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philippb

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Co-Founder of KeepSafe and enjoying San Francisco

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Show HN: Driving Android app via LLM. Looking for feedback

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www.frbservices.org 8mo ago

Image Cash Letter – The Federal Reserve Banks image format for exchanging checks [pdf]

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www.appealseal.com 8mo ago

I ran the numbers on CA Property Tax Appeals – and it's a winner

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old.reddit.com 11mo ago

Using Claude Code to Create Home Assistant Automations

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Feedback on Our Value Prop

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How do you keep track of newsletters you care for?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

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medium.com 9y ago

An in-depth look at Kotlin’s initializers

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github.com 9y ago

Implementation of Tap Targets Android Material Design

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medium.com 9y ago

Java vs. Kotlin compilation speed comparison

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medium.com 9y ago

Kotlin Development for Android – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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medium.com 9y ago

How we went from Java to 100% Kotlin

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medium.com 10y ago

The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android

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github.com 11y ago

OS: Android library to create complex multi-state animations

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github.com 11y ago

Show HN: Android method count Gradle plugin to avoid DEX limit

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blog.amplitude.com 11y ago

Putting a Price on Privacy: KeepSafe’s Data-Driven Approach to Pricing

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github.com 11y ago

genstring string extraction tool for Swift – iOS

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github.com 11y ago

Show HN: Simple email rendering tool to handle multi-language email content

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keepsafe-engineering.tumblr.com 12y ago

Migrating A large Android Application From Ant to Gradle

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keepsafe-engineering.tumblr.com 12y ago

How we removed 1MB from our Android APK by just running a tool

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github.com 12y ago

Android-resource-remover – utility to auto-remove unused Android resources

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500.co 13y ago

The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Part 2

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

A Private Photos App That’s Growing: KeepSafe Crosses 1B Hidden Photos

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Google Play merchant changes - YES of COURSE

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blog.getkeepsafe.com 13y ago

The evolution of a mobile app icon

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blog.getkeepsafe.com 13y ago

An open letter to Google: Unplug Google Plus from the Play App Store

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keepsafe-engineering.tumblr.com 13y ago

Show HN: Easy A/B testing for your mobile app (open source)

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philippberner.posterous.com 13y ago

Problems with Git on OSX after update to Mountain Lion

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Tell HN: How 2 devs got 1 million monthly actives with no social/viral tools

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I'm focusing on the annual assessment appeal. So this you need to do every year. For me this year, for the first time, they kept the assessed value low.

Zillow and others don't use the right way to look at comparable homes in the assessors and assessment appeals board view.

I could auto appeal each year for you. Right now I'm just trying to get as many people to appeal before the deadline of Dec 1st for the remaining counties. But if you enter your address and email, then I'd run it next year and inform you.

www.appealseal.com

a tool to help California home owners to lower their property taxes. This works for people who bought in the past years low interest environment and are overpaying in taxes because of that.

Feel free to email me, if you have questions: phl.berner@gmail.com

ChatGPT Search 2 years ago

Has anyone any clue if this is going to be available via api to index private data?

The is amazing. Thank you. I’ve been looking at Backblaze storage pods that seem to be designed for that use case. Never rented rack space.

Do you remember somehow the math on how much cheaper it was or how you thought about upfront cost vs ongoing. Just order of magnitude would be great.

Keepsafe | Software Engineers | San Francisco (South Park)

Keepsafe is redefining consumer privacy and security. Join a cash flow positive startup in a product expansion stage and a small team of highly talented people.

Open positions:

- Android Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/d561f35a-2435-466a-85d7-f346f...)

- Senior iOS Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/484258ca-cea9-4ec6-8cff-74db0...)

- Android Kotlin Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/6414e440-ed8e-4c1e-a156-6e4e1...)

- Senior Backend Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/keepsafe/9b12b55a-5480-49ed-92c8-9d8c9...)

Other benefits:

- Healthcare, dental, vision, 401k

- Free daily lunch

- Able to work in Berlin for periods of time in Keepsafe Europes HQ

- Flexible work days to accommodate skiing deep powder during the week.

I'm the CTO at KeepSafe. We open sourced aiohttp.

We wrote aiohttp for our production system. We build everything on aiohttp. In our production systems we constantly run more request then in the benchmark with business logic on each request.

The main reason we like aiohttp a lot if that you we can write asynchronous code that reads like synchronous and does not have callbacks.

we haven't encountered any problems with lint. Your app will just not compile and tell you whats missing.

The case from the readme is: We were loading view A. Then we looked for R.id.something in view A in a method.

Later we replaced view A with B, but never took out R.id.something that was referring to view A (it was also never used). This never caused problems as view A was still in the resources.

Lint marks view A as unused as no activity is ever loading it. After removing A, R.id.something can not be found anymore and you will get a compile error. It was time to remove that dead reference.

The Play sore app does even require a Google Plus account when you just want to leave a rating. Ratings are 100% anonymous as they don't show up in the reviews and are global (where as reviews a language specific). This just doesn't make sense to me.

Mobile apps that require a e.g. facebook account as their only sign up have up to 50% drop offs because people don't want to sign in with a service like Facebook.

I strongly believe that ratings and reviews are a core function of a app store eco system. Links to profile pages don't give me as a person who wants to download the app a real benefit. Google did a really nice job with their NLP to highlight reviews that had more depth in the store overview.