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Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
Original EnglishLet's say I run a cleaning business, and I decide that I only want to hire janitors who can run a 4 minute mile.
We need visual programming. No, not like that
Original Englishwe limit the control flow complexity because text based languages are bad at expressing it, or do we use text based languages as a tool …
Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
Original EnglishSmaller providers would rent you a server in their datacenter for around $60/month.
That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
Original EnglishI let it go because it started to be annoyngly low on memory because of my new usage patterns: more VMs of more memory hungry …
My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
Original EnglishThe biggest difference was that in 2022, I hired a paid ads consultant to set up ads automation for me on a few different platforms.
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
Original EnglishI can only speak for myself, I am not that technical when it comes to a command line, and I have deployed zrok locally.
Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
Original EnglishAs one of the earliest stripe customers, yes, that was the reason why we switched to them from Authorize.net.
When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
Original EnglishMaybe it's different for other people but I constantly run into bugs/missing features in tools I use for both job and personal stuff.
Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Original EnglishXmas 2022 came and I used my free time to add (a ton of) extra features, and a paid mode to access them.