tomca32

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by tomca32 6y ago
Wing Commander II was just amazing. Had a long, fairly well thought out story with meaningful twists, emotional moments, tension and accompanies by a great soundtrack. I will see you in heaven. Some remastered bits of soundtrack: https:&#x
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by tomca32 6y ago
The problem is that if anything can be undefined, then you don't really have a big typing advantage over regular JavaScript. It's just like being in Java land where typing adds a lot of boilerplate to the code, but you still have
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by tomca32 6y ago
Oh I’m not sure what you mean but certainly sounds interesting. Can you expand a bit on Atwood and Spolsky’s influence on hiring?
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by tomca32 6y ago
> but you can bet lots of people will be more attracted to someone who looks young with a full head of hair compared to someone who has typical male pattern baldness I think there are just as many people who are attracted to a guy with a
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by tomca32 6y ago
I disagree. When you jump ship you don’t need to build track record to get a promotion but instead join at a higher level right away. I’m a staff engineer at my current company. In my whole career I never once got a promotion.
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by tomca32 6y ago
Oh man, it warms my heart to see this here. I grew up reading Alan Ford and had a collection of over 200 comics. These comics were so massively influential in old Yugoslavia that it's common to hear people quote them all the time. Some
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by tomca32 6y ago
I really don't have a feeling design systems are a hard sell unlike almost all other internal tools. It's the only internal tool I have seen that is consistently present at the vast majority of companies I have worked at. I also d
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by tomca32 6y ago
That's a great discussion, thanks for the link. Yeah I guess the calling it a cultural continuation of Rome is wrong. It's kind of hard to describe this in words because "culture" implies so many things like language, cu
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by tomca32 6y ago
I think “Islamic Invasions” is a bit too broad of a term. You are referencing the Ottoman Turks specifically. The funny thing is that Ottomans saw this whole event through a very different lens. They didn’t call themselves the Ottomans or T
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by tomca32 6y ago
I don't know. I never tried doing that. Amazon is pretty useless in Croatia so that probably wouldn't work, but there might be some prepaid cards that would. I don't know, haven't explored that option honestly.
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by tomca32 6y ago
That's a fair comment. I don't use Transferwise, rather just wire money via Chase Bank to an IBAN account. You are right that there is an intermediary bank involved in the process. Also yes, within Europe, an IBAN to IBAN transfer
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by tomca32 6y ago
I live and work in the US, but originally I'm from Croatia. I wire money every month to my family back there. It takes 5 work days for the wire to fully clear. Since 5 days is a full work week, it almost always bleeds over to the weeke
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by tomca32 6y ago
> Maybe only those who lived in his era can understand who he was and that's about it. Everything else is a nice story created by professionals. This seems to imply that the myth of Senna's greatness was created after his death
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by tomca32 6y ago
I've been involved with some non-profit organizations that do work in post conflict countries, mostly Africa. From my experience, these organizations throw parties because they have to. This is how non-profits fundraise. I don't t
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by tomca32 6y ago
That’s a great piece thanks!
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by tomca32 6y ago
You're right. After doing some research I could actually pull it off, but it would be pretty tight. There's some decent insurance options for ~$700/mo. That's still $8400/yr. With $60k/yr income, that might sti
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by tomca32 6y ago
I wish this was true but it isn’t. The main reason I cannot do this is because health insurance is prohibitively expensive. The main reason I have to continue working is because I’m a T1 diabetic and I need to have health coverage. Although
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by tomca32 6y ago
> Lots of good stuff in here, including much more support for using UUIDs as PKs. I missed this. Going through the changelogs the only thing I found is support case-insensitivity for pg UUID types. Is that what you meant? I really think
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by tomca32 6y ago
Interesting, I never connected "viteaz" with viking. "Vitez" is a word that in many Slavic languages means "knight". In Hungarian it's "Vitéz". A short trip down wikipedia and wiktionary leads me
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by tomca32 6y ago
This is such a common scam that I really think it should be taught in schools. Whenever you hear someone propose to give you a check in return for you depositing your cash directly somewhere, it is always a scam, always. There is no legitim
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by tomca32 6y ago
I was very skeptical about Stadia until a friend made me try it so we could play Destiny together. Totally blew me away. I still can't believe I'm streaming a fast paced shooter game in multiplayer and it works without a hitch.
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by tomca32 6y ago
Makes sense it's taken for granted since health care is expensive as hell so people expect the service to be good if they pay for it.
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by tomca32 6y ago
Same thing happened in Croatia in the 90s. Silly words were introduced and then people made up even sillier words to make fun of it leading to insanities like: - čigrasto pamtilo "peg-top-like memorizer" for a floppy disk - čigras
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by tomca32 6y ago
Great job! People often insist that JS is necessary for interactivity, and it really, really isn't. You can create interactive web experiences without JS, and just add sprinkles of it when it makes sense. "Basics" are more th
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by tomca32 6y ago
I have some personal experience on this subject. When I was growing up, my country got engulfed into a pretty rough war. We went through air raids, bombings, artillery strikes, and a bunch of people died. I'm sure all the adults were f
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by tomca32 7y ago
Oh yes. My father had a massive collection of those magazines. He was a hobbyist programmer at that time and I think in one of Svet Kompjutera, he got a review of his software: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?
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by tomca32 7y ago
Interesting. I have no way of knowing, but my guess would be that your experience is a consequence of Yugoslavia starting to break apart. All out war started just 2 years after your trip. A big part of Yugoslavia's budget came from tou
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by tomca32 7y ago
Keep in mind that Yugoslavia was a completely different thing during the cold war. It was a communist country that was not part of the Comintern, or the Warsaw pact. It, in fact, had open borders with the west. This caused it to be in a muc
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by tomca32 7y ago
Funny to see those are referred to in English as "Spomeniks". After living in the US for a decade, looking at this definitely brings an incredible feeling of nostalgia. Damn it. I want to go back in time, and back to Sarajevo.
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by tomca32 7y ago
Hey Mary, Tomislav here from the 2013 summer batch. Just wanted to let you know it was an absolute pleasure learning from you at HS. You're a wonderful teacher and I learned a ton. Thanks!

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