mikeho1999

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by mikeho1999 3y ago
This is absolutely true. There is a pretty staggering difference in terms of how the different insurance companies pay out their claims -- everything from how they dictate services and hourly rates within their Direct Repair Program (DRP),
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by mikeho1999 4y ago
> Depositors have a reasonable expectation that when they choose a bank (especially a publicly traded bank that is regulated) that their deposits are safe @garry, while it may be a reasonable expectation, it's always been very clear
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by mikeho1999 4y ago
@metadat -- can you provide the source for that? I'm genuinely curious how much Google spends on their privacy org, and esp. how that compares with the other big tech companies.
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by mikeho1999 4y ago
No, this is not a myth at all. At least not in California... "State-Provided" funds are calculated by the LCFF (Local Control Funding Formula), which is a combination of both State and Local funds. Depending on the district,
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by mikeho1999 5y ago
It's useful to note that c19early is backed/funded by FLCCC, which has been widely reported to be a "fringe doctor's" group. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fringe-doctors-gr... It&#
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by mikeho1999 5y ago
Actually, I would say anywhere in Taiwan other than Taipei, you'd be fine on $1k USD / month... so for those that would still prefer urban/city life, you should definitely consider Kaohsiung or Tainan -- both urban centers th
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by mikeho1999 5y ago
I'd love to take a moment to talk about the quality of the code (assuming that the full code listing that the Ars article links to is accurate). It's pretty clear that there are no coding standards, sparse comments (literally just
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by mikeho1999 5y ago
SEEKING FULL-TIME FREELANCER | Sr. PHP Developer | REMOTE (preferably Eastern Asia tz, but American tz would be considered) We are Quasidea Development, a team of about 10 people who build custom business applications for primarily medium-s
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by mikeho1999 5y ago
Quasidea Development | Sr. PHP Developer | REMOTE (preferably Eastern Asia tz, but American tz would be considered) | Full-Time Contractor (Permanent) We are a team of about 10 people who build custom business applications for primarily med
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by mikeho1999 6y ago
Maybe this is just way too niche, but I've been wondering why there hasn't been any e-ink based laptops with a powerful enough of a processor (e.g. 10th/11th gen core i7 would be great) and ability to put enough RAM (e.g. 16G
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by mikeho1999 6y ago
Full disclosure: I have had the distinct "privilege" on having worked with all aspects of large consulting firms, from working at Cap Gemini, to being a sub for a smaller company on a large gov't contract with Lockheed Mart
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by mikeho1999 6y ago
I concur 100% about Taiwan. I am a US-born Taiwanese-American who lives in San Diego most of the time, but we spend most winters here in Taiwan to visit relatives and try and get mandarin language immersion for our kids. Since we're al
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by mikeho1999 10y ago
I've never heard of nix, so I can't comment to that specifically. But being able to have multiple / separated environments on my machine would be hugely beneficial. Working for a full-time software consulting agency, I&#x27
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
Sorry, but I couldn't help. But please cue Vizzini from "The Princess Bride": "I've hired you to help me start a war! That's a prestigious line of work with a long and glorious tradition." =)
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
First of all.. congrats! It's always exciting to see something you've created grow and start to gain traction. Second of all, please take all of the advice that you see here with a grain of salt. I think most of the ideas that p
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
Interesting story... but just out of curiosity, if there was already the investment made in the codebase for your application, as well as the team in place to continue with the project and maintain it afterwards, was there a consideration t
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
Yes, you are correct, on pretty much all of your points. > IANAL, but my understanding is that HOAs in California can't put a lien on your property for failing to pay fines, only for failing to pay dues. Yes, however , most HOAs d
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
> "they are just borrowing it from the HOA while paying the taxes, insurance, and doing all the work for them to keep the house up." I'm not sure if this sentence was meant to be snarky or if this was a genuine comment...
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
Absolutely. I was building an enterprise app doing multiple simultaneous asynchronous HTTP calls, but was running into issues where certain connections would just die outright. The problem was that the dying connections seemed non-determin
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by mikeho1999 12y ago
What an incredible idea for an event! But just out of curiosity, has this been publicized at all? I live in SD, and I regularly tune in to local media (especially NPR/KPBS), and yet, reading it here on HN is the first time I've
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
Awesome idea... one quick feature suggestion -- on the bracket, itself, it'd might be nice to highlight any upsets (e.g. in bold and/or red or something like that). Typically, variance in brackets is based on the upsets picked...
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
All very good points... but one additional thing to add: what is his/her reputation with former co-workers / companies that s/he has worked with? I had one co-founder who (we thought) had a very celebrated career at a very la
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
(Also not a lawyer... just someone who has run a single-person "cute freelancing" or "professional services" company for almost a decade now) Not sure what you mean by "it's a big deal". It's critica
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
As someone who has had a number of rejections from Apple (most of which have been corrected and thereafter accepted), I disagree with the comment. Every time I have gotten a rejection, I have been pointed directly to the app store guideline
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
Matt, first of all, thanks to you and your team for posting in the comments on sites like HN, TechCrunch, and all the other sites where the news is starting to hit the tech community. I know it can't be easy to read so many critical c
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
I wonder if the bias towards or against freelancers is dependent upon your geographic location... Living in the SF Bay Area as someone who regularly bounces back and forth between freelancing and working full-time as a co-founder or lead te
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by mikeho1999 13y ago
Actually, I don't think it's as much as self-taught vs. formal CS training at a 4-year university vs. some sort of vocational schooling vs. whatever... I think it's more the question of: what is the driving motivation for getting into the i
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by mikeho1999 14y ago
Actually... looking at the pictures, I'm surprised about how much was left behind in general. For example, the kitchen had industrial baking and mixing equipment, etc., which I'm sure is all worth a decent amount of dough (pun very very mu