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_-----_··on Ask HN: Top life hack which, quite surprisingly, no one else does?
Seems like a good way to end up on #metoo
_-----_··on Indians are taking over corporate America–and tech layoffs won’t stop them
One of the funniest board meetings I have ever sat in on was in a recruiting company based heavily in diversity and inclusion. The investor (non-Indian) was listening the Founders (Indian) talk about the advancements we made and showed the talent marketplace (scraped people data).

The investor stopped the CEO and was like, "Why are they all Indian?".

_-----_··on Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins?
hCaptcha would be an upgrade from Google's data farming.
_-----_··on Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]
Incredibly useful, unless you link to something GitHub doesn’t like.
_-----_··on Ask HN: Advice for Learning a New Language?
Following up-- for anyone that wants to try it, if you use a referral link (plenty on Youtube if you look for lingq reviews) you can get like 120 lingqs upon signing up. That's a much better trial.

So far I'm liking it.

_-----_··on Ask HN: Advice for Learning a New Language?
Having a Firefox container for "Korean mode" is pretty nice.
_-----_··on Ask HN: Advice for Learning a New Language?
Thanks-- I am in a lucky situation where I have no shortage of Korean people to speak with so that's not an issue. I can listen and understand pretty well, but producing Korean feels slow and difficult. It's a plateau I'm trying to overcome and feel like there's no good practice/thing that has helped much.

One recommendation has been to spend more time writing in Korean (like blogging) to better put my thoughts into the language and I guess in theory, means I would become quicker in conversation.

_-----_··on Ask HN: Advice for Learning a New Language?
Just tried it out-- it's a neat concept. I wish the "free" version was more giving... I'll have to try more to see if it's something I'd want to pay for. Overall, it seems fairly useful.
_-----_··on Ask HN: What tools/strategy do you use for backups?
Dejadup is a decent solution for automatic backups to a remote or local device that is encrypted. Works over ssh.
_-----_··on Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?
Anything I have ever written, until I've re-read it.
_-----_··on RSS Readers That You Can Self Host
I use newsboat, a command line client that fetches the feeds and lets you read them. Does it need to be more complicated?

On a separate note, rss feeds that don’t show all content and only preview content are junk and shouldn’t be rss feeds.

_-----_··on Searching a data breach with ElasticSearch
I opted for Solr over ES due to the craziness of ES licensing, and other fiascos they have had over the years. Solr seems more "open" and in line with what I believe.

Sure, Solr is rough around the edges but it does virtually the same thing.

_-----_··on Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?
I was frustrated with the startup I was working with. The founders didn't agree with my focus/idea for their product, so I made it myself after work.

I have been working on the same product for over 7 years full-time. All of our income comes from it.

_-----_··on Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
I felt like this post was, "SPAs suck, here's a new lightweight SPA."
_-----_··on Damnit I slipped and (mostly) built an Amiga 500
The timing of this is really good. I just finished watching a video about restoring an Amiga's case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACj7P5oOlHw
_-----_··on Ask HN: Which of you used to be lurkers?
I lurk, mainly because I have little to add and when I try it's usually downvoted or I'm shadow banned to begin with.
_-----_··on Ask HN: If everyone at your company vanished how long would the lights stay on?
Forever, or at least until the credit cards expire and our hosting/domain payment fails.