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by zippergz 10y ago
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833484
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by zippergz 10y ago
We use them to pay our gardener and housekeepers, because neither accepts credit cards. I suppose I could pay the gardener with online billpay, but he gives us an invoice that he wants us to mail back with the payment. And we pay the housek
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by zippergz 10y ago
> By using a debit card, you’re moving money over the relatively secure Visa or Mastercard rails, rather than over the ACH rails. Well... Someone who has your Debit card number and expiration date can remove money directly from your chec
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by zippergz 10y ago
I'm upset that I have to go through StubHub, which exposes me to shady sellers (who I have zero means to vet - I can't even see who is selling which tickets). E.g. https://twitter.com/Jason/status/7384896
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by zippergz 10y ago
They actually give you the unit for free, or just the installation labor?
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by zippergz 10y ago
What changes are you hoping for in the experience? I think my Nest thermostats work great, and frankly I'd rather that they not muck with that in the name of "improvement." It's basically an appliance, and part of my hou
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by zippergz 10y ago
This is interesting. I have had Nest thermostats for several years, and overall I think they're great, but I have definitely felt the need for remote sensors (our upstairs thermostat in particular is in a really bad spot). A couple of
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by zippergz 10y ago
This is one of the biggest reasons that I (happily) choose to live in the suburbs. It is silent at night. Some people seem to consider this a bad thing ("it's so boring!"), but I find that I sleep much better than I ever have
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by zippergz 10y ago
Amazingly, it is. A match made in heaven.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Sample size of one, but I haven't used public transit in probably close to 10 years, and I use Uber all the time. I definitely would not turn to public transit if Uber shut down. I'm sure it depends on the city and the quality of
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by zippergz 10y ago
My MySpace account apparently predates my use of Gmail for my primary address[1], so I can't find the welcome email. I may try to sort through my old Maildirs later tonight to see if I can find it, but my hopes aren't high. That d
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by zippergz 10y ago
A while back I instituted a personal rule that I am not allowed to use my phone or laptop while watching TV or a movie. My rationale is that if I am uninterested enough in the show to need additional distraction, the show is not a good use
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by zippergz 10y ago
> Every consumer site wants user generated content for free but is not willing to share a tiny bit of the revs. As a user, I feel that I get value from participating on Reddit (as I do here). If I didn't, I wouldn't participate
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by zippergz 10y ago
This seems to be happening to me more often lately too. Until recently, the robocalls I'd get came from seemingly random numbers, but now the majority come from at least the same area code as my number, and sometimes as you say, the fi
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by zippergz 10y ago
I've found my career to be a continuous ebb and flow of feeling incompetent. Very early on, I started out by learning Perl programming on the job, writing CGI scripts for basic interactive websites. I had no clue what I was doing when
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by zippergz 10y ago
What do you think is a better use of Facebook's engineering resources? Having one team work on building different developer tools, or having every team put their normal work on pause to refactor their entire codebase to clean up depend
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by zippergz 10y ago
Yes, this is why most password leaks matter. A huge number of people use the same password across multiple sites.
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by zippergz 10y ago
> The only thing I can think of is that each of them looked me up on the site after meeting me. No. One or two looked you up, and they're connected to all of the others. That's how this works.
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by zippergz 10y ago
You don't consider access to almost all of your accounts to be "sensitive"? Remember that the vast majority of services let you reset your password by sending a link to your email. So anyone with access to your inbox effectiv
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by zippergz 10y ago
I have a FreeBSD server in my home office that has a big ZFS raidz volume that I use for shared file storage, and it's really, really awesome. The snapshots are especially great because they greatly reduce the fear of screwing somethin
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by zippergz 10y ago
As someone who has been using Twitter since 2006, all of these changes make sense to me, and I'm happy about them. But I can't imagine them being anything but more confusing to any casual user. I don't know what the right ans
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by zippergz 10y ago
I find the resume to be enough to decide whether to phone screen or not. When I do bother reading the cover letter, the vast majority sound basically the same anyway; there's not a lot of extra information there.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Interesting. I've interviewed hundreds of people, and hired dozens of software engineers and similar positions, and I can't remember a single time a cover letter has made a difference. I rarely even read them. That's not to s
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by zippergz 10y ago
I agree. I've been doing quite a bit of stuff with Lambda and API Gateway lately, and API Gateway is the source of most of my pain.
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by zippergz 10y ago
That link doesn't work for me. I'd love to read more about this system. Are there any other links you know of?
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by zippergz 10y ago
I should have said, despite the fact that it doesn't fit in this specific case, your overall advice is very good. This is quite common and definitely something people should be aware of.
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by zippergz 10y ago
But the email address on his account is not Gmail, so an attacker would have had to separately compromise his non-Google mail server to do achieve any of this.
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by zippergz 10y ago
I don't think my price preferences (for flights or really much of anything else) can be boiled down to an algorithm. There are so many factors. What other travel do I have planned around the same time? Have I had a slew of crappy fligh
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by zippergz 10y ago
Honest question. What technology are people enjoying on the server-side with sites built in React or Angular? I've seen some of these done with Rails, and some done with Node, neither of which I personally enjoy a whole lot. (Note, I&#
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by zippergz 10y ago
I agree. Snapchat doesn't have an iPad app. Instagram doesn't have an iPad app. It's far from obvious that apps will support iPad (other than in "enlarge the phone version" mode). As a heavy iPad user, I wish this w

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