wsostt | 4 years ago | on: Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla
YouTube Premium is riddled with the same type of user tracking Firefox is implementing. Firefox Premium would probably do the same.
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wsostt | 4 years ago | on: What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
Thanks for the recommendation. Just purchased the audiobook.
wsostt | 4 years ago | on: We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups at Supercede
“ Are you asleep yet? The developers are. You promise them an intellectually stimulating work environment and what they end up with is drudgery.”
A 15-minute standup does not nullify a stimulating work environment.
wsostt | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
I have thought about this before. As someone who would never use Facebook, I want to judge the Facebook—centric view of the web, but then I think about how I live my entire online existence around an RSS reader (Feedly in my case). There’s obviously a level of manipulation in Facebook that isn’t present in an RSS reader, but I understand the mindset of setting a central portal in the online world.
wsostt | 4 years ago | on: I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks
I'll always have a soft spot for Classic ASP[0]. Makes me dream of a simpler time developing CRUD apps.
wsostt | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to deal with managers who set a hard time-limit on fixing a bug?
All bugs need to have workarounds in case it can't be fixed by some deadline. A group works on fixing the bug while another group makes some tentative plans to implement a workaround. Bugs can have deadlines for legal, reputational, or other reasons. But there needs to be other ways to mitigating the risk without fixing the bug itself.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Dan Kaminsky has died
Read the tweet
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
Canceled my photography plan last week. No fee.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?
Yes! I worked at a well-known regional company about 15 years ago and we built one of these ourselves. It would track servers, software, packages, etc... You could quickly see which web servers were running which versions of .Net and then drill into the applications which had their own tagging to specific .Net versions. Then you'd have a clear picture of the opportunity/costs/consequences of upgrading the version on that machine.
I'm interested in this type of system for my current job and I can't find anything on the market.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
So many. I’m a product owner so I’m interested in a lot of things that come across HN: management resources, new technology, trending ideas and concepts, and other stuff that I didn’t know I needed to know.
The real value comes from the thoughtful conversations in the comments. An article on Snowflake is going to touch in competitors, management advice is going to have a link to a book that goes deeper, etc...
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US
Borrowing rates have never been lower and corporate debt issuance has never been higher. Companies are investing.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is a creative product you've discovered recently?
I tried Notion but got turned off by their security policies. I use a lot of encrypted notes in Evernote and haven’t found a SAAS replacement with that feature plus the other Evernote features I use.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Entire school board resigns after accidental public livestream
Special needs parent here. It's basically impossible to send your kids to a public school district without advocating for them constantly and understanding the special education laws. The kids with the most involved parents get the best services because they have the best advocates.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Commandline Database Clients with Autocompletion and Syntax Highlighting
I can imagine a use for this when looking for a quick answer without having to wait for SQL Server Management Studio to load up.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
NYT accepts PayPal which you can then revoke the authorization to cancel.
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Mentioned in today’s xkcd
wsostt | 5 years ago | on: About hcker news: an unofficial Hacker News interface
I use RSS to not miss anything.
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