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Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available(aws.amazon.com)
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by jacobwg 8y ago
Thorn | San Francisco or Remote (US based) | Full-time Contract | $100k - $150k | Software Engineer | https://www.wearethorn.org/ Thorn is searching for a software engineer to join its engineering team as a full-time (40 hr
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by jacobwg 8y ago
If I understand correctly, games have to specifically opt-in to SLI, the ability to use two consumer graphics cards in parallel/concert, so I would imagine that it's a similar situation here, the game would by default render on ju
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Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time(quantamagazine.org)
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Show HN: Styled Icons – Popular Icon Packs as React / Styled Components(github.com)
1 points by jacobwg 8y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwg 9y ago
https://webflow.com/ - complex product, but the marketing site makes it clear and understandable
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Re-inventing npmjs.com(blog.npmjs.org)
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Move to Trash(realartists.com)
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Thorn | San Francisco or Remote (US based) | Full-time | $100k - $150k | Software Engineer Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your s
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by jacobwg 9y ago
He's saying that saying "can you do X because Y" sometimes is just another way of asking "can you do X". So in this case, them asking for the OP to lower salary may have nothing to do with the position being remote
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by jacobwg 9y ago
It’s a small team, so as a developer I’m not working “on content”, but definitely working “around” it if that makes sense. It’s not as bad as it could be, but I’d say somebody should at least be aware of the potential and take it seriously,
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by jacobwg 9y ago
I am remote, yes! Thorn has a SF office, but the team is almost 50% remote.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Definitely, I think support is crucial. I work around people who have victim ID experience (reviewing abuse material with the goal of locating children) and strongly share your respect. It’s so impactful in the lives of the victims, but you
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by jacobwg 9y ago
It’s definitely a factor to be aware of. We are legally not allowed to be exposed to image content, as developers, but personally I do have some exposure to text content as part of my role. Thorn has an excellent support / wellness sys
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by jacobwg 9y ago
I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments ( https://webflow.com ) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse ( https://www.wearethorn.org ). The work has been incredibly rewarding, an
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by jacobwg 9y ago
There has been some recent buzz around https://parceljs.org/ , which aims to also "just work" with minimal configuration.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Unlike many of the other replies, I have had largely positive experiences with UberEats, especially compared to some of the other available services. Doordash's wait time is long at 60-90 minutes usually. Postmates has some insanely
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Paged as in alerted or summoned - this service https://www.pagerduty.com/
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by jacobwg 9y ago
RSS dumped into a feed reader ( https://feedbin.com/ ) is what works best for me. I can quickly scan missed headlines, read what I'm interested in, star what I want to keep, and mark everything else as read. Reeder on
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Privacy ( https://privacy.com/ ) offers a similar service for those that want something that works with more than American Express cards or other such offerings from other card issuers.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
I have personally found it to be a practical, useful API standard that provides benefits over a JSON API in Rails. I wrote an article about some of the benefits a couple of years ago: https://0x2a.sh/from-rest-to-graphql-b4
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by jacobwg 9y ago
In my experience, people do not always "instinctively leave certain tidbits" off of Facebook - in fact, people often feel like Facebook is in many ways a private space. Like "it's just my friends," even though the f
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by jacobwg 9y ago
I have been using this for a while now and really appreciate the extra notifications. Several times I have found interesting forks of my own projects through GitNotifier emails.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Do you have a recommended mic setup for a Raspberry Pi? Devices like the Echo have multiple mics, etc., to detect voices in otherwise noisy rooms, so if there's something like that for a DIY setup that would be awesome.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
For the downvoters, it was the CIA not the NSA. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160 for context.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
If I had to guess, requiring that each email address be tied to an individual person would allow NBox to stay off "temporary email address" blacklists. It's a privacy service essentially, not an anonymity service. Same reas
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by jacobwg 9y ago
GoodReads is owned by Amazon at this point, so if nothing else, they serve to drive purchases to Amazon.com.
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by jacobwg 9y ago
Because then you're out of luck when you need to update your password, say, due to a data breach at your target site. Or when the deterministically generated password doesn't meet the specific password requirements of the website
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by jacobwg 9y ago
It is useful for some security protections in such a hosted subdomain scenario which is why herokuapp.com, herokussl.com, github.io, gitlab.io, etc are on the list, but yes, you would not be able to use your primary domain there, you'd
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Woebot – Your charming robot friend who is ready to listen, 24/7(woebot.io)
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