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Re:Awesome OS X Command Line on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:10AM (#13668689)
sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate "Wi-Fi" on|off
Re:Show HN: Compare the big 4 US carriers (android) on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @04:48PM (#5746714)
This is our first jump into mobile app development and I'd like some feedback from you guys. Check it out and then enter "hackernews" into Settings->Enter Coupon Code to unlock the upgraded features.

Show HN: Compare the big 4 US carriers (android)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mosaik.cellmaps

This is our first jump into mobile app development and I'd like some feedback from you guys. Enter "hackernews" under Settings->Enter Coupon Code and it will unlock the paid upgrades, but please try it without first to get a feel for what is different. U.S. only for now.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011) on Monday August 01, 2011 @01:57PM (#2833511)
Memphis, TN - American Roamer

Director of Software Development

We are changing the way that the telecommunications industry looks at market intelligence with our in-browser spatial data analysis services. Right now our team is growing and we’re looking for a natural leader with a strong background in software engineering. You should be able to help us scale to meet the growing load on our servers and our developers by fostering an environment where quality code is shipped every day. Some technologies we work with: Solr, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, Javascript, OpenLayers, Node.js, Varnish, HAProxy, AWS, and Chef.

Also, there's not currently a position posted but we are always on the lookout for great developers/engineers/architects as well.

http://www.americanroamer.com/careers/job-opportunities/

email: [email protected]

Re:Job Locations for July Who's Hiring Thread on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @02:07PM (#2730858)
Yeah looks like there were a few bad geocodes that I didn't catch. paulitex's idea further down about a standard format for these things would be really nice to see b/c parsing out the locations in some cases was kind of a mess.

AWS Service Credit

Thought I'd share and see what people think of their response.This was an automated mail and not from a request for credit.Dear AWS Customer,Starting at 12:47AM PDT on April 21st, there was a service disruption (for a period of a few hours up to a few days) for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS that primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in a single Availability...

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Re:Ask HN: How should we approach remote code interviews? on Friday April 16, 2010 @12:48PM (#1271095)
I think the requirement for the interviewee to have a webcam accessible is a little much.