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What about companies with multi site offices? Isn’t that effectively remote?

jblarneyforwardon Just Wanted to Say Thanks

Often I email the person directly to thank them, but only works if there’s a public email.

jblarneyforwardon US online grocery sales hit record $7.2B in June

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jblarneyforwardon Written communication is remote work super power

That last point is pretty hilarious!

I find writing up the minutes during the meeting and distilling to “are these the most important points?” works to grab folks’ attention.

jblarneyforwardon Show HN: Top, but for Nginx

I had the vague sense that it was as easy to cross-compile rust binaries as it is for go.

Distributing single binary would be easier, but `cargo install xyz` seems harder than python script

jblarneyforwardon Ask HN: My mother has shaky hands – guidance on iPhone accessibility settings?

Have you tried turning on voice control? That allows you to control the entire screen without holding phone (“show numbers”, “Tap 5”, “Tap 4”, “Text I want to enter”, “Tap send”)

jblarneyforwardon Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira

Slightly confused by your comment, the new editor has gone from markdown-ish to actual markdown. That is easier/better.

jblarneyforwardon Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them

Problem is that most patients will recover from Covid 19, so unlike a more deadly disease, need a high bar for treatments.

jblarneyforwardon Level up CloudFormation with VS Code

CDK is significantly more comprehensible than CloudFormation. Particularly: it has patterns and convenciones baked in that let a few lines of code translate into 100s of lines of CloudFormation

jblarneyforwardon Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

What about messenger/WhatsApp/insta?

jblarneyforwardon He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them

Correct link (not sure what’s wrong with the current one): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...

jblarneyforwardon Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example

The article focuses on opposition to gay marriage and to women in the priesthood, briefly touching on only an expansion in size of # missionaries and openness of records.

The blog post author argues that Monson had huge influence internationally, the article does not show that.

It’s not about tone, it’s about emphasis.

jblarneyforwardon Easy Python CLI with Click

I liked fire a lot, gets kinda goofy sometimes (and it looks abnormal in exceptions). If you can use python 3 - defopt is simpler and less visually noisy on errors https://defopt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

jblarneyforwardon Easy Python CLI with Click

Click and argparse end up with a lot of boilerplate. `defopt` (https://defopt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) reduces it to almost nothing (granted only in Python 3), is only a single file and even turns your function docstring into command help text.

With every other tool I’ve tried, I end up writing a python API and a CLI and documenting it twice.

Defopt eliminates that almost completely (but with *args still allows for elegant interfaces)