lacogubik

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by lacogubik 5y ago
WhatsApp recently launched hosted API [1] for faster and easier integration for small business [1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/01/whatsapp-brings-its-busine...
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by lacogubik 5y ago
> the driver really is to blame though Yes, I know I'm responsible. I do not want/need car/manufacturer to be responsible, I just want technology to help where it could. > Manufacturer's job is to make things affor
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by lacogubik 5y ago
I think what they are implying is that car with so many safety features should be able to handle this situation. Volvo has lot of "collision avoidance" safety features, so one would expect that they could handle this as well. This
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by lacogubik 5y ago
I believe it's reference to new Disney movie Encanto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c
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by lacogubik 5y ago
> Polish allies did nothing until France was invaded. On the contrary [0] - "Germany had started low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938. In reaction, the United Kingdom and France on 20 September formall
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by lacogubik 5y ago
I think you are overestimating Putin's abilities. I'm not sure it was such a smart move with the war in the Ukraine. Ukraine used to be divided in perception of Russia and it never had strong national identity. Eastern half of cou
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by lacogubik 5y ago
Chart on the bottom here [0] seems to confirm parents assertion - cases for under 18s spiked after school reopening, but are now decreasing. Though atm schools are closed for two weeks (Easter holidays) [0] https://www.theguardia
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by lacogubik 5y ago
Your total compensation at FAANG is base salary + bonus (usually % of your base multiplied by your perf and company perf) + stock. When you get promotion your base salary will increase, your bonus will also increase (due to being % of base,
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by lacogubik 6y ago
Oxford A/Z vaccine was developed at Oxford university and AZ joined later to manufacture it (after UK gov intervened, Oxford team was originally in talks with US Merck). This article [1] has back story. EU paid millions to pharma compa
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by lacogubik 6y ago
It's pretty good, obviously not as good as high end speakers, but for the price (I got mine for £200) it's really good value and effortless to use. Main feature is it can adjust to any room or place you put it. I find it bit bass
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by lacogubik 7y ago
This and more stories about origin of coffee was recently discussed in In our Time [1] podcast from BBC. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4x1
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by lacogubik 7y ago
They definitely have enough capital for nuclear. Their neighbours, Slovakia and Czechia, both have quite significant nuclear installations. Czechia generates 34% [1] of electricity from nuclear and Slovakia 52% [2]. Slovakia is finishing ex
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by lacogubik 7y ago
How do you get errors to other services in Segment? Did you write some custom code to catch errors and then send them as segment's track calls? We use Sentry with Segment, but on client segment just loads sentry and the errors are caug
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by lacogubik 7y ago
I felt similar and the price increase was last drop. I use it mostly to store originals of pictures and video however that also means that they are little bit forgotten. Whole family is on iOS so after I found out that Apple Photos can merg
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by lacogubik 8y ago
Seems like - https://functional.works-hub.com/jobs/?tags=ocaml
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by lacogubik 8y ago
If interviewer has any clue, then they will know that and will account for that in their judgment. Almost everyone is nervous and will not perform at their best.
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by lacogubik 8y ago
My process is pretty much same as above, with the difference that I let them choose whatever framework/language they feel most comfortable with (with obvious caveat that I might not be able to help them if they get stuck). If you are g
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by lacogubik 8y ago
Yes, we do [1] We use GET for queries and POST for mutations. Though we are not caching our GETs atm. [1] https://functional.works-hub.com
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by lacogubik 8y ago
Clubhouse [1] It has flexibility of Trello and features of Jira. We have been using for a year and we really enjoy it. [1] https://clubhouse.io
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by lacogubik 8y ago
Not everyone is great at interviews. One of the best engineers I worked with was very bad at interviewing (even I wasn't initially sure whether we should hire him). The problem is that most of the interviews are very different from act
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by lacogubik 9y ago
Being 5 miles from Windsor castle and also from Eton college might have something to do with it. Heathrow is only 15 miles away on motorway. Bray has about 300 millionaires and Windsor around 900 [1] (few other villages from that list are