malinens

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by malinens 5mo ago
99% of software developers earn less than 200 USD a hour
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by malinens 10mo ago
On related note there is exiftool which tries to understand all those different formats https://exiftool.org/ And it has it's own forums with tens of thousands of posts!
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by malinens 1y ago
You do not sound very genuine. It does not say it is multi-entry fee enywhere. For tourists very few countries ask more except visa fee (and many do not require visa at all). For UK this fee is only 16GBP for 2 years and not 1200 USD: http
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by malinens 1y ago
What happened to wikipedia in 2024?
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by malinens 2y ago
I live with firefox mobile engine for webview without any issue
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by malinens 2y ago
You are correct but please read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
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by malinens 2y ago
I have similar story. Recently facebook forced me to enable 2-factor auth but adding SMS did not work for me for a whole week and I just deleted the app. Later I opened facebook from mobile browser and added SMS as 2nd factor and now I have
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by malinens 2y ago
That's just wrong. Telegram is trusted by both Ukraine and Russia. That tells a lot. Also I am living near Russian border and remember well how Durov left Russia and I am quite sure he is not puppet of Putin...
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by malinens 2y ago
I always ask people to give example of real world SPAs where JS is "used well" and nobody could give me an example
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by malinens 2y ago
As an example, 80% of third-party content I receive on Facebook is soft Russian propoganda: Some examples: * general auto blog which writes about how 80% of details of some cars are now Russian made * some general English language construct
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by malinens 3y ago
We used .dev before google registered it so we migrated to another paid domain so we don't need to pay huge amount per year to google
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by malinens 3y ago
At my work we have similar issues with all big companies we have some kind of integration. Apple, Google, Facebook... Even Huawei app store decided to copy our apps without asking us first and now we have issues managing them. Too much time
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by malinens 3y ago
That's why we offloaded phone validation to Telegram - it is too costly to send SMS in other countries than our home market and spammers are finding ways to get phone numbers for free from different VoIP providers. We need to implement
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by malinens 3y ago
Verifying phone number is one of the last things which is still effective when fighting against bot registrations. Alternative is to ask money for registration. Here is idea for hacker news crowd: make service which is a proxy for phone num
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by malinens 3y ago
In rural places car is neccessity everywhere in the world, but in urban it is not
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by malinens 3y ago
open source tracing tools can be easily locally hosted
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by malinens 3y ago
At my work we use Capistrano for PHP projects. It does not matter in which language project is written. You can still use ruby Capistrano and it works good enough
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by malinens 4y ago
I haven't see any project which feels fast which are written in React. But most important thing for me which is broken (because it is too difficult to catch all edge cases) in all the JS frontends is the broken navigation (browser&#x27
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by malinens 4y ago
Ukrainians are good developers themselves. Maybe you can automate finding Western busineses still using software made in Russia and recomend alternatives. Or nudge Western IT companies to provide special deals for Ukrainian developers
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by malinens 4y ago
Recently we are having issues with recaptcha/hcaptcha as bots seem to have broken them or got very cheap services to solve them. Only Cloudflare Turnstile helps us now. No wonder also github tries harder to block bits now
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by malinens 4y ago
Quality of code is very relevant for business success for millions of reasons. * good and self-respecting developers will not work on bad quality code. Business will be left with bad/mediocre devs who will implement bussiness needs slo
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by malinens 4y ago
Inflation is good for some people if they are heavily indebted. Amount to pay back stays the same but wages grow
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by malinens 4y ago
One of the main metric for build time for me is to make it fast enough so you do not want switch to other task at all
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by malinens 4y ago
I can asks admins about peering. I have no idea as am am developer :) We are hosted in Latvia (DEAC data centers) and we manage our servers on our own
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by malinens 4y ago
I work at inbox.eu. You can use it for free if you are ok with sending max 3 emails per day. You need to verify mobile phone or verify account via Telegram for free acounts. Also 9.99 EUR per year for premium account is one of the lowest pr
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by malinens 4y ago
I am developer and this is my exact work setup
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by malinens 4y ago
PHP has native way via composer to clean up unneeded google APIs: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client#cleaning...
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by malinens 4y ago
You seem to had never gone trough this approval process. There are many dark patterns there: * Asking for huge amount of money in the of the process (after you wasted hundreds of hours of expensive developer time) * forcing to use restricte
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by malinens 4y ago
There is only one thing why this is done: to make impossible to move from gmail (also with custom domains) to another provider. We have the same problem. We spent hundreds of hours implementing their legacy auth (less secure apps), gmail o
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by malinens 5y ago
Thanks for feedback and I agree with you. Owners of inbox.eu first wanted to market product for less technical small business people. Now we are moving away from this business model and will give more priority for custom domain e-mail. Soon

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