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Strange for a country where you can legally smoke (and buy?) weed at every other corner.
mermaid-filter is also a great part in the tool-chain, especially with pandoc.
Re:Dell Autism Hiring Program on Sunday March 24, 2019 @02:56AM (#19474862)
In Europe, there is http://specialisterne.com helping to hire people with Asperger‘s. Pretty good experience so far, can certainly recommend.

Edit: actually seems they’re on pretty much all continents.

Re:Ask HN: What is the best laptop for Linux? on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:21PM (#8160954)
I'm using one since over a year, can't recommend. No proper support for the docking station (which goes via USB3 and doesn't support video output), power plug wears out really fast and causes ubuntu to reboot quite often when plugging it due to some short circuiting, disk is really slow for an ssd and working with vagrant sucks due to it, 802.11n driver doesn't work properly, etc etc.

It looks well, feels well, but it's not suitable for devs. I'm a long time lenovo x200 line user, and the X1 is really bad compared to those models.

Can't recommend.

Could you elaborate on that? fail2ban seems quite popular for blocking malicious IPs.
Re:Mojolicious 5.0 released: Perl real-time web framework on Thursday May 29, 2014 @06:59PM (#7819154)
Well, mojo seems to try to escape catalyst's dependency hell by providing everything by itself. That's considered a pro or con depending on the view point. The websocket integration is definitely a plus.
Re:The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer on Monday March 10, 2014 @11:25AM (#7373432)
If you enjoy writing open source Web Apps and REST APIs in Perl/Catalyst for the Telco segment: we're hiring! See my profile for contact infos.
Re:Medium Maker on Thursday October 31, 2013 @07:07AM (#6646124)
Wait, what?
Re:Why does Twitter.com/nsa crash my browser? on Monday September 02, 2013 @04:42PM (#6317094)
Most likely related to the OSX issue described here recently: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/19

Ask HN: Is AtomPub still used in REST APIs?

We are currently discussing general architectures of REST APIs as we're replacing our SOAP interface with something more light-weight. It appears to me that although modern and widely adopted APIs are using RESTful designs, the represented data definition is pretty much custom.AtomPub is designed to define clear relations between resources in REST and allow for typing of data fields, but nobody...

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Ask HN: does bitcoin mining pay off?

I'm curious whether there are people who do (semi-)professional bitcoin mining, for example with hardware like https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison, and whether this really pays off?In the worst case, the costs for powering these devices is higher than the value of bitcoins mined, plus there is the risk of dropping exchange rates.If it is somewhat profitable though, then I'm...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage shared company passwords? on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @06:59AM (#5133493)
You've one copy of the file, encrypted with N public keys. Each of the corresponding private keys can decrypt the files.

Assuming you've all the public keys in your keychain, then for each key you pass "-r <email>" for the encryption, like "gpg -e -r [email protected] -r [email protected] plain.txt", and for decryption you do something like "gpg --output plain.txt -d plain.txt.gpg".

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage shared company passwords? on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @06:50AM (#5133458)
We use plain GPG-encrypted files stored in our version control system (git/svn). The files get encrypted with all the public keys of the users who have access to these files, and can be decrypted with their private keys then. Not perfect, but works.
Re:Ask HN: Do QR Codes work? on Sunday December 16, 2012 @04:54PM (#4929715)
Since you can pack ANY reasonably short text into QR codes, it works well for encoding a vCard (e.g. at the back of your business card), and we even encoded pure Perl code once for a job campaign.

So, there might be good reasons and use cases for using QR codes, but just encoding a URL probably isn't, looking at the conversion rate.

Re:Perl 5.17.6 is now available on Monday December 03, 2012 @09:55AM (#4865603)
Oh, we've done a little Perl code challenge to win some free beer lately: http://www.sipwise.com/news/jobs/hiring-by-curiosity-part-1/

The free beer event is already over, but it's still fun to try if you can make it :)

Re:Desktops are outgrowing me, and I'm worried on Saturday November 24, 2012 @11:04PM (#4827228)
A reachable version of the post is here: http://www.sipwise.com/news/doutgrowing-desktops/
Re:Desktops are outgrowing me, and I'm worried on Saturday November 24, 2012 @10:42PM (#4827183)
It's not about Ubuntu in particular. Ubuntu just used to combine the concepts and tools in user-friendly way without the need to "tinker".

Where do you turn to for a modern Desktop if everything is going the same (=OSX) direction? The whole point is that staying with Gnome 2.x will put you into an entrenched situation, whereas everyone else is moving on, but in a way which just doesn't fit your way of working, and without perspective that it'll ever fit?

An option would be to connect via websocket to a server and react on the disconnect event (doing some simple ping-pong to keep the connection alive). That would require an always-on websocket server though, which is a different story. Still could be good enough for a gimmick like this.
Re:Hiring by Curiosity on Saturday November 17, 2012 @06:06PM (#4799258)
We've currently 5 people who've solved this quiz... nah, is it really too hard?
Re:Hiring by Curiosity on Saturday November 17, 2012 @05:55PM (#4799223)
Another hint, in case you're getting "400 Bad Request" errors: this is NOT a REST API, read the code again!

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