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obeidon Looking for a Job Is Tough

I don't mean to sound harsh, but it does sound like front/ backdoor metaphor is code for filtering people by the social biases that form much of the personal connections and networks you mention.

The effect of remote work, seems to be leveling the entry point for everyone; an advantage for people who got discriminated against before and a disadvantage for people who enjoyed their privilege for far too long.

obeidon Riley Reid on AI: 'I Don't Want Porn to Get Left Behind'

Be open to the fact that people watch content of sex workers of all ages, genders sizes, and levels of attraction. What is 'prime' for you, might not be someone else's cup of tea.

obeidon PragmataPro Fraktur, possibly the only monospaced Fraktur, is now completed

[PragmataPro](https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/) is a monospaced masterpiece all on its own, but with PragmataPro Fraktur, designer Fabrizio Schiavi is flexing where no one has ever flexed before.

obeidon Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode

Unimaginative leadership that didn't trust their teams. Prototyping the 'experience' (mostly happy path) in a design tool, gave them 'visibility' into what the product could become.

obeidon Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode

Figma remains a vector design tool that can export raster images.

obeidon Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry

lol

obeidon Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan

You are definitely beginning to 'get it'.

obeidon Mozilla Hubs

What problem does this solve?

obeidon Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price

I get that this is an upgrade, but it is a 'change' to the configurations that the customer set up their instance with. It would have been outrageous if they opted everyone is without their consent.

obeidon Ask HN: What is “the answer” to distracted driving due to cell phones?

public transit

obeidon It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

I too, would like an echo chamber, please.

obeidon The best books on assassinations

Seem? Did you just judge a book by its cover?

obeidon Farmers always worked from home

Doesn't mean it was not a bad choice of a word to represent the concept. Politicians who create and use these terms are doing it with intent, if it was up to them, they would indeed starve the farmers, you, me and everyone we know.

obeidon Farmers always worked from home

Farming is also terrible where your parents own their farm, maybe not for your parents who sound like are no longer farming. You should ask their employees, i.e., the actual farmers.

obeidon Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus

I have a boss who often uses the subject to send a usually short and concise message and leave the email blank.

obeidon Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)

Skimmed, didn't read.

Iran is not an Arab nation. Iranians do not speak Arabic.

The publication doesn't sound objective.

From the 'About' page:

"The Middle East Forum, a think tank founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, promotes American interests in the Middle East and protects Western values from Middle Eastern threats. In the Middle East, we focus on ways to defeat radical Islam; work for Palestinian acceptance of Israel; develop strategies to contain Iran; and deal with advancing anarchy. Domestically, the Forum emphasizes the danger of lawful Islamism; protects the freedoms of anti-Islamist authors, and activists; and works to improve Middle East studies."

The founder of The Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes (awesome name btw) is a known Islamophobe. https://islamophobianetwork.com/misinformation-expert/daniel...

Edit: Added info about the founder.

obeidon Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism

Read the writer's bio before sharing your hot take on the article.

"Kristen R. Ghodsee, a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of numerous books on European Communism and its aftermath, including, most recently, “Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th-Century Communism.”

This is an essay in the series Red Century, about the history and legacy of Communism 100 years after the Russian Revolution."

Edit: formatting

obeidon Show HN: 3D Packing for 3D Printing

I came here for the visuals and the visual explanation and OP delivered.

Disclaimer: OP is a friend of mine.

obeidon Linux utils that you might not know

Oh wow! Thanks. For macs you can use

  open http://example.com/

obeidon Linux utils that you might not know

Is there an equivalent to that for urls typed on the command line to be opened using whatever $BROWSER

obeidon Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

The fact you felt compelled enough to pose such a question shows a certain bias in the community that warrants efforts to empower and amplify minorities within the community.

obeidon Ask HN: Do you carry a backpack? Which one?

https://www.incase.com/shop/bags/incase-icon-pack/black/

Bought my first one in 2007 and the zipper only gave out last year. Bought the current version soon thereafter.

I ride the bus and I love the side pockets that give me easy access to my pass. I pack a laptop, two books on average and a lunch. There are all kinds of isolated compartments for things like legal documents, battery packs, and e-readers without opening the main two compartments. The laptop has its own compartment. There's little pocket on the very top for your phone.

I don't think this bag can compete with others when it comes to storage space, but it will take the best of them when it comes to user experience. The placement of some of these pockets/ compartments is very well thought out.

obeidon Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts

Logo proposal: Pᴚ

Design suggestion: Lose the header

obeidon Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a startup award

Actual scientific studies proved that more diverse teams do better in problem-solving.

Listen to Reply All episode #52 for more info https://gimletmedia.com/episode/52-raising-the-bar/

obeidon “You won’t read about this in the media, but…”

Not only the 'West', the 'East' itself is desensitized to violence in the middle-east. It's normal to see newspapers there going out of their way to show bloody and gruesome imagery to reflect how "this is more violent than the last violent thing".

In a nutshell: Bombings, assassinations and airstrikes are business as usual in Beirut/anywhere else in the middle-east and that's why no one is shocked.

obeidon [dead]

Can't tell for sure, but there's an odd behavior that might have something to do with the type of connection the client is on.

obeidon [dead]

Check the mobile app.

obeidon Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?

Major fan here.

I can't believe this is not getting enough vote to rise to the top. This guy is unstoppable with amount of tips and the effort it goes into illustrating them with animated gifs.

*Must-follow for frontend developers

obeidon Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”?

I watched this old talk from the YUI Library recently. It's framework-agnostic and not heavy on code, just a lot of common sense that might not be obvious for some.

Nicholas Zakas: Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjVFPosQHw

obeidon Standard Markdown

It's not about ASCII, it's about where that ASCII is presented whether it's terminal emulator like mlterm or a text box in a sane OS like Ubunutu. RTL languages can be detected and viewed correctly without any additional information.

Addendum: I'm using 'ASCII' only because in this context we are talking about 'plain text' and not the actual 7-bit ASCII. UTF-8 encoding is a given when talking about RTL languages.