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daj40on Nominal dropped a product catalog for engineering software and it's beautiful

This company Nominal (nominal.io) just raised $80M at a $1B+ valuation for hardware engineering data infrastructure. That alone is interesting. But what caught my eye is they released a physical product catalog styled after McMaster-Carr. Square-back binding, industrial aesthetic, the whole thing. It's a software company shipping a paper catalog in 2026.

Their product helps hardware teams (aerospace, defense, automotive) manage test and operational data. Think time series, video, structured metadata across massive test campaigns. Customers like Anduril and Hermeus are using it. But honestly I'm just here for the catalog. Someone over there clearly cares about the craft of how engineering tools get presented to the world. The website has a similar retro-industrial vibe. Feels like a throwback to when instrument companies like Tektronix and HP actually had taste.

daj40on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

Northscaler | Sr. DevOps Engineer | REMOTE (based in Austin, TX) | Contractor (potentially contact to hire) | https://www.northscaler.com/

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Northscaler´s world leading scale-up technology provides sustainable solutions for businesses to grow operations. We like to think of scaling technology as the invisible business enabler – working progressively and intuitively with your teams so that you can be unbounded in your achievements.

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Our client base is largely small companies looking to either improve or replatform existing deployments. Each of our clients has different requirements, but we specialize in helm charts on kubernetes, in either GKE, EKS or on prem. We have a staff of highly skilled software engineers, and are needing to expand our devops team.

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Technologies: NodeJS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Helm.

Contact david.jannotta at northscaler.com for more information

daj40on SAR Imagery Reveals Presence of Concealed Sub at North Korea’s Sinpo Naval Base

This sounds less like discrimination and more like a bug.

Where are you coming from that you think that a CAPTCHA would be used to prevent you from seeing this?

daj40on Norweigan oil fund

Along with being more eco minded, electric cars are actually more affordable in Norway, there is a significant tax placed on other vehicles.

https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/

daj40on If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?

Agreed.

If Google began to charge for their services, at least there would be a way out. If a single market telecom raised prices or change policies, there isn't any real recourse.

daj40on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available

The updates take the entire instance down for 2-5 minutes each month. While you can't avoid them, they can be scheduled for particularly low traffic times. If you're trying to avoid downtime, its a giant PIA. Even with HA enabled, you still lose master, slave and read replicas. Not entirely sure what they define HA as, but a mandatory monthly downtime doesn't usually fit into mine.

[Update] That said, from what I understand, they have a road map to maintaining read replicas and queued writes. Not sure what the date on it is though.

daj40on PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion

This was NC's Commerce Secretary's response. Not very well thought through.

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2016/04/05/n-ccomme...

daj40on PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion

I wouldn't say they're risking nothing. Sure, they're not shutting down existing offices and removing themselves from markets, but they probably walked away from money they wont get back. I'm sure there were legal fees, plus people they might have already begun to recruit. So yes, its not a large risk, but its not like it didn't come at a loss for them.

daj40on PayPal Withdraws Plan for Charlotte Expansion

http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/queen_city_agenda/...

Local Charlotte paper kind of agrees, it would be interesting to see companies pull out of places like China and Saudi Arabia, given the investment that has been made already, and the loss of growth that would come from that.

Essentially, the company would have to put social issues as a priority over being competitive, because I can assure you that someone else with lower morals would take that business. Would be a very hard stance for companies to take with share holders.

daj40on Google Fiber Phone

I feel products like this - http://www.vtechphones.com/products/product_detail/1673 - (just an example) are a better solution to this problem. You dont need a land line subscription, just a cell phone with bluetooth. When my parents get home, their cell phones pair to the home phone, so when they receive a call, the home phone rings. They don't have to carry around cell phones, and they can place calls through their cell phones using the handsets. Seems complicated at first, but saved headache and $$ in the end.

daj40on Why Aren’t America’s Shipping Ports Automated?

"Today, the average member of the union in Oakland makes $147,000 per year in wages, with benefits equal to another $82,000 per year."

That is a huge amount of money, especially considering that includes entry level positions. While I understand these machines are complicated, and don't blame them for wanting to keep their jobs, I didn't expect over 200k a year total to be the average.

This is especially true considering that the average individual income in Oakland is around 32k a year. (http://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/california/oakland)

daj40on Windows Bridge for iOS

Most importantly, the ability to develop iOS applications on a Windows box.

daj40on Understanding C by learning assembly

The "Dragon Book" is pretty solid and a widely accepted resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniqu...

daj40on PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices

Maybe a lot of these issues will be resolved when eBay spins PayPal off? Most of these issues seemed to have really started right around the same time they were acquired.

daj40on PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices

How were you determining the accounts were stolen?

Also, as much as we would love to say companies are responsible for the security of our accounts, losing credentials is also a user issue.

daj40on PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices

In theory, they shouldn't. Its not allowed by Blizzard, and if memory serves, Blizzard considers it a breach of EULA and takes the account down as a whole. PayPal was supposed to be cracking down when this was rampant, because essentially its an illegal product.

Though really, paying for crap is different than selling it. More of an eBay domain problem than PayPal. Two totally different businesses.

daj40on PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices

The issue that they've been nailed with isn't so much that they over charged people, its that they signed people up without notifying them.

If you are using the service intentionally, then you aren't affected.

On another note, I have been using PayPal for years and haven't had any real issues with it. I mean it takes a while for eBay to get the money to me after a sale, but other than that its not bad. Have I just been lucky? Or is anyone else not experiencing problems that others are?

daj40on Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction

This is exciting. Hopefully people will start to create apps that extend existing stuff. First thing I'm doing is working on 2fa. Tired of having to get my phone out for that nonsense.

daj40on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)

Location: Cleveland, OH

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Languages/Technologies: C#, SQL, JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, C, CSS, JSP, German (fluent), English (native)

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xheo31v2d7rse40/DAJ%20Resume%20Web...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-jannotta/4b/986/373

Email: In resume

daj40on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

Location: Cleveland, OH

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Languages/Technologies: C#, SQL, JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, C, CSS, JSP, German (fluent), English (native)

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xheo31v2d7rse40/DAJ%20Resume%20Web...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-jannotta/4b/986/373

Email: In resume

daj40on Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network

I don't know why anyone would do this for $110,000. Especially after the entry fee, probably wouldn't make much money after the hardware costs, though if you're good enough to take on TOR, you probably also have a botnet. Also, why the hell would anyone give it to the Russians? Of all people, they're definitely who need exclusive access to a TOR hack. Especially if you consider that some of those people who are using it in Russia could be regular people who are trying to not be persecuted for their sexual orientation. Bad idea overall.