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jxub

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Hi, I'm Jakub ;)

Mostly doing the part of text I/O aficionado @ HN, studying History and Philosophy part-time while working in tech in London.

FP, history, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy enthusiast.

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Kremlin Tunnels: The Secret of Moscow's Underworld (1989)

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en.wikipedia.org 10mo ago

The Pale

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gkk.dev 1y ago

Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking

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jaapgrolleman.com 1y ago

Shanghai Before the Foreigners

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stickystories.net 1y ago

Eating Through the Chinese Far North East

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twitter.com 2y ago

I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs

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martnquesada.github.io 2y ago

Taking a Look at (Some) Tokenizers

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nadia.xyz 2y ago

How to Do the Jhanas

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www.teasenz.com 2y ago

Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)

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multimedia.scmp.com 2y ago

China's tiered city system explained (2016)

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www.latimes.com 2y ago

In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records

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mattlakeman.org 3y ago

Notes on Nigeria

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olle-kjellin.com 3y ago

Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning

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www.marxists.org 4y ago

Wages and Prices in the Soviet Union (1936)

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aeon.co 4y ago

English Is Not Normal

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www.slavadoesamerica.com 4y ago

Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Turkish Bird Language

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Black People of Yarmouk Basin

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

English Island Seeks a Landlord-King Who Likes Solitude, Seals and Beer

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Jaxa (State)

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Polonezköy

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Cimbrian Language

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www.worldbank.org 4y ago

China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society [pdf]

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www.geographyrealm.com 5y ago

Desertification in Romania (2020)

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itilzealot.blogspot.com 5y ago

ITIL and BUREAUCRACY are NOT synonyms

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vivekcek.wordpress.com 5y ago

Simple Factory vs Factory Method vs Abstract Factory by Example

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Missing Middle Housing

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www.reddit.com 5y ago

A real account of a day in Xinjiang from a foreigners perspective (2017)

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expertprogrammanagement.com 5y ago

Herzberg’s Motivation Theory

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More taxes for tech workers in the bracket of 400k+, though nothing extreme compared to many other developed countries.

Possibly some further regulation, but he isn't as leftwing (as in state policy-intensive) as many Trump supporters were led to believe.

Long term, probably more cleantech projects.

A cut, yes. But a business-threatening third of the pie for essentially zero work on their part is extortionate and chokes the innovation in the whole app ecosystem.

I'm sure that App Store creators can chime in and expand more on that with real numbers on their balance sheet and what they mean in terms of being able to afford rent on a monthly basis.

I think Ryan is aware of this as it has been raised in some ocasions already, but it might be too complicated or costly in dev time to have before a new version bump.

Both points of view seem valid, but patronising 90% of the programmers will probably decrease their overall happiness and retention. Also, some small companies do solve hard problems with no easy solutions both in terms of business logic and/or infra requirements.

In a somewhat cynic remark (and having nothing against the authors), I cannot think of a better timing to assuage someone about Google's competency after the numerous outgages in GCP these weeks. The "Compliments of Google Cloud" sticker on the cover makes sure to reinforce the association.