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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Form the point of view of a maker / contributor it's common sense that the more tired you are, the worse your output will be. For me, there is a cut off point where the time spent working "tired" or after hours is just n
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
I used to both smoke and extensively used pure Nicotine (gums, sprays etc.) In my opinion, majority of the people who are stopping Nicotine (not just smoking) approach it as an incredibly hard challenge. The process is demonised and describ
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Location: UK / EU in 2023. Remote: Full-remote but more than happy to travel occasionally. My location is very flexible. Portfolio: Most recently I built https://flat.social from scratch. It's a video conferencing app
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Unfortunately, not always. I had once my account frozen by one of the UK's largest banks for days. The reason? Apparently they didn't have my mobile phone number. They never asked for it. Also, on multiple occasions their online b
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
I don't think that Uber through SMS would be strong enough to compete with taxi services. One of the core features that made me use Uber was the map - I could see where the driver is going and how far away is he. Also, the app is local
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Location: UK / EU in 2023. Remote: Full-remote but more than happy to travel occasionally. My location is very flexible. Portfolio: Most recently I built https://flat.social from scratch. It's a video conferencing app
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
I built https://flat.social that has whiteboarding functionalities (among others). Not as advanced as Miro or FigJam but useful for quick diagrams during meetings / brainstorming.
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
> People expect few bugs, good UI and UX. There is a LOT of upfront work. You might have a VC-funded product that has 0 bugs, perfect UI and UX and still nobody is using it. I've seen this in practice, even a decade ago. I believe t
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
While I do agree, I think that this might be too general to be correct in every case. I do wonder however if the COVID lockdowns and WFH made the remote work market worse. The amount of remote positions available skyrocketed but so did the
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Didn't Google invest into Anthropic too? Just found this - https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584540/google-anthropic-...
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Amazon to invest up to $4B in AI startup Anthropic(ft.com)
6 points by pawelwentpawel 3y ago|3 comments
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
In Poland, the major competitor to Amazon is Allegro ( https://allegro.pl/ ). It's an online shopping platform that is not as centralised as Amazon. It's more of a marketplace where both small and larger sellers can
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
That's a great point, didn't think about that!
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
I wonder how much animal body language could help with that. Maybe instead of trying to focus purely on the language (like with human language translation), the algorithm could try to observe and infer the meaning from more than just audio?
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what does "Remote (UK)" mean for you? Does it mean that the work can be done only when physically in UK, the tax residency of an employee has to be in UK or an employee has to be within the same timezone?
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Are the salaries really lower because people take more holiday or pay taxes? Also, vacation days are not always used for fancy instagram post holiday. As random as life is, there are non-medical emergencies that one needs to attend to occas
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Apart from knowing that an Airbnb has a good internet, I'd love to know / be able to filter for good office chairs and work setup. They do have the "dedicated workspace" checkbox but unfortunately this can be anything -
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Does this mean that ZOOM is basically using every attendee's audio and video stream to train their models? How do they define the "Service Generated Data"? I made a video-conferencing app for virtual events ( https:/&#x2
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
There are two exchange rates for USD and Argentine Peso. One is official, set out by the government. The other one, called blue rate, is not. With blue rate, the dollar is almost 2x more expensive ( https://bluedollar.net/ ).
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Location: UK / EU in 2023. Remote: Full-remote but more than happy to travel occasionally. My location is very flexible. Portfolio: Most recently I built https://flat.social from scratch. It's a video conferencing app
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
Slightly off-topic but using coworking spaces pre-Covid was also a different experience. They seem to have turned into call centres nowadays. I find it pretty hard to find a silent spot to work without having someone borderline scream at th
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Show HN: Small European Country – the smallest project I published in a decade(smalleuropeancountry.com)
4 points by pawelwentpawel 3y ago|1 comments
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
> But the interesting question is: why did they write this article? I'd guess because they're a part of the community and simply want to share their findings. I see no malice here. Having your work (whether writing or a new pro
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by pawelwentpawel 3y ago
I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a trip in Latin America. It seems that it was an organised group with a vast distribution network. I could follow their entire supply chain which spanned through entire Brazil, from south all the way
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by pawelwentpawel 4y ago
While I participated in the Google Code Jam, my favourite was Hash Code - the team programming competition. The problems were more open ended and being able to work with a team was really great fun. Also, much more resembling a real-world p
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Show HN: Alone this xmas? Come say hi in an open virtual xmas party(flat.social)
9 points by pawelwentpawel 4y ago|0 comments
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by pawelwentpawel 4y ago
I've seen a number of accounts that had fake profile pictures straight out of https://thispersondoesnotexist.com , majority of them used for spam. Also, the content created by (seemingly) real people is sometimes worse than
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by pawelwentpawel 4y ago
Since last year I've been using Pixi.js ( https://pixijs.com/ ) to create an app that puts video meetings into a 2d virtual space ( https://flat.social ). While learning how to build it, I got really (possibly
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by pawelwentpawel 4y ago
From a perspective of a coder on a team, I think that strategically selecting which novel things to learn is a good thing career-wise. Fun aspect aside, one gets paid to learn new stuff which can later result in better future opportunities.
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by pawelwentpawel 4y ago
For calculus, I found Thomas' Calculus ( https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Calculus-Early-Transcendentals... ) the most helpful. It's a textbook but has a lot of exercises.

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