araknafobia

Re:Data showing the 2024 tech job market is far stronger than 2023 on Friday May 10, 2024 @06:45PM (#40324470)

I wonder if this layoff statistics also consider the contractors whose contract wasn’t extended . The company I work for didn’t do any layoffs in theory but simply stopped extending expiring contracts. And let me tell you, there were a lot of contractors.

Re:Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:38AM (#37954826)

I think I went one step further because all of my tabs by default is another temporary container. I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... extension which allows you to create completely clean tabs every-time you open a new tab.

I know this might sound crazy but I am so used it by now so it doesn't hurt much anymore. Also, I can login to any website with 1-3 clicks thanks for password managers so not a big deal.

What is your replacement for “Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability”

Posted by araknafobia on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:34PM
from the highscalability.com dept.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2022/12/2/stuff-the-internet-says-on-scalability-for-december-2nd-2022.html

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Re:What is your replacement for “Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability” on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:34PM (#37102417)

Last article is from December 2022 - almost 9 months ago and I always enjoyed reading this series and I was wondering if there is a similar thing out there that I am not aware of.

O’Reilly Learning platform is part of ACM membership again with extra $75

Posted by araknafobia on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:50AM
from the self-post dept.

Received an email from ACM:We’re reaching out to you because you had used the O’Reilly Learning resources before you either cancelled your ACM membership or allowed it to lapse.We’re pleased to inform you that we have negotiated a new agreement with O’Reilly and can again offer you access to O’Reilly books and courses. The agreement is costly, so to defray the expense of providing...

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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:31PM (#36884527)

Thanks for sharing! I just sent to https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en

Landlords selling private sector rentals as new rules slash their income

Posted by araknafobia on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:21AM
from the nltimes.nl dept.

https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/23/landlords-selling-private-sector-rentals-new-rules-slash-income

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TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation

Posted by araknafobia on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @07:10AM
from the tomtom.com dept.

https://www.tomtom.com/press-room/earnings-&-other/27646/tomtom-improves-mapmaking-process-supported-by-aligned-maps-organization/

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Re:Parsix: Parse Don't Validate on Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:40PM (#27169951)

What forces you to use validator function and not just do Email(input)? This is how you actually do it in Scala if anyone interested https://github.com/fthomas/refined

Ask HN: How is it ok for Google to desing 5 click away reject all cookies page?

Posted by araknafobia on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:28AM
from the ask-hn dept.

https://imgur.com/a/mS85xp3Isn't this against the GDPR? Why do I have to click `custom` first and then click `off` for all the thing that I don't agree. Isn't GDPR states that rejecting should be as easy as possible?

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Re:The day I trolled the entire internet: accidental research project ... on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:48PM (#23850665)

I came here hoping that someone would explain what is really going on. Now I feel a bit better since I am not the only one.