jarek83

So now it seems that all big-tech was keeping tens of thousands of poor performers for years. I believe those performers were not really poor, it is probably matter of bad management so people were not able to present their true skill, but in any case - why they kept so many people as it seems they never needed them?

And make sure you put adequate tune for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0sB3CSMbo

Why use risky rebase while you can just squash all into one commit and push it via intermediate branch (something that Github does as an option)? I prefer to be worry free than always be ready for someone screwing up a branch.

In Poland you can still get very decent glasses (that could be even with a premium brand frames) with top service included for about $300. I believe it's just a market that makes it expensive or cheap. Oh, and you don't need a prescription.

I had a bad experience with ProtonMail support either. When it works it's great, but they suddenly changed my password somehow, and I lost all of the emails as they get hashed. Then they didn't want to help resolving that. I was hoping this was one-off issue but it seems to me that ProtonMail has problems to validate as trustworthy business.

In most of the controversies posted on HN they usually end up with a feeling that nothing would change, because only us, the tech community knows about details of an issue and we are too few to have an impact.

But this is solely affecting a product where we are the target audience, where if we oppose, thing should change. Now I wonder if it will show that we are actually caring that much to action or we are just as regular consumers as non-tech people in all other cases.

I realized that I never misspelled it this way.

Well, business usually don't have that comfort of spending money on this when there is much cheaper alternative. Aaand they can hire experts in a framework instead of an engineer that would have to be learned the custom stuff and could eventually say that he doesn't like the stack and would build his own...

I agree on how this article is mis-titled. It's clear that the author just hates Rails.

Now - I use RoR and other ecosystems and I really miss Ruby or RoR features in those other ones.

It seems that there are mostly 2 types of devs: - those that use tools, learn them and master in them, - those that always want to create their own tools, and will usually oppose adopting and learning existing ones.

I belong to the first type. I love frameworks because they give publicly available documentation that plenty of people contribute to - so my project will have access to all of it even if I'm gone. Another reason is that frameworks have opportunity to be battle tested in terms of robustness and in terms of use cases. My stance here is that I love to use wheels instead of creating my own ones. I'm a project developer and not an academia developer.

The second type of devs are what I would avoid hiring to my projects if they wouldn't be an academia projects. I need to deliver business goals in a most efficient way. That efficiency has to be on multiple levels. One these levels is to that the code won't be depending on one or two my best developers, because there is a high chance they will go at some point. My project would then rely only on what they created and documented, hoping that documentation cover everything. But my project would also slowly deteriorate technically, because most devoted contributors would be gone. Frameworks usually take much longer to become abandoned.

I believe first type should work for businesses. The second type - should aim academia.

> Of which you are the creator and expert, and have complete control and insight, and can change it in any way you want any time. It is in 100% alignment with your goals at all time.

And then you change a job and you take 80% knowledge with you and your now-past project is in deep trouble.

Oh yes, ads waste a lot of resources. But if they tend to be 'tailored to user' then the collected data has to call home first and then choice of ads gets transferred to probably already closed browser tab.

Such a brilliant project and imagine that some substantial part of its bandwidth will be taken to serve ads.

I did the other way round. After 5 years in Tesco warehouse somewhere in the UK, I went back to Poland to learn web development. Picking jobs are cruel, I'd advise anyone against taking it and trying hardest they can to avoid it. It gives you problems with your back, your legs, gets you bored about life. You get back home physically tired and mentally numb each freaking day, that's because you wear your arse out there forced to ignore any safety rules just to get on time with all tasks and you still get some angry manager calling you every now and then because his managers always push him to achieve more 'picks/hour'. If you see warehouse job ad - run.

My ex-wife just died because of cancer. It brought me very similar thoughts and hopefully a lesson. I've spent too much time in my life on virtually 'nothing'. I need to change it now. I feel big desire to live through the tiny moments which turn to be the most precious in life. All the best to you all, good people.

Yeah, I didn't mean actual playing in front of the mirror, I just changed CSS to show like it is in a mirror and found that it's much simpler to follow the fingers pattern.

Really nice and useful.

Aside from it, I always wonder why chords are presented in a way that they are never seen when you play it - in this tool in both orientations the fretboard layout never corresponds to what it would look like in the mirror - 0 fret on the left bottom E string at the bottom. It seems that it would make it easier to follow as it would require less 'brain translation'.

*Newest history

A World At Arms - A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg

I found it to be a shot of modern history that gave me surprisingly good context for many of current events. I really started to see world at different perspective . The author tries his best to avoid having a bias.

With Warp on, youtube does not play anything for me.

Disclaimer - I'm Polish.

This is a product of the currently ruling party, and the elections are coming. While Poland still should get some kind of support from Germany for the damage it caused in many aspects of life here, I don't believe that reparations are what we should and what we could get. The issue has been closed and that fact has been confirmed by Polish government most recently in 2004. The only country we should and could get reparations from is russia, as they actually made Poland to pay (by forcing it to buy subsidized coal many years ago) instead of be paid, and apparently USSR made a promise to pay the reparations.

So currently ruling party is not really about getting something for Poland in regards of WWII disaster, but it's only about winning the next elections and seemingly weaken the country once more. Please keep in mind that we have a prime time for russian trolls here and it might take some time if we could ever get rid of them from the politics. To weaken Poland means to empower russia influence here, but sadly many supporters of the ruling party don't connect the dots this way.

I love it. I'm from Poland and lived for a while in Warsaw, where public transport also has all this kind of tracking, BUT the operator when asked about making this data available to travelers, he replied something like "Why would people need it? It's internal data and it will stay like that".

As far as censoring is concerning, can I just diverge to how crazy cool is the page - I mean the UX, the thoroughness of the subject and execution of it. I'm in awe.

I got the same sentiment. Heroku for us was number one because of the free tier. They could consider keeping an option to have 1-2 free instances for already paying customers. It also feels to me that their business will slowly fade since now.

I must admit that I used to be a harassing parasite. Then I realized how foolish I was being this way. I changed into just a parasite, but I feel urge to contribute and sometimes I do. I also learned that those who harass, will learn one day the same lesson as I did, so I don't bother too much with them.

Well, no wonder your business has great traction when you are so involved :) Thank you for the invitation! I've just sent you a msg from an inbox starting with tylkointernet

And we have these guys around too https://www.lecoqsportif.com

I jumped on to see a demo and got stuck at the start where it wants me to add DB credentials. First thing is that I just wanted to fool around to see what I can do with it - it would be nice to have some playground DB for that instead of having to connect an existing set. Second thing - I'd be kind of hesitant giving access to my production DB to it this way. Do you consider adding some credentials store so I could feel that you guys cannot use it from your side (in case you get hacked)?

I wonder how author handles relations that have to stay even when origin needs to be gone. Like in the given example with invoices - they have to stay otherwise your accounting people will visit you quite a lot. Whenever we thought we can do hard delete it almost always proved wrong.

It's fantastic and so real! One thing missing is the pop-up when user moves mouse over the top edge of the page to bother them with "Please don't leave" thing.

I always thought that 'History' should never be considered as a scientific subject. It should be more like 'what somebody heard about something and what slice of it that person decided to share about it' thing, where people would have their starting point calibrated to "it's more this person version of what could have really happened" instead of "that must be true, let's kill in the name of it".