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CodeSheikhon Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)

Is this the infamous magnet-bandit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Kara

CodeSheikhon Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh

    But are you really really happy, mate?

CodeSheikhon H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act

The bill gives more authority to the Departments of Homeland Security...

Yeah. Right, no more jurisdiction to DHS on labor matters.

CodeSheikhon Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app

This looks like a product push to make the most out of WAH during COVID-19 crisis. On similar note, I must say that Zoom ate Skype's lunch within weeks and MS marketing team has royally screwed that one up.

CodeSheikhon Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine

My NodeJs app running inside a Docker container which is running inside a Linux Debian OS running as one of the VMs inside a Windows OS installed on a rack-mount server module housed with other modules in a server cabinet. The "atomic" structure of cloud infra.

CodeSheikhon Do not Draw a Penis

Is HN getting a lot of Reddit traffic recently?

CodeSheikhon Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

What's the guarantee that say your San Francisco/NYC employer will keep paying you city rates when you are living in a small town in mid-west. At some point they will catch up and start saving money this way. Everyone at a tech company is not a crucial employee. Don't get me wrong, I am all in for getting paid SF rates while living in a cheap Texas suburb.

CodeSheikhon Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

The higher you go up the older they get. It is a culture shift and lets be honest no one wants to leave their comfort zone.

CodeSheikhon Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy

They just opened a huge new store at Hudson Yards in NYC. I’m sure lack of foreign rich tourists(mainly rich Chinese) during COVID months must have hurt them big time as well.

CodeSheikhon Zoom Acquires Keybase

Is Zoom trying to disrupt Whatsapp space?

CodeSheikhon Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance

As a dev you would use Oracle only if your execs have cut a sweet licensing deal with the Oracle.

CodeSheikhon Is Java “pass-by-reference” or “pass-by-value”?

Spending my Saturday reading various answers with different perspectives on the the genesis of the holy war between "is Java pass by reference" and "is Java pass by value" proponents.

CodeSheikhon Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)

‘However with the development of antibiotics, UBI use declined and it has now been called “the cure that time forgot”.‘

It says antibiotics. Is it me or UBI was used to treat bacterial infections or the OP is desperately correlating this study with the “effectiveness” of testing viruses with UBI? I feel like a lot of partisan users are getting the boot from Reddit and they are channeling out their frustrations here. Guys let’s keep HN pure with tech only posts.

CodeSheikhon Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers

I agree with you. Title is misleading.

CodeSheikhon What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?

Updated. Thanks for the tip.

CodeSheikhon What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?

Questions like these on SO should be taught in CS-101. There are some amazing answers in there that I would have hard time finding in textbooks.

CodeSheikhon Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day

Most of the items I have ordered from non-Aamazon small businesses during COVID-19 crisis is backed by Shopify platform. Their checkout form has a very unique layout so it is easy to tell without looking at the page source.

CodeSheikhon Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online

Amazon's (+Wholefood) supply-chain failure is an eye-opener for me during COVID-19 crisis. I hate to acknowledge my dependability on Amazon Prime while living in a big city. I am not sure how I will break my habit but I know for a fact that I won't be ordering everything from Amazon Prime in the future.

For a company that commands e-commerce space in year 2020, it is really frustrating to find this workflow while ordering from WF while using Amazon's app, it is a joke and UI/UX 101 blunder. You add items to your cart. They run out of inventory. Items disappear from your cart. Either you place your order assuming all items were in your cart or you don't get a delivery slot and you have to add those items again. Why can't they just borrow the same feature from Amazon.com where unavailable items move conveniently to "Save later" section?

CodeSheikhon Apple acquires Dark Sky

Well, time to change location privacy setting from "Always" to "Never".

CodeSheikhon Dark mode for Stack Overflow

I agree with you. Plus, as a light mode user I always have hard time when someone is doing code-walkthrough in dark mode.

CodeSheikhon Dark mode for Stack Overflow

Why do developers prefer dark mode for pretty much everything from IDE to OS to iOS?

Edit: added missing 'much'

CodeSheikhon Maryam Mirzakhani

RIP(روحش شاد باشه) Maryam and thanks for your contributions.

CodeSheikhon Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal

I hate to say this but a lot of unfounded speculation in your comment as well.

"Secondly, have you done your research? Surely Facebook is not the only company being targeted by the government right now. I can assure you that, surely there are more."

Can you back this up with some factual information? Would love to know more about other companies. Thanks.

CodeSheikhon Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN

Remind me again, does India have a democratic government or an authoritarian regime?

CodeSheikhon iOS 13's Music App Sucks

When I select Search box I want it to default to Apple's search rather than my collection. For me that has been a pain point. Clearly from your case, various users respond differently to features.

CodeSheikhon TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites

"...The company had just over 3,800 staff at the end of September.." I am surprised why they need such high number of staff when the functionality of the website is limited to content, reviews, search itineraries. Unless they hire field agents and ask them go inquire and write about a new place.

CodeSheikhon Every Google result now looks like an ad

So a bad person can steal favicon of say New York Times and trick users clicking their fake links because eventually users will get used to establishing "credibility" of brand by recognizing the favicons? (granted the bad person is great at SEO best practices and their search results show up at the top)

CodeSheikhon A small DIY air purifier

OP: Do you think https://www.instructables.com/ would have been a better place for this than Github.com ?

Great effort!

CodeSheikhon Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says

"Stuff like making it easier to hide teams-emails from the company-wide outlook address-book" is not this an implementation thing instead of infrastructure? Say you use LDAP to manage user and permissions etc and it is up to you how you want to set it up. I am curious to find out if you are using some out of box solutions form AZURE for this.

CodeSheikhon Boeing Backs Simulator Training for 737 Max Pilots in Reversal

What difference does it make when the actual hardware is still flawed? I still refuse to fly in 737 MAX and its variants. Boeing can convince AA and Southwest pilots to give them vote of confidence but consumers are not stupid.