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by jakub_g 6y ago
Memories! Back in school days in early 2000s I was a basketball fan and also of course running Winamp 24/7. I was never good at drawing but got curious and started making skins themed with basketball clubs' colors and logos. First
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Also Sophia Antipolis [1] used to be described as "European SV" but mostly in historical + quality of life contexts. The biggest employer being fat and slow corporate-y Amadeus, it's nowhere near to the startup scene of real
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Safari is nowhere near IE6, but it's the closest when you compare it to all other modern browsers. We could say it's new IE11. Just this month I came across the following Safari-only bugs/compat issues: - document.hidden can
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Never heard about the method before but I've noticed long time ago this is the way that works for me. When someone starts with definition I get bored. I want to start from example and use case and then I will built a mental formalizati
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Zoom introduced meeting passwords a few months ago after similar issues to prevent randos joining meetings by guessing short meeting IDs. But there's a tradeoff between security and usability so they accept passwords as a param in URL,
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Bfmtv (French news TV) offers vertical live video in Android app(blog.wildmoka.com)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
In print, you have fixed, known in advance width; hyphenation; sophisticated multipass algorithms; manual review of the typesetter. Justification can make sense. On the web, with responsive design, container width is dynamic. Algorithms are
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by jakub_g 6y ago
+1. Justification is something that you feel like you should do to have "nice layout" but it hinders readability according to many studies. Check BBC, NYTimes, The Guardian, Reuters, AP News, Wikipedia, HN - none of them uses text
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by jakub_g 6y ago
It's only a part of the issue. The other part is that a "launcher" app shows miniatures of apps when you scroll through open apps, and this behavior is controlled by the same screen capturing permission. When you enable scree
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by jakub_g 6y ago
In older Androids it was too easy for the app to get the permission to capture/record the screen without clear user consent. In newer Androids you need to ask permission at runtime.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Relevant crbug: https://crbug.com/985245 If you use Chrome Canary you can now enable a feature flag under this URL: chrome://flags#incognito-screenshot Firefox has a setting in settings > privacy to ena
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Also, it's possible that when you have a secret in a private repo, it accidentally leaks when you deploy that repo to a public server. And it's easier to do this than you'd think, e.g. by a mix of a few unrelated changes by d
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Ah nice, just found it here: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-05-06-github-advanced-sec... Thanks!
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Why secret scanning is enabled only for public repos but not for private ones?
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Similar but on the regional level in Spain: valenciano (Valencia region) and catalan (Catalonia) are nearly identical dialects, but due to local pride reasons, people claim they are totally separate languages.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Wow, TIL. What the hell?! (I don't think something like this exists in most of Europe, although in some Scandinavian countries the salaries are public and you can get mostly anyone's income info on a government website)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Talking with an Irish colleague, my understanding is that Dublin's so expensive that many Irish people decide to leave the country and work abroad as they can't afford it - Dublin's a hub for multinational companies and only
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Semi-related for JS developers: if you do `eslint` as part of your build, make sure `node_modules` (and `node_modules` in subolders if you have monorepo-ish solution) is excluded.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Semi-related story: I flew to Uzbekistan through Dubai last year for vacation. Waiting for my backpack, I saw something that blew my mind: locals who arrived with me taking all kinds of TVs, ovens etc. from the conveyor belts. It never occ
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by jakub_g 6y ago
For sure, when creating core technology it's better to have 2 people do it than to have 20 people. But when you have stable core and need to polish the edges, additional headcount with proper incentives should be able to make a diffe
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Alphabet had $34B net income in 2019, FB $18B. They could hire a legion of developers in any place which is not California/Switzerland, whose only responsibility would be bugfixing, and it would barely make a dent in their numbers.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Ah I see. Well same stuff with concert/football tickets, Air Jordans etc. If something is valuable but with limited quantity, this is inevitable.
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Apple does pay dividends. Google and Amazon do not. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/aapl/dividend-... Regarding dividends, in theory when company spends $1 per share on a dividend, its stock pri
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Can you expand the example with consumer electronics - because it's not clear: who's gouging whom? You mean Big Tech selling expensive smartphones to people who can't buy a house so will buy an iPhone instead?
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Isn't there some sort of security built-in, like "if suddenly the bill becomes 1500% the norm, kill the instance and start serving 404s"? (I know nothing about cloud, honestly curious)
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by jakub_g 6y ago
For info, this shipped in Chrome 86 just last week: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Webpack is kind of more "build your own bundler" than a bundler. The configurability and extensibility is immense and with that level of complexity, it's guaranteed things won't work smoothly for everyone (incompatible p
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by jakub_g 6y ago
This is absolutely true. Another example: - French (and German) companies own most of supermarket chains in Poland: good. - Polish long-distance truck delivery companies are among the most competitive in EU due to lower costs of workforce:
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by jakub_g 6y ago
> Which audio and subtitles you have access to depends on the show and which country you’re in. I could get some shows in Spanish in the US, but not the UK AFAIR it depends not on physical country you're in, but on Accept-Language s
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by jakub_g 6y ago
The author has many blog posts on floating point math, and they're all very interesting. If you're into the topic, you can check the tagged entries: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/category/floating-point&#x

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