kristaps

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by kristaps 5y ago
Right up there with other techie superstitions such as "editor x makes me a better programmer, because typing faster".
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by kristaps 5y ago
My current company actually did just that - I got to solve two AoC2020 puzzles for my code sample.
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by kristaps 5y ago
I wonder if Google as an organization cares enough to start a new spam crusade, but here's what happened the last time: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-se...
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by kristaps 5y ago
I can't believe you've forgotten!
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by kristaps 5y ago
Sure, copies are cheap, but producing the original is often not. Unrestricted copying would discourage quite a few projects being started due to not having any chance to recoup investment. While IP may be a flawed tool at times, it still is
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by kristaps 5y ago
I'm from EU, finance and IT are neck to neck for highest paid professions. Absoute pay numbers are lower than US, but under no circumstances could they be called average.
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by kristaps 5y ago
Skepticism about tech/ideas that management likes.
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by kristaps 5y ago
The ootb linter setups I've seen offer little useful checks, just everybodies feelings about your code, so personally don't find them useful. This article is a prrfect example of that, but kudos to the author for being honest abou
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by kristaps 5y ago
Yeah, saner relative imports might be one of the few things that I envy the JS ecosystem for.
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by kristaps 5y ago
Maybe the same reason why Google keeps Firefox alive - to be able to show there is no monopoly in some category of software.
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by kristaps 5y ago
I make it a point to click "reject all" if the initial dialog only allows accepting some implicit default preferences.
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by kristaps 5y ago
Sounds like the marketing department participated in writing the docs this time.
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by kristaps 5y ago
Damn it feels good to live in the EU some days!
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by kristaps 5y ago
Yep, these arcane rules are maybe relevant to the 5 or so people writing mailservers, but not to web developers.
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by kristaps 5y ago
If there was no user inconvenience, how could you tell those responsible for security are doing their job?
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by kristaps 5y ago
Not by design, fortunately: https://bugs.python.org/issue43833
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by kristaps 5y ago
Why is it parsed like that and not as invalid integer literal "0xfor"? edit: 'cause it's a bug! https://bugs.python.org/issue43833
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by kristaps 6y ago
Not April fools judging by github history...
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by kristaps 6y ago
Similar Philips story for me - had several pairs of SHP2000 (and HP200, which is basically an earlier model nr for the same exact headphones) over the last 20+ years. They're comfy, sound great for their price and the quality hasn&#x27
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by kristaps 6y ago
Time complexity O(R*)
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by kristaps 6y ago
I would like a backend developer perspective on the same. I haven't done any GraphQL stuff myself, but the "I can get whatever data I need" aspect feels like a huge potential headache for backend devs. Won't be a problem
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by kristaps 6y ago
> When Delphi was released in 1005 Lovely typo, although it undeniably feels as if Delphi has been around forever.
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by kristaps 6y ago
Breaking things is far easier than making things. While this type of poking around might feel fun, it will mostly result in low value work to fix something very few (if any) actual users would experience.
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by kristaps 6y ago
Don't remember the source and probably misquoting, but I like this truism: there's software that people complain about and software that nobody is using.
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by kristaps 6y ago
> So you need to understand how it is different. And you need to be disciplined about quoting Or I can use a sane language that let's me get my stuff done faster and with less opportunities to shoot myself in the foot.
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by kristaps 6y ago
Google once (falsely?) considered my Revolut debit card a pre-paid card and refused to accept it for GCS billing. The error message wasn't anything generic either - it stated specifically that pre-paid cards are not accepted.
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by kristaps 6y ago
The article mentions they have around 2000 engineers, at that scale investing in custom tooling can easily become a significant net gain in productivity and stability, especially when dealing with the JS ecosystem.
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by kristaps 6y ago
Pretty sure sending only legitimely useful emails to customers will not get any vendor blacklisted.
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by kristaps 6y ago
I first try to find an unsubscribe link, but if there is none or it's broken, then into the spam filter the message goes.
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by kristaps 6y ago
Remember any corporate rebranding where the press went "hey, this is pretty good actually"? Me neither. My guess is that people just hate change and will rationalize why old>new.

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