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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:07AM (#49182331)
Re:CSRF Protection Without Tokens or Hidden Form Fields on Thursday December 25, 2025 @08:36AM (#46384310)
I just tried with the "links" browser and I get a "Update your browser. Your browser isn't supported anymore. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version"
Re:Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:47PM (#44263548)
As far as I've understood/remember SSO was logging on with a single ID and not logging on a single time.
Best I've seen is from the venerable Jon Skeet: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
Re:The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack on Monday December 23, 2024 @08:34PM (#42498983)
Don't forget Blogger
You can also do:

    $ ls [files ...]
    $ ^ls^rm
An HN "item" is not just posts but everything: posts, comments, the parts of a poll, etc.

Still an impressive number

Re:Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:25PM (#37438959)
> The soundtrack was literally written on the way to the recording studio, and you can tell

You can still listen to the soundtrack on Amazon Music :-)

I bought both the DVD and the soundtrack back in the day. While it's no Grammy winner, there are a couple of good ones in there

Re:Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:23PM (#37438920)
Re:Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:20PM (#37438895)
I don't have that one but I do have the 8-episode "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" from 2012.

Also "Startup.com" from 2001

And "e-Dreams" from 2001

Re:Show HN: Squabblr – A Twitter/Reddit hybrid platform on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:50PM (#37343511)
It's https://squabblr.co (no m)

The HN link has it correct but the body has it wrong

According to Bitwarden, 479 accounts
When I was freelancing, I would have a Master Service Agreement that spelled out the "rules of engagement" and the actual work was in a Statement Of Work that lasted roughly 3 months. Gave each party the ability to pull the rip cord
This is a handy way to search for things in the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022) on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:33PM (#33824618)
FYI, Engineering Manager isn't listed on the careers page
Re:Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:26PM (#31184611)
SRE jokingly stands for "SysAdmin, Really Expensive"
Re:My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time on Sunday April 24, 2022 @10:03PM (#31150122)
ALIEN

ROUST

gets all the vowels plus some very common consonants

Re:Ack is a grep-like source code search tool on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:38PM (#30617555)
If it's just searching through a single project inside an IDE, I agree with you.

But I have a Livegrep instance setup to index all 1000 repos into a single search space and it's still nigh instantaneous.

Re:Ack is a grep-like source code search tool on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:44AM (#30614901)
Livegrep https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep is my weapon of choice these days.
Reminds me a bit of Scott Hanselman's "One Email Rule" https://www.hanselman.com/blog/one-email-rule-have-a-separat... that requires a bit of training on other people's part (for the good of all)
Saw somewhere last week that Air Brussels did the same thing with 3,000 flights

Edit: it was HN apparently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818050

I play Twenty on an almost daily basis. It's my go-to for quick time killer.
Re:How to build a second brain as a software developer on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:29AM (#29189804)
I have this problem as well. The more I try to settle on a single system, the more my brain wants to run wild.

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