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Simon_Mon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

Meetupcall | Software engineering, product and marketing roles | Remote (UK) | https://www.meetupcall.com

Want to work on a meaningful problem and receive meaningful equity as part of a founding team?

At Meetupcall we're working to reduce loneliness and isolation by delivering services that empower our customers to provide community, connection and belonging to those that need it the most.

We're developing a remote communications platform that is used by care providers to reduce loneliness, facilitate social interaction and establish communities by connecting people remotely, using simple to use and familiar technology.

Our stack is Rails, Elixir, WebRTC and Asterisk running on Amazon Web Services.

E-mail me at simon.moxon@meetupcall.com if that sounds interesting.

Simon_Mon Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?

I'm founder of Meetupcall, a startup working to help care organisations reduce loneliness and isolation for those most in need. We're currently looking for a senior Rails engineer on these terms.

If that sounds like something you might be interested in, let's have a conversation, my e-mail address is in my profile.

Simon_Mon Ask HN: Sendwithus won't support GDPR, what are you using instead?

It doesn't seem viable that they won't support it. I think they have potentially mis-understood the wide reaching impact of this legislation.

I'd be surprised if there is not a follow up to their email fairly soon.

Simon_Mon UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange

It appears under UK law the Prime Minister could denounce the embassy as no longer Ecuadorian territory.

The UK government has 'reminded' Ecuador of this fact in an attempt to influence their decision.

Simon_Mon Show HN: Meetupcall - Simple conference calls

I'd love to HN's feedback on our attempt at making hosting and joining conference calls that little bit better.

Simon_Mon Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

Is their filtering on a per TCP port basis? Or more advanced packet inspection?

Simon_Mon Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

How do people deal with remote files? I love Sublime, but always end up reverting back to VIM as it is so slow when accessing files over a network connection.

I've tried the SFTP plug-in, but find it really clumsy. Ideally I'd just love to be able to add a remote folder over SFTP the same way you do local ones.

Simon_Mon Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

That's one annoyance out of the way. Is there a decent way to work with remote files yet?

This is always the killer for me.

Simon_Mon What really happened aboard Air France 447

Considering how many incidents there seems to be due to the loss of these airspeed sensors it seems crazy not to have an additional, different method of calculating airspeed.

Is there a reason GPS is not suitable here?

Simon_Mon 16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

Am I missing something? The physical size of a 16px font will surely vary based on resolution and screen size.

So claims such as '16px is the same as most books' are clearly nonsense.

Simon_Mon Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

"...keep the money and use it to book yourself into a nice, safe hotel room the next time you travel. You’ll be glad you did."

Statements like this certainly fuel the hotel industry conspiracy theories from yesterday for me. It doesn't even make sense, as she claims the hotels will be safer for the travellers. The travellers safety was never at question here was it?

Simon_Mon LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census

I wonder if they are using the same (undocumented) exploit for each of these attacks.

I am certainly no expert in this field, but I would have thought discovering new exploits and security holes would take time, yet these guys are hitting several major sites a week.

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Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?

Simon_Mon Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

Wow, real-life Minecraft.

Simon_Mon 1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen

So are 1 in 3 prisoners corrupt businessmen who have been jailed for their 'corruptness'.

Or are 1 in 3 prisoners businessmen unjustly jailed due to corrupt officials?

Simon_Mon Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio

Founder of a conference call start-up here.

This wouldn't work for conf call services as you'd still be charged from the moment a call was connected on your particular 'room' irrespective of who actually called it. Although it would certainly save time and you wouldn't have to listen to the annoying hold music.

Oh, and if you organisation is really paying 30 cents per minute, then you should get in touch as we could save them well over 12 million dollars a year! ;)

Regarding the dial-out when everyone's ready service... we're working on it.