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exakoustoson IBM Bob

The "What developers say" carousel has a single Java dev and dev advocate. They got lots of quotes from managers, directors, CEOs, and an "AI strategist".

exakoustoson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cloud/DevOps engineering. Primarily on AWS using Terraform, a bit of bash and some python. Learning Kubernetes on EKS with Istio, Helm and Spinnaker. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xakoustos/ Email: efstratios.xakoustos@gmail.com

exakoustoson Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

You would think that they wouldn't block search. But Google kept throwing me at captcha when I was in FF and not signed in. The biggest pain so far has been the lack of map integration.

exakoustoson Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

This is why once I switched to FF I also switched to DuckDuckGo

exakoustoson Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

That engineer would probably be Greek since Ericsson has outsourced a lot of the dev work on MSC/VLRs there. I remember working on a feature that allowed a user to copy the music they listened while waiting and play it when someone called them.

As for the ethical implication there's none. This exact functionality would be extremely helpful in case of an actual emergency.