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by insom 9d ago
The work required to keep IA infrastructure operating is full time: these are full-time positions. IIRC they were at ~70 racks of stuff just in the California locations and apart from on-call and emergency response there's growth to ke
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by insom 9d ago
Maybe some organizations do this but not IA. I worked there (as a software developer) for 3 months and took a 75% pay-cut from my previous tech job. Luckily I don't live in SF! IIRC California employees were paid a little more, but not
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by insom 9d ago
They are idealists but also like cryptocurrency and decentralization. I recognize that's pretty rare since the late 2010's reputation of various coins and their environmental impact but IA is heavily associated with (and received
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by insom 11d ago
I don’t understand your comment. Do you not know what a pipe-fitter is? What about the trade strikes you as a larp? I’ve never been to lunch with one, although my son worked as a welder’s helper at a pipe-fitting company.
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by insom 11d ago
As someone who has worked in tech in the EU and Canada (and for US companies, and ran a small company in Europe) -- I agree. The extremely high bar for letting someone go in Europe is a significant problem. It does lead people to hire slowl
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by insom 11d ago
Steel workers, pipe fitters, air-traffic controllers, electricians? There are LUs for each of these popping up all the time. Admittedly they are new chapters for existing large unions but also these jobs have existed for a lot longer, in la
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by insom 11d ago
Honestly increasing the number of unions in otherwise un-unionized industries is a win for us all. The same goes for Starbucks.
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by insom 11d ago
I think that this fundamentally comes from thinking that unions are only there for the worst possible jobs in the worst conditions, or where outright abuse occurs. And also from the (imo incorrect) idea that you should have those bad condit
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by insom 29d ago
I worked at Shopify during this period and their Shop app (the one that helpfully tracks your packages arriving) was a victim of these emails becoming vague. At the time it felt like a specific reaction to Shopify mining this information to
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by insom 4mo ago
Not sure what hullabaloo -- they do provide a bunch of services to Canadian institutions (including Libraries and Archives Canada) and they perform physical services like book scanning and in the last few years I believe they are the parent
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by insom 4mo ago
Thanks for trying. I assumed that ia.ch was clearly shorthand for internetarchive.ch but maybe one can't assume anything.
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by insom 4mo ago
Slack, Zoom and Google Apps (but not for email) - otherwise basically everything was internally ran. The Slack has (had?) hundreds of guest accounts due to volunteers and allied organizations. It’s an interesting (and cool) institution!
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by insom 4mo ago
That website is really struggling. Very tempting to go to a mirror on archive.org to view it :) This seems very distinct from Internet Archive in the US, I wonder how separate it is. Internet Archive Canada (I worked there in 2024) operated
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by insom 5mo ago
I'm in the same situation as GP and while I think you're right (we're some of the last well paid software developers who aren't also founders) it doesn't help with feeling less guilty! It's a weird kind of guil
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by insom 7mo ago
Kijiji
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by insom 7mo ago
Well for marketing and sales your bigger competitor is already doing the work of showing companies that they want the functionality at all, and the cheaper competitor's sales and marketing pitch can be: we are much cheaper. This is pre
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by insom 8mo ago
The different Heathrow terminals have different security requirements. I suspect it’s based on countries they fly to from each terminal, but it could be age if equipment. It is frustrating for security to act like you’re a total idiot for f
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The Underground Node Network(github.com)
4 points by insom 8mo ago|0 comments
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How Pen Caps Work(drmaciver.substack.com)
4 points by insom 8mo ago|0 comments
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by insom 9mo ago
This sounds amazing! Is it also protected from being lost forever by trivial mistakes that are very common?
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by insom 2y ago
The commenter did say up to 3x, so up to ~730K higher than that job in a major city (with possibly better facilities but who knows)
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by insom 2y ago
G includes MAFD extensions for non-embedded (I) applications. That's multiplication and division, atomics, single and double-precision floating point. It also includes the control/status register and a instruction-fence instructio
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by insom 2y ago
Shopify had this between ~2017 and ~2020 -- every project was expected to complete a "health check" every two weeks where anonymous participants gave a 1-3 score on various metrics including velocity, quality, making good decision
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by insom 2y ago
I saw this on HN and though “great I was just about to write this but now I don’t need to” - I have a legacy blog, a link blog and another thing I update which all produce RSS and I want to create one big feed of stuff I write, regardless o
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by insom 2y ago
Wasn't Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" back in Algol? We'd been suffering with it for 30 years before Java decided to include it.
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Serial Experiments (SLIP at 1 megabaud)(insom.me.uk)
2 points by insom 3y ago|0 comments
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by insom 3y ago
Shopify only went remote in March 2020, after being strongly anti-remote for a long time. You're right that they have leaned into 100% remote since the pandemic, however. There were remote employees before (especially in Production Eng
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by insom 9y ago
Glad to see someone already posted this. I don't know how anyone writes something like "this is what Slovaks are like" and doesn't stop to think about their biases. I originally thought maybe he was from Slovakia (I have
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Apple data centers on 100% renewable power(matt.simerson.net)
1 points by insom 11y ago|0 comments
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by insom 11y ago
When I started on twitter, it had no hashtags, replies were public (because they weren't initially part of the protocol), no t.co, no embedded photo sharing, no geotagging. All of these features were added, and made popular, in third p

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