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Re:Using static websites for tiny archives on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:05AM (#41880093)
I'm interested in your Kindle script. I'm curious about how you handle saving FB posts—do you just copy and paste the content, convert it to markdown, and store it in Obsidian? Would love to hear more about your process!
Re:Port 666 is officially registered to Doom on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:59AM (#40379909)
Note: that whole intro is sampled from Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/akhuHYih8Mo?si=eYCyrjvRcdpkJg27

Re:Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:16AM (#34704406)
Does this have the ability to read the open tabs that are synced from all devices?
Re:Tell HN: Comixology Site is gone, redirects to Amazon on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:24PM (#30375898)
It's one thing to not care about the customer experience, but this update seems to forget they had customers at all. As a Canadian, I can't even find the content I spent thousands of dollars for over the past 10 years.
Re:I Quit Shopify After Five Months on Monday February 07, 2022 @02:39PM (#30249877)
I don't know the job posting that the author had read, or what guided their expectations, but here is a current Shopify Senior Frontend Engineer job posting:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wxk6Q4...

This job posting sounds like it lines up with author's experience at the company, and knowing Shopify is a Rails-heavy company, I would safely assume most Shopify postings look similar to this. I don't think author was bait-and-switched, author just didn't get what they _wanted_.

Note: providing a google cache link since I don't know when the posting will expire

Re:I Quit Shopify After Five Months on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:25AM (#30246965)
> My current team has a senior that has been at the company for 20 years as an Analyst, she can't write a line of code without assistance. [..] And we've got a few juniors/midlevels that could out code almost anyone of the team.

I mean, there's much more to Analyst and Engineering jobs than coding, especially as you advance up the levels.

Re:Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @02:29PM (#19676066)
My use of the phrase "Jewish Practice" was taken from the article. I didn't mean anything additional by it.
Re:Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:10AM (#19673269)
I feel like bjourne is referring to the hypocracy that society commonly accepts the Jewish practice, whereas the Muslim practice is generally rejected.

I don't think bjourne is suggesting that Deborah accepts the practice.

Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:37PM (#18848397)
Nobody has mentioned the official GitHub announcement yet?

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

I like Basecamp's pay structure: it's static. It's more based on the role itself, and the value that role brings to the company. You're not penalized for living somewhere with a low cost of living.

> Our market rates are based on Chicago. Chicago isn’t the top of the market — you’ll find higher rates in Silicon Valley or New York — but it’s not far off either. So whether you live in Tennessee or Arizona or Alaska or Illinois, we pay the same.

> This means everyone has the freedom to pick where they want to live, and there’s no penalty for relocating to a cheaper cost-of-living area. We encourage remote and have many employees who’ve lived all over while continuing to work for Basecamp.

Source: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp-f1d...

Re:How to Hire on Thursday August 16, 2018 @11:40PM (#17780136)
I feel like there's a pun in here somewhere... ಠ_ಠ
Re:VS Code can do that? on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:11PM (#16943442)
> Wouldn't it just be Visual Studio then? We would get updates once a year instead of once a month.

For what it's worth, the Visual Studio team now releases minor updates roughly every six weeks (including bug fixes and new features), and service updates almost weekly [1]. They also rely quite heavily on user feature requests [2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs...

[2] https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...

Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator on Thursday October 26, 2017 @01:56PM (#15561355)
> Sort of like how I can apt upgrade while apt update is still running but fancier

You can link two commands together with the "AND IF" operator

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Furthermore, you also have `||` which is the logical or, and also `;` which is just a separator which doesn't care what happend to the command before.
Re:A lingering farewell to the username on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:13AM (#15257280)
Thanks to 2FA, I don't have a huge concern logging into a password manager on a public PC.
Re:A lingering farewell to the username on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:12AM (#15257267)
> You pull up your password on your phone and type it in manually onto the computer.

Sounds like someone isn't using a 100-character randomly generated password.

OP also said they used two completely different browsers
Why block anything at all? If I want my password to be unicode and emoji, what's the downside to the site?

I assume they're hashing all the passwords anyway.

He also comes across as very humble on his Hanselminutes podcast. Great guy.
Re:In Conversation: Trent Reznor on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:39PM (#14869240)
This explains Dr Dre's involvement in the production (assistant mixer) on 'Even Deeper' from Nine Inch Nail's The Fragile album.

Picture of Dr Dre in the studio with Trent, Charlie Clouser, and Danny Lohner: http://www.nin.wiki/File:Drenin.jpg

> the [office computers] prevent software installation, so I would need to manually type from a manager synced on my cell.

I don't know about other Password Managers, but LastPass lets you access your vault using any web browser. So long as your network doesn't block the LP site, you can access your password manager from anywhere.

Re:ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:33PM (#14746103)
> So, essentially, JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScript are three names for the same language.

This is a little wrong/misleading.

ECMAScript is the specification; JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript, are various implementations of the specification. Each implementation provides additional features not described in ECMA specs, such as access to ActiveX and the local computer in JScript.

Re:TDD did not live up to expectations on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:26PM (#14664535)
Care to clarify this? I've seen plenty of Agile shops that practice TDD.
Re:Job Interview for IT Pro: Guide for HR Managers on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:25PM (#14621443)
> What department are recruiters part of if not human resources?

I assume they're referring to third-party recruiters

Re:Advanced Data Structures on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:17PM (#12874690)
> Not sure about the legality of it.

Says on the title page: Creative Commons!

"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International"

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Re:Mozilla Thimble on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:54AM (#12557739)
> Move cursor to beginning of line

> Ctrl+E

Isn't it Ctrl+A?

Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:28AM (#11915638)
> I think there was some email about a free hosting account I could theoretically use with some company, but I never looked into it.

We were offered either one or three free years of hosting on a Joyent SmartMachine, depending on what your initial investment was. After this free trial, you would be converted to a regular customer.

Adding my voice to the bitter-parade. Joyent wouldn't be where they are today without us early bootstrap investors. It was basically a Kickstarter campaign before Kickstarter existed. Not only do I feel like I failed to receive my early investor benefits, but WORSE off was how the whole situation was handled. We had to beg and plead to get our data back. The company essentially went dark to all of their oldest, most loyal customers.

> I only had the chance to review their personal websites or github profiles

> Many are not able [..] to explain why and how a clearfix works, or what ARIA roles are for

I don't understand what the author expected to learn by browsing someone's hobby projects/personal homepages, without seemingly engaging in a discussion with the person who wrote the code.

Re:Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:04PM (#10837688)
> Note: Replying to applicants takes top priority over every other responsibility I have.

Although I don't care for his example rejection letter, I like that they actually respond to applicants whether they interview them or not. It's nice to get feedback that your CV was actually read and reviewed by a human.

Re:Best things and stuff of 2015 on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:31PM (#10810384)
I'm just going to open that in a new tab and save it for later... d'oh!
Re:Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @02:15PM (#10382337)

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