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quaffapint··on Covid.com – trusted Connectivity Supplier for 40 years. Unfortunate URL
Right up there with the Isis Mobile Wallet...

https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/isis-mobile-wallet-rebrand...

quaffapint··on Xfinity outage leaves tens of thousands in the Bay Area without internet
First thing I think of is that poor engineer who committed the change that managed to bring down Comcast across the country. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that meeting.
quaffapint··on The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018)
They also make use of solar panels on their farms. They just don't use public power.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
We could always go back to the 90s when they printed out the Internet Yellow Pages. Just pick a random page, point and go check it out. Apparently you can still buy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Yellow-Pages-6th-ed/dp/15620...

quaffapint··on ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier
I love that SV was written in C#. Who would of thought? I wonder if it's the same here?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/75ag0g/im_concern...

quaffapint··on A trillion-dollar coin could be minted within hours of an emergency decision
It's like they have a time machine. For those not aware, here's the clip in question... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KgHy3Pi5Yw
quaffapint··on .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role
The surprising part I guess is that originally it seemed like the foundation for them was to market goodwill. Now it seems like that wasn't the goal after all, but to more be able to control/takeover these projects. I guess now that I write that, yea, I shouldn't be surprised.
quaffapint··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
Philanthropi | Multiple Positions | Fully Remote | US Only (Pref East Coast) | Full Time

We provide a platform for everyone to manage their charitable giving. The company is funded through 2022 and going for more funding at the end of the year. You'll get competitive pay and benefits. Check us out at https://philanthropi.com/.

We're hiring for the following positions:

* Senior Backend C#/Java Developer

* Senior/lead UI/UX

* Senior DevOps/Network/Infra

We're a small but growing team of around 30+ people and you would have the opportunity to make a large impact.

I'm a senior backend developer who recently joined. If you have any questions or are interested in joining us - shoot me an email at matt.smith at philanthropi.com.

quaffapint··on Alternative Milks
Ditto. Did not enjoy Oatly, but the store brand was great for use in cereal (and I drank regular milk forever). It was the same for my kids. Not complaining since the store brand is even cheaper.
quaffapint··on OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
I would agree with this. A large portion of tech people I work with are not CS grads. I myself have a math degree. You do need to show that you can program and know your stuff, but you can still do that with personal/side projects/etc. Once you get your first job, then you're good to go and most won't care about your degree. I think now it's more a challenge of getting junior level jobs across the board.
quaffapint··on The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
I used to be this way in my first job when I was surrounded by people in the same life stages (recently married started having kids/etc). I still hang out with those same people outside the office.

Now that I'm an older person and surrounded by younger people who are doing their own thing I don't socialize much at the office outside the basic daily banter. I left to be able to go remote. Then I can just socialize outside the office which I enjoy more.

quaffapint··on Ex-Tesla Employee Called Racial Slur Wins Rare $1M Award
I used to work for a credit card company. There was an employee that ran his mortgage business on the side during most of the day at work.

So, the company went to fire him. He claimed racism (he was Indian) and sued for $1M. The credit card company not wanting any bad publicity settled giving him nearly that entire amount.

quaffapint··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
I feel for the people that had covid and now they are being lumped in with the unvaccinated if they choose not to get the shot on top of that.
quaffapint··on Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’
Not disagreeing with you, but just a note that with the M1's being ARM based, the Windows 10 will also be ARM based and may not run the necessary software for you to test with. For example, I know currently Visual Studio will not run on that.
quaffapint··on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2021
I haven't tried hosting things in B2 - But I've been backing up to B2 via Duplicati and it has yet to have a single hiccup and the pricing is great. I have around 190G on there updated every night and I pay around $0.90/month - truly less than a cup of coffee.
quaffapint··on Npm Audit: broken by design?
As mentioned in the article we ran into the same overload and just ended up running `npm audit --production` as part of our CI pipeline since that's what would be going out.
quaffapint··on ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
I would love hybrid. Going in a day a week would be great. Enough time to plan things and then get to working on it remotely. Unfortunately my company is going full 100% back in the office citing that's where everyone will be in a couple years.
quaffapint··on ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
These posts are silly. Sure there are some that will leave their full time office to a more flexible one.

I myself do not want to go back to our open office layout full time and Im checking out my options. Still though its going to just be a small percentage. Of course there might be more slowly over time as more remote/hybrid opportunities become available.

quaffapint··on Garage Door Monitor
They also have a unit that I installed that you can tell it close when no one has been passed the sensor in x number of minutes. It has been great when we've forgotten to shut the door at night. No need to monitor anything yourself.
quaffapint··on As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'
Im a senior dev in the US and my company just said we have to come back full time in the office. This is even after we've had record revenue months.

I would be totally fine with hybrid, but they said they investigated that and decided against it (don't know why). I'm looking around at my alternatives, but the pay is just not there for both hybrid and remote. So I dont know where all this demand is, unless it's the same demand that's always there when they won't pay people anything. I may end up taking a pay cut just to do hybrid/remote which is really sad, but my well being may be worth it.

quaffapint··on Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling
The nice thing they also added was the ability to trim the self-contained app, so it doesn't include a lot of unnecessary assemblies.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/trim-...

quaffapint··on Bflat: C# as you know it but with Go-like tooling
I was hoping to see in the readme how this is different than what they offer in core today? You can build self-contained exes (and they're getting better with each release). Is this the same only different or an improvement on that?
quaffapint··on Tiny Acquisitions
Maybe in a few tech/expensive areas of the country, but not for the average dev with way more than 5+ yrs in the average US.
quaffapint··on Next.js 11
That's why I removed next/image and ended up using https://github.com/cyrilwanner/next-optimized-images

That lets you export the images pre-optimized for different sizes/etc. You can then do a normal next export.

quaffapint··on “Great resignation” wave coming for companies
Im not seeing a lot of remote/hybrid offers in the midatlantic area (from my little checking around my area).

It's a lot more "we're remote right now and haven't determined our remote strategy" which like my current place generally means we'll expect you back, but might be a little more lenient on why you need to do a special WFH day.

I've done both full remote and full open office. I think being close enough to go in and get together to determine project path and then going remote to work on it seems to be the way to go. It doesn't look like my current employer believes the same way - even though they are doing very well right now and we're all remote.

quaffapint··on Show HN: Responsive NextJS Themes for Dashboards, Landing Pages and Blogs
Are the landing/blog using static generation so you can just do a next export?
quaffapint··on Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)
A year or so ago I was working on a similar product as FeaturePeek - a platform agnostic deploy preview and collaboration tool. I decided not enough people would want that outside of their hosting platform and shelved it.

Clearly I was wrong and clearly why you should talk to more potential customers before you make decisions. Congrats to Netlify and FeaturePeek.

quaffapint··on Interactive IPA Chart
Me too. There's this one... https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IPA-final.jp... I'm not a big fan of the New-England which seems to be all the rage.
quaffapint··on Next.js 10.2
I ran into the same issue when trying to run next export. The linked library has worked great. I wanted to simply have a srcset generated at build time. I don't know why Next Image can't support this out of the box.
quaffapint··on Nobody is joining Google's FLoC
I've spoken with more than 1 non-tech person who has said if they're going to see ads, they want them to be at least relevant, targeting nor not.
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