Hacker News: boojing

New comment by boojing in "Ask HN: Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it?"

boojing — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:01:27 +0000

Same here. I gave up on Protonmail, even after getting my family to switch to it. Ultimately the lack of good email searching was a dealbreaker. Fastmail has been great, especially with a custom domain and masked emails (the 1Password integration that auto creates them is great when it works).

Seems that Protonmail has made some improvements for the searching but people are still complaining. Oddly enough I'm also using Mullvad but I couldn't be bothered to get it via Tailscale as I share my subscription with my dad.

New comment by boojing in "Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority"

boojing — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:42:56 +0000

You can:

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-...

New comment by boojing in "Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?"

boojing — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:22:27 +0000

Previously discussed last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870429

New comment by boojing in "Show HN: Piano Chord Player"

boojing — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:31:05 +0000

Props for making such a beautiful and useful website! I was surprised to see how well it works on both mobile and desktop. What did you use for the search feature at the top?

New comment by boojing in "I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card"

boojing — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 23:34:48 +0000

If you don't mind me asking, what visa are you on? H1-Bs are limited to 6 years so I'm guessing another temporary visa.

New comment by boojing in "The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed"

boojing — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:17:55 +0000

Probably because "Hindu Switcheroo" rhymes

New comment by boojing in "macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux"

boojing — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:54:05 +0000

Another alternative is yobai (+ skhd) https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

I switched to it after having some issues with rectangle sending some of my windows into the abyss (way outside of the screen) which forced me to kill the app and restart it to get it back. But if Rectangle works for you that's good too, it's probably easier to configure.

New comment by boojing in "Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands"

boojing — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:39:31 +0000

Magit is another popular alternative for emacs https://magit.vc

I wonder if anyone has gone from lazygit to magit or the other way around. As someone who uses emacs for my day to day dev work I can't see myself changing.

New comment by boojing in "Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer"

boojing — Sun, 30 May 2021 17:09:53 +0000

It's not only about new hires. You will have to figure out things about code that you wrote 3/6/12 months ago.

New comment by boojing in "The Missing Semester of CS Education"

boojing — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:31:16 +0000

Can you opt out of the course if you manage to enter a valid tar command on your first try?

New comment by boojing in "My Favorite One Liners"

boojing — Mon, 03 May 2021 12:38:42 +0000

I thought these would be jokes!

New comment by boojing in "Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store"

boojing — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:48:31 +0000

Steam (the video game distribution platform) does "recent reviews" and "all reviews" so that you can tell if there has been a recent influx of positive or negative reviews.

New comment by boojing in "Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?"

boojing — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:12:45 +0000

When coding, some programmers mix functional and imperative. Others prefer not to: they believe in the separation of Church and state.

New comment by boojing in "Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump"

boojing — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:16:09 +0000

By "a competitor" you mean Google?

New comment by boojing in "Shitlist Driven Development (2016)"

boojing — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:26:27 +0000

Your comment made me think of the adage: "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live"

New comment by boojing in "Technical debt as a lack of understanding"

boojing — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 03:35:56 +0000

Great series! I heard the third book is set to come out some time this century.

New comment by boojing in "Don’t pay for 95% (2016)"

boojing — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:42:04 +0000

Parking can be expensive

New comment by boojing in "Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers"

boojing — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 06:16:03 +0000

Does Fargate use Bottlerocket?

New comment by boojing in "I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

boojing — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:20:35 +0000

A safety net and gov provided healthcare isn't all that important for your average high earning single tech worker who has no kids.

New comment by boojing in "Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’"

boojing — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 04:07:00 +0000

Interesting. If you don't mind me asking; how did you make contact with the first few teams? Was the early exposure from sharing parts of the project through social platforms or directly reaching out to the teams?