Otternonsenz

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by Otternonsenz 4y ago
I’m so thankful for you and the child post to yours that brought up “Let’s Game It Out”! As someone who enjoys breaking games for fun and profit, it is delightful to watch him do things the game never thought to correct for (Thinking speci
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by Otternonsenz 4y ago
I can tell you from the farm my wife and I operate (currently in our 7th in game year), you will eventually become the giant factory farm to get to the end game. But that’s why I love Stardew Valley in a different way than my wife. It hits
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Ask HN: Custom Domains Without ICANN?
2 points by Otternonsenz 4y ago|4 comments
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by Otternonsenz 4y ago
I appreciate the response, and while my initial comment might have been derailed by my cynicism, you and your team have made a really cool app! I’ve been away from the internet while on vacation and hadn’t gotten to see this. If I may, what
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by Otternonsenz 4y ago
Looking through the site and documentation, this might be exactly what I’m looking for in a self-hosted solution I could open up to my network of friends. I’m already imagining how to set up a game server to support our different TTRPG sess
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by Otternonsenz 4y ago
Interesting release, and am very interested as a musician where this leads. Not for Spotify’s sake, but because tools like this are super useful for people who have the ideas in their head, but not the musical background to get a simple tu
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Greed and wanting to be ahead of others will blind you to truth standing right in your face. While everyday workers at Zillow didn’t have a say in company policy, you can’t tell me that the executives and project managers didn’t know what t
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Nothing, but that would require them hiring an appraiser on each transaction, which would be humbling for them to have to do (and while biased as an appraiser myself, I would not trust anyone else other than a licensed appraiser to do that
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Agreed. In my local Multiple Listing Service, it can show you all deed history for a given property, it is most certainly labeled as a flip if anyone – iBuyer or no – buys and then sells within a short period of time, even if they don’t mak
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
As a current residential real estate appraiser, and coming from being a developer for a large corporation that is very active in this space, this has been eye opening yet unsurprising to watch from where I sit with access to all the transac
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Appreciate the sentiment, and I’m glad to have been afforded the opportunity to have a faster track into this than most. Another reason why there is such a lack of working appraisers now is the same reason why it was easier for me to find a
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
If you have a college degree and are willing to go through what essentially is an apprenticeship for 2 years, Residential Real Estate appraisal is not a bad gig. I’m just now getting my license after apprenticing since 2019, and there is a
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Haha. Just did the same. Will get a few things done in the office then send ya a PM in a bit.
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
While I’m not well versed in that particular aspect of Apple’s support I did find this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/migrating_op... And would love to talk with you about my use-cases as well as
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Not for my uses specifically, but if I was working as an engineer who needed the reliability and depth that desktop applications can deliver, I would completely agree that a tablet is a limited interface. However let me give a few of my per
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Ask HN: What is stopping a tablet CAD app that isn’t a subscription?
1 points by Otternonsenz 5y ago|6 comments
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Truly understanding your “Ideal Customer Profile”, or better yet; Understanding the problem that your product solves so well that you can speak to most objections to your product. I’ve worked for startups that knew they wanted to solve a pr
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Ask HN: What is the best database to use for a self-hosted GIS application?
6 points by Otternonsenz 5y ago|3 comments
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
The gold standard I held myself to while in the copywriting business was: -Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins (c. 1923) It is more a book about A/B testing from the literal grandfather of the practice and while some of the exampl
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Hey Tim, If I can, I’d like to ask a few questions here, in the name of transparency and as someone whose license is predicated on “unbiased opinions”: 1. How does a “social Zillow” engender trust if anyone can post an opinion on a property
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Very true, and not all of the data we pull in our practice will give you everything on a house. It’s up to the Technical admins that implement, but I am unsure of how much is just set up as they bought it or working with a team to implement
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
^Yes a million times yes
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
As a real estate appraiser, I applaud you trying to do research instead of just relying on what realtors say. To answer your question up front, find a realtor friend who will allow you to use their access to your local Multiple Listing Syst
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
As an Arizonan, it was only until 2 years ago in my Appraisal practice that I came across these crosses in Arizona City (south of Casa Grande). Really cool to see in person! While the article does not really state anything, just positing mo
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Thank you! I have some books on both OS and Distributed Systems (gotta love goodwill finds), and appreciate the pointer towards where I can deep delve on how these work at a deeper level :)
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by Otternonsenz 5y ago
As someone whose childlike wonder piques at the technology I grew up with, I've always tried to delve into any parts of knowledge I could get my head around; I read textbooks/papers/articles until I come across something I do