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pyro2927 | 2 years ago | on: Tomahawk, the Most Important Music App Nobody's Talking About (2012)

Along these lines, I remember a program back in ~2006 that would allow you to download songs from other machines on a LAN network if they had iTunes open. Something about iTunes defaulting to sharing libraries on the network.

As someone in college at the time, this felt like a music goldmine. I remember running the program over night and downloading thousands of songs from other machines on campus. And while I was going to say I can't remember the name of it, I just fell down a rabbit hole of Google searches and found it, ourTunes!

https://ourtunes.sourceforge.net/

pyro2927 | 3 years ago | on: Multi-Account Containers

If you use AWS SSO, I wrote an extension to automatically change containers when you log in.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...

pyro2927 | 3 years ago | on: Swift Quit – Automatic App Quitting on Mac

Yes, but this might be their only app.

pyro2927 | 3 years ago | on: Woman says she can’t quit job unless she pays employer $47,000

Learned something new, thanks!

In my specific case they sent over an amount to repay that was higher than what I calculated from my original contract, I asked for an itemized breakdown (the original communication just had a single flat number), and I never heard from them again. It was probably more expensive for their lawyers to double check the numbers than the amount they would have received from me.

pyro2927 | 3 years ago | on: Woman says she can’t quit job unless she pays employer $47,000

When I got hired to work at Wizards of the Coast (no longer there), the contract I signed said I would have to pay back my signing bonus if I left within one year, and 50% of my relocation package if I left before 2 years.

The one thing that often gets difficult with these things is that you get charged tax on the signing bonus (as additional income), but when you are required to pay it back you're expected to pay the full amount pre-tax.

pyro2927 | 4 years ago | on: Ford Wants to Compete with Tesla, but Its Dealers Are Getting in the Way

My wife and I were in the market for an EV and checked out a Mach-E at the dealership down the street. Horrible experience with the sales team and they were charging 10k over MSRP.

Went home and bought a Tesla Model Y online. Absolutely love it and happy to not have dealt with that dealership.

pyro2927 | 5 years ago | on: Homebrew 3.0

I used both MacPorts and Fink prior to Homebrew being released. The fact that it was able to do binary archive installs, and then later Homebrew Cask just made it a far friendlier package manager. I've added a few formulas over the years and am happy to see it continue!

pyro2927 | 5 years ago | on: Dual-port 100GbE PCI-E 4.0 network cards are now under $1300

That's what I just did! Been loving it!

pyro2927 | 7 years ago | on: Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2

Link to full specs? It's been years since I've maintained a ?Hackintosh and getting sleep/audio working has always been a nightmare.

pyro2927 | 8 years ago | on: A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k

That's still an extremely opinionated viewpoint. Some people are happy to work a 9-to-5 gig because it affords them stability in exploring their other hobbies.

pyro2927 | 9 years ago | on: I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Just flew back to the US from Spain last week and had SSSS on my ticket. Fun times...

pyro2927 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any great product onboarding experiences you've had lately?

I refuse to buy it purely for this fact. Not because I want to pirate it, but because I do most of my mobile gaming while on a plane. And I'm not paying for in-flight WiFi just for Mario.

pyro2927 | 9 years ago | on: A Story of a Fraudulent Coder

That part read as jealousy to me. I have some friends who make more than me and I do nothing but congratulate them.

pyro2927 | 10 years ago | on: Code let lottery vendor predict winning numbers, police say

Six prizes? Should have just done it once and then laid low (if he wanted to get away with it, not saying it was ethical). Seems like he got greedy.

pyro2927 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you review code?

Have you had any issues with some parallel features overlap in their changes? IE: messy merge conflicts in models after two teams took base functionality in different directions?