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Anyone know if YouTube has it? The number of times I switch the YouTube app to Incognito just to avoid whatever links my friends send from influencing my recommendations…

> Our single best hope is a cooperative streaming platform owned by labels and musicians.

Remember when the music labels themselves were the baddies?

I’d like to see fine grained control over what PR notifications I get. Let me unsubscribe from notifications for some of the teams I’m on but don’t need to directly review. This would make it easier for me to help my day-to-day team be more productive.

But… that’s probably not in scope for your tool.

Seems to be lots of advice about finding a new job.

If you’re the smartest person in the room, yea, that might be a red flag.

But, here’s some different advice though: get the company to hire someone more experienced. Be willing to give up some oversight responsibilities to that person. (Or hire someone who is experienced and explicitly doesn’t want to play the politics game.)

I felt like I was in a similar situation fresh out of school. It wasn’t until my company hired an incredibly talented person that I felt I was finally learning from someone (beyond reading books… back in that day, they were still pretty relevant and up to date).

Nearly fell out with a guy over rudderless sailing in my intro to sailing course years ago.

Right at the bottom: “HIRE US” :)

I suspect these are all so hand crafted that there’s not much in the way of code.

I suppose the whole point of this exercise is to show different ways to tell _different_ stories? (real time edit: “how we can tell different stories” from the source)

#54 is good for showing comparable increases in sites between years, right? But if the story you’re telling is primarily “how many sites were there then? How many now?” you kinda have to squint and guess. (One could improve on this one, as you suggest. But the primary story would still be rates of change.)

> Their support team needs a lot of work. They generally are slow to respond and don't understand their own products or pricing.

From my experience literally yesterday, they were pretty prompt. But we have a private shared Slack channel—something I suspect they’ll set up if you’ve got high user commitments.

(To the OP’s question, though: we’re not doing anything public facing.)

Which I suppose is a failure of marketing by Apple? If casual non-Apple readers of HN don’t know the links work for non-Apple devices, no one does :)

(I’m an Apple reader of HN and I didn’t know this either!)

Macalester ‘07 here. Back in my day their LDAP directory was public (at least on the campus network) which I used to scrape student & professor lists.

Agreed that I’m not sure jealousy is the right interpretation of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

Having said that, speaking as a Macalester alumnus, I wouldn’t put it past them to be a bit petty behind the scenes :)

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This team’s backend is pretty .NET heavy but the rest of the stack is PERN. If you’re building a new service, you can take your pick. (Other roles are mostly just PERN stack.)

The company has been around for a while but with our new leadership we’ve really leaned into digitising an otherwise offline industry. It’s pretty fun.

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Well, in her defense, this wasn’t a blog post applying for a job.

I read it as:

* Spend time empowering others to write production code * Reporting to line manager doesn’t mean not making decisions. * Spend time empowering others without having to always know the latest greatest new ways of solving a technical problem. * Meh, might be the circumstances * If this is “limited scope” in terms of qualified for a job, really depends on the company. If “limited scope” in terms of qualified to author this blog post, as has been observed by other commenters, this blog post is out of date and practices have changed since 2020. Pretty sure the practices 6.5 years before she wrote it were so vastly different that the 10-30 years of experience wouldn’t have been able to write a better or worse summary

The existence of her blog and willingness to talk about this stuff as a resource for the rest of us is pretty powerful evidence she’d bring value to a company.

But YMMV

I guess that’s the risk of this non-leetcode kind of technical interview. I loathe leetcode interviews and really enjoy doing these kinds because I usually think it lets me highlight some of the softer skills (clear documentation, onboarding instructions, and other bits that would make it easier for a junior to join my team). But wow I guess this is the flip side where the reviewer is clueless.

At the very least this tells me if I continue to administer these kinds of technical interviews I will leave room for a back-and-forth with the interviewee and give an opportunity for an update.

<3 to you, her, her work on the front line, and her writing.

What was it about Cale’s version that Jeff Buckley latched on to that he wouldn’t have had he come across Cohen’s version while cat sitting for a friend? Do we know? I don’t think the author explains (if there even is an explanation).

But really great read nonetheless.

I love mermaid because it’s so easily source-controlled. It also has pretty solid documentation.

Don’t love that each diagram type typically has significantly different syntax.

Also don’t love (as mentioned by another commenter) the lack of control over layout—yea there are some advanced options for this but I find them obscure and difficult to configure.

I did create an internal tool that scans my Firestore data model and outputs an ER Diagram in mermaid. Works really nicely for that.

Nothing says anxiety-free travel like a tool that can’t decide between “TripPlanss” and “Trip Plans.”

Maybe a bit petty but does anyone use Eclipse anymore other than companies that want to make their own IDE? Didn’t Eclipse miss the Electron-ish* lightweight IDE train?

Good for them for evolving but… if a tree falls in a forest…

*I know there are lots of arguments against Electron vs native but clearly Eclipse of any generation faced similar concerns.

I’d be interested if for no other reason to see if some of the hiccups I see in streaming video recordings are more common than just me/just random.

Ex-Wayfair engineer here. Problem is that not every company is shit from the start. They were pretty cool when I joined. Not so much when they cut my entire department 7 months later. (They started getting noticeably less cool 3 mo in to my tenure, but still.)

lol and I got a 404 on the manual for my iPhone 14 Pro (en-us)

I worked at a Python shop for a bit. I spent more time than I wish to admit trying to make all of my Python behave like TypeScript (adding typings, etc.).

Though it’d probably take 666 days to see a sleep specialist and get your first CPAP machine… (which I suspect you’d agree is part of the stealth dissolution plan)

My (now deceased) cognitively disabled aunt had the mind of maybe a second grader, but she could tell you what day of the week your birthday was on in any year. We had no idea how she knew it. Early access to the site? :)

Great work!

I put on a show on my iPad I know really really well so it’s slightly enjoyable to drown out my mind otherwise racing but not new enough to keep me awake listening.

I’ve watched the first ~5min of Arrested Development seasons 1-3 probably 100 times at this point. Before that it was pirated copies of Simpsons or South Park episodes (years and years ago).

I suppose a charitable understanding of this “warning” is that less savvy users (e.g., my parents) may blindly accept the iPhone prompt to allow a connection to do non-charging (nefarious) things?

Anything from Nebula: https://nebula.app/

They all have corresponding YouTube channels (including many already listed in other comments)

They’re no longer owned by Intuit and as a daily user of Quick Base I can emphatically say: avoid it. They’ve focused on cosmetic improvements over the last few years rather than any structural UX changes (or bug fixes). 5 years ago? Yea, give them a try. But no more.