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Re:Zoom accidentally sent meeting host transcript of coworkers private... on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:33AM (#23006775)
Looks like this is documented here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/203650445-In-Meeti...
Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @06:46AM (#20505735)
I've interviewed with GitLab when I first changed my career into software engineering, a few years ago. It was a bad call in my opinion since I'm not as good as I thought back then.

However, is it a good idea to apply again since that was a long while ago and I've accumulated a considerable amount of experience compared to what I was?

And can you do your own independent security research when you're working for GitLab? What's GitLab's stance of this situation?

It'll be nice if you can post your/a recruiter's email ID here - I'd like to send over a couple more questions.

Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:03AM (#20241698)
> - You can't update the bios through Linux, the update tool is windows only.

Does hwupd work with Thinkpads?

Re:2015 MacBook Pro recall: batteries overheating on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:07PM (#20239549)
I had an mid-2015 which battery did swollen after 8 months of usage. It bulged the trackpad towards the screen and making a dent. Apple does count that as part of in-warranty repair though.

A very expansive battery repair for Apple.

By the way, their repair would take longer than an entire week, which is worse than most laptops vendors.

Re:Apple's move to ARM-based Macs creates uncertainty on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:44AM (#19237922)
Can you elaborate more?
Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Google Hangouts Chat? on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:59PM (#19001170)
That’s what we need, plus lots of incoming webhooks and bot interface. We don’t even use Slack’s video/voice call — It simply doesn’t work very well.
Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Google Hangouts Chat? on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:57PM (#19001143)
How did you migrate then? Do you have years of chat history before?

Also, can you compare about efficiency of communication in both?

Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Google Hangouts Chat?

Posted by evanslify on Friday January 25, 2019 @06:45AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Recently, our top brass is looking to replace Slack with Google Hangouts Chat [1] for a team of around 70 members.Since we already have G Suite subscriptions, and it comes with Hangouts Chat already, without need to pay any extra fees.It’s said that we need to switch to Hangouts Chat for a month’s period for “evaluation”, but I’m not quite sure how that’s gonna work since that means switching...

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Re:Allegations of overpriced repair charges at Apple Store [video] on Sunday October 14, 2018 @12:11AM (#18211316)
I’ve been told otherwise; Is this full repair policy a “by-country” thinng?
Re:Allegations of overpriced repair charges at Apple Store [video] on Sunday October 14, 2018 @12:08AM (#18211303)
Beside some softwares only exists on macOS, Dell and Lenovo (if not concerned about its Chinese background) makes good ultrabooks which is on-par with Macbook Pro these days.

Plus, repairability & without keyboard which would break on particle ingress.

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:10PM (#17517147)
Does anything works correctly? e.g. buiilding with xcode?
Re:Show HN: Ip Man. Mac menu bar app displaying your IP on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @01:20AM (#17027558)
Handy. Also, can it fight 10? :)

Ask HN: Platform for sharing Apple developer account?

Posted by evanslify on Saturday April 28, 2018 @08:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was wondering about whether a platform like this exists.It’s like a Uber for Apple Developer account: instead of $99 a year, you can pay $10 a month instead but can stop at any time.A couple of valid use case exists:- Trying out, as a trial- Temporary use TestFlight or Fabric.io (both are beta publishing platform and requires an enrolled account to publish apps onto other phone)- Download...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018) on Sunday March 04, 2018 @06:44AM (#16514361)
All links in "Current Hiring" is broken, although link contains some part of the url you intended. Also, if you're hiring for US citizens only, maybe it would be a good idea to mention that in your post?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:40AM (#16366667)
I didn't see any positions listed as remote?
Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:49AM (#16095286)
I did post my findings on the GitHub issue :-)
Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra on Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:06AM (#16084235)
Author of comment here: Doing this alone doesn’t do any harm unless running htop in background, also this only makes the bug happen more quickly. If one has Activity Monitor running prior to crash, it’s still possible to kill htop with it and would make OS useable again.
Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra on Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:01AM (#16084224)
I’ve been finding the root cause of this a month ago, but don’t know where to look due to lacking of experience in kernel debugging. If anyone here could lend me a hand, please send me an email at (es at evsfy dot com)
Re:How Taiwan transformed its health care system on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:29PM (#16044703)
This exists, but not much. As a matter of fact, many healthcare workers (especially registered nurses) work very, very long hours and get way less paid than they do in other countries. Also I would expect quality of surgeries would drop in future years due to lawsuit or lack of trust between doctor/nurse-families of patient causing doctors/nurses quitting.
Re:Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:57PM (#15949287)
Maybe the car owner has some sort of parking sensor, uses radio and thus interferes with neighbor’s house alarm system?
Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protect... on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:54PM (#15505358)
Seems like the site would freeze the entire browser on Firefox 57.0b9 in macOS 10.12.
Re:Why I left on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:17AM (#15165689)
Why the author doesn't call out widely for assistance even if physically threatened/assaulted, but choosing to avoid all confrontations instead?
Re:The Gray-1, a homebrew CPU exclusively composed of memory on Saturday February 04, 2017 @12:17AM (#13565757)
+1. I cannot bear it and can only close the page.