przemelek

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by przemelek 4mo ago
Exactly, and Jacek Karpiński is the perfect tragic example of this dynamic. It's worth noting that Poland was actually one of the least ideologically rigid countries in the Eastern Bloc. While you couldn't openly oppose the regime
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by przemelek 4mo ago
It wasn't a lack of raw brainpower or wealth; it was a structural and ideological failure of resource allocation. The USSR and the Iron Curtain bloc had a massive population and world-class scientific talent. The problem was that the S
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by przemelek 4mo ago
But they simply weren't able to sustain it. In the West, while the military industry initially pushed computer development, private companies quickly adapted those technologies for the consumer market. Over time, the Western consumer m
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by przemelek 4mo ago
Would prefer a 'Google Linux'—a native desktop OS with a unified UI philosophy, similar to a macOS experience but built on a standard Linux foundation. Instead of ChromeOS or Android as the base, treat them as subsystems for compa
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by przemelek 6mo ago
To be honest I had always a lot of thoughts about this how Rama would be filled with air.... I mean it spins, but how Ramas filled it with air? Central Sea was one of sources, but water wasn't possible there before whole Rama being fil
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by przemelek 7mo ago
Still why especially for Pro there is still version with 24 GB of RAM? It is scary....
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by przemelek 2y ago
You know that there is no Facebook in China? The same for Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Even Google Search is not available in China. And not because those companies didn't want to work in China, simply China forbade them to do it. F
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by przemelek 3y ago
I was thinking more about -Xint, or in Docker, or x86 JVM, but my guess is that somebody already tested it ;-) Other thing is that one of developers in my team who is on M1 and 14.4 is able to run Java app, so...
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by przemelek 4y ago
As long as you have some days in office for everybody it may work, but it should not be done in this way that some people are working from home, and some are working from office. Long before COVID (~8 years before ;-)) we had situation wher
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by przemelek 4y ago
Yeah, but ask for developers to do better documentation and you will get angry answers ;-) Remote work requires higher seniority, more independence and more decision making on worker side, but a lot of people don't want to make decisio
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by przemelek 4y ago
In office yes, remotely not. Simply they are having a lot of problems, they can describe why this is a problem, they may miss Daily so there may not be an occasion to ask. It is also much easier to be busy working from home. Much easier to
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by przemelek 4y ago
If something goes from higher ups it is constrain, team can try to squeeze into constrains, some people will be unhappy but this is something over theirs heads so they will be able to live with it (especially people who joined company befor
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by przemelek 4y ago
Public company is accountable to shareholders, in case if share prices will go down shareholders will want to know why, and some activist investor may go to the court complaining that company was able to have better financial results it sho
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by przemelek 4y ago
But it sounds better than "Sorry for terminating your positions but we need to keep our finances in check not to loose share values, and we are accountable for shareholders" (edited from "Sorry for terminating your positions
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by przemelek 4y ago
yeah, but in real world when this kind of problem will need to be solved people will most probably sort O(N logN), or use priority queue O(N logK), or even will go with something like O(N*K), almost no one will go with O(N) algo and because
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by przemelek 4y ago
I'm not sure. Yep, I tanked several interviews because even when I got info at the beginning that "we will look for your way of thinking and this how you handle problems" finally I heard "Yeah, it was OK, but there exis
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by przemelek 5y ago
To be honest I'm commenting only part with "f.. it I'm not longer working on it", I have ambivalent feelings to "lets change code in such way that builds will go into infinite loop or fail", ambivalent because
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by przemelek 5y ago
Hmm, but as I understand original developer was rather pissed off by situation when devs are working on projects in theirs own time, and those projects sometimes become important tools to lower costs of creating software for big companies,
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by przemelek 5y ago
I used to love code reviews when I worked for Motorola in 2004, it was doing wonders, we observed showing up "phantom developer" where mix of inputs from different people was causing new look on code. Those were Fagan-like code in
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by przemelek 5y ago
Maybe, but still this seems as vanity feature added because "It would be really convenient"... this wasn't something what was needed, but something what was added to make life of maybe 0.1% of users little bit easier. My gues
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by przemelek 10y ago
When I'm using IntelliJ Idea on Macbook I use function keys very often. Having those on touch bar would mean need to look to ensure that I'm hitting F7 instead of F8 or F9 when Debugging. I'm able to change those shortcuts bu
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by przemelek 13y ago
Yeah, so maybe governments should stop setting rules about right- and left-hand traffic? Private sector will be so much better on establishing non government standards... For example Trucks (for British people Lorries) will user right-hande
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by przemelek 13y ago
Yeah, but how many business was using Google Checkout as only method of payment? This decision will hurt only those businesses. Rest of businesses using Google Checkout will remove one of payments method. Not a big deal, and we may guess t
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by przemelek 13y ago
@iamshs where you found info that Google forbidden MS to use YouTube API? I only read that MS said that Google didn't help them and that they don't have access to metadata. But I never found direct wording "forbidden MS to use YouTube API"
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by przemelek 13y ago
@iamshs not sure here, but I'm guessing that you are not breaking TOS. But app for displaying YouTube content needs to be OK with TOS for YouTube API. And this TOS says: II. Prohibitions Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage
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by przemelek 13y ago
You see each service in Internet has something called Terms Of Service. In case of YouTube one of terms says that apps cannot skip ads. In other words it says that apps cannot steal from poor creators of materials. MS created app which is d
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by przemelek 14y ago
Nope ;-) Problem with Apple is that if all players will play using Apple strategy we will not have any innovation at all. Motorola, Nokia, Samsung invested billions in mobile technology without knowing if this will even work, they risked an
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by przemelek 14y ago
Nope. It works slightly different, first companies like Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and others invested billions of dollars in creating telecommunication standards. Next those companies are forced to license patents for those technologies to A
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by przemelek 14y ago
I'm curious if recent changes in Google (taking special characters) will change TIOBE (They base among other signals also on search engines) index? Maybe C gets extra points when those should go to C# or Objective-C? ;-)
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by przemelek 15y ago
Simply wait ;-) probably with age your sight will decrease and at one point you simply will stop to see difference. I guess that 70% or more of people in theirs 30's will have problem with seeing difference (except brighter colors). Of cour

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