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diegorbaqueroon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)

I admire what Socket is doing. If anything happened to my current job it would be the first place where I'd want to work. Keep rocking Feross, greetings from Colombia.

diegorbaqueroon Turn your picture into a Lego character

Why restrict it to only Google accounts?

diegorbaqueroon iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

iOS 17 was already announced earlier this year. Should be released fully this fall.

diegorbaqueroon Ask HN: How much does private health insurance cost you?

Around $56/mo in Colombia with access to top doctors, hospitals and clinics. Copay is $6 for any appointment. But surgery/ER/hospitalization incidents are free

diegorbaqueroon Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

Try the Discord PTB which is native to M1. https://discord.com/api/download/ptb?platform=osx

diegorbaqueroon Show HN: Socket – Secure your JavaScript supply chain

Congrats on the launch

diegorbaqueroon Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats

You are asked to accept new ones when changing store location

diegorbaqueroon Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA

How enforceable is this? If I’m a Latin American hosting in the US what happens?

diegorbaqueroon Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million

Talk about waste of resources.

diegorbaqueroon Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password

You can own the domain and use catch-all for the domain. Been doing that for years, works perfectly and it's super cheap.

diegorbaqueroon Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

Colombia, even on Bogotá and Cartagena is super doable.

diegorbaqueroon ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

I am sure if Apple dropped the percentage to single-digit, no developer would argue the value that IAP provide, the problem has always been the exorbitant 30%.

diegorbaqueroon Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

Get started takes you to download, download gives you and installer, app requires sign up, after sign up you go to Overdub and, oh, it's a paid feature.

Remove installer, delete app.

diegorbaqueroon Shirt Without Stripes

This is expected, not wanted though, I would expect some semantic analysis translated into "shirt -stripes", but what you really mean is "solid color shirt". This is a tough one but surely something that can be tackled with research

diegorbaqueroon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)

For the first, is it by hours? with or w/o shifts?

diegorbaqueroon Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

Amazing, really loving this! One thing I’d change is that prices keep increasing, a chair should remain the same, keyboard too. No need to have “inflation” on everything. And skills such as self starter should have price per person as levels increase

diegorbaqueroon Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order

$1299??? Apart from the GPS and "Free Rides Package" and "Bird Service Center", what's the value added? I could just get a Segway Ninebot ES4 for less than $800?

diegorbaqueroon Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

I had the expectation that it would use WebRTC before opening the link, disappointed on that side. But really glad of the privacy minded offer. I appreciate Mozilla's work and effort towards a more private and encrypted internet!

diegorbaqueroon Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

You can try WebTorrent (P2P) based solutions, maybe https://btorrent.xyz could help.

diegorbaqueroon I lost my domain and everything that goes with it

Cloudflare!

diegorbaqueroon I lost my domain and everything that goes with it

Happened the same exact thing to me, with Namecheap too. They didn't send me any reminders about my .li domain. I couldn't renew from 2 weeks before expiry. I wouldn't pay $200 to recover it in grace period, now they are selling it for $5k.

Switched to Cloudflare, never touching Namecheap again.

diegorbaqueroon Partial password usability sucks

So they are storing length and hashes of subsets of the password?

You could brute force a subset of 4-5 characters way easier than a 20 characters password.

How is this secure? Anyone care to explain how this adds security?

diegorbaqueroon Intern at a YC Company

The application process is really smooth! Kudos to whoever built it.

diegorbaqueroon Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency

Wondering, it there any company hiring to work on Bootstrap?

diegorbaqueroon Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency

Using it, 4.1.1 through bootstrap-vue in my nuxt app.

Alternatively using Material through vuetify in other projects too.

diegorbaqueroon Show HN: Quid – try micropayments instead of ads or subscriptions

Nice, I like this model. As stated, this would be really useful to have in the site.

diegorbaqueroon Firefox 65.0 released

Had this issue... until this version! I'm using MBP 15 inch with Firefox 65 (Beta channel), it doesn't use as much CPU as it did before, and it doesn't suck up all battery. This is on scaled resolution of 1920x1200.

diegorbaqueroon Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies

That is really interesting, I'm building something with Proxies for any Type and async function proxified worked for me. Mind if I hit you up for a chat?