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by pawelk 6y ago
This was my first instinct about how I'd go about this as well. I actually do something similar when working with node modules from npm. Let's say I needed a `leftpad` lib from npm - it would be imported and re-exported from `.&#x
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by pawelk 6y ago
I worked in a team where the maximum time difference between members varied from 12h (when everyone was near their primary residence) to 20h (when some people traveled). We were 100% remote and mostly async, but we had daily meetings and ot
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by pawelk 6y ago
Yes, PayPass seems to be the go-to method in the physical world, even more so now (they have doubled the limit for non-PIN payments due to COVID-19 recently, so people don't use cash and don't touch the terminals as often), and Bl
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by pawelk 6y ago
I live in Poland. I do (contactless) card payments every day, I rarely even have cash in my wallet. But I don't have a credit card and most of my peers / family doesn't have one either. Our debit cards will usually not work f
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by pawelk 7y ago
I concur. I haven't tried Zoom on any other platform yet, but it has been 100% reliable on my Ubuntu machine. Nothing else even comes close. I've had hundreds of Zoom calls over the past 8 months, from 1:1s to all-hands with ~500
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by pawelk 7y ago
Ideally they'd extend the limits of simultaneously lended copies by how many were there in libraries that are now closed, acting as a proxy to the physical copies that are now locked down. But this would take a long time to implement,
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by pawelk 7y ago
I'm in Poland as well and I've been working remotely for over three years. Since the lock down started I feel that everything is a bit slower and less stable, but I haven't experienced major issues during usual work hours do
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by pawelk 7y ago
Toptal is profitable and 100% remote, not a single office anywhere. Not sure if largest, but quite big at ~500 employees.
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by pawelk 7y ago
Other than being a great solution for some problems I wanted to highlight the fact that CouchDB has commited to SpiderMonkey (the Mozilla JS engine) since the very beginning and is one of the few projects helping to fend away the V8 monocul
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by pawelk 7y ago
It was quite painful to read trough the series of tweets only to reach this link to the real thing at the very end. I sort of like how the twitter series summarizes the content, but it could have been done as a tl;dr style intro in the arti
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by pawelk 7y ago
To my daughter "The Fat of the Land" album by The Prodigy is exactly as old as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles to me (number of years between respective album releases and our birth years).
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by pawelk 7y ago
I use Chrome to benchmark my local version of a website. The use case is very limited, because the results fluctuate a lot depending on the overall load on my machine (including the dev server), so I usually do three passes on the master br
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by pawelk 7y ago
Microsoft made me install Chrome just the other day. A company I work with decided to try MS Teams for communication and when I went there using Firefox, it simply refused to let me in and told me to get Chrome. They couldn't suggest E
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by pawelk 7y ago
I am a hobby (unplugged) woodworker with a quite large collection of vintage tools... it all started because I needed some basic temporary furniture for the new house and w were broke enough to not be able to afford it - the kitchen I built
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by pawelk 7y ago
I guess maxing out its power would be comparable to looking at a full-white LCD screen. If the device has an ambient light sensor to adjust its brightness, then circumventing it and setting to full power could be comparable to switching on
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by pawelk 7y ago
> And about the laser: it's just light. A laser doesn't mean 'cut through everything' Yeah, in this context laser means a light source with extremely tight cone, meaning it can render a very tiny point on the retina.
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by pawelk 7y ago
A plastic bag from a German store was almost a status symbol, it signaled that you either went abroad or have a family member living in the West.
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by pawelk 7y ago
To each their own. The things you have listed as advantages of Google are basically the same reasons I do my best to stay away.
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by pawelk 7y ago
How do you monitor Facebook? Do you have a written contract with them? Last year Brand24 was cut off from monitoring FB and Instagram, the company page and CEO personal profile were also removed from the platform. It cost Brand24 some clien
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by pawelk 7y ago
> it would make sense to launch a much larger number of less reliable but much less expensive telescopes What if... SpaceX made up for the pollution they introduce by making the Starlink satellites look up the other way and push the cap
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by pawelk 7y ago
I agree with your overall point: it most likely does not matter when the values are close enough. However :) There can be two companies with 100M market cap. Corp A has issued 10M shares @ 10 each, Corp B has 10B shares priced at 0.01 A +&#
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by pawelk 7y ago
I have landed my previous and current job, both remote, via Stack Overflow Careers. On the first one I was approached by a recruiter, for the second I have applied myself after narrowing down some search results.
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by pawelk 7y ago
I built some personal desktop apps with XUL(Runner) ~ a decade ago, it was fun to use web technologies (markup, JS, CSS, web browser view with relaxed security etc) to create a cross-platform executable. I have recently played with Electro
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by pawelk 7y ago
Cooking is a skill one can develop their entire life, like most skills. But in my opinion it's perfectly achievable to go from zero to one or even a few basic meals in an hour. Even more so if you have a slow cooker and follow a recip
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by pawelk 7y ago
It was definitely a case of leaking sensitive info to an on-line "troll", who then published it via Twitter and got this re-tweeted by shady followers, but in this particular case it was not a farm (as in trolling as a service), i
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by pawelk 7y ago
Maybe it should, but it's not always the case. As a front end dev I have to fix issues related to bugs introduced by browser uptades every now and then and usually it's Chrome. On the web it's easy, deploy a fix and it's
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by pawelk 7y ago
> These are facebook numbers. For a bank. I could turn this around and ask, why would Facebook ever need infrastructure on par with BofA? I'm not an expert on infrastructure, but given their size, revenue, market position, number of
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by pawelk 7y ago
How do companies with hundreds of sales points deal with that? Is a centralized invoicing system required by law? I find it hard to believe that multiple numbering sequences are not allowed.
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by pawelk 7y ago
That's interesting. In Poland invoices also have to contain an auto-incrementing component (so you can't backdate something and slip it in, or post an invoice to a client but skip it when reporting taxes). However each company can
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by pawelk 7y ago
The mindset required to become a billionaire is incompatible with that of leaving 6M on the ground for whatever reason ;)

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