natoliniak

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by natoliniak 9y ago
oh man, human "race" is such a complicated concept....as an example, Zidane who is Algerian descent by all means would be considered "white" in the USA...but then he is also an African who was born and grew up in Europe.
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by natoliniak 9y ago
Yep, we all have to eat, so i make a conscientious effort not to block ads, unless they are abusive (in particular autoplay and popups). To make most commercial websites usable, I simply disabled Autoplay in FF which silenced the most abusi
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I am also not a linguist, but at least in Polish, the term "robot" or its derivatives are used as a root of other words: Robotnik - construction worker Robota - Work/labor and sometimes Job Robocizna - Billable work Robic - t
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I work in the USA and i would say I'm about 30-40% productive, maybe less. My productivity is strongly related to the density of meetings throughout the day: My productivity killers are relatively short gaps between meetings (<45m)
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by natoliniak 10y ago
these are the incumbents and even though these companies would not have been build without net neutrality, they can afford loosing net neutrality and paradoxically it might be in their interest. Loosing net neutrality will hurt startups and
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I also remember the short lived VR craze of the mid 1990s. As a kid back then, I remember trying some kind of 3d tennis game in an arcade, which was like $3 to play. What turned me off from it was a weird realization that I much prefer play
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by natoliniak 10y ago
> we don't need Uber I hope that one day we won't need Uber, but here in Boston, Uber has been a blessing and a much needed catalyst of change for the corrupt, low quality, monopolistic and expensive taxi service. The licensed
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by natoliniak 10y ago
> blaming Google employees for the inequality we all face. exactly. The employees riding that bus are ultimately in the same economic boat as the ones throwing the rocks. They might be slightly better off, but are still probably 3-5 payc
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I dont't disagree with you, but after some years in the industry I noticed certain patterns in how businesses operate: as they get larger and stable they get more risk averse and more in love with legacy systems. But I never worked for
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by natoliniak 10y ago
If my experience is any indication of general industry practices, businesses are very risk averse when it comes to upgrading libraries or dependencies as it usually triggers costly regression testing. At my current gig, we still run on angu
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I have disabled auto play, so, tldr: - history likes to repeat itself and the tech industry is prime for another crash. - therefore be flexible - just because you can doesn't mean you should jump on a latest fashionable JS framework ba
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by natoliniak 10y ago
>there was the thrill of discovery, in a rather low-level sort of way Same here, but whenever I embark on a new project today I remind myself of this mantra: "Do not reinvent the wheel" Someone out there has probably already so
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by natoliniak 10y ago
You can use the query below (or something similar) to narrow results to include keywords found in popular discussion boards (modify it to suit your needs): "dell latitude" inurl:comments|question|forum|viewthread|showthread|viewto
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I agree. Google's removal of the discussions filter was a big blow to the openness of the web. There are some hacky solutions that emulate that feature but it is not as good. I was hoping Bing might pick up on it and introduce similar
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by natoliniak 10y ago
On one hand I also felt challenged to find a way to make it stop, but on the other hand, i also had a feeling that if i win i would end up with a migraine. thanks for reaffirming that it is possible and sparing me a headache.
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by natoliniak 10y ago
I agree, although reputation is closer to 25% of the score. The rest is based on factors like number of citations, impact, which in my opinion benefits institutions from English speaking countries.
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by natoliniak 10y ago
automation of software development is inevitable as there is huge financial incentive to do so. Businesses view developers as expensive middle men between them and the product -- much like the assembly line workers in a factory. I am betti
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by natoliniak 10y ago
yes, the old "specter of communism" is always hanging around. I don't think people will just rollover and cease to exist once they are deemed not needed by a society.
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by natoliniak 10y ago
>At work, how can you just write code without testing the functionality consider this scenario: developer is tasked to make an update to a report. He does not have reporting services available locally (long and complicated setup) and nei