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by rkalla 6y ago
They did this to a lot of accounts back in the day and I suspected then (and now) that it was to encourage (force) people to upload high res pics of their PII information to have on file.
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by rkalla 6y ago
This was quite literally an episode of Black Mirror ("Be Right Back" - S2E1) If you haven't tried Microsoft's voice synthesis service, it's incredible so maybe they'll have something here in 10 years. (Scroll d
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by rkalla 6y ago
Reading through these comments - sounds like the classic "let's squeeze blood out of this rock" behavior that tech companies like Yelp go through with the realities of "you must always be increasing profit" take hol
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by rkalla 6y ago
This is a fascinating trend - how could you even launch a search service today where that portion of your processing time is going to be spent powering bots (ad agencies?) and not addressing human queries. Wonder what a human-centric '
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by rkalla 6y ago
This is a tangential aside, but the school system our kids are in get "Your credentials have been leaked and should be changed immediately" warning from iOS devices when logging into their Microsoft 365 accounts. Seems like a comm
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by rkalla 6y ago
I mean... <looking at the 1st and 2nd sentence over and over again>
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by rkalla 6y ago
I'm like you - it's been on my todo list for about 8 years... the thing that keeps my exit velocity insanely high is: 1. Entire family on @gmail 2. All Android phones setup to send photos to a shared family@google account so no on
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by rkalla 6y ago
Here's some feedback: This is absolutely wonderful!
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by rkalla 6y ago
Tesla, Cox and Google in the last 48hrs =/
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by rkalla 6y ago
Location: Scottsdale, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, REST, Linux Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/rkalla Email: rkalla@gmail.com Interested in management/leadership opportuni
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by rkalla 6y ago
Slow trek back to the AOL-style walled garden 2.0 but paved with good intentions?
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by rkalla 9y ago
Yea sorry about that - I opened sourced everything a long time ago for anyone to take and relaunch it. https://github.com/rkalla/hnnotify Just went from coding all day long to managing an organization and having a fami
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by rkalla 10y ago
Generally speaking... "productivity" and media styles of workloads do better with more cores/high memory machines. Gaming typically does better with higher clock speeds (which means less cores in every case I've seen). I
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by rkalla 10y ago
UPDATE URL https://github.com/rkalla/hnnotify My apologies for taking so long to make this available after retiring the site. If anyone is interesting, here it is. It's a Play 1.x app with Mongo 2.6.x sitting
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HNNotify Source Available(github.com)
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by rkalla 10y ago
For those clicking comments to get thoughts on this game... If you like Twin Peaks, Donnie Darko and more recently Stranger Things (on NFLX) - you should really play this. It's excellent.
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by rkalla 11y ago
It makes more sense once you take on a senior level role in those big companies, you start to see how a single, charismatic and convincing person can mentally mobilize (over a period of time) a large group of people to align with their hope
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by rkalla 12y ago
We are practically neighbors - crazy. We are in this weird vortex of 'new stuff' - I grew up in PV where we got Cox Cable (5mb down, 5mb up) back in what must have been 1995 - the weird thing is that the sheer volume of customers
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by rkalla 12y ago
lol, 344th Ave and Cactus or 771st St and Cactus (West Texas) :)
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by rkalla 12y ago
I think it was $59-69/mo -- I know it wasn't > 70 and not cheaper than 50 from the conversations I'm trying to recall in my brain.
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by rkalla 12y ago
Really good question - for my household specifically, streaming 4k and HD at full quality to multiple TVs and still being able to game in real time without massive interruptions. Also buying digital delivery games (steam or PSN) is awesome
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by rkalla 12y ago
Certainly true... I have a 50' inflatable arrow on the top of my roof that says "I need Google Fiber" so I'm at least doing my part to get the message across...
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by rkalla 12y ago
Really surprising - I would have thought that would be a "total no-go" environment. Thanks for the data point!
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by rkalla 12y ago
I am sure there is - but I don't think CL had the capacity to really 'push' Cox. They weren't rolling out anything better than what Cox had, just comparable, so both were just happily sitting there for years and years no
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by rkalla 12y ago
100?! That's phenomenal... I'll give them a call tonight and ask them to check with Charter and see what is available (for a decent price/a price they are OK with). Thanks for the heads up!
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by rkalla 12y ago
In Phoenix/Scottsdale? What are the major cross streets near him? How much? I'm down near Tatum & Cactus.
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by rkalla 12y ago
Others have stated it well - and I understand the point you are making - but they are at the mercy of the market and their stock price... if they spend $10mm upgrading city infrastructure for an area they have a total monopoly in (that no o
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by rkalla 12y ago
Funny you mention 'rural area' -- my in-laws all live in the wooded section of Troy, IL... total population is like 1,000 people. Anyway, they have Charter cable over there - and for the last decade they have been asking me about
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by rkalla 12y ago
Did you get the 'GigLife' flyer? If you notice in the footnotes, "GigLife is 150mbps internet service" -- the Gigabit service is a different thing they are calling 'Gig Blast' or something like that. So (inte
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by rkalla 12y ago
For anyone interested... the whole motivation of Google Fiber to motivate ISPs to stop gouging us does exactly what it is designed to do. Cox, in Phoenix, miraculously doubled everyone's speeds > 100mbps last year because they were

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