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kornakiewicz··on The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
I don't really agree with commenter above, but this argument is blatantly wrong. Executives are paid the way they are just because they are in charge of, among other things, compensations.
kornakiewicz··on Fastmail – 20 Years Old
I migrated about one year ago and this is a feature I really love. Every service has unique address and goes to separate folder via rules.

Also, there are automatic aliases when you use your own domain. Say, you have name@domain.com, then all *@name.domain.com are also working aliases, like spotify@name.domain.com. Really neat feature.

kornakiewicz··on Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
> but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

It is not. The value fire-fighters, teachers or nurses provide is much higher than, say, an enterprise developer, yet in most places the other earns more.

kornakiewicz··on California bill will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws
I wasn't clear. In Europe, part-time employees get their time off pro-rated based on working hours, while full-time ones get minimum required by law (20+ days per year, depending on country). Plus additional ~10 paid public holidays for everyone.
kornakiewicz··on California bill will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws
> How do you decide who qualifies for four weeks pay?

You don't. Every full-time employee have right to paid holidays, like we have in every other country in the world.

kornakiewicz··on Bitcoin Was a Bubble and It Popped
Compared to what?
kornakiewicz··on EventStorming: Continuous discovery beyond software modelling
I recommend this book n which this method is described and explained. Also F#.

https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi...

kornakiewicz··on Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions
Not in Q4.
kornakiewicz··on Coherence Penalty for Humans
It's older than facebook, JPG and the idea of hiring programmers in India (1987).

http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

kornakiewicz··on Coherence Penalty for Humans
A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?"

"It will take one year," said the Master promptly.

"But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer frowned. "In that case, it will take two years."

"And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer shrugged. "Then the design will never be completed," he said.

kornakiewicz··on Just Read the Book Already
New trend?
kornakiewicz··on Fastmail is down
I randomly checked few servers using NordVPN and was able to connect via Russia.
kornakiewicz··on Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers
You can say that in Polish, i.e. title "Pan" (Mr) or "Pani" (Ms) with either first name, last name or both. So I think people from certain cultural/linguistic backgrounds may not find it unnatural.
kornakiewicz··on Best Practices for ML Engineering (2017)
"Track as much as possible in your current system."
kornakiewicz··on What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
Well, this joke is going around in devs' communities, but in fact never happened to me, at least not in last few years.

Although I have met a few of fellow techies, totally sure that no first-line recruiter is able to grasp basic IT knowledge.

kornakiewicz··on Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based
I've moved to Finland four months ago. There are not so many (indo)-european patterns you notice right there, although they exist. Some words are tricky like "appelsin" - "orange" or "matka" - in my mother tongue "mother" ("travel"). Needless to say,I would be much more lost if alphabet were not latin. Or if Finland were not officially bilingual, so most useful information is available also in germanic Swedish.
kornakiewicz··on Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
I didn't watch the whole serie yet, but the first two are pretty solid and still fun. The first part doest not cover JS at all, but is rather a brief history of computing.

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg

kornakiewicz··on Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive - Scott Wlaschin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY&t=1021s
kornakiewicz··on Reduced-calorie diet shows signs of slowing ageing in people
I cannot find it right now, but I am quite sure that in last few weeks there was a post on HN with roughly the same statement, but for high protein diet.
kornakiewicz··on Ask HN: What information should be in any job description page?
Well, actual duties. Go and ask two to five people of the same/similar team/level to write down what they were mostly doing last week or month.

One of the hardest time for me is on-boarding a guy or girl who is poorly informed about their role. Not any better when I am the new-joiner.

kornakiewicz··on Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
I believe its's more due to post-processing in Lightroom.
kornakiewicz··on New Tech Centers Sprout in Europe
Were you in summer? The problem with air pollution is rather seasonal and while in warmer months it's not an issue, winters are terrible.

Source: I lived in Kraków for 4 years.

kornakiewicz··on How America Fell in Love with Vodka
I do not know how it looks like in States, but in my home country (Poland) it's quite easy to buy rectified spirit (90%+ ) in a normal grocery store for cooking or so. But nobody uses it to produce vodka by mixing with tap water, expect teens 20 years ago.

Never seen it in Spain though and definitely not in Finland, when I live now and it's impossible to buy a wine after 8pm.

kornakiewicz··on An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
Of course they do not.
kornakiewicz··on Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
That's partially true. It's from "herba thea", so basically redundantly added the "herb" part to the common tea name.
kornakiewicz··on People are taking out mortgages to buy Bitcoin, says securities regulator
Those 16 millions of guys might want to buy a book that I will eventually write.
kornakiewicz··on Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
Back in these day, you were installing Gentoo.
kornakiewicz··on Children's books with humans have greater moral impact than animals, study finds
I think that dolphins might be biased.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/science/dolphins-toss-sha...

kornakiewicz··on Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
Yesterday I was reviewing answers in this thread. Some might be applicable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851

kornakiewicz··on Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
Do you need to run your server in a browser?
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