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by jmathai 6y ago
Synology Photos looks really great and a possible alternative to Google Photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_p5rDMDV2w I've been using Synology for about 5 years and highly recommend it. I've been documenting
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by jmathai 6y ago
I wanted to offer alternative advice for those who aren't interested in continual self-improvement across all aspects of their lives. I believe most of imposter syndrome is self-inflicted and other people's view of you is likely h
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by jmathai 6y ago
Yes. The default configuration does not include Google Photos at all. The script doesn't make many assumptions so you can get it to do pretty much anything (i.e. I wrote a plugin to have it upload a copy of every photo to Google Photos
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by jmathai 6y ago
I moved my photos to Synology 5 years ago and have never looked back. I did some very thorough research into a number of options including iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. and they all had some really odd behavior which kept me from usin
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by jmathai 6y ago
Congrats on the launch. I've been doing something similar using email. I have an email account for both of my kids and I send them email that I hope will be fun for them to read once they're older. I don't trust anything thou
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Personal Capital Sells to Canadian Insurer for $825M and Contingency Bonus(forbes.com)
1 points by jmathai 6y ago|0 comments
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by jmathai 6y ago
Currently using OpenDNS Family Shield and giving NextDNS a try. Re labeling devices: I set up descriptive hostnames and static LAN IPs on my router for all my devices (including smart ones). The NextDNS interface reports traffic using those
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by jmathai 6y ago
Yes. It's integrated into the docs. If you look to the right you'll see code samples and you can choose different languages from a drop down. https://stripe.com/docs/api/balance/balance_retrieve?lang
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by jmathai 6y ago
And documentation. I would spend some time really understanding their docs and client libraries if you want to see a real world example of the most developer friendly docs available. https://stripe.com/docs/api https
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by jmathai 7y ago
I don’t think it is easy at all. At least in America, all the forces are working get you to spend all your current and future money. I wish we would talk more about how it’s possible than how hard it is.
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by jmathai 7y ago
A good size of the population should be able to get to $1m-$5m of net worth by retirement by being disciplined with a 0-based budget, avoiding debt (mortgage is an exception) and steadily investing in your retirement. Keep it simple.
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by jmathai 7y ago
The author was in the music business and Nashville is very influential in that industry. That's probably why it was added.
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by jmathai 7y ago
I recommend joining a big tech company as soon as you can.
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by jmathai 7y ago
I recommend doing startups in your 20s and 30s.
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Ask HN: I'm over 40, have worked at a startup and big tech co. My reco is...
2 points by jmathai 7y ago|4 comments
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by jmathai 7y ago
FWIW, Google Sheets has version history (including at the cell level). I'm not sure if this is available in their API but it's pretty easy to ingest via the web.
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by jmathai 7y ago
There's also rclone. https://github.com/rclone/rclone
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by jmathai 7y ago
Uploading to both services is still supported through the Backup and Sync app. But once uploaded they are independent copies and deleting from one doesn't delete from the other. I also expect that this support will be deprecated at som
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by jmathai 7y ago
I had looked into local geocoding databases but did not want to add a database file in the git repository. reverse_geocoder looks really interesting though and I may have a look at adding that. For the time being, elodie does cache response
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by jmathai 7y ago
I also rely mostly on Google Photos as my viewing and sharing app. This includes sharing photos with family which is done through Google Photos shared albums. I'm really the only one who cares about archiving photos so I'll transf
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by jmathai 7y ago
I've been trying to document my "local-first" approach to managing photos. I've made it a ways through but am not sure when I'll finish. Posting here since it is relevant. A Pragmatic Photo Archiving Solution: http
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by jmathai 7y ago
For every Whatsapp or Telegram there's hundreds of chat clients which failed to succeed. It's $16,000,000,000 hard (Whatsapp acquisition price).
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by jmathai 7y ago
It is actually quite complicated to convince a consumer to use your app instead of Facebook Messenger. Especially when you don't possess an ecosystem of services that they and their friends already use on a daily basis.
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by jmathai 7y ago
They're in a very different space than FSF/OpenBSD and competing directly with well funded companies like Facebook, Google, Telegram, etc. Brian Acton, Whatsapp founder, probably understands this better than anyone.
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by jmathai 7y ago
It means the opportunity for another law suit which will result in even more business. Marking this bug works as intended .
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by jmathai 7y ago
I miss 90s tech. I feel like building web applications was a lot more enjoyable with 90s tech that really met the needs of users.
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by jmathai 7y ago
Geez --- dug up 15 year old code that called Authorize.net. It was a DLL and the response looks like it was a comma separated string --- probably predates their XML API. At least the credit card #s were encrypted before storing them to MySq
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by jmathai 7y ago
I don't understand how stating that the interests of store owners and the community may not be aligned is not reasonable. There's many examples of things which are a win for society as a whole that we look back and realize were te
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by jmathai 7y ago
I agree there's a lot of benefits to self checkout and I think that's the future we're headed towards --- and I don't think that's a bad thing. I was only trying to say that technology impacts people in good and bad
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by jmathai 7y ago
I don't think my opinion applies to self serve gas stations. Pumping your own gas happened a while ago and I imagine at a slower pace which allowed society as a whole to adapt to this change. I think self checkout, while similar, is be

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