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by xfour 8y ago
Ahh yes Sunrun. We bought a house and our realtor had the foresight to investigate the situation before we closed on the home. We got a letter disclosing the system was owned free and clear. We setup the online tracking portal only to notic
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by xfour 8y ago
You’re right I didn’t stop to think of the children. And there you go, now we have the encryption broken and the National security letters as the reason they were forced to do so. It’s just as many of the comments above are saying you’re re
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by xfour 8y ago
And Zuckerberg and FB have been true to their word every step of the way. I see the backpedaling now, “Well you see congressman, I ordered it but when we dug in deeper, it would have a material impact on revenue, so we were forced due to ou
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by xfour 8y ago
Perhaps I'm being cynical, but I can see the business salivating over this. Integrate tracking into WhatsApp, you can now more easily graph who people talk to and use that for their FB and IG accounts, and probably destroy the e2e encr
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by xfour 8y ago
So sloppy, this is why it becomes clear that your developers need to know the scope of your business. Best practices sure don’t leave an open server with production data. But, if you know you have tons of pii in there, you should treat that
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by xfour 8y ago
Very well done, there’s a lot to help a novice PHP developer. I feel like the next chapters I’d love to see would take those concepts and apply them to building something. Everything so far unless I missed it is focused on the backend but i
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by xfour 8y ago
Yea it's a bit the tail wagging the dog or something along those lines. I think the consolidation and clustering of companies into downtown cores or in the case of the FANG, mega campuses causes people to look into ways to have a subur
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by xfour 8y ago
Could be location helping. Not a lot of craft furniture stores in the Southern Part of Silicon Valley. Yet another side effect of buildings being worth 1k a sqft
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by xfour 8y ago
What other search engines would you recommend?
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by xfour 8y ago
Pinterest at least for me is the worst browsing experience ever. Sucks you in with thumbnails that you can’t enlarge and regwalls and annoyance I personally avoid it like the plague
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by xfour 8y ago
Right? How is that useful to anyone?
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by xfour 8y ago
Totally. This was another thing that bugged me to no end trying to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak. I went with JontyCraft which I originally found on amazon and then cross referenced myself. Seems like they are US based and w
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by xfour 8y ago
I agree with you that’s its probably the worst case. But let’s explore, I also need a new TV, well not need but it’s been around 10 years figure I want to see what’s up in the TV market. This time there was one new review site I was happy t
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by xfour 8y ago
Oh that’s pretty cool I didn’t know you could do that.
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by xfour 8y ago
Ha, exactly what I did in the end. I thought I was clever. But if this is the case then what value is google providing other than a good search interface on subreddits?
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Ask HN: Is Google is broken for discovery?
82 points by xfour 8y ago|44 comments
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by xfour 8y ago
I wonder if in a strange way companies like Sears were a victim of the first dotcom bubble crash. If they had pivoted at that point, they’d have been in a better place. But I could just imagine the executives being in such an “I told you th
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by xfour 8y ago
Even the short is too big. Midway through the article it talks about how it’s supposed to be five or six oz. short is still eight. Thought when I saw the $4.65 or so ripoff flat white they’d figured it out until the barista asked “what size
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by xfour 8y ago
I’ve heard people complaining that LA is just as bad as the Bay now housing costs vs Salaries. Anyone live in the Midwest and can chime in on their experiences?
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by xfour 8y ago
True, never really thought about that software tech really is in every industry. Do you do that and is it fulfilling?
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by xfour 8y ago
Portland is definitely somewhere I’ve been thinking. Schools seem to be an issue in a lot of neighborhoods except Lake Oswego. Anywhere closer to the city know for good schools? Also what’s your favorite companies of those 4K openings I sho
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by xfour 8y ago
I hear Seattle has gotten just as expensive as SF not true? Remote is interesting for sure. The rise of companies like Buffer and I believe the Wordpress company is 100% remote. Definitely solves half my issue also looking for somewhere act
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by xfour 8y ago
What show was so scary it chased you back to AZ? Book of Mormon? J/K assuming you meant snow. Jokes aside what companies do you like in the area?
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by xfour 8y ago
Pretty familiar with San Diego, it’s the nicer part of Southern California from my perspective. My Cousin just opened a Brewery called the Kensington which I believe is the name of the neighborhood as well. What neighborhood did you land in
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by xfour 8y ago
Yea I googled it, Research Park Triangle it seems. It seemed really interesting. Housing seemed to be pretty reasonable by California standards. What neighborhoods are worth checking out and what companies are interesting. Saw a lot of NetA
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by xfour 8y ago
Had a friend that recently washed out of SoundCloud and returned to the U.S. I spent some time there and went to the disrupt Europe when it was in Berlin. I might be able to swing it long term as my wife has an Italian passport but would be
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by xfour 8y ago
Tech Scene for me personally provides a type of insurance. Here in the Bay Area you just have 1000s of companies bit and small contributing to this insane ecosystem that feels so that you could get a new job if necessary relatively easily.
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by xfour 8y ago
Sounds pretty interesting. On a more micro (neighborhood level) of suburb level what areas are worth checking out. On the job front, what companies do you think are innovative or majors opening branches are worth looking at?
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Ask HN: Where are other tech scenes outside Bay Area
66 points by xfour 8y ago|97 comments
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by xfour 8y ago
I love this. Clever to the Max. Reminds me of a time I remember vividly. Needed to build a high stakes click automation script I once wrote to fix some billing amounts before customers would be incorrectly charged. API doesn’t exist so what

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