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dickeytkon Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

60-70% drop meaning if it was 100 roles last month it's 30-40 this month?

dickeytkon We are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases

strategically perhaps, but the optics on that are so awful. I'd argue it's the wrong thing to do if you thought you'd be more profitable in a crisis.

dickeytkon We are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases

Without knowing much about the team I really doubt this has much to do with remote work. It seems like a smart move to take pressure off team deliverables in general right now for a host of reasons.

dickeytkon Kind - run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker

what are the advantages over minikube?

dickeytkon Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale

git works well for coordinating important changes in a codebase but it's awful for quick ad-hoc changes like these most of these tasks

dickeytkon A Vacancy Has Been Detected (2019)

I've never used it, is it worse than concur?

dickeytkon Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

Yeah I can think of several times when I or someone else came prepared to a remote meeting with a PowerPoint. Of course that took more work, but the product would often be reused and shared long after the meeting. Not only that, a higher quality work conveys the idea much better.

dickeytkon Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

Indispensable for who? Perhaps designers? As an engineer I spent 5 years working remote and this has never been an issue. We just never needed—or even considered—drawing things.

Even now that I’m not remote all we use the whiteboard for is bulleted lists which easily can be done with notion or google docs

dickeytkon Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

On the plus side, they did get a bunch of funding recently so hopefully they'll be able to devote some resources to it. They definitely seem like an organization that is pretty devoted to quality products.

dickeytkon Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

Really happy to hear you are working on it. FWIW your products are so fantastic I'm definitely more critical than I would be if that wasn't the case. I hold 1Password to a super high standard.

I'll give it a spin again too as it's been a while since I tried it last and check out the forums!

dickeytkon MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small

don't forget https://capnproto.org/

dickeytkon Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

You can totally design a CLI around that kind of data model without resorting to jq

dickeytkon Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

While 1Password is fantastic, their CLI is the worst CLI I’ve ever seen. Basically unusable.

You should just be able to say “give me the password for yahoo.com” but you can’t actually do that.

I wanted to use it to get npm 2FA on the command line and just gave up completely.

EDIT: if someone from 1Password reads this, please reach out. I have good CLI UX experience and would love to help fix it.

dickeytkon On the shoulders of the giants

I'd pick SICP over those 2

dickeytkon UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

Vice seems to indicate that 22k is the minimum salary, not average: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe45b/graduate-student-s...

dickeytkon OpenAPI v3.1 and JSON Schema 2019-09

but for that you'd have to use a custom parser. If you use a custom parser you could put data in comments today anyways. I don't understand that argument.

dickeytkon Is it normal that I see others’ Redis data on shared hosting?

that has been the historical stance, but (for example) TLS is coming in the next release so it's going to be capable of being locked down unlike in the past

dickeytkon Herfindahl Index

This is how the US decided to reject the Shick-Harry’s razor merger: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/when-harry-s-met-schick-ho...

dickeytkon London's rental market: where $2k a month gets you a bed beside the toilet

Well done podcast on the topic: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/

dickeytkon OpenAPI v3.1 and JSON Schema 2019-09

the only thing I miss are the comments

dickeytkon Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links

nofollow is for external links, robots.txt is for pages on your own domain. They don’t reference the same thing.

dickeytkon I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride

> (Note that path/filepath violates Go naming conventions - “don't stutter” - as it includes “path” twice).

That guideline is for package/content name, not package directory names. https://blog.golang.org/package-names

dickeytkon Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus

Not sure if you’re serious, but would constructing a device really save carbon vs a round trip flight?

dickeytkon Walmart Gets Into Health Care

Well if it’s just an EKG you’re after: https://www.alivecor.com/

But I agree with your overall point regardless

dickeytkon Routed Gothic Font

[bottom of https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/unicode-coverage...]

dickeytkon Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade

it doesn't cost anything but there is risk involved. So nobody takes a cut, but it also isn't "free". This is a fantastic series that explained it really well to me: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...

dickeytkon Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade

the fees for credit cards are like a tenth in the EU vs US. It's not free though.

EDIT: "for credit cards"

dickeytkon What It's Like to Work on League of Legends

TIL Riot is owned by Tencent

dickeytkon Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

I think for most applications (especially the common use-case of migrating a scripting web monolith to a go service), people just aren't hitting performance issues with GC. Discord being a notable exception.

If these issues were more common, there would be more configuration available.

[EDIT] to downvoters: I'm not saying it's not an issue worth addressing (and it may have already been since they were on 1.9), I was just answering the question of "why this might happen"