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by pawelk 9y ago
My wife make crochset things as a hobby, and she has decided to create a facebook page to share the passion and show what she made. Most of the fans are our mutual friends, but it has become sort of a side-income for her (friends like to or
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by pawelk 9y ago
And, as far as I know, Microsoft has developed Edge from scratch after all. The years of incremental updates to IE are now maintained for legacy support.
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by pawelk 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Death I think that, coincidentally, Nicolae would be Romanian for Claus?
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by pawelk 9y ago
Personalized disambiguation can be really handy. I'm a hobby woodworker, I've recently bought a vintage Record #4 hand plane and wanted to learn more about it. I found out this model was manufactured in 1939-1945. So without think
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by pawelk 9y ago
Maybe they have decided to limit the choices to just enough for the web in order to limit the download size of a typical landing page? There are too many websites out there that pull complete weight ranges of multiple webfonts.
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by pawelk 9y ago
There are many Poles employed in the UK, so there has to be a way. It may get tricky when these workers do not live in the UK, but on the other hand there are many foreign companies operating in Poland and hiring people here. As I said the
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by pawelk 9y ago
So I live in Poland and it's not really a secret that small companies can and do optimize their taxes by registering in the UK (mostly self-employed professionals) or Czech Republic (small companies / family businesses). It's
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by pawelk 9y ago
> "idk lol security" reasons. I hereby confess to being guilty of adding autocomplete="off" to a login form, because the client's corporate IT only cared about ticking all the boxes on a security conformance rep
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by pawelk 9y ago
According to Wikipedia SF City and County has a population of 870k, Warsaw 1.8 million. The metro area 4.6M vs 3.1M respectively. So I'd say the same ballpark. That said 5000 units seems like nothing at these population sizes. I live n
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by pawelk 9y ago
You should at least compare the docs for the same thing. For the w3schools article on CSS Display [1] the MDN counterpart would be https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display and to compare
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by pawelk 9y ago
I think I have now remembered the moment I became aware of my synesthesia. As a kid I was a bit of an art geek, I liked to read on art history and theory. Reading about Kandinsky there was an introduction that he had some kind of unique way
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by pawelk 9y ago
I was aware of my synesthesia for quite some time (numbers and letters had their colors for as long as I can remember, it also extends to some sound/taste/color combinations). I don't remember how it occurred to me that it&#x
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by pawelk 9y ago
In Poland, and I believe it's an EU regulation, every seller is obligated to take your old appliances when you buy new ones in the same category. For example when you buy a freezer you can drop your old one for recycling free of charge
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by pawelk 9y ago
On the other hand you could use E4X in CouchDB views, which was almost like JSX, but native.
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by pawelk 9y ago
From a cursory Google search: Nikon COOLPIX S800c, Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM10. So the big players are investing in Android. This just shows how different users have different needs. I do not want my camera to be "smart", I want it t
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by pawelk 9y ago
I love the idea of sharing economy and, since I moved to a rural area, participate in it. Someone, somewhere, has this thing I need currently and they have in excess. Chainsaw, trailer, tractor, scaffolding, baby formula, really long stepla
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by pawelk 9y ago
There was also Rhino in the Java land (I remember working with Helma before Node came out), JScript on IIS, some projects embedding SpiderMonkey. I think node.js finally made server-side JS take off because 1) it was based on V8 which was t
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by pawelk 9y ago
I live in Poland. Every car radio I have ever owned did this, and every station that is available on more than a single frequency (that I'm aware of) can be followed using RDS. I can also listen to a CD or other media [1] and let it sc
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by pawelk 9y ago
In case of 4.4 KitKat it was the idea of Nestle's advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson [0]. It was novel at the time, and it as more than just jumping on the letter "K", because it tied the "have a break, have a kitkat
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by pawelk 9y ago
I have recently bought a brace type hand drill and I prefer it over my cordless drill. It is great not only for drilling, I also use it to drive all types of screws since it will accept any bit the powered version would. It provides more to
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by pawelk 9y ago
I think a trailing slash is what makes Chrome try to resolve instead of searching.
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by pawelk 9y ago
My top 3 answers are one-liners that solve "problems" any semi-competent developer shouldn't even need stackoverflow to solve. The answers that required some effort, more code and explanations are not that "valuable&quot
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by pawelk 9y ago
I think that in Europe DaWanda is what Etsy could have been.
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by pawelk 10y ago
Five years ago I have started to use Emacs after I saw some cool org-mode demos in hopes of utilizing some of its power in my organization and task management. I've been using Emacs daily for every programming task since then, but divi
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by pawelk 10y ago
Firefox is my main development browser on personal laptop (Ubuntu) and Chrome on the PC (Win10) at work. When I develop (HTML, CSS, ES6+babel) on Chrome, then test in Firefox there are some inconsistencies that require minor fixing. The sam
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by pawelk 10y ago
I was trying to point out that: 1. It wouldn't be hard to pollute the logs with noise, and 2. At the ISP level there's no distinction between "browsing a website" and accessing the URL unknowingly. So let's assume n
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by pawelk 10y ago
Or what if someone, say on an innocent blog, places an invisible iframe pointing to a flagged website? Now every visitor has that website in their logs without ever willingly visiting the URL and seeing any of the content.
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by pawelk 10y ago
Yeah, I saw ⌘-Enter in the bottom-right of every example and immediately thought "too bad I can't even try this on my machine". But I kept scrolling and clicked one of the "Example Notebooks" half-expecting it'
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by pawelk 10y ago
> Great in theory, unworkable in practice. In advertising agencies it's not unheard of to hire creative teams (for example an art director + copywriter duo) who are used to working together. In fact where I work most hires and depar
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by pawelk 11y ago
The key difference here is a single word in the VOX article: installed solar. The 40cents/watt in Bloomberg article is just the panel (because it's an article about costs of producing panels). This would mean even if the price o

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