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stevenhubertron··on Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
Me as well. A step to far for my liking.
stevenhubertron··on Can We Put the 16GB “Pro” Myth to Rest?
Let's just ignore very popular apps I don't like that happen to use a lot of memory so I can make a point.
stevenhubertron··on Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
I gotta shout out wpengine which has been hosting sites for me for years. Scales up with demand and managed so I don't have to play devop. I don't consider myself a WordPress guy but it does fit a number or use cases.
stevenhubertron··on Apple Sucks Now, Here’s a ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide
What about the razed blade stealth? It seems fantastic but I don't know anyone using it.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Best place to host a static website with SSL and CDN?
I use Netlify to host a number of sites that get 40k visits a month for $9 a month. It's been a great service.
stevenhubertron··on Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
Very cool, could be very useful for things look like occupy Wall Street or even on a long plane ride with no internet!
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon? #2
http://www.justnorthofamazing.com - less tech more experience but certainly a product for sale and not some typical bootstrap theme.
stevenhubertron··on A look inside Facebook's data center
I wonder if an attack vector could be spinning up all the cold storage servers at once. Seems like they aren't cooled for all of them to be doing IO at once.
stevenhubertron··on Identifying North American Phone Switches
This book is a great read and gives an amazing overview of the culture: https://smile.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Ou...

The group chats must of been so cool at that time.

stevenhubertron··on Being a Developer After 40
So true. Alone its a good salary with retirement needs not so much.
stevenhubertron··on Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
I concur, thank you for wanting to do a better job with readily available tools that are widely used and easy to implement. I support your use of GA.
stevenhubertron··on Show HN: A tool to measure how responsive images benefit your page weight
Even on the highest setting the difference is noticeable enough on a retina screen that I couldn't use this tool. Especially when imageOptim does such a good job.

Cool concept though, get some more compression options and you have a real product here.

stevenhubertron··on WeWork raises $780M at $16B valuation
That valuation seems so far away from reality. A huge bet on coworking spaces as the future.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Liability due to lack of SSL
So I dived in a bit more while I wait for him to call me back. It's a Magento build using Autorize.net I haven't worked with Magento in years, but should be really simple right. Set up some forwarding rules in Cloudflare to always to go the HTTPS and of course the cert.

At least it isn't some guys backyard CMS.

stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Liability due to lack of SSL
Thats a good point. I don't want to open the can of words and add SSL myself, some interesting things to think about for sure.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Liability due to lack of SSL
I should clarify that it is for Real Estate, thus the SSN. That link might be helpful.
stevenhubertron··on Mobile Safari's Performance Is Not the Problem
Interesting that this article saying pretty much the opposite came across my twitter today in regards to the network: https://medium.com/@TwinPrime/why-mobile-app-performance-is-...
stevenhubertron··on The Debut of Beme, a Social App That Aims for Authenticity
Great idea, and more of what we need with technology. I hope it takes off. Another great reason to ditch Facebook.
stevenhubertron··on Has Chase Been Hacked?
Oh fun.
stevenhubertron··on Automated password changing
Can someone smarter than myself tell me how secure this is? If I was a hacker wouldn't i just hack Dashlane and have all the passwords?
stevenhubertron··on Amazon Fire TV Stick
It looks like they are going to account for this. From their Fire TV page:

"Coming soon—take Fire TV Stick with you to use with HDTVs in hotels, college dorms, or anywhere with captive portal Internet access that requires entering a password or a log-in. "

stevenhubertron··on Amazon Fire TV Stick
An interesting combination that would only cost you $118 is the Fire Stick and the Fire HD 6. For the price of basically an Apple TV you can have everything the stick does, plus one hella cool remote to control everything you beam to the TV. Sure my iPhone can do it as well, but there is something cool about just leaving the Fire as a dedicated remote. That might just be be though.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-Display-Wi-Fi-GB/dp/B00KC6I06S...

stevenhubertron··on Roll Your Own VPN/HTTP/AdBlock Service?
I went deep down this path today, and have it all working, but it looks like there is no way to enable Privoxy proxying just by connecting to Open VPN. Meaning I would have to connect to the VPN and then add in a proxy server. Will keep digging though. Great start.
stevenhubertron··on The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
Wow, thanks for this bit of history. I learned a few things about my town today!
stevenhubertron··on The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
Very cool looking. Now I can show my NY friends how diverse Denver really is and why there is a great multicultural food scene.
stevenhubertron··on Automatically Lock Your Mac When You Walk Away
There is also software you can use that monitors for Bluetooth devices and can perform actions based on them. Makes it very easy to roll your own piece of software and not have to trust a 3rd party device: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23858/proximity

I am not entirely sure why you would need a dongle over a phone. Perhaps the the creator can chime in here and explain to us why we would chose a hardware device over what we already have in our pocket?

stevenhubertron··on A Financial Model Comparing Car Ownership with UberX in Los Angeles
The calculations also aren't factoring in resell. Sure I might buy a car for $25,000, but when I sell it I am going to get at least $10,000 back out of it so the car itself only costs $15,00.

If you combine that with buying used, better gas milages in cars and piece of mind the calculation becomes harder. Especially if your in an urban city with multiple transportation options.

stevenhubertron··on Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos
I just bought it and tried it out. It works great in good lighting. Awesome job.
stevenhubertron··on Show HN: Learn to code by being coached by an experienced developer for free
I got a rails error when trying to to submit for a coach.
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