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aladine··on Hang on to Your Firefox
This article seems directly target me. I was a Firefox fanboy and switch to Vivaldi for daily driver work browser. I still keeps Firefox for personal browsing. If Firefox could address the performance issue when opening many tabs, I definitely go back to Firefox.
aladine··on Fish 3.4.0
Agreed with it. It is the highlight of this release.
aladine··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
Emacs: its versatile and easy to configure code editor. If you are fan of Org mode, then you have to use Emacs.
aladine··on Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
Anyone knows how does it different from Firefox Send. What is the features will restrict users from abusing it. FYI, Firefox Send was discontinued due to security reason.
aladine··on Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes
Is there anyone using gitconnected.com? I use it to build my own resume in a technical way. At the same time, I could show my notable projects on Github.
aladine··on ProtonDrive Security Model
Another vote for Fastmail.
aladine··on Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
I was said a bit because it is a nice product developed by Mozilla.
aladine··on Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email
Love this idea. I was a fan of this novel a long time ago. I really want a bite-size reading newsletter style like this.

What I think is you should have an index of similar novels too. You can put a list of recommended novels in the newsletter email, or sent a follow up email after finishing the whole seris of 117 chapters of Monte Cristo.

aladine··on Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and book
Though not related to the content of post, I found that the favicon of fast.ai is a H character, which is not related to AI. Somebody should update it.

FYI, letter H comes from theme Hyde in Hugo: https://themes.gohugo.io/hyde/?search-input=menu%3Dmai#sideb...

aladine··on What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days
Surely the effort you put into 60 technical interviews are great. But instead, you should focus to 10 companies you would like to join, it may turn out better as you could focus your energy and thinking for cover letter and preparation.
aladine··on Mozilla VPN
I am happy with Fastmail too. Use it for more than 3 years and never look back. There is a hype about Hey mail recently but I won't buy it:

- It is more expensive than my current plan with Fastmail. Hey mail is 99$/year.

- As all of my current emails and contacts are in fastmail, I am not likely to switch to another providers. Also, because I am happy user, I don't see the need to switch.

aladine··on Mozilla VPN
https://purelymail.com/ I haven't try it yet, but it is only 10$ per year
aladine··on AWS Snowcone
At the first glance, I thought Amazon ship Kindle to customer with storage as a bonus.
aladine··on A shared file system for lambda functions
Agree. It is no longer a new product after launching.
aladine··on Diving into Go by building a CLI application
Agreed! urfave/cli is very handy.
aladine··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)
Your resume link is not public.
aladine··on Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
I believe you already found many useful links in this page. If you have reddit account, possibly you can check out "Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread" in https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/ and get inspired every week.
aladine··on Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
Doom Emacs is a collection of many recommendated packages. For someone doesn't use evil much like me, I can turn it off in the config file. Using Doom Emacs is highly recommended for new comers to Emacs
aladine··on Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
I was on parental leave and my son was born on a beautiful day. The next day, I got an email announced that everybody in my technical team is marked as redundant. I am speechless and through conversation, there is a sudden withdraw of investors to fund our company. Without this funding, it is impossible to keep the company going. From what I know, it sounds like a way to minimise the loss.

I was sad. We have a big plan to roll out a big feature in May. Now everything I worked on in last 6 months will be put on hold. Probably it never push to production.

My latest joy of becoming a father was ultimately skewed. Now I have to find a new job in Australia while taking care of a newborn. Things become harder this time when many companies impose a hiring freeze.

I still keep my faith that one day I will escape from this unemployment. One day.

aladine··on Ask HN: Is there any tech event/conference/seminar I can view online?
Hashicorp has a virtual seminar day on 7th April: https://www.hashicorp.com/webinars/hashicorp-virtualdays-apa...
aladine··on Ask HN: Is there any tech event/conference/seminar I can view online?
Thanks, this is a great list for me.
aladine··on Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
Do you support a feature like importing data from jsonresume.org. One nice thing about jsonresume is the json data is hosted in gist and once I append it to jsonresume.org/registry[github handle], I can view my resume directly in browser.
aladine··on Ask HN: Have you been laid off?
I am in the same fate. My company has teams in Melbourne and San Diego. The whole team in Melbourne office get laid off just 2 weeks ago.

I am working in Australia but with working visa. So it is urgent for me to find a work within 60 days. Getting a job will be harder this time due to the fact that not all the companies I applied can sponsor visa for applicants.

But I am still keep my faith. There will be jobs available and even in the worst case, I could take a time off to spend more time with my family.

aladine··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Hi there, I am interested in the Backend Engineer, Search position. However, when I complete all the fields and upload my resume, the page prompt the job is no longer available.

Could you double check the availability for this position https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4392358002%23app

aladine··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)

  Location: Melbourne, Australia
  Visa: need visa sponsorship in Australia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe.
  Technologies: AWS, Golang, MySQL, Elasticsearch
  Résumé/CV:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantrantrong 
  Email: dantran@fastmail.com.au
I used to work in payment team of Grab, one of the biggest hailing ride app in SouthestAsia. Now I am living in Melbourne, Australia. I have more than 9 years of professional working experience, including 5 years working in backend distributed system.
aladine··on Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
I wish there is a website to compare power bank on Amazon.
aladine··on Why I Quit Using Google
I also switched to Fastmail too. Its interface is rudimentary similar to Google few years ago. It has full suite of services like calendar, notes, storage...

What I like is its simplicity which Gmail may bloat with too many features. One notable feature of Fastmail is alias: you can create other emails alias to your main account and use that to create different rules. Super handy and convenient. If you worry about encryption, probably ProtonMail is a better choice. For me, Fastmail is good for my usage.

P/s: if you want to sign up for Fastmail, here is my referral link https://ref.fm/u12211285

aladine··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
Hi bchurch, I wonder that Gitlab sponsor for working visa in certain countries. FYI, I am currently working in Australia under working visa. If I apply to Gitlab, I prefer to stay in Australia. Best regards, aladine
aladine··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Which company you are working right now? I almost get a chance to join Google Sydney but failed at the last round. If there is any other company cooler than Google I will definitely want to try to apply.
aladine··on Fastmail – 20 Years Old
If you decide to use Fastmail officially, here is the referal link you can grab to get 10% off for the 1st year: https://ref.fm/u12211285
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