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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   I really don't like Gizmodo's comment system, so I'll chime in here. "Even as a pretty tech-oriented person, I still can’t find the appeal in this IoT tech as it stands. It’s too vulnerable, and most of the things it doe
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   Location: Buffalo, NY Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Anywhere there isn't snow - Arizona, Nevada, Florida, etc... Technologies: Swift, PHP, AngularJS 1.x, CSS, HTML, Javascript, some C#, gulp, JQuery, Apache, Rackspace hosting, AWS h
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   'have drank coffee every.single.day since about 2000. I'll have 2 in the morning - 1 generic maxwell house or folgers and the 2nd a breakfast blend or something else for a little variety. At home, just using a re-usable K-Cup in a
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   During the keynote they said it looks for attention and mentioned sleeping. I'd assume it wants to see some white or pupil of the eye or separation of the eye lids. Maybe even minute movement of the eye to signify your awake and attent
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   Another couple of generations - no more Intel chips in Apple computers.
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   We have definitely put off having kids for our careers. First, with my startup then with the wife going back to school to switch careers. I'm 37 now and she's 35 - If we're going to do this (have kids) this year or next is th
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   Electric cars and the infrastructure that goes with it. (cause of big oil / government lobbyists)
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   Or a mentor. I would be willing to mentor someone, but I don't have the time to do it for them.
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   by lsiunsuex 9y ago

   I like 1password. Was using it on iPhone for 2 ish years and finally signed up for the monthly billing this weekend and installed the desktop version. No complaints so far.
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    by lsiunsuex 9y ago

    5-6 years ago, I was drinking about a pot of coffee a day between buying it from the coffee shop down the street or just making it at the office. Now I'm down to 2 cups during a work day and maybe 1 at night if I'm feeling tired.
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    by lsiunsuex 9y ago

    We start seriously discussing vacation about 2 or 3 months before we think we want to go. We leave this Friday, so we started in February. We start with the hotel - as Las Vegas can vary greatly day to day based on what conferences are happ
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    by lsiunsuex 9y ago

    Legal implications generally come up for: Websites dealing with medical data / HIPAA Accepting CCs / using an SSL certificate - SSL certificates and I believe the US government in general does NOT want you sending your SSL key out
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Coincidentally, these are my favorite resorts to stay in, in Mexico / Cancun. If I can go this year, I want to stay at Secrets in Maroma Beach Riviera. Maybe I should apply; odds of scoring a free or discounted trip? haha.
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Your kinda contradicting what your asking about. On the one hand, you recognize PayPal and accepting CCs in general can be a pain and or expensive, but then your asking what the technologically literate would use. The technologically litera
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Systems administrator / web developer (full stack PHP developer) in Buffalo, NY Company has been around just shy of a decade; small (15 employees ish) but global reach / product. I have my own office - small, 8ft x 10 ft with a do
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    No link to buy it? :(
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    Ask HN: Should tech companies get into the casino business?

    1 points by lsiunsuex 10y ago|0 comments
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    These things work by - if they don't know the answer, like the weather, or math, or via maps - they query a known good source such as wikipedia or whatever. (No idea how to edit a wikipedia page) - couldn't you do the usual email
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    I recall https://flippa.com/ being pretty popular to do this type of thing. What's the URL? Maybe someone here would be interested in taking it.
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    iOS and Android are kinda a given. I personally prefer to use their native languages (Obj-C / Swift and Java) but that's just me not wanting to deal with interpreters and such from React Native, phonegap, etc... The native languag
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    I don't think it's unrealistic. I personally could handle all of that except the Android part (but it's nothing I couldn't learn) Many experienced programmers could cover most of it, if not all.
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Wordpress can do roles for sure - admin, author, editor, etc... You can look at something like this - https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/ - if you don't want to try to build it yourself. There are
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Welcome to programming - where there is no right answer and theres 1000 different ways to do what you want to do. Years of experience wouldn't make this an easy question to answer - everyone has their preferred stack; way of doing thin
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Not programming related, but extreme attention to detail could be used in art restoration. That's a very intricate job of trying to find the exact colors / formula of paint used / how to repair it properly, etc...
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Define small amount. Are we talking $5000 or $50000 ? "Note: after 6 months I'd likely be consulting." I'd try to accomplish a life / financial goal. If I was a renter and wanted to buy a house, I'd use the mon
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    I'd agree with that so far So far it's very high level and "let's build a wordpress site in multiple AZs with an RDS instance and an ELB" not "Ok - we have a site that gets millions of hits a day; currently use
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    I was skimming the sys ops course and it seams to have some stuff missing from what I've learned so far that I could really use - log files, alerts, analytics, monitoring, etc... While I appreciate the whole serverless idea and let Lam
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Something to do, lol... I "need" to move 2 sites from a host to AWS and while I have a general idea of how AWS works and how to use it, I figured what better way to learn it quickly then to get certified for it.
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    Ask HN: Google Cloud Certification vs. AWS Certification

    11 points by lsiunsuex 10y ago|8 comments
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    by lsiunsuex 10y ago

    Little more context? Physical goods? Digital goods? Not a whole lot you can't pay a recurring subscription for now a days. Vitamins, music, movies, cloud hosting, coffee - hell, I'd consider my mortgage and car lease to be recurri