natoliniak

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by natoliniak 4y ago
what is an "expat"? an immigrant? migrant? a special kind of immigrant? hm...
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by natoliniak 4y ago
can you elaborate on the "rationing" part? I'm guessing you tied "socialist" and "rationing" together, but did you do it in the context of other developed economies (i.e most of Europe?)
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by natoliniak 5y ago
it is. So is Voice of America, radio Havana and other cold war classics. Shortwave is not quite dead :)
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by natoliniak 5y ago
As a Pole, Interslavic "feels" more natural and more intuitive for me. I wonder how other slavic speakers feel.
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by natoliniak 5y ago
yep. I really like the system we have in Poland, where you have a full choice. You can live entirely cashless or cash only or hybrid. You can pay any utility bill with instant transfers using a few clicks or with cash by visiting any post
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by natoliniak 5y ago
a weather app or service that allows you to look at least one year-long time lapse of global satellite and radar loop. Most services that i looked into offer up to 12hrs, but not sure why. Something like this, but up to date: https:/
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by natoliniak 5y ago
Not a downside per se, but I wonder how, in the context of other engineering disciplines which are highly formalized, software engineering fits in. One of the typical arguments against the feasibility of formalizing and licensing software e
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by natoliniak 5y ago
Kudos, but is there a flip side of the coin, where the software you write can cost someone life (if you screw something up/introduce a bug)?
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by natoliniak 5y ago
maybe a message posted to an obscure usenet forum in 1996, bouncing around different servers eventually somehow surviving in google's archive to be discovered by someone randomly wandering around google groups...
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by natoliniak 5y ago
He/she is developing something similar to what you are exposing and is reverse engineering the behavior for quick solutions/shortcuts. Or is learning how form submissions work. Not that i haven't done anything like that, ever
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by natoliniak 5y ago
if you are running .Net, developers would utilize Entity Framework migrations to manage and source control all DB changes. Similarly, Alembic for the Python ecosystem. Treat the application of migration scripts as part of a regular prod dep
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by natoliniak 5y ago
> Well, unless Dow's local operations get seized I think Lenin once said: The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. yep.
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by natoliniak 5y ago
wow! what an excellent commentary that stretches well beyond India - this is Silicon Valley level comedy :)
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by natoliniak 6y ago
> Careful taking new work in, it will look bad to bring new things into the sprint and not finish yep. Furthermore, there are many other perverse incentives that I noticed, but one stands out: the incentive not to take on risky or diffic
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by natoliniak 6y ago
After about three 2 week sprints, my memory starts to rapidly decay about what I worked on or how I implemented something. It is a struggle for me, as my team is often called out by PMs about how certain functionality works under the hood a
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by natoliniak 6y ago
it is unclear from the article what sites were censored in Poland and by whom (and i couldn't figure it out in the sourced paper). However, if in fact the Polish govt has censored any human rights websites, I feel like that should be b
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by natoliniak 7y ago
yes, but in many desirable areas a significant portion of buyers are cash only buyers whose monthly payment is $0 (other than property taxes).
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by natoliniak 7y ago
Chrome has a built in Flash player. You just have to enable flash for that site (click on the flash icon). It worked for me. FF however requires a separate download of the runtime.
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by natoliniak 7y ago
agreed. But there is also a more aggressive and hostile side of capitalism that is not necessarily consumer driven. As an example, Where I live (in Boston) 7-Eleven bought out and converted or simply closed pretty much all white hen pantry
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by natoliniak 7y ago
Netflix (et al) are blacklisting some common VPN's IP ranges. If that fails, they use some DNS tricks to route the requests to your nearest geographical API and if there is a discrepancy between your IP's location and endpoint&#x
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by natoliniak 7y ago
I like the Polish "Milk Bars," however, they typically are subsidized by the govt (and as well they should be). The best part of the milk bars? The food is generally cooked in-house from scratch, using very few and basic ingredien
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by natoliniak 8y ago
- allow flexibility to work from home - those who like open office can sit together, but for the rest, provide a semi-isolated quiet/dark area to concentrate in and a whiteboard. - plenty of conference rooms. - if expecting to work wit
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by natoliniak 8y ago
> It's really not a fun way to live. this is exactly why I find UBI appealing. For those who are unable to work, it will provide minimum means not to fall into abject poverty, but it will still carry enough incentive to improve ones
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by natoliniak 8y ago
From my observations, although much has been written about this subject as well. For example, Boston's South End (struggling and transient), Provincetown, Ma (cape cod) a forgotten blue collar village on the decline were all "disc
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by natoliniak 8y ago
and (of course) lgbt.
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by natoliniak 8y ago
In big cities, the sight of horses was not common at all and horses were actually banned in Warsaw (except for tourist carriages). Overall, the cities were fairly modern, but gray and in constant state of mild disrepair. On one hand most bi
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by natoliniak 8y ago
yes, the constant Slack driven "stop and go" workflow is taking a toll on me. Furthermore, Agile which is supposed to protect the worker bees from the constant noise is failing to do that. Business needs always take precedence.
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by natoliniak 8y ago
Check out Ave Maria, also in Florida. It is a mixed-zoning town build around a College and a Catholic cathedral, but unlike the Villages, it is actually quite age diverse. So, for those who are not bothered by the the religious aspect, it i
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by natoliniak 8y ago
"Why should we pay any of our hard earned money to the government so some drug addict can get their fix?" "Why should I pay for single mothers who made bad decisions?" furthermore, taxpayers already foot the bill for the
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by natoliniak 8y ago
another pro tip: compete only against weaker opponents (this is common in Boxing).

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