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One of the things I rarely see mentioned when discussing career prospects of startups vs large corporations is how different their hiring filters are. If you are self-taught, lacki…

I suppose it depends on the method used for backup and restore. If you replace the entire graph.db directory with one from a backup, ids are kept intact. I was relying on this just…

I feel like the pattern of "solve this puzzle, get an interview" has fallen out of fashion in the past few years. In 2012 I got an interview at facebook by solving a puzzle that in…

Unfortunately, all of the programming jobs here are either in publishing (low pay) or government contracting (bureaucratic headaches). And while the cost of living is less than NYC…

My guess is they're the films described in the CustomFlix partnership announced here: https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-122.... For all the helpful advice off…

I don't know why this popped up on the front page of HN today, but for anyone who enjoys the history of audio recordings, I highly recommend checking out UCSB's cylinder preservati…

I spent a lot of time asking myself the question "would this company be successful if it had been started in St Louis?". On the one hand, they could offer an incredible salary to c…

I tried doing something very similar to this. It ended up being so draining I couldn't do it long-term. Specifically, I was in Washington DC and the startup I wanted to work for wa…

My video conference rig is a Micro Studio Camera 4K, Video Assist 4k, and Arduino shield all going into a Decklink card on an Ubuntu desktop machine. The Studio Camera, Video Assis…

If this works as described, it will be a lifesaver. I've been running nuts on Heroku for my Electron app and never got it fully working. (It was very good at being able to tell the…

One (perhaps non-representative) data point: I have teammates who live in Villa La Angostura and Cordoba and I chat with them using Google hangouts every day. Their bandwidth has n…

The auto-updater really isn't ready for prime time, sadly. I'd suggest waiting until https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8106 is resolved before using it in your project.

There are definitely designers who are going for pop by looking for a new font, but I've worked on a lot of projects where the designer just wanted a good, legible, sans-serif that…

I tend to agree with you, but I think it's important to constantly be trying to understand where other people are coming from. They might not be so unreasonable; they just have dif…

Have none of you ever worked for a designer or marketing person who was unwilling to accept that a bit of text might wrap on Windows (Arial), but fit on one line on a Mac (Helvetic…

That's a good point - I remembered when Reddit open-sourced a good chunk of their codebase and had figured Hacker News and Reddit shared some of their foundations, but looking into…

Under the heading of "be the change you want to see in the world", I'm playing around with the idea of restricting myself to only using free and open-source software in 2017 and bl…

It's the player software making the request directly to the server hosting the xml file, no? Who would be doing the proxying? The whole point is that other players are free to comp…

SkipCast looks really cool! Nicely done! I think there is a lot of potential for funding the production of great content via donations. I think the "right" way to fund a particular…

I've been wrestling with the idea of how to enable monetization for smaller podcast producers since I decided to start building an AppleTV app for playing video podcasts this past …

And in Bend that would be a delicious beer! I'm thrilled Deschutes Brewery has started distributing here in DC. Also, count me among the many who have no issue with the use of Amaz…

Lawyers for In-N-Out say DoorDash's delivery vehicles aren't compliant with the California Retail Food Code, and In-N-Out would never authorize DoorDash "or any other entity to del…