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by pawelk 8y ago
> employees implicitly would rather have 300$ of free lunches paid by the company every month than +300$ on their salary. I know I would. It'd take the burden of thinking about what to have for lunch every day off me. When I was wo
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by pawelk 8y ago
> You could find random people on the network based on what they filled out in their profile and start chatting with them. In my case not ICQ, but a local messaging app had this feature as well. When I have moved to a new city a girl who
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by pawelk 8y ago
Mr. Sellers is exceptional in his "good enough" attitude. Sometimes there are more or less precise measurements, slight differences and imperfections, etc, then he says "it's still going to last a hundred years". Al
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by pawelk 8y ago
Event delegation was a thing before jQuery, and is not that hard to implement as a helper function, e.g. https://jsfiddle.net/jbctqupz/
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by pawelk 8y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla... ;)
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by pawelk 8y ago
> why does my BMW have a BMW entertainment system? Because BMW has not entered an abusive relationship with a dominant player in the car entertainment system market who would only license the popular system to BMW on the condition that 1
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by pawelk 8y ago
> How are you supposed to verify someone’s identity online without going through a laborious and expensive process In Poland they have ceded the identity verification to banks since they do this anyway when you open an account and are qu
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by pawelk 8y ago
> Hacking is not a problem you can solve by passing a regulation that says "don't get hacked". It doesn't say "don't get hacked", it says "if (when?) you get hacked, minimize the the cost to people
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by pawelk 8y ago
I'm on 17.10, installed it with GNOME and went back to Unity after a few hours. I was not a fan of Unity when it was released, but i guess it grew on me. Using GNOME again just didn't feel right. And screen recording was broken, i
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by pawelk 8y ago
I have mobile plan from 12 years ago that includes calls and sms but no data in the modern sense - there's internet access but tailored to 2006 tech (WAP, early mobile web for dumbphones), it's billed per 100kB and really expensiv
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by pawelk 9y ago
They show the fake message notification on the mobile website (and I have my laptop right in front of me with no new messages in days) only to redirect to the store and download their messenger app. This is one of the darkest patterns I hav
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by pawelk 9y ago
I think the theory is FB gets to keep data on who liked/followed/interacted with the page/content, which is still valuable data to mine for profiling the users. A true removal of an account should result in all interactions w
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by pawelk 9y ago
> for smallish advertisers (this is not P&G, I understand) agencies can negotiate much better terms It's more than that. As a small business managing your own ads you can get your account suspended without explanation and any wa
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by pawelk 9y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39654/figures/2 doesn't look like mice teeth at all.
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by pawelk 9y ago
Doesn't DDG use Bing behind the scenes for substantial number of queries?
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by pawelk 9y ago
I'd rather use software that is predictable than predictive.
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by pawelk 9y ago
You can still do a check for the normalized address for known sevices that allow moving the dots and adding a +somthing (e.g. to catch someone creating multiple fake accounts). Just be decent about it and store the user-provided address for
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by pawelk 9y ago
Also $1 does not hold the same purchasing power everywhere in the world. There are places where it is a considerably larger expense than in the US.
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by pawelk 9y ago
As a developer I kind of get it: "we have all this machinery so we won't compromise to use the simple route even if it makes sense short-term; let's improve our product instead". But as a user I'd expect Google to b
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by pawelk 9y ago
> How would you identify those words which can be directly looked up in a dictionary vs those that require the current context I would start by determining the number of words in the query. If it's equal to 1, the user probably want
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by pawelk 9y ago
I don't say it's easy, at least from organizational/product-development perspective. But that's basically how every translation website before GT worked: type a word in language A, select language B, get the result(s) fr
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by pawelk 9y ago
Polish PM would probably disagree it's better to have imperfect auto-translation than none at all ;) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/translati...
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by pawelk 9y ago
Or maybe one could reasonably expect that Google, with all that money and engineering power, would implement something like a dictionary lookup to short-circuit single word translations? Edit: I did not want to complain about the translatio
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by pawelk 9y ago
How do you get from Polish "hebel" to German "Flugzeug", if not by dropping the "hand" part of "hand plane"? Especially when the Polish is a loanword from German Hobel...
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by pawelk 9y ago
> to translate from Greek to French, Google goes via English. I found the English as an intermediary language amusing when translating a word between two Slavic languages, Polish and Russian. Wanted to look up something about Russian han
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by pawelk 9y ago
Origin policy is a client thing. Referrer is accessible to the server. It's like using robots.txt vs. HTTP Auth to protect your content.
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by pawelk 9y ago
As I understand it, it would be similar to the situation when my savings account gives me 2% annually and I was able to take a loan at 1% annually. I wouldn't use my savings to pay off the debt, but the other way around.
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by pawelk 9y ago
> trying to find something you saw in your feed Sometimes it's right here on my phone, third post in my feed. I want to leave a lengthy comment, but it's nowhere to be found on the desktop browser.
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by pawelk 9y ago
And if it wasn't tragic enough, there's this twist of history: > Testimony against Pilecki was presented by a future Polish prime minister, Józef Cyrankiewicz, himself an Auschwitz survivor.
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by pawelk 9y ago
I use ThinkPad E450 (i7/16GB/SSD/FullHD). Started with Ubuntu 17.04 (unity), updated to 17.10 (gnome), didn't have any problems.

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