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hobr··on Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
Isn't this a false equivalence?

I'll often eat with other people, but I wouldn't take a sh*t with them.

hobr··on Remembering Bob Lee
My experience was the partying. He seemed to have boundless energy for it and it was infectious.

I remember arriving at a conference with serious jet lag and just wanting to sleep. I grabbed dinner with a few of the other speakers and Bob's energy was enough to turn dinner into drinks and drinks into skipping the whole night's sleep.

hobr··on Remembering Bob Lee
I met him around the same time and we did the conference circuit together for a fair few years.

I vividly remember being sucked into his craziness more than a few times in my formative years!

A fun, welcoming guy and an incredible technologist.

hobr··on The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee
I recently bought the Fellow Prismo AeroPress Attachment [1] which is a metal filter and a new valve head which makes any inverted brewing method simpler and, to my taste, gives a more espresso-like result.

[1]: https://fellowproducts.com/products/prismo

hobr··on CircleCI Layoffs
If they are using Mobile Device Management (MDM), they can remotely wipe all the laptops before allowing departing staff to keep them.
hobr··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
This series of lectures on Category Theory by Bartosz Milewski: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa...
hobr··on Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro
The VScode in Blink is editor-only, essentially what you get from https://vscode.dev.

To actually compile/execute you'll need to connect it to something like Codespaces or code-server.

hobr··on Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
I find myself using Rubular (https://rubular.com/) quite often for experimenting with regular expressions.
hobr··on Ask HN: What metrics do you pay attention to?
Watts/kg output when cycling. On 1min, 5min, 20min and 60 minute windows. This is the only one I think that I _obsess_ over.

I keep rough track on my weight, but mostly over a quarterly scale and mostly as a big input to my W/kg!

hobr··on DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers
In case anybody is having problems finding DevUtils in Setapp - we found that it was hidden in our Setapp Teams account for some reason!

Thanks @trungdq88 for your help.

hobr··on DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers
Weirdly it's not showing for me even after a Setapp update this morning. I'm not on Monterey yet if that's needed? If not, I'll email Setapp support.
hobr··on DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers
Thanks for making DevUtils available through Setapp.

Do you plan to add the M1 version to Setapp? Seems to be missing for me.

hobr··on Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
This happened to my wife and me just last night on the east coast of the UK. We followed directions to a named restaurant POI on Apple Maps and ended up in the middle of nowhere.

Google Maps took us right to the door.

hobr··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Couldn't agree more. I've had my non-Touchbar MBP since just after launch, and I couldn't be happier. The form factor is great and the screen is better than anything I've encountered.

Prior to this machine, I was unhealthily attached to an MBA 11" from 2012 and I was more than dubious that I'd break that attachment. Since I got the new MBP, the MBA hasn't moved once from the spot where is waiting for a re-install ready to give away.

hobr··on The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers
I've been on the non-touch 13" for about a week now and I'm really happy with it. I moved over from a 2012 11" MBA. The form factor of the 13" is great for grabbing 30 minutes here and there during travel to do some work.

Battery life is good, and 16GB is a big step up from the 8GB I had on the MBA. I've been running a decent-sized system in minikube with no problems.

The only issue I still seem to have is that Hangouts absolutely obliterates the battery. A one-hour call took battery life from 9:45 to 1:15!

hobr··on Linux debugging tools you'll love
What do you recommend as a replacement? I'd love to get something that wasn't quite so opaque.
hobr··on How I Grew My Company from $100 to $400M
In the first paragraph the author states: 'I started a company called Trace3 with $100 and grew it to over $400 million in revenue'.