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by mildavw 9y ago
Yeah, it bugs me too. What about letting "natural consequences" befall Equifax (or rather its customers)? I take no action now. Scammer gets a $10k loan from BigBank using my info. I get the bill and report it as fraud. Write a fe
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by mildavw 9y ago
I don't know if this particular legislation would allow this, but this the path that I fear we're heading down. The flyer you'll be getting from the company who owns the line coming to your house: https://imgur.com
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by mildavw 10y ago
Could a "pro" version work like it did here? https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq
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by mildavw 10y ago
I'm back to self-employment after a 6 1/2 year stint as a regular business-hours on-site employee. Couple of observations: 1) Having a flexible schedule allows one to get a lot more done. My personal/family life and side proj
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by mildavw 10y ago
I hear ya. And I'm sure most HN readers understand and share your cynicism. But I think naming it something satirical and anti-double-speak ultimately increases your odds of being misunderstood. The OP is honestly interested in further
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by mildavw 10y ago
4th Of July
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by mildavw 10y ago
Suggestions and/or concepts you (OP) want to evoke: Patriot Freedom Liberty Good Citizen Free Speech America Fourth Amendment Secure In Papers Right To Privacy
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by mildavw 11y ago
http://Renewfinancial.com | Portland, OR | Onsite/Full-time We combat global warming by working with cities, states, and Wall Street to get homeowners the $20k they need to put up solar panels, insulate their homes, get a m
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by mildavw 12y ago
I interact with Wells for some backend services. The only interface they expose is an IE-only java applet. Can't say I'm surprised they are lagging the industry by a decade.
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by mildavw 12y ago
This makes me think about food carts. Here in Portland, they are are filling the niche for fine food at discount prices. For weekday lunches I pay $6-9 for what would be $12-20 in a restaurant. Clearly many other customers are doing the sam
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by mildavw 12y ago
Early/mid 20's.
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by mildavw 12y ago
The Portland startup where I work just hired 3 jr. devs. Our goal was 2 seniors and 2 juniors but we didn't get any viable senior candidates. Most candidates were eliminated at the code challenge stage. So that'd be my tip: if you
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by mildavw 12y ago
I frequently strike up conversations with strangers, cashiers, clerks, etc. I offer to take group photos so the cameraperson can be in the shot, like, several times a month. Why? I've never really thought about it, but it's probab
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by mildavw 12y ago
I'd add "found programming so interesting they did not finish high school/college." The maximum level of education achieved by my team ranges from middle school diploma to PhD.
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by mildavw 13y ago
If this is interesting to you, you might enjoy this long form book excerpt from a former NFL player: http://deadspin.com/my-injury-file-how-i-shot-smoked-and-scr... This reminded me of the dangerous, unhealthy culture I kne
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by mildavw 13y ago
Or the players for $1M. That's a much bigger bump for them.
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by mildavw 13y ago
The mere hand-wringing that current leaders are doing over this is so disturbing to me because of where I see it taking the country. It's not hard to imagine, say, Carl Rove or his ilk giving someone at the NSA a wink and a nod that th
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by mildavw 13y ago
You might try to make contact with these guys: https://github.com/walmartlabs
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by mildavw 13y ago
Oops. That's completely wrong. It's the case where every honest answer is yes! I think this is indeterminate. You have to know the ratio of total yesses to total participants. The real world use-case I was recalling is simpler: fl
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by mildavw 13y ago
Did I read somewhere that this technique is actually used to gather survey data where the subject may have reason to lie? They can answer yes but it remains plausible that it was because of two coin flips coming up heads so they are not ind
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by mildavw 13y ago
I would guess that, no, the president can't just use them any way he wants. There would be/is lots of politics involved.
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by mildavw 13y ago
Made this one for my wife who is a wedding planner: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bar-stocker/id433201093
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by mildavw 13y ago
I don't think it's a stupid question at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6218004
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by mildavw 13y ago
1. I don't see a problem with it. Go to the right for the details and back to the left for the front page. Makes sense. 2. ??? Comments threads are collapsible and indented properly. Are you perhaps not looking at it on a phone? Try it
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by mildavw 13y ago
I've been using his http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ to read HN on my phone for a while (is it years yet?) now. I try others as they appear and so far continually go back to his.
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by mildavw 13y ago
I found http://printaura.com via Google when we first decided to wire the generator up to a t-shirt print service, then I saw a http://shirts.io post on HN and wired them up too! When each order is placed, we go with
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by mildavw 13y ago
https://findalakethatlookslikeadog.com Started as a joke among my dev team and we've now sold a few shirts and plan on developing the idea.
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by mildavw 13y ago
If you're interested in other Node options, the good folks at WalMart Labs have built this "Express for APIs" framework: http://spumko.github.io/
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by mildavw 13y ago
What does the site do? Once my order is stored, then what?
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by mildavw 13y ago
https://findalakethatlookslikeadog.com Started as a joke among my dev team and we've now sold a few shirts and plan on developing the idea. Javascript: Just jQuery.

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