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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:45AM (#42062181)
Before 2020 elections John Bolton said that Trump doesn't see the point for NATO and will consider withdrawing if he wins in 2020. Because of that a NATO Support at was passed in Congress to block the president from single handly withdraw the US from NATO. That was over 4 years ago, hopefully he changed his mind.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:25AM (#42061112)
I think that's it. What could happen overnight already happened.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:23AM (#42061091)
For me the biggest problem is Ukraine, the country I live next to. Trump is more than happy to pull out of NATO
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:21AM (#42061057)
I'm seriously worried about the Ukraine since I live in a country next in line for invasion if Ukraine will get defeated.
Maybe that would bump the people willing to go to the office by another 5-10% but every once in a while we have days when multiple teams happen to be in the office on the same day, and at least half of the desks are occupied. Despite having half of the office dedicated as "the focus zone", most people don't really work or like to work on those days. There are much more meetings, and casual chit-chat but an actual output of "work products" is close to none.
That's irrelevant. If you want, you will steal without leaving any trace. If Snowden could sneak out loads of documents from the CIA, no company would be able to keep their IP airtight. NDAs and good old trust are the only way.
I work for a big, old-timey, international company. The current policy is WFH or from the office, whatever you like. Some managers have rules that their team members have to show up at the office 1-4 times a month. Our office can hold about 400 employees and this is about the number of employees that could technically commute every day. To my knowledge, there are about 20 people who commute to work daily. No one else is going there unless they have to. It's a very nice, freshly renovated office, with a lot of green plants inside, free coffee, height adjustable desks, ergonomic chairs, relaxation zones, lockers (so you don't have to take your stuff to work every day), etc. located in the city center that is well connected via buses. trams and subway. You can even drive a car to work if you want. And still given that option only about 5% of employees decided to work there daily. People like you exist and their needs have to be filled however most people, if given a chance they'll prefer WFH.
Re:Meta outage on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:32AM (#39605771)
Some piece of core infrastructure went down because everyone got spike at the same time. Surprisingly DoorDash and Steam was up
Re:A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:47AM (#39464356)
I dropped Sublime after they pushed upgrade to 4 without asking and without (at least initially) allowing for cheap upgrade. So suddenly from having paid version I became user of trial without easy way of going back to 3. The fun part is that I would probably move to 4 at some point in time but I was forced and I didn't liked it.
Re:Diamonds Suck on Monday November 13, 2023 @06:18AM (#38249044)
The thing is it's not the culture or tradition of the US. It's just a brilliant ad campaign that lasted way longer than it should.
HB is the middle of the scale. From there it's going both ways. Hs are harder and Bs are softer. There's also an F thrown into that scale for extra confusion.

https://pencils.com/pages/hb-graphite-grading-scale

Re:The Linux Foundation has practically abandoned Linux on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:54AM (#37749788)
I would say even less because you have to take into account all the costs of hosting, dev machines, laptops, testing, travel etc. $1 million for such huge project is peanuts this days.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:08PM (#33423183)
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: SCRUM, Agile, PHP, JS, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrzej-jarzebowski-9727b06b/

Email: [email protected]

I am Certified ScrumMaster® with solid technical background and proven history of understanding and building complex systems.

I'm focusing on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features.

I have over 15+ years of experience developing software applications and leading teams of developers for a variety of industries, from merchant card processing B2B services to e-commerce B2C.

My area of expertise includes full-site web development, including server set-up and frontend/backend design as well as Agile team building and leadership.

I also have working experience with PHP, JS, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, SQL and linux systems administration.

I'm looking for Scrum Master, Product Owner or Tech Lead positions with emphasis on Agile development.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:02PM (#33423094)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE and willing to travel across Europe | Worldwide availability

I am Certified ScrumMaster® with solid technical background and proven history of understanding and building complex systems.

I'm focusing on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features.

I have over 15+ years of experience developing software applications and leading teams of developers for a variety of industries, from merchant card processing B2B services to e-commerce B2C.

My area of expertise includes full-site web development, including server set-up and frontend/backend design as well as Agile team building and leadership.

I also have working experience with PHP, JS, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, SQL and linux systems administration.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrzej-jarzebowski-9727b06b/

Contact: jarzebowski.andrzej (at) gmail.com

Re:Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:40AM (#32749291)
Because it's not original license owner. They would have to provide licenses for everything used plus Apple may reject it just based on "not matching app guidelines". Apple banned even console emulators even tho technically there's nothing legally wrong with emulator on it's own, same for torrent downloaders, Kodi etc. If Apple have any doubts about legality of app they'll just ban it
Re:Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:56AM (#32576138)
I don't think this is a bug, I think it's a feature consciously deployed by FB.
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:40AM (#32422671)
I never investigated this deeper but I have similar issue on my Nook Glowlight. Despite it supporting ePUB files some of them just throw an error on the devices. Converting them ePUB to ePUB solves the problem.
Re:FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:45AM (#32329980)
When US representative fly to Taiwan secretly it's disabled but whole world was talking about Pelosi going there and China's treats to shoot her down for day or two. Putting that flight for whole world to see is actually more secure than trying to keep it secret.
Re:Linux 5.19 on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:52AM (#32304234)
Yup, they're just going up until Linus gets confused and he bumps it up to next "major" number.
Re:Git with Multiple Email Addresses on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:27AM (#32247145)
Different addresses for different repos are pretty straightforward. Can someone tell me please how to use multiple SSH keys. I have constant problem with Bitbucket because they require SSH key to be unique across whole platform. I work on many projects. Some companies require me to use Bitbucket account created by them with their email address. I can't add my SSH key to such account because it's already assigned to my private account. My workaround is to use GitKraken which allows assigning SSH keys per repo but I would really like to have this option in command line and don't need full GitKraken license just for pushing changes
IMHO they wasn't flimsy just a bit floppy
Re:Take more screenshots on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:12AM (#32222149)
Back in my office days we was doing this constantly. The sentence "will you be my rubber duck" always put smile on my face
I think Linus from Linus Tech Tips had the same issue. It's worth watching this on YT
Re:Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked? on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:48AM (#32136664)
It helped a lot with how to/tutorial videos. When looking for a solution I could see at first glance if I'm watching correct video. If there was more dislikes than likes I could tell straight away to not follow this suggestions.
Same in Polish "sezon ogórkowy"
Re:Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf] on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:13AM (#32080153)
I personally broke many CDs, it's kinda hard to do but when they snap small bits from broken edges fly off everywhere. I even saw CD that broke inside of drive. Granted it was put in with a crack in the middle but still it broke. Maybe it's just my feeling but I think that CDs back in the days was made out of a bit less flexible, ticker and more brittle plastic. Those produced today I can bend in half and they don't snap as easily as 20 years ago
I quite enjoy the new UI. I'm using it since the beginning and now I'm put off when someone posts a link to old UI version.
It's also good idea to split requirements into must haves and nice to haves. For example when I'm buying laptop must have is under 14" screen and min 32GB RAM and nice to have is USB-C charging and 4k display.
Re:Ask HN: What phone(s) do you use? on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:41AM (#32014722)
No but I don't want to fiddle with this software. My phone have to work and I don't want troubleshoot it when I'm in the middle of nowhere when it dies. Some of bank apps also don't want to work on non official or rooted systems.

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