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The Google Admin Console is randomly un-setting configs for managed Chromebooks.

We develop a Chromebook kiosk app for exams used at 50+ universities in Europe. These universities use Chromebooks as cheap "exam laptops", sometimes in rooms of 1k+ students. They use Google Admin to configure all these machines.

Since last week, exams are getting cancelled, because just when the students are about to start their exam, IT notices their config is (partially) wiped again.

The wiping doesn't happen immediately, the config is actually saved correctly. It just gets deleted after a few days.

We reached out to Google Dev support to raise this issue. Google being Google responded that we "should contact the developers of the kiosk app"....that's us.

Thanks Google

(I mostly feel for all these students having studied hard for their exams and showed up in time, just for them to be send home again)

Today I opened Github in a new browser and I noticed how amazingly smooth and well animated their landing page is, while being fully responsive.

How are they doing this? Is the key, handcrafting everything or is there some secret sauce/tooling?

Also, to those who worked on this: My admiration.

After many hours debugging our build system to get notarizing working, Apple finally admits their API is down. We're trying to get a hot-fix out of the door, I guess that's not happening.

Maybe a fun exercise for HackerNews: I you were given the chance to redesign the notarization system of MacOS, what would it look like?

Status page: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

I've noticed a growing aversion towards engineering jobs in the Bay Area on Hacker News since the start of Covid. A portion of the, now suddenly, remote-working engineers moved away. But now that companies are trying to get you to move back into the office[1], what would make you move to the EU instead?

Although we have fewer SoftwareMegaCorps in the EU, we do have a growing startup scene yearning for experienced engineers. Looking out of my window in The Netherlands, we sure do have fewer wildfires.

[1] "Google employees who work from home could lose money" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127240

Hi, I'm 19yo. I bootstrapped a SaaS in March last year together with a friend (he does sales, I do engineering). Currently we are at 250k ARR and growing fast. (Based in Netherlands).

I'm sharing this because I'm looking for people who went through a similar situation. I went from "coding in my bedroom next to my university study" to "doing technical interviews with senior engineers" and "enterprise sales to c-level people" within a year. I do like to push myself way beyond my comfort zone (it's my go-to strategy for learning new stuff) but sometimes it is quite overwhelming. Sometimes, when I can take a step back, I realize how insane this situation is.

Luckily I have supporting parents and peers, who try to advise where they can, but none of them have experience running a fast growing company.

Anyway. If anyone has had a similar experience, please share. If you know a community/network with similar people, please share.