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zalewon Boeing #12

It's an old common phrase for football fans in general. And by football I mean soccer, I guess american football adapted this term.

zalewon Screw your standing desk. How about squatting?

as a Pole it's so obvious for me I didn't realize it was a thing, and reading the article the 1st thing I thought is why they don't do it so.

zalewon Down The Rabbit Hole We Go: Mind-Expanding Documentaries

You will enjoy these then:

Confessions of a Superhero - wannabe actors working on Hollywood streets as costumed superheroes for tips.

The Great Happiness Space - Japanese male prostitutes entertaining girls in pubs. Suprising twist in the end.

Indie Game The Movie, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope - titles say it all. I guess these two are well known around here, like King of Kong you mentioned.

zalewon Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozmowy_z_katem

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

zalewon Ask HN: Let's predict. What's your prediction for 2014?

The year of Linux desktop.

zalewon Spam Comment Generator Script

Yes, the comment author links the page in their profile or sig (depending on the platform), posting generic praise comments is a huge chance they won't be deleted.

zalewon Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds

If by "things" you mean customer software support then yes, but development environments work consistently and are dead easy to set up. YMMV if you work on MS tech (.net, etc.), I don't. TBH one of my main reasons to move to Linux a few years ago is because I was pissed off by this particular problem (how to do it + ok and now tell me how to do it on windows and why half of what you describe doesn't work).

zalewon Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds

I don't use VS, and as it turns out, the crappy console I'm talking about is this msysgit. The lack of a decent consistent terminal is my biggest pain in win7. cmd, powershell, msysgit - they all are total crap and every one works differently. And my Git settings aren't working from Eclipse, basically the only place they work is this git terminal. Sorry, but that's not 'wonderful integration'. On Linux everything just works.

zalewon Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds

> There are lots of wonderful integrations / applications for windows now. The days of windows being awful with Git are behind us.

Please tell me more, how I can get behind Git being awful on Win7 since I have to use this OS at work (and since I've been on Linux personally for a few years, I have no clue). I have only some crappy git console and my config even doesn't work outside of it. Thank you.

zalewon Cars Kill Cities

From what I've heard from people who have been there (obviously subjective), is that although it has Niemeyer's eye candies, the overal feeling of the whole place to a newcommer is that it's creepy.

zalewon Cars Kill Cities

Thanks, I'll check that. While I got interested in urban design recently, TBH I fail to grasp all of the anti-automotive concepts that seem to get in fashion recently. Especially when I live in a place where I witness how it may go wrong. On a related note, tomorrow I'm going to "Brasilia, a day in February" as part of a doc festival we have going on around here, if you've studied urban planning you've probably heard a lot about this city, so just dropping in this title here in case you're interested (not that well known as, say, Urbanized and such).

zalewon Cars Kill Cities

I don't give a shit about the things you mentioned and I read books and long forms every day, so get off your high horse.

zalewon Cars Kill Cities

> The High Cost of Free Parking

convince me that 800 pages is worth it (reviews so far haven't).

zalewon Ask HN: What is the best SCM software for a small team?

git, but if you come from svn and have no clue about git, run mercurial as it has a similar ui.

zalewon How To Write Unmaintainable Code

if by IDE you mean an editor, you don't need an IDE to have syntax highlighting.

zalewon An Open Letter To Customers

Server

zalewon Is JavaScript slowing the Internet down?

no.

zalewon Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

"White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws"

zalewon Dear Spike Lee

Shhh, nobody was supposed to know landing huge-ass contracts involves sucking dick. On a serious note, I guess bigiain's point was that freelancers that know better usually have no clue about bringing business value to the table.

zalewon Dear Spike Lee

> My advice to all freelance hackers and designers: if you meet someone who says they work at an agency, (a) tell them you're a janitor and (b) run away.

c) Tell them you don't do spec work, because you're not a moron - fuck you pay me.

Agency finds naive freelancer, offers a job for exposure & other bullshit, overwhelms with fixes/updates, pretends being dissatisfied/offended, refuses to pay. This kind of story is as old as freelancing itself, only the names of parties involved change.

PSA for inexperienced freelancers: Nobody will unclog your crapper for a promise of future gigs, designers and programmers shouldn't put up with such scams either. Too many of us gained this wisdom the hard way.

zalewon Poll: How do you feel about working hours?

better yet http://i.imgur.com/9Z0edNh.png

zalewon I don't care about your code challenge

There's a difference between evaluating abilities and trying to engage him in a pissing contest. Interviews should determine if the candidate will deliver what he's being paid for, nitpicking and flamewars can be saved for future coffee break entertainment. "It's not my solution therefore it's shit" is not what code review should be about.

zalewon I don't care about your code challenge

> I got pretty frustrated by the two "Senior" devs who seemed to take great pride in tearing my code and my decisions apart.

Two possibilities:

a) You got a glimpse of how your life on the job would look like.

b) Just like qualified specialists can be terrible interviewees, they can be terrible interviewers. They just screwed up.

zalewon Why Recruiters Are Universally Hated

I got it, but talking to a complete stranger on the phone when you are not looking for a job, so he keeps you in mind for an undefined later? Maybe drop in an example, because I don't see how could it work better than just dropping an email which you either delete (and post an obligatory rage-tweet about stupid recruiters) or tag for later if the offer/company seemed interesting.

zalewon Why Recruiters Are Universally Hated

Well, I'm not a student, but: hop on the phone for 15 minutes? I'd rather receive that lousy emails.

zalewon Ask HN: I actually need a job now

Out of curiosity: Why didn't you try to get hired by a bigco in London? Wouldn't it compensate for months of shitty pay at startups?

zalewon Launching developer Q&A on Stack Overflow

I could barely recognize what that tag icon means. A small odd white shape on another odd blue shape. You can spot the Google Chrome and Android icons from a mile. Come on.

zalewon EU citizenship for sale

EU is not an asylum for criminals (actually is a terrible place for a criminal trying to secure his freedom, because it takes only one country to raise an 'european arrest warrant' afaik), for that reason mobsters are more likely settle in countries without extradition treaties to their country of activity, or some banana republic where it's easy to vanish.

zalewon EU citizenship for sale

This comment below nails the answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745568

zalewon Gmail is boiling the frog – and we are the frog

Zoho Mail looks like a possible replacement for me.