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Re:The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:48PM (#49849758)
I can't read the article but if it's true, can the mafia come to Canada please? /s
Like other people said, no job is worth your health. I'll repeat that one more time: NO JOB IS WORTH YOUR HEALTH.

Quit if you have to.

Kobo has daily deals going. Every day I open my wishlist and sort by price lowest to highest, and every few days I buy something.
can you fix the links? they all point to YC
> An engineer checked progress twice a day and reviewed EVERY proposed change.

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Re:Go 1.27 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:56PM (#49367713)
that's an extremely odd explanation and it makes me think that he has some hidden PTSD. it's also insane that one person's preference trumps the rest of the world's.
I ordered something yesterday, expecting it today, and the confirmation email contains the actual product images and title (albeit trimmed).
Re:200 Milliseconds on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:31AM (#49164380)
Great website! Seems like the web version of this book (which is highly recommended btw): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17985198-high-performanc...
Re:1,700 free online courses from top universities on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:11AM (#48646270)
I got 404s on some, and then one I recall was a 1-page PDF that had links to buy off amazon >_<
Re:1,700 free online courses from top universities on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:34PM (#48639475)
https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category
Re:Developers don't understand CORS (2019) on Sunday June 21, 2026 @02:11AM (#48616113)
I'm one of them. CORS is THE topic that I have to get a refresher for periodically. It's like I forget about it, it never sticks. I'm a backend developer so I never encounter any cors issues. Maybe that's why? I seem to forget things that I don't use on a day to day basis, so.
Re:I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper on Sunday March 29, 2026 @02:06PM (#47565549)
I have a kobo and I use Instapaper. Is this similar?
Re:Ask HN: How to Be Alone? on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:05PM (#47304034)
What was your main takeaway from that book?
Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:45AM (#47250181)
If they could read, this would upset managers at Amazon.
Re:Pokémon Team Optimization on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:21AM (#46453225)
My uni course on optimization was so much fun but I forgot all of it. This was a nice reminder that I should probably revisit the basics :)
Re:No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:05PM (#46200447)
Vancouver Public Library as well :) https://www.vpl.ca/digital-library/oreilly-technology-and-bu...

Though I wish I could check them out on my Kobo...

Re:Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:40PM (#46170747)
I love this website. I wish I could search it in Spanish. I grew up watching the Simpsons in Spanish and I sometimes struggle to find the right clip because I don't know the exact translation
Re:The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem on Sunday November 09, 2025 @06:53PM (#45870539)
I hang up a flag on my balcony and it has worked for me.
I worked for AWS for two years and if I recall correctly, one of the issues was circular dependencies.
Re:GitHub Issues on Thursday October 09, 2025 @12:03PM (#45529578)
I experienced that too! In Canada. It was a head-scratcher, none of my teammates had issues, and i could access just fine on my phone but i couldn't on my home's wifi.
Re:An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:26PM (#45506064)
I love this. Well, in general, I love illustrated explanations :)
Re:How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:42PM (#45017389)
"Synchronized demand is the moment a large cohort of clients acts almost together. In a service with capacity ... requests per second and background load ..., the usable headroom is ..."

To the author of the article: I stopped reading after the first two sentences. I have no idea what you are talking about.

"Developers still use Stack Overflow and other human sources of expertise"

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Re:Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for? on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @01:44AM (#44656035)
Personal: 1Password, Google One, Chatgpt

For work: Snagit, Aptakube, Jetbrains

Re:Work Life balance slows careers on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:36PM (#44639472)
> When I first started at Microsoft, I had a sleeping bag in my office. I coded until 11pm nightly and slept until 3am, at which point I’d code until ~6am, then sleep until my first meeting ~10am.

oh my god

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