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xilni··on TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work
Rough given how little PTO they have for a tech company to begin with.

Our HQ (over 3k people) is in the LA area, CEO posted on slack offering up to 10k for any fire related relocation costs during this time.

xilni··on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes
Garden leave is a different beast and seems fair, you and the employer each get something, non competes on the other hand do not usually offer anything to the employee.
xilni··on Wondering what to do (if anything) about hotlinking
Throw it in a ZIP file or something so people can't hotlink directly to it. Might also save you some bandwidth.
xilni··on AWS open sourced the AWS console design system
Oof, despite the comparison to the AWS console which is kind of a UX mess, Polaris components (the old internal name) are really nice to use.
xilni··on AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues
This is why you are strongly urged not to rely on one region or AZ.
xilni··on SpeedCrunch
This would be amazing on iOS.

I saw an issues thread from 2017 (https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/702/s...) that discussed porting to iOS but nothing since.

What are the GPL implications of porting this to Swift even with putting all source on a public GitHub/BitBucket repo because of the App Store?

xilni··on CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries
Can confirm this was the case in the US, made me promise myself to never take another software engineer role at a non “tech” company ever again which I’ve held to ever since.

They outsourced every possible role in software engineering and IT to India to the bare minimum where all that was left were the devs who worked on the firmware for gov related projects and regulatory concerns meant only US citizens could work on it. For the devs that were left, it was an uphill battle for resources and salaries while it felt like Sales and marketing were put on a pedestal when this company’s entire product was our work.

xilni··on Google suspends account for containing educational data about Palestine
Assuming this is even what happened:

Google is a company based out of ___________.

xilni··on Antibacterial gel bandage made from durian husk and yeast extracts
So even bacteria are put off by the smell?
xilni··on Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet – video explainer [video]
I used to follow Bitcoin quite closely right up until the age of ASIC mining took over so I'm not in the loop. What's the long term solution for this?
xilni··on PRET – Printer Exploitation Toolkit
This project hasn’t been committed to in at least 3 years, why is this getting posted today?
xilni··on Four features that justify a new Unix shell
I love the direction this wants to go in. So many of these are reasons why we've banned new shell scripts on our projects and instead make python scripts.
xilni··on Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease
How does this compare to an algo setup?
xilni··on Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices
How is this different than volume discounts for anything else?
xilni··on EU beckons Indian tech talent
In the DC metro area:

Starter salaries for new software development or RE/VR grads, straight out of college with 1-2 summer internships under their belt, is 80-100k. These are not your I got poached by FAANGs MIT or Stanford grads we're talking about, just regular UMD/Mason, etc... working at cyber contractors or small-medium size tech companies.

One of my coworkers used to live her dream of living in Amsterdam doing dev work for a year, while the experience was very relaxed and it was a fun city, she said she couldn't justify getting paid 30-40k a year in Europe when the pay was triple here.

xilni··on How to Set Up Automated Text Messages in Pipedrive
Does Twilio not operate in Australia?
xilni··on Start a side project, says GitHub founder (2008)
No can do, not sure if enforceable but employment agreement says all code I write even if unrelated to job is theirs.
xilni··on H-1B Fraud Claim at Dolby Leads to State Department, Homeland Security Complaint
There's a paywall =(
xilni··on Show HN: Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome
This is exactly what I do bundled into a nice function added to my .zshrc

    chromepdf() {
        chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf="$1" $2
    }
xilni··on Petition to open source Flash
Yes, most definitely le tired of having to deal with Flash.
xilni··on Petition to open source Flash
Dear god no, please just let it die, I don't care about Badger, Badger, snake or Flash hentai flash game nostalgia that much.