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cp9on Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux

I have a 2018 X1 Carbon with Ubuntu that has perfectly supported suspend. It's never been a problem

cp9on Steve Jobs Promised Open Source FaceTime Back in 2010: What Happened?

that is not what he promised. he promised standards, not an open source implementation

when you run a polyglot stack with java/python/go/node on top of a cluster of machines, you will love to have them containerized and uniform. It makes scripting and CI so much easier.

or, when you have a legacy app that relies on java 6, but you want everything else to run on java 8, the ability to drop everything into a container with its runtime is a life saver.

source: I'm the devops person that's responsible for making this work

cp9on Ask HN: Why aren't websites adopting client certs in lieu of passwords?

well I mean for broad adoption, in particular. For example, you hit on one of them. Users want to use all different browsers, restricting people to Chrome isn't viable for plenty of reasons. I think the biggest problem is that I have an iPhone sitting next to me and no way to use a yubikey with it. Many (most?) Android phones are the same way.

cp9on Ask HN: Why aren't websites adopting client certs in lieu of passwords?

it's incredibly surprising that this isn't the top answer.

even a hardware token like a yubikey or CAC has a bunch of problems and they are by far the "best" way to do something like this.

cp9on Go fonts

fyi you can get most sites to honor your font with a combination of the browser's default monospace font and extensions like Stylish.

even this comment box respects Fira Code, see[1]

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/LjbS3

cp9on Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year

and fossil fuels are directly responsible for the largest ecological disasters the planet has ever seen, so...

cp9on Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life

... that is not what slavery is

cp9on Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

github's where the people are. Everyone already has a github account. Either way git itself means there isn't too much vendor lock-in, just the ancillary parts of the project (issues, wiki, project site)

cp9on BSD vs. Linux (2005)

I'm right there with you, I've never had good luck with fonts on Linux. They always look fuzzy, instead of crisp and sharp like on OSX

cp9on How Pantone Is Still Turning Color into Money (2015)

if you're a designer, a painter, anything to do with printed media at all you use pantone, and thus you pay for it

cp9on We only hire the trendiest

I just value my own time. It's not entitlement, it's merely knowing what my free time is worth

cp9on We only hire the trendiest

except this is on top of that. nobody does a phone screen, checks a sample of code and says "tada, you're hired"

we were going to get together in a room anyways.

cp9on We only hire the trendiest

except "culture fit" is usually a code word for a 25 year old white guy who walks and talks like me.

cp9on We only hire the trendiest

cause I have a job that pays me. I'm not working on stuff for your company for free

cp9on We only hire the trendiest

you're asking me to feel bad for a company that probably has millions in seed funding for investing a day in a new hire? hah, no, not going to happen. I (and probably most people here) already have a job that pays me for the work I do, this company can either do the same or they can walk. The one thing that's not going to happen is for me to pity them for the money they are investing.

cp9on A Message to Our Customers

... you can't just ignore a subpoena if you wish to do business in the US. providing a backdoor is different

cp9on Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone

the second software like this exists that was signed with Apple's release key, the second they can no longer control it

cp9on Resolutions for programmers (2012)

not to mention this is a 200 year old idea that was a terrible idea then and hasn't gotten any better since

cp9on TLDR pages

You can use the python one. I tried it and the npm one and the npm one seems like it's in much better shape (colors were all screwed up on the python one). so, I guess YMMV

cp9on ClojureScript Year in Review

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Optional-Self-...

here's how to bootstrap cljs.

cp9on Show HN: Clojure for the Brave and True – now free online

I've been looking forward to this update for it seems like months. Clojure for the brave and true helped me understand core.async, can't wait to go through and read it again

cp9on Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “political incorrectness”

The only people who don't understand this are those who spout these things themselves. They also don't understand private vs public or freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences

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did nobody listen to Aretha? R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

lol at the people where conflating what transphobes go through with what actual trans people go through. There is nothing else to say

cp9on Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros’ Network

so corporate espionage isn't in the purview of the FBI so long as no one dies because of it?

I'll be sure to use that line at my deposition

cp9on Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secured in California

It's functionally impossible to drive at 250 mph for any meaningful period of time. Drag is a gigantic problem (as james may says "it's like driving through custard"), not to mention the fuel requirements to go that speed. One of the bigger problems is actually tires. The veyron's tires can only last ~20 minutes at those speeds and a new set is 20 grand. If you want to go those speeds you can't do it in the open air (unless you're actually flying) and you certainly can't do it on rubber tires.

cp9on The Next Twenty Years of Java: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

What year is it where you are?

Java is no longer slow. JVM languages in general are very, very fast. HotSpot is, frankly, incredible.

There are legitimate gripes to be had about Java as a language, but Java as an ecosystem and a runtime are incredible.

cp9on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

Could you give an overview of your stack?

cp9on Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

Sicp is available for free

https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ebook/

cp9on Ask HN: I wrote a Slack compatible server. Can I open source it?

talk to an actual lawyer