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ianwalter

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ianwalter··on Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down
Couldn't that go both ways though? Why would I want to sign up for "yet another subscription" when they can just go belly up and render my investment worthless (vs an alternative with a one-time payment)?
ianwalter··on Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
Ugh, so frustrating to hear this as a remote worker who is only remote because of family. Putting in a lot of effort into applications is not sustainable considering you will not even get a response from a surprising amount of companies, especially during covid where there are a lot of hiring freezes and a higher amount of job-seekers.
ianwalter··on Firefox 75.0
I would like Firefox to be my main browser again but a couple of times I've run into the situation where an uncaught JavaScript error logged in Firefox's console doesn't give me any useful information as compared to Chromium. I wish I had a reproduction instead of just ragequitting but I'm sure it's a known issue that exists in their bug tracker somewhere.
ianwalter··on Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
I've recently used it in HackerRank. It's a good idea but turning off autocomplete didn't work for me and was super annoying.
ianwalter··on Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
I would like to use gitpod but it doesn't let you configure the editor to your preferences. Instead, it's project-based which I think is way less useful: https://www.gitpod.io/docs/config-editor/
ianwalter··on Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
Is your research publicly available?
ianwalter··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
I'm a full-stack web developer / manager with over 10 years of experience who lost his job today.

Location: Avon, CT, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not normally, but at this point, maybe

Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, Vue.js, React, Go, Elixir, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://storage.googleapis.com/moonlightwork/prod/user-10476...

Email: public@iankwalter.com

ianwalter··on HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation
Is there an article on this or something?
ianwalter··on Consider: Email 2.0
I agree. I tried Consider a little while ago and I still don't know what it is. If it's still just a client then it's pretty unlikely to be "Email 2.0".
ianwalter··on Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
1. Open repos. I have a lot of them. 2. Search code. 3. Open PRs that I need to review. 4. Create issues / Open issues that are assigned to me. 5. Search repos / starred repos
ianwalter··on Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
GitHub would be cool. I also use Slack and Clubhouse.
ianwalter··on Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
Looks pretty cool too bad (or maybe, good) I don't use Jira.
ianwalter··on Tailwind UI has made over $500k in sales in its first three days
Extracting/composing utility classes into component classes using @apply has worked well for me. I was surprised that the Tailwind UI code examples don't include examples of how you would do that especially for things like buttons. Maybe they will add that at some point.
ianwalter··on Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned?
Might be a good job for Caddy Server.
ianwalter··on Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
Ahhhh so sick of companies featuring San Fran. The whole point is that it has better coverage Nation-wide. Pick literally anywhere else in the country!
ianwalter··on U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams
Passing regulation requiring audit logs sounds like a good first step.
ianwalter··on Show HN: Version Control for Databases
This should be on your README (ignore if it already is and I just missed it).
ianwalter··on Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
No the solution is not death. Thats is such a lazy conclusion. If you know someone has a really terrible and dangerous opinion, you dont have to attend their tech talk. Just dont support them in any way personally. Its that simple.
ianwalter··on Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
Yes, without a doubt. Its not about “disliking them personally”. In that example it’s about not giving legitimacy to someone who doesn’t deserve it. In the grand scheme of things, some technical insight is insignificant compared to the perpetuation of evil and suffering.
ianwalter··on Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
“Hearing the words” is an oversimplification. By attending that talk you are giving this person legitimacy. You are implicitly saying that this person belongs in our society. You are contributing, in a small way, to our society being open to wildly dangerous people. I personally don’t want to live in a society where people who wish death on minorities are accepted. This is not hard!
ianwalter··on Serverless: slower and more expensive
Serverful?
ianwalter··on Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform
It's been my experience that developers care much more about the user/developer experience than having to learn another tool but then again I've spent more time working in startups than I have working for large companies.
ianwalter··on GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications
Seriously though this summer has been unusually bad ceteris paribus right? We need a State of the SaaS address.
ianwalter··on GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications
I hide mine in a Barnes & Noble
ianwalter··on Upwork founder goes all-remote in next startup
Please don't spend hours arguing with people that don't get it haha. Home improvement has been such a pain in the butt for me and I just can't see it not being a problem for millions of people. Best of luck!
ianwalter··on Babel 7.5
Thanks for linking. It doesn’t look like that discussion includes the “F#” arrow function style discussed in the babel release. I believe using this style would get rid of the ambiguity they were discussing since it could be handled in the same way as a async function outside of pipelines. I really like the consistency of that approach.
ianwalter··on Babel 7.5
I’m excited for pipelines but I think the simple pipeline feels much more natural than the “smart” one and allows for destructuring props. Also, am I the only one that feels like the way await is handled in pipelines is backwards? Why not just add await before the function call like a normal function call?
ianwalter··on 25% of Americans say they worry about money ‘all the time’
25% worry about money all the time and 33% can't cover an unexpected $400 expense. Yikes! Seems like the gap between those two should be a lot smaller.
ianwalter··on Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
I don’t think they are and prefer 15” now. I even can fit my 2017 15” in my old Incase bag that was made for the last generation of 13” MacBook Pros.
ianwalter··on Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
I would not give them credit for not being able to create a touchpad as good as Apples and just giving up. The MacBook touchpad is an amazing piece of hardware. I still think its too big now, but the hardware itself is one of the best things about the MacBook.
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