for ~2 minutes and Chrome for ~5 minut
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by jakub_g 6y ago
If you're interested in real-world SSL/TLS stats (updated monthly): https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/ Feb 2021 data: - 99.3% sites support TLS 1.2 (or better) - 42.9% sites support TLS 1.3 - 0.7% sites suppo
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by jakub_g 6y ago
100% this. Ever since wfh started, I never had a single "brain melt" that regularly happened in the office due to 1h+ meeting in 4 sqm room and co2 levels going through the roof.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Turkey is huge on physical gold as well. People basically spend their money on gold immediately to avoid the inflation (from what I saw in some videos). The Grand Bazaar has dozens of gold shops.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
As a user I love stricter privacy. As a developer working for a platform company whose content (video) is embedded by thousands of websites, I hate this particular change: - more difficult to analyze weird / fraudulent embedders - more
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Some ad networks use(d to use) referers for brand safety when resource serving an ad is embedded iframe. For example if the parent URL contains "osama-bin-laden-killed", don't display ad about nice family moments together (or
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Not directly answering your question, but something I'd appreciate in every readme: - What problem is this repo solving / why would I use it (ideally explained in a way that a person who uses completely different tech stack could
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I have fond memories of Presto Opera as well. It also had geospatial navigation between the links (go to a link that is visually closest to the left/right/top/bottom) that normally may require tab-bing to death if something i
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Some pretty basic but workflow changing improvements for me (maybe 10x is too much, but 5x maybe? :) 1) Tabbed browsing in Opera/Mozilla in early 2000s. You'd have to open new window each time before that. 2) Moving from Windows P
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Talking console browsers: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven... > A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London > ...a young woman sits on
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by jakub_g 6y ago
See my comment on returnFalse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473819
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Declaring functions like 'returnTrue' was a way to prevent memory leak in old IE (~IE6/IE7) (instead of creating a new inline function each time a method is called). It was especially important when a function is a closure an
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I started reading "On Writing Well" by W.Zinsser (one of often recommended classics) lately. I've only read first few chapters, but one of the core ideas is, apart from writing simply, to write concisely: - If you can use one
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by jakub_g 6y ago
This issue always come up with those discussions indeed. Probably to be safe you could just come up with plausible unique non-random name, and still store it in keepass. > What's your cat's name? Site X: Kareem Abdul-Jabaar Sit
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Regardless of everything, I always start by clicking the comments link on front page, and I end up reading either the comments or comments + article. Often I read the comments first. Sometimes you can glance over the comments and if all the
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by jakub_g 6y ago
> I have turned on "always visible" scrollbars before and it really does ruin the internet experience. You have scrollbars everywhere precisely because they're hidden from developers who don't even know about them, an
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Yep. I guess what could be done is a two-tiered status page: automated health check which shows "possible outage, we're investigating" and then a manual update (although some would say it looks lame to say "nah, false po
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Also, 3 years ago they had an outage in Strasbourg, and the status page was down apparently as a result of the outage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661218 They are not the only ones though. All too common. Well, i
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by jakub_g 6y ago
"webpack does basically nothing" https://bundlers.tooling.report/ webpack: 43.5/48 rollup: 40.5/48 parcel: 31.5/48
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by jakub_g 6y ago
IIRC, HMR in webpack has an issue when you add/remove/possibly reorder imports in JS; the imports are cached in memory by their index (or something like this), so when you remove a fifth import, suddenly the previously-sixth impor
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I'm in the "text or GTFO" team, and the opposite is an especially annoying trend in desktop webapps. My bank rewrote their UI to icons-only a while ago and it's complete shitshow. I randomly click around to go to the scr
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by jakub_g 6y ago
The "+ is not valid character in email" is damn annoying indeed. Too many websites do this dumb "validation". Re: validating login/signup, I never had an issue immediately. However in practice it happens often when
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Google's strategical view is to make web browser as capable as the native apps on mobile (mostly to counterbalance the iOS native apps' walled garden). It's called Project Fugu. I don't expect them to stop shipping any t
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Might be related: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermar...
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by jakub_g 6y ago
This is bad, but FYI, the solution is to find a bank which offers virtual credit cards (ideally, virtual disposable credit cards) and use virtual CC for new subs. You use virtual CC, and if it's too painful to unsub, you cancel the CC.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
In my team people object to TS due to a few things: additional complexity, additional build step, build time increase, copy-pasting code around (to console, code snippets etc.) does not work anymore (but last time we talked it was soon afte
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by jakub_g 6y ago
In other news, my banking app used to have 17 trackers (!) but they reduced to 6 some time ago (I pinged them about that, not sure if this was related but it's good to put some pressure on the businesses to let them know users care).
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Open devtools console, no need for extensions: document.querySelectorAll('video').forEach(v => v.playbackRate = 2.5)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Semi related: There was some study about chess ability of best players that showed up lately. Apparently 35 y.o. is when best players max out their skill. Then it's flat for a while and starts going down in 40s/50s.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Relevant read: "How CEOs think" https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/07/how-ceos-think.html (written from perspective of security researcher, but the post is pretty general)

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