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by jakub_g 6y ago
You see two competing apps. One is rated 3.5 and has 100 reviews, another is rated 4.4 and has 10000 reviews. Which one do you install?
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by jakub_g 6y ago
This blog post touches on the topic (highly recommended read): https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/07/how-ceos-think.html > Outside consultants often end up saying the same thing you do, but are trusted whereas you
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> I have been here for over half a decade now with some success. However, I now feel woefully under-experienced compared to my peers and sorely need mentorship. It would be best to first understand why this is bothering you. You've
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It's a really important thing for the apps because by default only unhappy people go to Play Store and give 1 star. Then it looks like your app is crap and the competitors are way better. In prev job, we had few ratings of our app, a
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by jakub_g 6y ago
Trick that often works for me: create a ticket in JIRA, explain well what has to be done, how, document gotchas etc.; assign to yourself; if it's a code ticket, create a local branch with ticket number. I usually procrastinate when it&
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I didn't use to track my work and I noticed that at yearly review time it's been pretty difficult to remind what I actually did for last year. I'd go through merged PRs in the main projects, but it's only a tip of the ic
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It would be possible if you have a huge well-connected grid, spanning thousands of kilometers, with low costs of sending energy over long distances and small energy loss (ideally, spanning multiple timezones, or connecting sunny regions and
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Link so that you don't have to search: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
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Is it just me, or the screenshots just scream "scam"? 1. Inconsistent spelling TikTok vs Tiktok, business vs Business in app names and logos 2. Inconsistent font in Tiktok logo (Times New Roman like font in Android app, wut) 3. Ty
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1) Everyone and their dog wants your email those days, which is bad due to engagement spam as mentioned in article, and privacy (those email addresses are probably flying around adtech servers which allow building up extremely detailed user
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A bit more than you're aiming for, but from anecdata I heard, it's relatively popular and accepted in Switzerland to work 4 days a week in IT. In other countries I'm aware of it's probably not that common, except when yo
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Most interesting part for me: > ... riders must formulate their Tour de France strategy around maximizing visibility for sponsors. > Winning the tour is fantastic — but not necessary — for brand exposure. Often, you’ll see lesser-know
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If you read between the lines, you should understand that the root cause of issue is the macOS developer monoculture. All you need is one Windows or Linux-based developer in your team to catch those kind of issues. But so many dev teams a
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The title might suggest that the rollout of new software was the issue, but the article states the very contrary: it was the old software that was the culprit: > An internal review at the bank found humans manually operating the old so
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by jakub_g 6y ago
FWIW in France until last year, admission to most universities ( except the top ones ) was through a draw ('tirage au sort à l'université'). It's been changed last year though not without controversies. I don't know
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There's this new pattern of communicating where you talk with multi-megabyte reaction gifs back'n'forth instead of writing two or three words. Unlimited data may prove useful in that scenario. Also exchanging pictures/se
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There's "unlimited WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook" in data plans in some EU countries. Which is kinda nice, but probably only cements their monopoly.
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Kyrgyzstan is in top 3 cheapest. I've been there hiking last year and was mind blown. We've bought a local SIM card + several GB of data for ~1USD. Then we went hiking and in a village which is hiking base, in the "middle of
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by jakub_g 6y ago
FYI: CTRL-L: focus URL bar, typed text will be navigated to or searched for CTRL-K: focus URL bar, typed text will be searched for (same in Firefox, with the distinction that Firefox has two UI elements instead of one)
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> 5-minute data delay requested by the FAA Can you expand on this for the noobs in the subject?
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Reminds me of when the 'D' key broke in my physical keyboard long time ago. I liked that keyboard a lot and couldn't find a good replacement so I learnt to type Alt-100 do get 'd'.
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I'm Windows-based and wanted a keyboard layout that will allow me typing easily Polish and French at the same time, without switching keyboard layouts (PL == US+AltGr for accents; while FR layout is insane, because apart from being AZE
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Whenever this happens to me, I create a StackOverflow self-q&a or a GitHub Gist synthesizing the knowledge. Then I use google to find my own content because I more or less remember the keywords of what I wrote. Also, many times, my cowo
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> 10 GB smartphone plan for $75 Wow. In France it's the reverse: during promotions, you can get 70GB for €10. Out of promo, it's €15-€20 at low cost operators, and €35 at traditional brands.
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I'm asking myself the same question. WebAssembly (WASM) looks like something that might have some potential for the future, but adoption will be probably slow/limited.
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I'm working as a webperf guy as a staff. I find the work interesting (although sometimes frustrating), but I'm not sure how many companies want to have full-time perf people onsite. As you mentioned, It's mostly consulting ty
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There have been some works to expand the Tripoli port to avoid single point of failure, but apparently (from the podcast I heard) they've been going slow for political reasons (including regular people of Beirut profiting from the near
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Webpack + babel are basically rewriting `import` and `require` calls into their own `__webpack_require__` helper and converting ESM to CJS. Whereas `require` and `import` are node built-ins and `import` is browser built-in. Making stuff int
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Facebook desktop web is far from being optimized. On my fiber connection & high-end non-Mac laptop, loading "Messenger" tab takes about 15-20 seconds. Having said that, FB and Google properties (like YouTube) have insane edge
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(Not using wireless charging either) One advantage is that it does not destroy the USB port. Constant plugging and unplugging can really wear some ports after 1-2 years, depending on manufacturing quality. To the point that it won't ch

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