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Some high-level advice is listed here: https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/923131/download?inline

I run outsourcing agency, we work with US clients and have seen lots of fake applications (different degree of sophistication), so far we have either rejected them right away, or we were able to filter them during (remote) interviews.

Re:macOS Sonoma is available today on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @07:42AM (#37673249)
Alternatively run:

  launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist
Re:Hetzner Launches Three New Dedicated Servers on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:03AM (#35165241)
That's exactly one of my use cases, I have setup runner for 2 projects last week and action runtime went down by a large margin, from 10-15 to 3-4 minutes.

I use single dedicated server that costs ~40EUR/month, AX41-NVME, and each runner is a separate user account to allow for some isolation.

Depending on your setup, you might need to spent some time adjusting jobs to have proper setup/cleanup and isolation between them (but it's not really Hetzner specific, just general issue).

You have to apply for the free credits, by filling out simple form, so there might be cases where you don't qualify.

Among the people who applied I don't know of anyone who was rejected.

For anyone looking for really straightforward way to get cloud hosting credits, checkout out IBM cloud: https://developer.ibm.com/startups/ you can get a $1000/month credit for one year no commitment to continue using them after.
Compared to Obsidian, Joplin suits me much better and it's way more features. I have given Obsidian a fair trail, but now I'm using Joplin
Re:Learn GraphQL with GitHub on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:28PM (#14930299)
Probably not, my tip is to sign up, but then wait for the recording to be available (they usually are), once a recording is posted you can see where did they post it to and then download. I do this from time to time
Re:Sabotaged by Polish orthography on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:25PM (#14920979)
When required people just omit the diacritic signs and replace the letter with regular ASCII letter, so for example: ż->z, ł-l, ó->o, etc.

When used in (computer) writing this is very readable, but no one would do this with handwriting, I think most common cases nowadays would be SMS messages (especially on dump phones) or some weird displays that are unable to properly render diacritic letters.

Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:01PM (#14167760)
Some webmail clients (and potentially other web communicators like online chats - FB messenger, etc) might pre-fetch all URLs send in the email or chat.

The pre-fetching will use the user's context (and cookies) because it's executed by the user's web browser.

Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:17PM (#13178823)
I use this website to compare costs of living between countries and cities: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp

Here's example for Seattle and SF: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

I'm wondering if anyone could comment if those numbers look accurate for those cities.

Re:Standardized Ladder of Functional Programming [pdf] on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:11AM (#13069603)
There was something similar suggested by Martin Odersky for scala few years back: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8610

It didn't get much traction back then.

But overall I like the idea as a roadmap for learning particular language or skill set. I'd like to something like that but with references to material where particular skill can be learned, etc

Re:Android Auto: right on your phone screen on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:50PM (#12893121)
"In every car" but not necessarily "in every phone" :)
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.7.1 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:56PM (#12866291)
Is there a Debian/Ubuntu repository somewhere? They provide deb packages but I couldn't find the repo anywhere.
Re:Ask HN: What do you use for Log Management? on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:36AM (#12683033)
I wanted to try out sumologic at some point, but it sucks that you cannot sign up with Gmail email account
Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:23AM (#11674031)
Yes, students will also get unlimited private repos.

Confirmation here: https://www.facebook.com/GitHubEducation/posts/5987704836162...

This is a good documentation for autorandr: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DynamicMultiMonitor
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016) on Friday April 01, 2016 @11:55AM (#11405753)
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, only for short period of time

Technologies: Scala, Akka, JVM, Akka-http, Play Framework, Java, Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, etc), Docker, Redis, AWS, RabbitMQ, Couchbase

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

Email: [email protected]

Github: https://github.com/wlk

I'm looking for a full time remote position as a Software Engineer focusing on backend development in Scala

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:48PM (#11015292)
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to visit the HQ for extended periods of time

Technologies: Scala, JVM, Akka, Play Framework, JavaScript, MySQL, Bitcoin

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

github: https://github.com/wlk

Email: wlangiewicz at gmail.com

I have been working full time in Scala for over 18 months and would like to continue working in that area. I have been working remotely for over 4 years now. My previous experience includes Java, Hadoop (big data stack).

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @11:30AM (#9639357)
Location: Wrocław, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Scala/Akka/Spray (some Play), Linux (Debian, Ubuntu), Bitcoin

Resume/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

https://github.com/wlk

Email: wlangiewicz at gmail com

Blog/website: http://wlangiewicz.com/

Ideally I'm looking to join early stage startup/company as backend engineer.

Isn't the point of having a remote job to not care where the company is registered? Assuming you are in Benelux Area, what's the point of looking for remote company from Benelux Area?
Re:Zero-confirmation Bitcoin transactions on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:02AM (#8497135)
Well said, for those how would like to see similar example done using bitcoinj, this is the link: https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/blob/master/examples/sr...

Note lines 90-95, the comment explains when coins will be forwarded and how to change that behavior

Re:Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting? on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:02AM (#8412068)
For private/small projects free BitBucket is enough. For larger projects I have used self-hosted Gitlab which was running very well on relatively low spec server.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014) on Monday September 01, 2014 @10:30AM (#8252993)
Location: Poland

Remote: remote preferred

Willing to relocate: not really, possibly only within Europe

Technologies: Hadoop, Java, Android, Scala

Resume: linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

Email: wlangiewicz at gmail dot com (let me know that you are from HN)

I have been running 2 large Hadoop cluster, at the moment interested more in api/backend/server side development in Java/Scala, I'm also involved in local meetups, co-running Software Craftsmanship group, presenting at other meetups from time to time. I have been working remotely for a long time now, I'm especially interested in part-time offers (~20h/week)

Re:Fastmail: New IP addresses in Iceland on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:54AM (#7832220)
No, this is response from employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832207
Re:Bitbucket Outage on Thursday March 06, 2014 @09:23AM (#7353778)
You can use HTTP version: http://status.bitbucket.org/ (I'm having the same warning BTW)
Re:Bitcoin phishing attempt on Thursday November 21, 2013 @06:42AM (#6774158)
How can any bitcoin miner be that naive?

As you can see for now none fell for that (assuming they have one address for all "investments"): https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...

Re:Tidbit: Client-Side Bitcoin Mining on Monday November 11, 2013 @04:14PM (#6714086)
This is not very new idea, I think this is first PoC I can find quickly: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166417.0

Given current network difficulty, this won't earn 0.000001 $ per impression (more exact calculations are needed)

Re:37signals Works Remotely [video] on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:57PM (#6593651)
I can address first of the issues you have mentioned: I have worked both in situations when whole company is working remotely or only one/two people of out dozen were.

In the second case, those people were very often left out of the most communication that was happening in the office, and for them it must have been not very good situation to be in. There was no general plan for handling this situation and trying to include them in meetings and decision making process.

But when whole company is working remotely, the situation is completely different, everyone is at the same level, and you really can make it work.

Re:37signals Works Remotely [video] on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:49PM (#6593586)
A lot of that, especially points 1-3 depend on if you work with other people synchronously or asynchronously. At my current job we all try to work as much synchronously as possible, so there is no real difference from any other "office job", except everyone is in different location (we all are in roughly the same timezone), and we don't have to commute. We focus on trying to keep sanity, and keep working hours (my experience is that it helps a lot when working remotely)

For shops that allow/ or just work asynchronously, other arrangements need to be made to allow that. Usually more and more stuff is written and stored, so everyone can join and leave any moment.

There is a similar book being worked on by other ruby-remote working company: Arkency, http://blog.arkency.com/2013/09/arkency-survival-guide-to-ef...

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