pawelmi

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by pawelmi 3y ago
I would prefer to channel that energy that went into writing this lengthy description into actually fixing the toolchain to at least fail with more actionable error message.
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by pawelmi 5y ago
Interesting! Wikipedia says that E6B is "one of the very few analog calculating devices in widespread use in the 21st century". What are those other few?
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by pawelmi 5y ago
I believe in most cases it were parents that were the issue, not kids. Perhaps abducting them (parents) to some empathy bootcamp could do more good.
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by pawelmi 5y ago
So it is both available and consistent (but perhaps only in read your own writes way?). What is then with resilence to network partitions, referring to CAP theorm? Did they build super reliable global network, so this is never a real issue?
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by pawelmi 5y ago
> If you've got all these resources just offer a full VDI which more typically prices in this ballpark. Perhaps their solution has something specific to the browser which allows them to do it really fast and cost effective. Eg. Send
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by pawelmi 6y ago
While most of those advices (or rather tricks like go around or hire replacement and ask to train them) would work sometimes, they lack empathy and reproduceability. In fact might even be counter effective. From my experience it works best
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by pawelmi 6y ago
> That's a nice feature. But it can put a lot of load on your backend if you paginate over 10 of thousands of items. To prevent that, usually maximum page size is enforced on the server anyway and the client is informed about the ac
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by pawelmi 6y ago
For me 'Getting to yes' was too idealistic. It is a classic and good starter but did find it that usable for me. I was impressed though by radical approach of Chris Voss on 'Never Split the Difference'. Author is a forme
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Thank you, I was not aware. Interesting to read the other side.
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Not to mention that success is often fair dose of luck. But if you know it and try multiple times while correcting your mistakes, the chance is only increasing.
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by pawelmi 6y ago
There is a great book by Carol Dweck - Minset. She distinguishes two types of minset in people. Fixed - who believe their capabilities are static and even when they have some success they are afraid to do more in order to not ruin the impr
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Two hardest problems in IT: naming, cache invalidation and off by one.
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Majority of Polish people is pro European, however like in few other places in the world, unlucky series of events caused populists to reach to power. They used old divide and conquer techniques, seized media and manage to destroy some dem
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by pawelmi 6y ago
It is sleep paralysis. It is completely normal when it happens from time to time. Your brain inhibits muscle movements during certain phases of sleep so that you do not hurt your self. Sometimes this can get out of sync though.
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Does tesseract count as box too? ;)
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Thanks for answers in this thread. I didn't really mean to have YOLO-type random access to production. I was hoping there are ways in between to bridge that gap between dev and ops in those systems, similarly how it has been done eg wi
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by pawelmi 6y ago
I'm curious, why can't people that created the system take part in production support. You've mentioned finance, that I presume require high level of security, but at the same time there are also people on the other side, jus
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by pawelmi 6y ago
There has been numerous research showing that money rewards led to worse outcome. That was especially true do it creative tasks. Eg curiosity, fun, purpose, development was much better motivation. Of course in real life job situation good m
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by pawelmi 6y ago
Reminded me of Anna Karenina principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
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by pawelmi 6y ago
I think we became immunized and stopped noticing it in this context after product being so many years on shelves. Just like you stop noticing your nose in sight. Though such a threat from a lightbulb sounds scary :)
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by pawelmi 6y ago
To customer belonging to high risk group (which would be main customers of lending apps) banks simply refuse to even start conversation about credit. But then it is not called predatory. Pretty clean solution. Since banks take customers wit
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by pawelmi 9y ago
For Polish (on computers) we have a keyboard layout called "polish programmer" widely adopted many years ago affectively making the original "polish typewriter" layout (that mapped diacritics to separate keys) almost ext
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by pawelmi 10y ago
There should be some switch for proper zero-based numbering :)
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by pawelmi 10y ago
(disclaimer: I work for Opera) This year Opera has had a lot of focus on performance tuning under the umbrella of Power Saving Mode that was shipped in Opera 39. It was many small optimizations like for example reducing timer frequency in u