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by pawelk 11y ago
I think they have accounted for that. FTA: > After finding the average annual salary for each profession in each city from Glassdoor, Estately then determined how much people in each profession could afford to spend on a home
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by pawelk 11y ago
The biggest advertising agency holding WPP spent $1 billion with Facebook and $4 billion with Google in 2015 [1]. Both figures are up compared to 2014, by 56% on FB and by 38% on Google, so the growth of advertising budgets on Facebook was
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by pawelk 11y ago
That's up to Twitter to implement it.
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by pawelk 11y ago
Slack chat also displays desktops notifications in Chrome.
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by pawelk 11y ago
It won't make any difference if it's caused by some random router being correlated with their physical address. Phones connecting to that router will still be reported as being located near the house, even if the family cut off el
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by pawelk 11y ago
> Shipping is never free (and it's often more expensive than most would assume). It just means the retailer/manufacturer has baked into the product price No, in this case the shipping is not part of the price. When you want to
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by pawelk 11y ago
As I understand it: a government can not say to a foreign company "we won't buy your software / won't allow your product in our market unless you give us the source code" and that's it. It has nothing to do wit
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by pawelk 11y ago
> When Hitler ordered that Poland's capital be razed to the ground, the German military took him literally. After the war, less than 10 percent of Warsaw was left standing. Here you can see how bad it really was: https://
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by pawelk 11y ago
It's explained in the article. They have combined satellite imagery with observations from underneath the canopy, so they had both the area of forest and tree density in the particular forest. > The scientists were able to reach th
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by pawelk 11y ago
My favourite of his shorts, "Jak Działa Jamniczek" ("How does a dachshund work"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16GL3N4PdM
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by pawelk 12y ago
Wolfram Alpha parses queries like "how old is [name]" and renders the age distribution, e.g. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+old+is+jane
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by pawelk 12y ago
document.getElementById('foo').classList.remove('bold'); see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.cla...
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by pawelk 12y ago
Similar resource with many code snippets: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ and related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7152068
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by pawelk 12y ago
I've always conceptualized XUL as something similar to what is now known as Web Components + a native touch.
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by pawelk 12y ago
As other commenters have expressed, even stupid ideas may lead to an actual product: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitbite-track-and-improve... I know this project is not related to the hackathon, but one can imag
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by pawelk 12y ago
I like to believe it was the only company crazy (or inexperienced) enough to participate in a project of this scale on such a short notice. Which would be a sign of maturity of the Polish IT sector.
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by pawelk 12y ago
I'm a web dev who has switched to Emacs a few years ago. In the first year I went from throwing profanities at it to writing some basic elisp code to refresh the active browser tab after saving the file, before watch tasks for nodejs
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by pawelk 12y ago
Yeah, it's a UX problem. The feature is right there, but had they renamed "Pages" to "Identities" it would possibly get some traction.
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by pawelk 13y ago
> The whole phenomenon of kids leaving the house at 18, moving across the country, and not coming home again is fairly recent and fairly unique to the Western world. I live in Poland and I'm the first generation that grew up after t
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by pawelk 13y ago
> the economic transaction involved in acquiring the Tesla would leave nothing to NJ As I understand the sales will shift completely from local venues to point and click only after the laws in question come into power. The stores that ar
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by pawelk 13y ago
> In terms of his house and the like, I was always led to believe that life insurance was specifically for cases like his? Is life insurance a big thing in America? I found the "Pay off our mortgage" part a bit strange. Living
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by pawelk 13y ago
After every HN article about the next best programming font I go back to DejaVu Sans Mono, so you may be on to something here.
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by pawelk 13y ago
> 16B? That's a B, people. I wanted to put the number into perspective to wrap my head around it and it seems that $19B (I've added the $3B RSUs) was the public healthcare budget for 2013 in my country of almost 40 milion citiz
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by pawelk 13y ago
Converting PSDs to HTML/CSS has been my job for the past ten years. The "PSD that client has already approved" is part of the problem, because what's been approved is a picture of the website which may be very close to r
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by pawelk 13y ago
> Adobe is trying to overcome Photoshop’s limitations for modern web design. So Adobe has realized that PSD to HTML workflow is dying and tries to develop tools for the modern web workflow to stay relevant. I don't get how this argu
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by pawelk 13y ago
> Looks like I got caught up in the adobe breach. I knew I was, but I was delighted by what Dreamhost did: they have cross-checked their users' e-mails with the Adobe leaked database and sent a message [1] to affected users explaini
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by pawelk 13y ago
> Do you think carpenters are all happy just making what people will buy from them? An anecdote to highlight your point. I'm a web developer, but I've built furniture four our new house last year. It was fun, I've learned
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by pawelk 15y ago
> If you know what your next step in the project is, you'll have this urge to jump back in and do that task. For me it is the next interesting and possibly rewarding step. Just simply knowing what's do be done next doesn't cut it for me
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by pawelk 16y ago
Great talk on the subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...