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Maybe "I'm sorry I had to fork you" would've been more in line with what you meant to say?

aukaoston Ask HN: Do you use RSS? If yes, which reader do you use?

Newsblur, looks nice on the web and the Android version works well for me.

aukaoston Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora

They were wondering why the original architecture was using NGINX over HAProxy, not why HAProxy wasn't chosen as an NGINX replacement.

aukaoston Tell HN: Microsoft limits GitHub accounts of Russian citizens anywhere

German drivers licenses do not serve as government IDs. Only found that out when I was told I don't need a new license after changing my last name.

aukaoston 80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming

Just curious, why is this app not available on the Icelandic Play store?

aukaoston Ask HN: How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs?

- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

I've always been fascinated with technology and trying to figure out how things work. I got my first computer at age 8, it had QBasic. I programmed a small number of games on it. I spent a lot of time dis- and reassembling this computer, reinstalling DOS, Windows. We didn't have internet or manuals, nor did I speak English. Later on played with Linux which really helped me understand how all of this works under the hood. Actually programming came much later.

- What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

I've been in the field for 11 years now, currently in an SRE role. SRE seems to be a different thing wherever you go. Not really my dream role in its current form right now.

- How did you break that first-job barrier?

QA internship in the gaming industry. Turned into full-time position, later on QA Engineering and then Software Engineering. I jumped on opportunities when they cropped up. I made myself useful in QA rather quickly as I have a low tolerance for doing repetitive tasks manually, which got me into automation and tools programming.

- What were you doing before this?

I tried my luck studying computer science for about 2 years but that didn't really work for me. That opportunity for an internship came at the right moment and I took it.

- Any tips for the rest of us?

Find yourself a mentor. In my first role in QA there was one person in particular who was very open to all my question and taught me how to approach complex problems in legacy code bases. It really helped me gain a lot of knowledge and also confidence in my craft. I should reach out to my first mentor and thank him, I am not sure he's aware of the impact he's had.

aukaoston Xfce switches to GitLab

> cgit/gitolite

It's in the first sentence :)

aukaoston Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data

accidentally the whole thing

aukaoston We Broke the Panama Papers Story. Our Next Mission: Donald Trump

Iceland's PM stepped down and a while after there were new elections.

aukaoston In Norway, everyone can know how much you earn [video]

Same thing in Iceland. There's a magazine published every year with salaries of notable persons divided by sector.

aukaoston Berlin is now in a position to usurp London as the startup capital of Europe

Unity definitely has an office in Copenhagen, Denmark. https://unity3d.com/jobs

aukaoston Ask HN: What's something I can do right now to increase my productivity?