useyourloaf

Re:Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:56AM (#48192161)

Thank you for the pointer!

Re:America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish on Monday May 18, 2026 @09:10PM (#48188032)

Just not in the top 3. hindi, gujarati, urdu, punjabi and tamil all appear in the data.

Re:America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:59PM (#48187962)

Sure. But blame the U.S. Census: the languages tracked are "Chinese", "Mandarin Chinese", and "Yue Chinese". Can't map the data they don't have.

Re:America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:42PM (#48187866)

"Central Yupik" for Alaska, "Lakota" for S. Dakota

Re:America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:39PM (#48187844)

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/language...

Top languages E.g. Alabama: English - 94% Spanish - 3% Korean - 0.22% German - 0.18%

Re:I built RemoteCV | Reversing the job search model on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:53PM (#22587584)

"We helps you effortlessly hire world-class remote talents." -> We help you effortlessly hire world-class remote talent.

Re:Ask HN: How do you *really* get a good Software Engineering job? on Friday May 30, 2014 @11:05PM (#7825107)

+1 for this. A caution: don't just "join" a project: you have to do something in the project and be able to point at the actual code contribution you made.

Re:God complex of executive recruiters on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:29PM (#7649146)

This seems no different from "regular" recruiters. They: a. cannot evaluate candidates properly. b. focus only on placing bodies, appropriately or not. c. use a limited and inaccurate set of criteria to search for a fit (see a.)

The entire recruiting business seems bogus.

Re:How not to write a job post on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @09:15AM (#7137127)

#1: Give me the actual location of the job, and on-site vs telecommute allowed.

Please go ahead and tell me about the culture, attitude, perks, etc: these are likely to be red flags that I need not apply!

Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:39PM (#7123232)

AFAIK, you'd have to do them one-by-one.

Automatically? As in periodically update your snapshots? Or scan through bookmarks.html and grab each page?

Re:Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:00PM (#7123103)

EverNote w/ Web Clipper

Re:Ask HN: I'm a burned-out developer. Who should I talk to? on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:02PM (#7061217)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/04/so-you-dont-want-to...

Am I doing Open Source wrong?

Posted by useyourloaf on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @11:23AM
from the self-post dept.

TL;DR: A lot of people contact me saying they'd like to help out with my Open Source project, but don't actually <i>do</i> anything. Can I fix this? When employers get an applicant who claims they worked on an Open Source project, does the employer actually verify this activity?I have a small, niche Open Source project. Unnamed to protect the guilty :) It doesn't have a lot of...

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