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by jakub_g 6y ago
Related: an illustrated guide https://www.socialcooling.com/
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by jakub_g 6y ago
My answer above is not very complete so I'll add what some siblings wrote: IMO people are not that desperate to work at FAANG in EU as in US (from what you can feel reading HN, blogs etc. "FAANG or die", "leetcode for
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I don't work at FAANG but from knowing the EU market from friends and public data on Twitter, salaries in (non-FAANG) US companies like Uber, Yelp, Datadog are mostly not achievable in other companies for individual contributors, due t
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Another story from same author from few months ago where he recounts yearly Xmas spikes in early AMZN years where everyone including Bezos was packing boxes to meet the demand: https://mobile.twitter.com/danrose999/stat
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Tweet from Signal themselves with app store screenshots: https://mobile.twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347693761044701... Also in France in Play Store, Signal is #1 now. In Trending, Signal is #1 and Telegram #3. C
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by jakub_g 6y ago
> There is also this annoying "verify pin" popup that shows up once in a while. Settings > Privacy > PIN reminders and you can disable that (at your own risk)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Relying on GMaps can be dangerous especially in winter, because it doesn't seem to take time of the year into account. A few years back we travelled with friends to a mountain resort for the new year's eve. Instead of choosing a l
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Thx for the comment. The story is still more complex than this. Basically Malma had a few credits already, then Pekao proposed a unifying credit + to help with the IPO as a way to get funds for expansion, but the IPO never happened. Perhaps
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Semi related: there was a major shift in pasta market during 2004 EU extension. To comply with EU regulations, companies from newly joining countries had to invest large sums to switch to a different type of wheat to keep producing. Malma (
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by jakub_g 6y ago
There were some discussions in the same spirit on previous smart TV threads on HN but I'm not fully sure if there was any real example, or was it just hypothetical discussion which became an urban legend. Any particular examples other
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Until ~2015 4GB were the only reasonably priced option for crazy long as well. I've been waiting ~3 years looking for a new laptop, as replacing an old 3GB one with new 4GB one was hardly an upgrade.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Do you always freelance locally, or remotely as well?
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I don't know about Berlin, but outside of finance in CH, basically you need to look for US companies to have that kind of money in Europe. You have Yelp in Hamburg, Uber in Amsterdam, Datadog in Paris etc. which are paying this kind of
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Do not engage with people with near-zero reputation perhaps? I known this sounds badly and I'm not for gatekeeping, but this based on real life. If someone does some effort to answer a few questions first before asking themselves, they
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by jakub_g 6y ago
AFAIU Windows updates roll out to regular users first, and to corporate customers much later (perhaps depending on how the admin configures it). In a way, regular users are test monkeys. But this makes it less likely to brick corporations.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Cliqz tried to build index from scratch and be privacy-first, but they failed to reach user base big enough to survive the pandemic. https://cliqz.com/announcement.html
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Are you based in EU or outside? Perhaps it's an EU-only bug/feature after latest changes to be compliant with EU privacy rules.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I don't know the details unfortunately, other than "force-reload fixes the issue".
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Thx for data point. Android 11, Chrome 87, "content not found" for me at the same URL. I'm connecting from France, I'm wondering if it's maybe EU-only thing related to FB's latest rollout of "we disable so
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I don't use Safari but there are possibly 3 issues behind this: - Twitter having a broken service worker (saw this a lot on Twitter discussions in last weeks) - Safari perhaps lowering the JS execution priority in background tabs - Twi
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by jakub_g 6y ago
The website continues to work, but when you go to "Messages" tab, it shows an error.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
BTW messenger over mbasic.facebook.com stopped working for me last week and throws errors. Am I the only one? The only web way to use FB messages for me now is the bloated desktop web experience (which takes 10s+ to load)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I don't have the numbers, but I've read somewhere recently that while market share in % drops each year, the overall absolute numbers (millions of users) are somehow stable. It's the pie that is expanding (especially on mobil
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Many good advice in this thread already. Personally I'm doing ok with good warm lighting in the room, low brightness/contrast (~60/30 during the day, ~50/25 in the evening), and I activate "night light" mode of
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Comparing to Twitter and StackOverflow, I had the same initial raction. For now I disabled dark mode on GH, hope it evolves into a less dark variation.
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Yep Asian fonts in particular are _huge_. It's a complex topic.
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You might be right, but the next question is fashion. Will the same fonts be used still in 5 years, or (more likely) the new hotness will arrive? Should the browsers update the list each year? Then some fonts that were available will sudden
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by jakub_g 6y ago
I'm not an expert but: - 1. Copyright (though many fonts are free, true) - 2. Everyone uses a different font (just like everyone uses a slightly different version jquery) so cache hit would be pretty small IMO. Do you really want a bro
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by jakub_g 6y ago
On the bottom of the linked page there's a press release from last month: one cable failed in August, then another a few weeks later at 60% of expected of load, and they decided on Nov19 it's unsafe to fix it and it should be deco
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Been a while since I last used Winamp, and only skin I remember by name is MetAmpMorphosis, which probably means I used it a lot. Can't find it on the linked Archive page, but here it is: https://www.fimble.com/staver&#

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