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New comment by michalstanko in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

michalstanko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:58:34 +0000

Yes

New comment by michalstanko in "The React Foundation"

michalstanko — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:37:24 +0000

>> Really feels like react has held back frontend development

Why? How?

>> but I'm sure people thought similar thoughts when jquery or angular were popular

I loved jQuery back in the day, and it helped bringing some native APIs to life thanks to its popularity.

New comment by michalstanko in "Googler... ex-Googler"

michalstanko — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:34:30 +0000

It really depends on the people you work for, it's not like Europe is some kind of paradise in this matter. I was working as a contractor for a company in Germany, after a few years working together, they cut me off from one day to the next (the new manager decided to start saving money), even though my contract included a clause about a one-month notice period. They didn’t even bother to pay the invoice for the work I had already done that month (it was the 23rd of the month, so we’re talking about a few thousand euros). And since I wasn't living in Germany, extracting that money from them was almost impossible.

Yes, it may be different for full-time non-contract jobs, but once you're on a contract, nobody cares.

New comment by michalstanko in "GDPR: Is It Worth It?"

michalstanko — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:57:20 +0000

I wonder how many websites show a cookie banner and don't change a thing whether you click Accept or anything else.

New comment by michalstanko in "GDPR: Is It Worth It?"

michalstanko — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:53:24 +0000

Extremely annoying.

New comment by michalstanko in "Dot Dotat.at"

michalstanko — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:44:37 +0000

In my experience, having an email address ending with any custom domain other than "gmail.com" raises questions and clarifications are necessary quite often.

New comment by michalstanko in "Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

michalstanko — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:18:13 +0000

I guess the author did the website too quickly.

New comment by michalstanko in "New Sony Walkman music player"

michalstanko — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:00:16 +0000

Features like auto-playing next song that Spotify/YouTube/whoever "thinks" I "might" like after a playlist finished playing is driving me mad. (Yes, I know it can be turned off, but it's on by default. Which reminds me, despite being a subscriber, I don't really like Spotify's UI on mobile, nor on the desktop.)

New comment by michalstanko in "I'm an addict"

michalstanko — Thu, 19 May 2022 11:50:04 +0000

It scares me how much this reminds me of myself. I don't know how I was able to keep my job (and keep the roof over my family's heads) with my habit of not being able to concentrate on work at all because the minute I need to think a bit harder I immediately switch to reading news, HN or watching YouTube, only to finish my work late in the evening to save my ass (on good days).

New comment by michalstanko in "Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway"

michalstanko — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:34:01 +0000

> You may agree today, but that can change. The company's management or ownership can change.

I've lost over 7000 EUR of income from a German company over vague contract clauses which I was too lazy to sort out when signing it, because my boss and I had known each other for a long time when signing, and I fully trusted him. 3 years later, the company was sold, and the new boss started to randomly fire people on any given day he saw fit. One day I've got a call that I should stop working on my tasks immediately. I was supposed to be paid until the end of the month coming after the month in which the notice was given, but they've never paid - not even for those ~15 days I already worked in that month - and German courts could not care less, plus it was difficult/impossible for me to chase them, being based in another European country.

Always be careful about what exactly do you sign - the circumstances may change considerably, however unlikely it seems at the time.

New comment by michalstanko in "Each Firefox download has a unique identifier"

michalstanko — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 07:51:54 +0000

Same as Chrome

No Russian (2014)

michalstanko — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:25:06 +0000

Article URL: https://skibinsky.com/no-russian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425744

Points: 15

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New comment by michalstanko in "Browse the web like its 1999"

michalstanko — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:01:05 +0000

I wouldn't go as far as calling it an "IE", because those of us who lived through that know it was a completely different experience.

But yes, Safari is slow in implementing new features a bit and it does get annoying from time to time. But it's nowhere near the IE hell from ~2000 - 2008.

New comment by michalstanko in "Browse the web like its 1999"

michalstanko — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:50:04 +0000

The short answer: Tracking and advertising. Longer answer: All of the above + bloated frameworks (frontend and backend) + unoptimized/excessive static assets.

I guess we all know this, so I apologize if you meant it more as a rhetorical question.

As for Gmail, I've never had a problem, it's always pretty fast, considering all the features it has.

New comment by michalstanko in "Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware"

michalstanko — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 19:06:43 +0000

I apologize, last time I tried there wasn't yet this simple popup dialog Brave shows now, and I had issues making Netflix work in Brave some ~1.5 years ago.

New comment by michalstanko in "Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware"

michalstanko — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:59:22 +0000

Both Vivaldi and Brave have their advantages, but I had switched away from them. Vivaldi was too slow at times and some keyboard shortcuts in some apps (Google Docs, etc.) didn't work. Brave doesn't support Netflix and some other streaming services (for a noble reason, I believe, but - in the end, it just didn't work).

I used to love and use Opera back in 2000's. These days, I can't find a single browser that has all I want, so I ended up using multiple ones all the time.

New comment by michalstanko in "The Hotdog web browser and browser engine"

michalstanko — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:02:04 +0000

What exactly is broken in Firefox on YouTube or Gmail? I'm not a heavy Firefox user, but when I try it every once in a while, I've never noticed anything broken on any of the Google's sites, even Maps and Docs worked just fine - but then, maybe I wasn't trying out some advanced features.

New comment by michalstanko in "Fuck Domainparkers"

michalstanko — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:55:26 +0000

I understand the frustration from having your dreamed-up name taken by domain squatters, however, as we've seen many times, you can succeed with any domain name.

Google succeeded despite not having the search.com domain, Instagram didn't have the photos.com, and Uber did not own the taxi.com nor the ride.com.

New comment by michalstanko in "Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined by Twitch"

michalstanko — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:24:16 +0000

Not sure why are you downvoted. It's hard to find a similarly popular band sharing more stuff online for free these days than Metallica. Besides, the entire Napster thing was about a song "I Disappear" being available through Napster BEFORE it was even finished and sent to CD manufacturing, and, don't forget, it all happened in 2000. It has not been on their radar for about 20 years now. Hating based on skimming headlines of inaccurate articles is surely easier than trying to understand the band's motives.

New comment by michalstanko in "Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination"

michalstanko — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:14:06 +0000

The only thing that helps me concentrate on work (coding) is exercising. When I come back from bike/run/whatever, catch my breath and take a shower, only after that my mind is calm enough so that I can concentrate well for ~2 hours. After that, you have to eat again, participate in a meeting, read your email, deal with messages from family, check the news, the latest coding tutorial, etc etc, and the concentration is gone, no matter how hard I try again later.