brianhama

I’m not sure I agree with you about the second case being fraud, but I agree with you on the other two. Just curious, why do you call it fraud?

I couldn’t disagree with this more. And at least anecdotally I’ve seen the opposite. I have one friend who has built and launched an app for diagnosing skin disease from a photo. Do I think it’s a good idea? No, but he built it. I have another friend that has completely automated her job in accounts receivable. She literally doesn’t have to work anymore and her employer has no clue. And another friend of mine is cranking out a new consumer app every few days. None of these people are even remotely technical. This is just the beginning.

I feel like I was reading a summation of my career.

A start-up needs to have an exit to pay back investors. A company that isn’t hoping to exit is just a lifestyle business. Both are valid options, but very different tactically.

Only if the owner happens to be a lawyer. Otherwise it would be the illegal practice of law.

Wild it still exists at all though.

I prefer living in the South Bay, but almost all my friends prefer living in SF. I tried living in SF for one year and came running back to Palo Alto. I’d say, just try it.

I suddenly lost the hearing in my left ear at the age of 24. One moment I was fine, eating a slice of pizza, the next moment I suddenly could sense something was wrong. I tried to stand up and walk, but my balance was gone. My ear felt full and there was a strange metallic echo. I waited about 24 hours and it hadn't gone away, so I went to the urgent care. By that time, just standing up was enough to cause me to vomit. I've had a pretty healthy life, so everything that was happening was rather disconcerting to me!

The doctors at urgent care erroneously diagnosed the problem as dehydration as a result of my telling them I had played tennis earlier before the incident. They sent me home with instructions to drink lots of water. After waiting another 48 hours completely unable to hear or even stand up, I went back to the urgent care. This time, they diagnosed it as an ear infection and gave me antibiotics. Over the next two weeks, my balance slowly returned, but what little hearing I still had slowly deteriorated further. About a month after it started, I finally was referred to an audiologist that concluded that I was completely deaf in my left ear, possibly due to a viral infection, but there isn't any way to know for sure the cause. Had it been treated with steroids immediately, it might have saved my hearing.

I am now 40 years old and have lived with being single sided deaf for half my life. Initially I didn't think much of it. I've slowly realized it has had a profound impact on my personality and sense of identity. I am much less social due to the difficulty I have hearing in group settings. Conversations are frustrating because it takes so much effort to hear the other person properly. I am reluctant to tell people about my condition because I don't want to be seen as handicapped in any way. Usually by the time I do end up telling someone, they say they had already figured as much.

Tinnitus is a major daily issue as well. I can’t seem to understand how this website helps though.

This author is being disingenuous. All of those actions are indeed suspicious. I am not a fan of the Patriot Act, but these new guidelines actually seem pretty reasonable to me.

This project hasn’t been updated in quite some time. Does anyone know if there’s a more active fork or something that’s replaced this?

It never ends.

By this logic, there’s no reason to save for retirement either. Might as well maximize enjoyment now.

Palo Alto started encrypting the police radio a few years ago, but a new chief of police was hired last year and reversed the decision and made it public again. Palo Alto cares more about transparency than the average city though.

I agree. I’ve always found it strange that mug shots and arrest information are public.

I’d never seen that site before. It’s nice that SF makes that data available in such a friendly format.

This is just the latest episode of “Blame the Tech” for why kids supposedly suck now. Telephones, rock music, comic books, TV, video games—every generation has its boogeyman. Now it’s smartphones. Honestly, I’m more curious what’s gonna freak everyone out next, but I’m definitely not losing sleep over “the kids.”

I can’t wait to see how this article ages.

MS-SQL would seem to already support everything you’ve suggested.

This is really cool. I read the FAQ, but I still don't really understand how this is getting updated. Is this being manually updated?

I think there’s value in being exposed to all sides.

That’s true up to a point.

Sort of messed up that I’m paying for ChatGPT pro and still can’t access it.

Cursor is a game changer. It has 10X’d my productivity.

That’s exactly what I was thinking while reading this.

But better in life…

Usually it’s the opposite order. Client requests an upload, an entry is made in the database and a pre signed url is generated and returned to the client. The client uploads the image. Optionally, the client could then tell the server the upload was completed, although I’ve never done that final step.

When I built Nearby, a social network, I also realized that there are significant cost savings moving from the cloud to on prem. The hardware is much more performant and is a faction of the cost. I don’t think this is common knowledge. The cloud has pretty much become the default option, but sometimes it really isn’t the best choice.

There is a group of us currently building something different: a non profit dating app. We are soft launching this summer. www.freefallapp.com

Honestly, this doesn’t seem like that high of requirements. There are tens of thousands of companies that are doing more spatial data processing and are using standard cloud databases just fine.

Out of date dependencies also introduces vulnerabilities though. So you’re screwed no matter what.