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UK inflation hits 9.1% as prices rise at fastest rate for 40 years
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Vercel Outage
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On point 2:
> Hitting play will start the music at some sound level, after about a second or two the sound level is suddenly reduced (and stays at that level until hitting pause and play again).
This is likely due to "Sound Check" being enabled (I think it's on by default), which you can un-check in the "Playback" section of the Music app's preferences.
Verdn (YC W22) | Founding Full Stack Engineer | Full-time, Remote or Hybrid (London)
Hi HN! Come and join Verdn as one of our founding engineers as we grow our team from two co-founders this summer! We're looking for ambitious TypeScript / React / Node programmers who are excited by the idea of having an instrumental impact on both our product and the environment.
Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/verdn/jobs
Couldn’t you have said that without spoiling the actual country name?
Verdn | Full Stack / Backend Engineers | ONSITE | London, UK | Full-Time | https://verdn.com
Verdn is creating the environmental API of the future by allowing companies to embed pledges (tree planting, ocean-bound plastic cleanup) onto any of their transactions, which their end-customers can track for themselves.
We've raised pre-seed and are looking to hire our first two engineers who will have a huge impact on our product and the company itself. Our office is in central London and want it to be on-site-first, but are open to exploring hybrid roles.
Our tech-stack: React on the frontend, Node.js + Firebase on the backend.
You can read more about us / our roles here: https://verdn.notion.site/Verdn-Careers-890f0ca2d4424fd6a228...
If you want to join us (and want to ⌘+Z global ecosystem collapse) send an email to me — rory (at) verdn (dot) com — introducing yourself and attaching your resume.
Twitch blames server error for data leak
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Verdn | Full Stack / Backend Engineers | ONSITE | London, UK | Full-Time | https://verdn.com
Verdn is creating the environmental API of the future by allowing companies to embed pledges (tree planting, ocean-bound plastic cleanup) onto any of their transactions, which their end-customers can track for themselves.
We just raised pre-seed and are looking to hire our first two engineers who will have a huge impact on our product and the company itself. Our office is in the City of London and want it to be on-site-first (due to how small the team is right now — there are only two of us!).
Our tech-stack: React everywhere on the front end (Gatsby.js, Next.js), Node.js everywhere on the backend. We use Firebase / Firestore / Cloud Functions extensively.
You can read more about us / our roles here: https://verdn.notion.site/Verdn-Careers-890f0ca2d4424fd6a228...
If you want to join us (and want to ⌘+Z global ecosystem collapse) send an email to me — rory (at) verdn (dot) com — introducing yourself and attaching your resume.
You can also write JavaScript numbers with E notation (i.e. multiplied by 10 to the power of x), which is basically what I do with all numbers above 1,000 or below 0.001 now. It has the rare benefit, for big / small numbers, of being both more readable and more concise.
Example:
1e3 === 1000;
1e-3 === 0.001;
45.2e6 === 45200000;
Twitter's new design to get fix after headache complaints
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee to auction web source code as NFT
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Pure speculation, but could be a combination of keeping the thickness down (it's only 4.7mm thick), and the purism of recreating the pen-on-paper feel.
That being said I wouldn't be bothered at all about a thickness increase, or breaking out of the pen-on-paper "immersion"... Perhaps there's a more technical reason.
I too was asked to provide my user (admin) password when getting my MacBook's screen replaced at an Apple Store. I had the same concerns as OP, but I asked if I could set up a new, separate user account with standard permissions (just for them) so that they could verify their work that way.
That was a fine compromise for them, but it did make me wonder how many other, less-savvy customers were providing their main admin passwords in this manner...
This is very much in the vein of Jobs to Be Done theory[0]. If you haven't heard of JTBD before, I would implore you to check-out Clayton Christensen's famous "milkshake" video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGtw2C95Ms
It goes into enlightening detail about the same framing of competition as the author here does.
[0] - https://jtbd.info/
Still exists in the docs[0] but I definitely wouldn't say React is "promoting" binding... I certainly haven't used it in years either.
Absolutely it can. We pivoted our MVP of a general-purpose ecommerce API integration to a Shopify App because:
- Most small/medium sized ecommerce stores we were targeting with our product were using Shopify
- If they are using Shopify, they're used to the easy installation of an app... And if they're not (by nature of being small / medium sized) they are likely to be dev-averse or slow at implementing a custom API.
- The Shopify app developer ecosystem is — on the whole[0] — a rich resource and easy to get started. If you know React, they have great tutorials to get up and running, and also a stellar UI kit (called Polaris) to make Shopify-esque interfaces pretty easily.
Because Shopify apps (even ones embedded within the admin UI - which we decided to do) are basically websites, you can leverage your own agnostic back-end and go for a best-of-both-worlds approach.
[0] - The downside to integrating into Shopify APIs is there are definitely some (surprising) gotchas, and the documentation does have some missing pieces due to churn (they release new API versions every few months). The dev forums and Git repos are, generally speaking, pretty active and most questions have already been asked.
Got review ban for tagging 'Looks OK' for a question which I still think is OK
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I don't think I did a great job of making clear that my main gripe with their support (taking months) was from a separate, personal account which — from day one — was unable to send non-spam, transactional email to anyone with an Outlook address. In my first example, the account's (for previous employer — not "me") right to support I guess is more debatable...
But I don't think your analogy of the hotel room is totally representative here. Without knowing how someone has had their credentials hacked, it's much more prudent to assume that in your analogy that the room key was pickpocketed / stolen. And then it becomes more of a grey-area as to how much support one can expect.
That being said, I do appreciate your insight on account value, as compromised accounts clearly do constitute a burden that don't end up paying for themselves (even if they aren't "to blame").
At work we had a Sendgrid account that got compromised, after which all of our comms were (predictably) being marked as spam. After back and forth with support, we were told to continue sending as normal and that "eventually" our genuine emails would stop getting sent to spam.
That lacklustre support response was enough to put me off the service. And then, funnily enough, a few days ago I received a reply from Sendgrid support about another account I had opened for a side project. This reply came in ~2 months late, where I was asking if I could be moved to a different IP range as all my emails were getting blocked by Outlook services due to the shared IP I was assigned being (seemingly) misused by spammers. Again, the response was "just keep trying as normal" and eventually my emails would work... Apparently. That's obviously not a viable business communications strategy.
The funniest part about both these support responses was that despite one of them taking several weeks to get a response, I'm being pinged every few days asking me if my issue was solved. It's all well and good for me to wait months when I need a response as to why all my emails are getting sent to spam, but as soon as the ball is in their court, they don't mind pestering me for a response.
I don't have enough bandwidth for a dedicated IP, so I signed up for a service that requires a credit card even for its free plan, which I believe is a decent enough barrier against spamming.
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