phlowbieuq

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by phlowbieuq 5y ago
i wish we lived in the same area and could have an OTR conversation about this. believe it or not, the new "strategy" now that ZO is all shut down is even less well-defined and more pie-in-the-sky than ZO ever was.
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Amazon Loot Boxes(twitter.com)
5 points by phlowbieuq 7y ago|0 comments
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by phlowbieuq 7y ago
I'm working on IP cameras sending their video to Surveillance Station on my Synology NAS. Totally local recording, and was super easy to setup with some random IP cam I had laying around. My plan is to run cable for PoE cameras soon.
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Reverse Engineering the DirecTV App’s DVR Authentication(neglectedpotential.com)
5 points by phlowbieuq 7y ago|0 comments
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by phlowbieuq 7y ago
"Qantas. Qantas never crashed."
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by phlowbieuq 7y ago
Firebase is probably a bit of an edge case on this one, because it was a paradigm-shifting developer product before dev products were cool. If you were a top-tier developer, there was a >0% chance that you would be super excited about th
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by phlowbieuq 7y ago
As of now, Amazon appears to still be selling their "IOT button" (which is basically a programmable dash button) https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/
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Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday(startupandrew.com)
87 points by phlowbieuq 7y ago|31 comments
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by phlowbieuq 7y ago
McKesson has not yet determined what changes it will make as a result of the findings, but has considered adopting a more open office plan to encourage more discussion between employees. LOL, way to be super creepy AND learn exactly the w
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by phlowbieuq 8y ago
I feel like another unstated risk here is that if someone can get his plate number through the DMV registration, they could buy tracking on it from one of the large ALPR firms and deduce his home location.
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by phlowbieuq 8y ago
I'm interested to know what you run on this server...plex? torrent client? file server? on-prem file backups (if so, which software you use)? I have a small Intel NUC running windows that runs always-on and does some of these things ju
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by phlowbieuq 8y ago
From a former Amazon employee's blog: "New Amazon Tier One employees receive a small number of restricted stock units (RSUs) within the first month of hire. These shares are set to vest after two years of continuous service. For e
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by phlowbieuq 8y ago
How do you see these two sentences resolving into a single company that you would fund? > A normal first check from me ranges from $50k to $250k. > I’m very bullish on a capital-heavy, asset-full future for startups.
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Zillow Is Buying Mortgage Lenders of America(investors.zillowgroup.com)
2 points by phlowbieuq 8y ago|0 comments
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by phlowbieuq 9y ago
If anyone was curious about Inovalon's $70M customer, it appears to be Anthem. It isn't explicitly called out that way, but from page 23 of that report: Our largest client, Anthem (formerly known as WellPoint), represented ap
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by phlowbieuq 9y ago
I'm hardly ever an optimist, but I believe that this kind of situation is exactly what the saying "Necessity is the mother of invention" applies to. I am 100% confident that Elon has an entire team of material scientists at
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by phlowbieuq 9y ago
Is it just me, or is patio11 the most widely helpful and valuable person on the entire internet? Can hardly make it through a long HN thread without finding some reference to "patio11 wrote a great post on this topic that helped me im
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by phlowbieuq 9y ago
Historically, Apple has been verrrrrry anal about making their x-ray marketing images reflect the real design that is hiding inside their units...and I definitely saw RAM sticks in slots when they were showing off the fans. So maybe they h
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by phlowbieuq 10y ago
Ya their growth in reach has been amazing. Rhinegeist's biggest innovation that allowed them to explosively scale was actually around distribution. I've heard that it pissed a lot of other distributors off, who then lobbied the
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by phlowbieuq 10y ago
> drinking Rhinegeist. fistbump for a fellow Cincinnatian. I feel the exact same way about football (especially the Bengals). I can buy 10 cases of beer for what it would cost me to freeze my ass off at the stadium, and they are goin
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by phlowbieuq 14y ago
Looks sick! Can't wait to see the demos!