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digitalpacman··on Zillow faces lawsuit over ‘Zestimate’ tool that calculates a house’s worth
Thing is, all appraisers do a bad job. Evaluating a house is completely up to their opinion, and the artificially increase prices just because houses are selling. They drive prices up and down based no their will. Couldn't their job be legitimately done by a computer and a camera? Probably if the technology was there.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
Uh yeah. Bookmark bar is the best thing ever.
digitalpacman··on Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware
This happened to my friend too. He was arguing for a new modem. They said no there was no problem. So he replaced it with a non-comcast modem and poof max speed.
digitalpacman··on How to talk to developers. Manual for recruiters
Holy grammar.
digitalpacman··on JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
He didn't say use SESSIONS, he said use COOKIES for the data you would expect to go within a session. They scale just fine. You shouldn't be storing that much data in a JWT either.
digitalpacman··on With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle
I do devops. This is yuck.
digitalpacman··on The Lazy Developer's Guide to Command Line Building with C#
Those are msbuild settings, not visual studio settings.
digitalpacman··on The Lazy Developer's Guide to Command Line Building with C#
Or use LinqPad. I am confused. I'd never recommend use another tool.
digitalpacman··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
Didn't work for me.
digitalpacman··on Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please?
nope
digitalpacman··on Uber is Fucked
Good luck for it to be legal that a drunk person can be in the drivers seat of a car. That's going to take 20-30 years. I'm sorry but there isn't "you can't operate an elevator while drunk" law and people in police elevators pulling you over to the first floor to give you a ticket.

Until they remove the ability for drivers to actually drive, they are going to be legally responsible. Uber is fine for the next 30-50 years.

digitalpacman··on Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech
I agree with this. I am male though so my opinion might not count.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?
Github
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?
choco install as the need arises
digitalpacman··on JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions
It's so that if the JWT is stolen in transit, the thief only has access to the token for a shorter period of time. This is why they should expire quickly. Whether or not you think that matters, is not up for debate. That's how it is.
digitalpacman··on Why Scrum Is the Wrong Way to Build Software
That's.. not scrum. Your first point isn't anywhere within scrum at all. That's how people choose to treat it.
digitalpacman··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
.... isn't this a problem with node, and not developers? Wouldn't you say this is a symptom of a systemic problem of the framework that it is lacking common features that everyone needs?
digitalpacman··on Why Go solves so many problems for web developers
Sounds more like a "PHP isn't fun" post than about go. You ever try C#?
digitalpacman··on Voxel.css
Neat, but it's laggy.
digitalpacman··on Cover Letters: Always Send One
No. I hate receiving them it's just garbage. Resumes' themselves are garbage. They tell no stories and give no information in the tech field.
digitalpacman··on Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
I've used IRC a lot. For work and for projects. The experience is always horrible, and the clients always suck. We switched over to using slack for projects and for work and everything got instantly better. It takes seconds to setup and destroy places to chat that are private. It also takes seconds to search your entire history, on any device, and find what you talked about 3 weeks ago. Sharing code that doesn't get removed is amazing. It's a pain in the ass when the IRC client removes code and tells you nothing. I've sent entire messages to people which "get blocked" because the message is too long or contains code, and it never gives feedback.

I agree account creation in slack sucks though, and the author is correct that slack is not built for FOSS projects.

digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Which recruiters do you like?
None.
digitalpacman··on Lily – Drone camera
Their video of "actual footage" is 100% edited after they shot it. That is NO way actual unedited footage.

Also. https://store.3drobotics.com/products/iris

digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Should I testify?
If you don't care about the crime, don't do it.
digitalpacman··on Who decided indenting with spaces was a good idea?
Use an IDE that's smart enough to do it for you
digitalpacman··on Who decided indenting with spaces was a good idea?
I dislike ever seeing this. Sounds too OCD
digitalpacman··on Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
I actually can remember a password like the d07 one easier because of keyboard pattern matching. That's how I generate passwords is I draw patterns on the keyboard. It's so unpopular that nobody creates tables for keyboard patterns entries.
digitalpacman··on Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
Sadly doesn't work ever because of internet enforced password length and character pattern requirements.
digitalpacman··on Fucking Fuck the Fucking Web
Before salting became mainstream simple passwords were broken all the time when data was stolen
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What would you gladly pay $30/month for?
This is common for apartments where I live. They call it trash service.
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