throwaway642012

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by throwaway642012 4mo ago
It must have been bewildering to encounter such bugs pre-LLM era. This is one skill set newer developers are going to miss out on.
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
There are many valid criticisms of Cloudflare but this article ain’t it. That article has been debunked already. OP wanted to run an online casino and wanted to circumvent Cloudflare policies. Cloudflare simply asked them to show up with th
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
> Conflict with Sikhs for decades HN is seriously ignorant about India. There has been no such insurgency since early 90s.
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
I fail to see how this corroborates your claim of India being “notoriously hostile to minorities”.
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
India, where minorities become Bollywood superstars, beloved musicians, richest men in Asia, and even presidents, has been notoriously hostile to minorities? I don’t think any other country in Asia has a track record like India when it come
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
That’s very interesting. Does It mean NYTimes can also provide a Blue Check to someone from BBC, Reuters or even from a completely different org?
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
Do you have any insight on how was this initial batch of verified users selected? I’m on Bsky as well but haven’t seen any such updates.
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
Based on the initial commits and the logs after that surely there’s someone unethical person at MS. This might have been brushed under the carpet and due to sheer luck it reached HN frontpage. https://github.com/Azure/p
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by throwaway642012 1y ago
What about the allegations that people in MS did this for personal gains? Will there be any lessons learned from this?
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
> you can get similar results changing up your job every year or two… This might work for few jumps but eventually Hiring managers will see this pattern and flag you as a flight risk. Please Take this advice with a grain of salt.
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
I would love to! I see no email in your profile, can you please share it?
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
> what is keeping you from doing it? Mostly intertia and post-covid fatigue. Thank you for kicking me in the butt and providing the valuable information :-)
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
If I may ask, how is the German freelance market in the current environment? I'm on fence about going freelance (Mobile/backend+DevOps) and would love to know your thoughts.
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
I felt the same, as if the author was relishing the Schadenfreude in EUs misfortune.
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
Eating yoghurt along with chilies helps a lot to avoid problems the next day.
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
I don't want to be dismissive but how much of this success belongs to the team of rock solid senior engineers with enough experience under their belt rather than rewrite in Rust?
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember the browser wars and FUD against linux. It is funny to see MS going from 'M$' to the gatekeeper of OpenSource.
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by throwaway642012 4y ago
Most successful entrepreneurs have a safety margin and take calculated risks while starting new ventures. Seldom do the "Hail Mary" ventures end up in success, because the odds are stacked against them (yes, there are outliers). W
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by throwaway642012 8y ago
They're a scrappy startup, and don't have much legal firepower. They're having hard time find people, so I agreed to help them. But after reading the comments here, I think it's better to back out instead of having poten
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Ask HN: Conflict of Interest while freelancing
10 points by throwaway642012 8y ago|10 comments
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by throwaway642012 10y ago
Nokia 3310 is going to fail in the markets it's being launched at, i.e. India. The biggest reason for it's (possible) failure is that the people have simply moved on to Android/4G. Nokia's were a rage when the mobile mar
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by throwaway642012 10y ago
I think she meant non-EU countries.
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by throwaway642012 10y ago
You're using a throwaway so why hiding the name of the company? It could save fellow developers. Is it Wooga/King games?