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heezo

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heezo··on Zenzizenzizenzic
I was really hoping for a Planet Rock reference.
heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
Unfortunately, no. However, we are excited to move into all of the places that can't afford Park Chicago.
heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
Absolutely. We work with the current infrastructure. This means the coin based meters, or kiosks, etc.

Our goal is to keep their costs down, by integrating with whatever they have.

heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
I forgot to add, PPA lost only $100K in ticket revenue.
heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
Actually, a counter example of this is when the City of Pittsburgh rolled out kiosks to accept credit cards. In the 2011 fiscal year, the Parking Authority earned $7.1 million from its metered parking spaces. In 2012, that amount climbed to $9.2 million, and in 2013, without December figures included, it increased to $12.2 million.
heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
Great question. We only store the data the the municipality needs to enforce tickets. All personal data is stored directly on the phone.
heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
Thanks, Norman. We've recently rolled out to a few more areas around Pittsburgh. Looks like there are another five, in Southwester PA, switching to us over the next few months.
heezo··on Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS
Hi, I’m Jim the CEO of Meter Feeder. We are excited to announce our product and that we are participating in Y Combinator W16. My co-founder and I are passionate about the pains of parking. We want to create a solution that is easy and elegant for everyone. Please let us know if you have any questions.
heezo··on Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
I pay $6/sq ft for my office in Braddock, right outside of Pittsburgh, PA.

...that's $6/sq ft for a year.

So two months paying for my two bedroom apartment, in Mountain View, can get me more than a year of rent for my office.

heezo··on SFMTA publishes list of names with license plates
Unfortunately, no. There was no rhyme or reason to the way that they formatted the names. I guess I could implement a fuzzy search, but I'm still at work.
heezo··on SFMTA owe you a refund? Search here
Hey, I'm Jim. We made the page, to make everyone's life a little easier (SFMTA's PDF process was a little cumbersome). Hopefully, you get some money. If you don't, that's still good news, amirite?
heezo··on SFMTA publishes list of names with license plates
Thanks for this. I scraped all of the PDF data, and threw it in a DB. Now it's searchable.

http://sfmtarefund.com

heezo··on “The Ethnic List”
At least they're trying...amirite?
heezo··on Go Date Format
Thanks.
heezo··on GitHub's issuing CA has expired (DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA)
Unfortunately, I'm still having an issue with this.

...if I only knew more about computers. :(

heezo··on Tesla Model S JSON API
I use this API daily. I agree with some of the others. It works. I don't really care if it's REST or not.

Of course, if the API is going to be growing, you may want to organize it in a guessable format...also, if it's going to be growing, I wouldn't mind helping/testing. :D

heezo··on How CMU Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science (2013)
There were 2 women in my class, my first year at CMU. Really helped me to focus on my studies.

Anyway, it's hard to do better. I'm just glad that they are.

heezo··on Jersey 2.6 has been released
So...there's a New Jersey?

Sorry, I had to. :/

heezo··on President Obama calls on every American to learn code
As a black American, I wish that I were suprised at some of the comments in the video.