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wlk··on What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
Some high-level advice is listed here: https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/923131/download?inline

I run outsourcing agency, we work with US clients and have seen lots of fake applications (different degree of sophistication), so far we have either rejected them right away, or we were able to filter them during (remote) interviews.

wlk··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Alternatively run:

  launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist
wlk··on Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers
That's exactly one of my use cases, I have setup runner for 2 projects last week and action runtime went down by a large margin, from 10-15 to 3-4 minutes.

I use single dedicated server that costs ~40EUR/month, AX41-NVME, and each runner is a separate user account to allow for some isolation.

Depending on your setup, you might need to spent some time adjusting jobs to have proper setup/cleanup and isolation between them (but it's not really Hetzner specific, just general issue).

wlk··on Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers
You have to apply for the free credits, by filling out simple form, so there might be cases where you don't qualify.

Among the people who applied I don't know of anyone who was rejected.

wlk··on Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers
For anyone looking for really straightforward way to get cloud hosting credits, checkout out IBM cloud: https://developer.ibm.com/startups/ you can get a $1000/month credit for one year no commitment to continue using them after.
wlk··on Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
Compared to Obsidian, Joplin suits me much better and it's way more features. I have given Obsidian a fair trail, but now I'm using Joplin
wlk··on Learn GraphQL with GitHub
Probably not, my tip is to sign up, but then wait for the recording to be available (they usually are), once a recording is posted you can see where did they post it to and then download. I do this from time to time
wlk··on Sabotaged by Polish orthography
When required people just omit the diacritic signs and replace the letter with regular ASCII letter, so for example: ż->z, ł-l, ó->o, etc.

When used in (computer) writing this is very readable, but no one would do this with handwriting, I think most common cases nowadays would be SMS messages (especially on dump phones) or some weird displays that are unable to properly render diacritic letters.

wlk··on What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
Some webmail clients (and potentially other web communicators like online chats - FB messenger, etc) might pre-fetch all URLs send in the email or chat.

The pre-fetching will use the user's context (and cookies) because it's executed by the user's web browser.

wlk··on Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?
I use this website to compare costs of living between countries and cities: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp

Here's example for Seattle and SF: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

I'm wondering if anyone could comment if those numbers look accurate for those cities.

wlk··on Standardized Ladder of Functional Programming [pdf]
There was something similar suggested by Martin Odersky for scala few years back: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8610

It didn't get much traction back then.

But overall I like the idea as a roadmap for learning particular language or skill set. I'd like to something like that but with references to material where particular skill can be learned, etc

wlk··on Android Auto: right on your phone screen
"In every car" but not necessarily "in every phone" :)
wlk··on Visual Studio Code 1.7.1
Is there a Debian/Ubuntu repository somewhere? They provide deb packages but I couldn't find the repo anywhere.
wlk··on Ask HN: What do you use for Log Management?
I wanted to try out sumologic at some point, but it sucks that you cannot sign up with Gmail email account
wlk··on Introducing unlimited private repositories
Yes, students will also get unlimited private repos.

Confirmation here: https://www.facebook.com/GitHubEducation/posts/5987704836162...

wlk··on Show HN: Change screen layout when connecting/disconnecting monitors
This is a good documentation for autorandr: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DynamicMultiMonitor
wlk··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, only for short period of time

Technologies: Scala, Akka, JVM, Akka-http, Play Framework, Java, Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, etc), Docker, Redis, AWS, RabbitMQ, Couchbase

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

Email: wlangiewicz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/wlk

I'm looking for a full time remote position as a Software Engineer focusing on backend development in Scala

wlk··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2016)
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to visit the HQ for extended periods of time

Technologies: Scala, JVM, Akka, Play Framework, JavaScript, MySQL, Bitcoin

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

github: https://github.com/wlk

Email: wlangiewicz at gmail.com

I have been working full time in Scala for over 18 months and would like to continue working in that area. I have been working remotely for over 4 years now. My previous experience includes Java, Hadoop (big data stack).

wlk··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)
Location: Wrocław, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Scala/Akka/Spray (some Play), Linux (Debian, Ubuntu), Bitcoin

Resume/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

https://github.com/wlk

Email: wlangiewicz at gmail com

Blog/website: http://wlangiewicz.com/

Ideally I'm looking to join early stage startup/company as backend engineer.

wlk··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?
Isn't the point of having a remote job to not care where the company is registered? Assuming you are in Benelux Area, what's the point of looking for remote company from Benelux Area?
wlk··on Zero-confirmation Bitcoin transactions
Well said, for those how would like to see similar example done using bitcoinj, this is the link: https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/blob/master/examples/sr...

Note lines 90-95, the comment explains when coins will be forwarded and how to change that behavior

wlk··on Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?
For private/small projects free BitBucket is enough. For larger projects I have used self-hosted Gitlab which was running very well on relatively low spec server.
wlk··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)
Location: Poland

Remote: remote preferred

Willing to relocate: not really, possibly only within Europe

Technologies: Hadoop, Java, Android, Scala

Resume: linkedin.com/in/wlangiewicz

Email: wlangiewicz at gmail dot com (let me know that you are from HN)

I have been running 2 large Hadoop cluster, at the moment interested more in api/backend/server side development in Java/Scala, I'm also involved in local meetups, co-running Software Craftsmanship group, presenting at other meetups from time to time. I have been working remotely for a long time now, I'm especially interested in part-time offers (~20h/week)

wlk··on Fastmail: New IP addresses in Iceland
No, this is response from employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832207
wlk··on Bitbucket Outage
You can use HTTP version: http://status.bitbucket.org/ (I'm having the same warning BTW)
wlk··on Bitcoin phishing attempt
How can any bitcoin miner be that naive?

As you can see for now none fell for that (assuming they have one address for all "investments"): https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...

wlk··on Tidbit: Client-Side Bitcoin Mining
This is not very new idea, I think this is first PoC I can find quickly: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166417.0

Given current network difficulty, this won't earn 0.000001 $ per impression (more exact calculations are needed)

wlk··on 37signals Works Remotely [video]
I can address first of the issues you have mentioned: I have worked both in situations when whole company is working remotely or only one/two people of out dozen were.

In the second case, those people were very often left out of the most communication that was happening in the office, and for them it must have been not very good situation to be in. There was no general plan for handling this situation and trying to include them in meetings and decision making process.

But when whole company is working remotely, the situation is completely different, everyone is at the same level, and you really can make it work.

wlk··on 37signals Works Remotely [video]
A lot of that, especially points 1-3 depend on if you work with other people synchronously or asynchronously. At my current job we all try to work as much synchronously as possible, so there is no real difference from any other "office job", except everyone is in different location (we all are in roughly the same timezone), and we don't have to commute. We focus on trying to keep sanity, and keep working hours (my experience is that it helps a lot when working remotely)

For shops that allow/ or just work asynchronously, other arrangements need to be made to allow that. Usually more and more stuff is written and stored, so everyone can join and leave any moment.

There is a similar book being worked on by other ruby-remote working company: Arkency, http://blog.arkency.com/2013/09/arkency-survival-guide-to-ef...

wlk··on Software engineers tell Glassdoor that Walmart pays more than Facebook
This is article and data from last year, published: October 18, 2012
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