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cdolan··on Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate
I dont find teams to be perfect, but I find slack to be overpriced at $15/user. Happy to use Teams as part of my $15/user license that comes with email, excel, PowerAutomate, etc etc
cdolan··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
They stopped detailing their exact Mac and iPad sales too, so I dont see the problem.

I realize iPhone is an amazing amount of their revenue, but they are transitioning to a services and accessory business built around iPhone. It’s less important exactly what model iPhone you have, in my opinion.

cdolan··on My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
Was thinking the same thing. OP sounds like a real gem for the front line customer service person to interact with.
cdolan··on PHP in 2020
It’s possible to use a data mapper in Laravel though, and it works very well!
cdolan··on The few remaining uses of the name “Macintosh”
Tomatoe tomato
cdolan··on Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly weep?
I agree with this. Kids spark a new sense of purpose and being.

A close friend and family member lost a 6 month old baby late last year through no fault of their own. Little guy slept so deep he stopped breathing.

Being so close to such a truly gut wrenching loss gives me a new perspective everyday.

The last time I had something even remotely like that was when a family member was scheduled to be in the Twin Towers, on the top floor, the morning of 9/11/2001. Through a total fluke, this person didn’t go to work that day. Odd, because he was the focus of this meeting and really should have been there - rather, he decided to hang out with his kids as he had been traveling too much. He’s living on borrowed time and admits that every September.

All this to say - the worst part of modern technology and society is the ability to escape from reality, in my opinion.

You, your kids, and the rest of your loved ones will be dead one day. Probably when you dont expect it.

Putting the phone down and spending valuable time with them is the best decision you can make at any point in your day.

cdolan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
Discovery App | Junior PHP Developer | Full-Time | Remote or On-Site | Pittsburgh, PA

Discovery's app allows business to audit invoices at the line item level. The system empowers users to audit 100% of their expenses, where their current process may be exception-based ("only audit invoices over $X", etc).

By extracting every invoice at the line item level, we are able to provide powerful reporting for industries like Waste & Recycling, where data is still locked on Invoice PDFs and not available over API.

We're looking for a junior PHP developer to join our team full-time and learn from us. The project runs in Laravel, but is not using the Eloquent ORM, and uses a powerful data-mapper (built on top of the illuminate/database package) to allow for very complex domain-driven entities.

discoveryapp.io

Keywords: LAMP, Laravel 6, Vue.js, TDD, DDD, APIs

cdolan··on Apple Mac Pro is now available to buy
This will probably come across as dismissive, but you're not their target audience then?

Seems this is for super high end specialized setups (not just your average Xcode usage), with companies/people who can afford a $50k workstation to improve the productivity of their $500k employee(s)

cdolan··on Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
Also for Pittsburgh - excited to see what your up to at BrdgAI, good luck!
cdolan··on British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
I appreciate the sarcasm haha
cdolan··on Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
Surprised webflow.com has not been mentioned yet. Been using it for years and its an absolute Wordpress killer.

You can make simple landing pages, full sites, etc. All with as much or as little custom coding as you want.

It feels like what Squarespace sold me on back in 2011 for my first site... but it actually works, you can export the HTML if you want to self host, or use their backend. Great stuff

cdolan··on Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for cargo
Yes just trying point out the comment was a little short sighted
cdolan··on Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for cargo
How do you drive a container ship over land?

I Think the point is that you could use this across the USA or other large geographic bodies for similar efficiency that you see with a container ship on water.

cdolan··on WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
It has not imploded because it was privately bailed out.

If it did implode (Ch 11 or Ch 7 BK) - it will start to have major impacts on the NYC and other real estate markets. It’s the largest lease holder in many cities.

cdolan··on Delays in Boeing Max Return Began with Near-Crash in Simulator
Correct, I’d wager the best pilots in the world are safety and test pilots.
cdolan··on The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper
Not to the same scale of Amazon, but UPMC (Pittsburgh’s regional medical giant) is a non profit who made $400 million profit a few years ago to some outrage. Their CEO is a pretty high flying guy for being a non profit!

Suspiciously they made near zero profit the next year.

cdolan··on Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
Thanks. I know my friends will never get over it. My wife had a sister that passed at 6 months old from a heart issue and my MiL said exactly that (“they’ll never forget its always with you every hour of every day”).

If you don’t mind my asking what part of the world are you in?

cdolan··on Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
Thanks
cdolan··on Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
Autopsy was that the child fell asleep so deep he simply stopped remembering to breathe.

Thanks for the insensitivity though ;-)

cdolan··on Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died
On Oct 4 a friend (code name “Paul”) and I were at a viewing for our 25 year old friend who passed from falling while hiking. “Paul” and I both have boys born this year (5-6 months old). After attending the viewing, we both noted how sad it was to watch the father and mother in such a terrible situation. The worst for any parent, and somehow slightly more understandable now that we are parents ourselves.

That night his son passed away silently in his sleep - Not even 12 hours since we talked at the viewing about how surreal losing a child would be. Their baby simply stopped breathing. We’re all still in some level of shock.

Hug your little ones and appreciate the time you get with them. You never know when your life can go the other direction.

cdolan··on Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins
How did you “train” for this and how do you make it happen on demand?
cdolan··on Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Link BTC addresses or its not real!

!RemindMe: 2 years

cdolan··on Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
I use a rMBP 2015 with two monitors (in addition to the laptop monitor) daily. One over HDMI and the second via Thunderbolt/DisplayPort to HDMI (so two cables into the rMBP).

I’ve never had this issue? What is your setup? I always thought it was funny that in a Mac you can’t set your default monitor, but I’ve never run into the issue you are describing.

cdolan··on Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
I thought you were kidding with the name of the startup, given its situation.

There has to be a word for that kind of irony?

cdolan··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Can this be used for automated complex web scraping (for downloading invoices behind authorized web portals on event or schedule, etc)?
cdolan··on N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier
Also interested in this example and the answer.
cdolan··on WeWork Cleans House, Looks to Trim Staff Close to Ex-CEO, Sell Private Jet
Not that it matters, but Gulfstream 3 and 4’s are the minority of gulf streams in the market compared to 5’s-650’s
cdolan··on Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO
First rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging.

Honestly how did you make this logical jump? It’s pretty obvious to me the parent post was pointing out that there is a lot of irony in a company, completely controlled by one individual (or his wife if he dies), is named “We”.

cdolan··on 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
Great points, and some of the 20 reviews in my anecdotal sample meet this criteria. However most do not break any of these rules, and are simple, factual (as far as I can tell, I dont work there) reviews about why they do not recommend working at this company, yet they are removed - sometimes in as little as 12-24 hours.
cdolan··on 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
The company I am referencing is a premium member with a “marked” post (5 stars) at the top of their page.

So, why does Glassdoor apparently listen to CEOs an lawyers when they claim employers cannot have reviews removed, when they appear to be doing just that?

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