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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 scan…

Thanks for trying. I assumed that ia.ch was clearly shorthand for internetarchive.ch but maybe one can't assume anything.

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 or…

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 i…

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 gui…

Kijiji

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 m…

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 fru…

This sounds amazing! Is it also protected from being lost forever by trivial mistakes that are very common?

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)

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/…

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…

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 …

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.

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 wer…

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 th…

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 …

If the passwords were POSTed over and left on the heap, then they were vulnerable to being scooped up via Heartbleed, even if they are stored hashed in the database.

The CN= part of the SSL has a space at the start, oddly: --- Certificate chain 0 s:/CN= communities.intel.com i:/C=US/O=Intel Corporation/CN=Intel External Basic Issuing CA 3A ---

I can only up-vote this once, but it deserves like a million more.