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by zippergz 12y ago
I've made a lot of Home Depot purchases in the last month (yay, new credit cards for me!), and I don't recall ever being asked for an email address either by a cashier or the self-check kiosk. Maybe it's just my local stores
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by zippergz 12y ago
When will banks actually start issuing chip + pin cards in the US? It doesn't help US consumers much if the retailers accept them, but the banks don't issue them. I have credit cards with four banks (probably the biggest 4 in the
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by zippergz 12y ago
I have custom ordered a car through a dealership (not a Tesla). I'm pretty sure any dealership will do it. It's pretty standard. And they didn't charge me any more than I would have paid for something off the lot (I was able
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by zippergz 12y ago
Virtually all of my bills except my mortgage are automatically charged to credit cards. This means that every time my card gets compromised and replaced by the bank, I have to go update it 20+ places. And there are always the odd ones that
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by zippergz 12y ago
I greatly appreciate that you let me go through the whole interview without giving any personal information other than property address. It would be even nicer if I didn't have to give that. Would a zip code be sufficient?
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by zippergz 12y ago
I don't know if that kind of contact works, but I have gotten a very well-paying full-time, full-benefits job through LinkedIn. I hate their spamming practices, but I do find the site useful.
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by zippergz 12y ago
This is pretty cool. It seems like the search doesn't work that well for me, though. I first typed in "San Diego, CA" and got "no results matched." Only then did I realize that if I type "San Diego" and wa
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by zippergz 12y ago
I can't speak to their Android app, but as a customer, I've always been very satisfied with OpenTable. To the degree that I'm now annoyed if I want to get a reservation at a restaurant that doesn't support it. I believe
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by zippergz 12y ago
I learned to program (BASIC, of course) on an Apple IIe. I was in elementary school. One of my classmates' moms was a professional computer programmer, and came in to teach us all to program. I can't imagine how different my life
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by zippergz 12y ago
It seems like "just pick something arbitrary and everyone agree on it" is a better solution than "find a small simple icon that effectively evokes 'share' to a brand new user." In other words, this is confusing
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by zippergz 12y ago
As I described in my other comment, Redfin is a completely different beast than Zillow and Trulia, because they are an actual real estate brokerage. That gives them direct MLS access rather than having to scrape as the other sites do. [I ha
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by zippergz 12y ago
Redfin is an actual real estate brokerage, and are therefore real members of the MLS, with access to the data that provides. The others are simply scraping via publicly available data. This is a major difference.
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by zippergz 12y ago
It turns on the display when you approach (normally it's dark), and also tries to detect when no one is home so it can go into "away" mode automatically.
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by zippergz 12y ago
Wow. I feel like an idiot for not finding that. Thank you!
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by zippergz 12y ago
Can you recommend a good document explaining all the features? The main package doc on golang.org seems to not really go into stuff like conditionals, loops, etc. which I gather are possible.
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by zippergz 12y ago
If people are open to it, I would really love to hear some anecdotes about making the transition from working for a big tech company to doing independent consulting. It seems very hard (often forbidden by the company) to pick up clients on
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by zippergz 12y ago
It seems not much less secure than a system that lets you reset your password simply by clicking a link in an email (which is to say, most password-based systems on the web). Either way, once you have access to the email account, you can au
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by zippergz 12y ago
I'm not going to deny that there's a ton of geekery involved. But there are several things my non-geek wife loves about our home automation system, including: * Never coming home to a dark house (minimal lights automatically come
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by zippergz 12y ago
I have Control4 in my house. I don't think it's really accurate to say it's hard-wired. There are some devices that take an ethernet connection (some of the touchscreens, for example). But most of it (and everything I have) c
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by zippergz 12y ago
Agreed. I went to a decent but. It noteworthy state school (and the list of things it is known for does not include CS). But I've worked at more than one of the companies on that infographic, and have had a nice career so far. I don&#x
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by zippergz 12y ago
I fly a lot, so I think I probably feel the pain of this issue more than the average person. And I have to say, I'm kind of baffled by the amount of time that is spent discussing it. Yeah, it's kind of frustrating, but is this rea
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by zippergz 12y ago
That certainly contributes. But I can check my bag for free (as a frequent flyer) and I still never do for several reasons. It saves me a lot of time, being able to walk directly off the plane and to my ride rather than waiting half an hour
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by zippergz 12y ago
Is it really that the volume of poor questions is increasing, or that the volume of good questions is decreasing? I know I gave up on asking questions there a while ago, and I'd like to believe that the questions I did ask were fairly
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by zippergz 12y ago
I found this to be more of a problem when I was occasionally working from home than now when I'm doing it full time. If it's an unusual situation, it's easy for my wife to think of a bunch of things for me to do. But now that
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by zippergz 12y ago
My friends and I had a stack of hand drawn maps of Metroid on graph paper that we traded back and forth. Not as convenient as sharing them on the internet, but somehow more gratifying.
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by zippergz 13y ago
My experience is that the Real Names policy was hated by a small but vocal and influential group of users. I never heard about it from any of my friends who aren't reading sites like HN. Those people still don't use Google+, but i
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by zippergz 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, what country are you in? In the US I've had all three current major cable TV providers (and several of their predecessors), and I've never had a long contract (it's always been month-to-month). Is it co
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by zippergz 13y ago
I just looked at your site, and I couldn't find answers to a couple of key things. First, what if I have more than 300GB of photos and videos (I do)? Second, what platforms do you support syncing on?
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by zippergz 13y ago
Yeah, good point.
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by zippergz 13y ago
It might be interesting if they could add some kind of geofencing feature to it. So you could have it automatically be enabled when you're hanging out at the bar you go to when you want to see friends, but be disabled otherwise. It&#x2

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