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icco

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About icco

https://natwelch.com

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    It and Frontier were the only affordable airlines.

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    https://natwelch.com personal site with a wiki and blog.

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    Comment #40783723

    I mean this is bad, but also there are silicon fabs all over the bay area, and have been for decades. Hence the whole "silicon valley" thing.

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    Comment #38466011

    I use `yq` for this stuff and it handles most of this pretty well.

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    Comment #37102217

    I would migrate off fast. If they are willing to do this with their oldest and most popular tool, I have no doubt they'll change the license of all of their code soon.

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    Comment #37023353

    I am not a lawyer, but https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom-hipaa.pdf reads like as long as they don't disclose your information, they aren't in violation.

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    Comment #37023320

    Definitely, but so does every advertising play. While AI companies are more egregious, this isn't anything new.

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    Comment #36909572

    With all of the layoffs, we're seeing about a 50-100x increase in number of applicants for open rolls, so the market is definitely more flooded. Also I'm regularly finding applican…

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    Comment #36648495

    Just rewrite all of your Python in Go. Python in 2023 is a mistake.

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    Comment #36640842

    https://writing.natwelch.com

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    Comment #35683293

    If your service needs to survive a global aws outage, you just can't run with any saas. So many of these companies are single regioned in AWS. Auth0, Okta, Datadog, many others put…

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    Comment #35232172

    This is also why you shouldn't take GPA or alma-mater into account when considering resumes. MIT grads are just as worthless as any other 21y old.

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    Comment #35062906

    That's not surprising. hn has been home to anti-worker, pro-techno-utopianism for a very long time.

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    Comment #34999206

    Laurel | Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform | REMOTE (North America) | https://laurel.ai Full JD and application form - https://grnh.se/19ed4d612us Laurel is a time tracking a…

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    Comment #34807647

    There is no cloud provider that is large that wants you building hobby apps. Google, AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. all want you to build large apps, small apps are not their market and …

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    Comment #34414341

    Pretty much all of the books at newline do this: https://www.newline.co/

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    Comment #34261327

    Layoffs and outages at Circle. software supply chain attacks becoming more and more popular.

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    Comment #34186756

    While this is great, there are so many more FOSS projects that OSX relies on that Apple doesn't support in any way.

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    Comment #34169114

    Hiring Devops contractors to put together any piece of infrastructure. Infrastructure is so core to your business, you always regret and have to rebuild. Tried twice now and regret…

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    Comment #33371551

    Beowulfs were huge hacks back in the day, but are similar to most super computers. The main difference from how many think of compute clusters these days is it is managed as a sing…

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    Comment #33338480

    I miss the original sim games. Simtower being my favorite.

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    Comment #33338478

    If only they had open sourced it, it could have lived on.