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I've used the audio recorder. Other than the permission to use the microphone, it doesn't use any other permission. It doesn't even ask for general filesystem permissions, and assu…

> Surely this will filter out ~50% of people who are good but don’t have any public code? Not OP, but I follow a similar process when I have to do coding interviews. I work around …

FWIW, your optimizations assume well-behaved SVG handling. This one, for instance, will cause problems: > In fact, even each z can be dropped, provided no stroke is being used, rem…

> I don't think SSH keys are things you should share across machines in a password manager. While I agree with the first half of your statement (don't share SSH keys), I cannot agr…

Looking at the storage on my PS5, the largest game on it is the preload for "Horizon: Forbidden West" which goes live next Friday. It's 88GB. It's an open world RPG with several do…

> Hidden downvotes are a terrible idea First and foremost, I agree that this will probably end poorly. However, I could see this being a good idea in the right hands, because it _c…

It's been a few months, so I went back and checked my story. I definitely never did get the refund, but maybe I was misremembering things. There's one extra piece I had forgotten: …

> On Steam if you don't like a game, or if it doesn't work for you, you can get a full refund no questions asked as long as it's within 14 days and with less than 2 hours playtime.…

Hello from Philo! We were seeing drops of a few minutes each day, but as of December we've gone days without even the slightest interruption. We had to really work to get Dishy to …

Not OP, but we do the same thing. We basically keep job listings limited to "we're writing cloud software using Angular, Spring, and relational data". We're a large company, so oth…

If you haven't already seen it, you may be interested in Introversion Software's retrospective on their unreleased "Subversion" game: https://youtu.be/1giu6sMnAxY (That whole serie…

Obligatory: My statements are my own and do not reflect the opinions of my employer. I'm not going to name that employer, but let's be honest, I can't stop you from figuring it out…

> I can't say I've seen anyone out of a bootcamp that was a great hire. My own experience has been that there's no correlation between where the dev graduated from and how producti…

My current job is in biotech, writing cloud software which helps clinicians (and researchers) gather supporting evidence for their diagnoses. The install base is small, so it'd be …

Hey, they fixed it! It's amazing what 2 months can do. The previous version had some pretty borked handling of public timelines. Having said that, it still requires a bit of hacker…

But it's worth noting that Pixelfed is intended to be your own walled garden - there's no "here's my public photo stream" configuration. It's intended more like a friends-and-famil…