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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Alexa rankings might be helpful. Small websites have low rankings
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Propaganda. No tests = no virus
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Android doesn't listen. You can check by yourself using adb logcat
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Nice! He're in Poland government _forbids_ taking virus tests. Private companies have plenty of them, but are unable to even give them to hospitals. Ministry of Health forbids hospitals from taking more than X tests per day, so even if
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Well, navigation systems for competitive hot air balloons pilots could use some competition. The one widely used is from 1998. Total market size is about 50 people, though :)
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
You can use Netlify DNS to simplify your stack. Cloudflare is not needed. Also, Netlify provides Functions, which is Lambda abstraction. Faster to develop.
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Business processes which are repeatable, time consuming and not possible to do with native integrations between tools (or when native integrations just don't exist)
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
What following then news gives you is more chaos and disinformation. Every time there is a vote coming up, you can look up information on all important things collected nicely afer they've been settled, by people following politics.
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Most adblockers can be tricked just by changing request URLs, but uBlock goes one step more and overwrites Google Analytics functions with `null`, so it doesn't work at all. See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock&#x
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
No, you can start with absolutely zero knowledge, but it has different approach than usual courses. You don't start with simple selects, but importing data from files and normalizing it. You're intern at aerospace startup after al
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Consulting Tips(patrykkalinowski.com)
3 points by pkalinowski 7y ago|0 comments
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
This is really nice book. It assumes you are a developer/good with computers, though, so some of the things like dev environment setup are ommited
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
But company doesn't know who has phone with given MAC address, while computers MACs are probably assigned to employee.
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Working from home is good for my mental health. I don't like the office, of course.
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Google Adwords is most of their revenue and it won't exist without search
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
You know, you can send a message to your coworker: "5 min call?" and BAM! One click of a button and you are talking live.
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What's the best modern terminal emulator for Windows?
22 points by pkalinowski 7y ago|13 comments
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
What would be the font you can recommend?
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Didn't Github just launch open source projects storage inside literal glacier?
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Managing people work is not that bad by itself - you delegate things you don't want to yourself do or you want to give more resources to. If you can do interesting work and use your team to help, it's great. The problem with manag
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
People will straight reject reality if it doesn't fit their worldview. Go tell your wife love is just chemistry. Your words will haunt you for years :)
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
> I can teach IF, FOR, and the basics of python in a week. I can teach ruby in about the same. For what they are going to need for a low code solution, that's enough. You don't need to teach all of programming - only a subset t
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Never used Sidekiq myself, but I believe its value is mainly speed and reliability. It suits systems with hundreds of thousands of jobs to process. At least that's what I read on website :)
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Sidekiq is using Redis behind the scenes. It's a job queue system for Ruby and Ruby on Rails
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Apple Notes for quick stuff at work. Had a stint with Microsoft OneNote, but I don't trust it to hold my data reliably. Ended up with Notes folder with Markdown files. It's very logical (filesystem), easy to backup, version and tr
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
I believe there is not much choice beside independent consultancy if you want to stay in tech, but not go into management.
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Yep. I think most people don't realise what most end URLs used in shorteners look like. You can share http://example.com/vfdge34 or http://company.com/blog/2000/12/13/top-10-
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Make your analytics work with adblockers(patrykkalinowski.com)
1 points by pkalinowski 7y ago|0 comments
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
Charts in this report are very misleading. In some cases 6% difference is 2 times bigger on chart than 5% difference. I’m aware they have no scale, are simplified etc, but chart format has very specific meaning and I believe that visualisat
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by pkalinowski 7y ago
How about using quickly expiring cookies to tell if visit is unique (no cookie) or same (cookie exist). It would get reset if external referer is recognized.

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