elbii | 9 years ago | on: House Passes E-mail Privacy Act
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elbii | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox
Blocked here via Cisco WSA as well.
elbii | 9 years ago | on: KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX
How do you copy/paste your passwords in iOS apps? Pretty much the main reason I went with the 1Password suite.
elbii | 9 years ago | on: 'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)
This is one of the reasons the tinyhouse movement has become so popular. In Texas (and many other states), you can build your own house on a trailer and register it as a homemade travel trailer. RVs, being vehicles, are usually exempt from building codes. The main hurdle becomes finding a municipality that allows fulltime RV living which, depending on where you live, may be easier than jumping through regulation hoops building on a foundation.
elbii | 11 years ago | on: How Not to Understand ISIS
i always thought "because they're crazy!" was a fishy explanation for hundreds of thousands of people fighting against foreign oppression.
elbii | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you keep track of billable hours?
Get yourself a copy of Telestream's Screenflow and record your screen when working. At the end of the billing period, simply scrub through your recordings to build your invoice. Don't mention this to your client as they may request to see them! But if they ever dispute an invoice you'll have no problem winning that battle :-).
elbii | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: A simple IP address API
It incorrectly states my IP is a Tor exit node when in fact it's just a relay.
I'll go ahead and file an issue with the github lib.
elbii | 12 years ago | on: It's the Umami – Why the Truth About MSG is So Easy to Swallow
Different rates of uptake. That's the difference. That's why eating a box of cherry tomatoes and a bowl of ramen have drastically different effects on your sense of well-being.
At the very least, people should be made aware whether it's in certain foods. Then they can choose what's best for them.
Personally, MSG bedrocks me. I have to take a sick day off work in some cases after eating an MSG-laden meal. I've developed the skill to taste it now, after a brief tour through Asia. So I guess I can manage.
The surest bet is just to eat natural. What have humans been eating for the past 2,3, 10 million years? Please, give me a plentiful variation of all that.
But this practice of deeming artificial foods "safe" for consumption after a few year's testing reeks of greedy arrogance.
elbii | 12 years ago | on: People with nothing to hide
It's not just about information the government is collecting on you. It's about who's responsible when that database of information is compromised by e.g. the Chinese and what they'll do with it.
elbii | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
elbii.com | Mountain View | Part & Full time
Elbii is a young, tiny, garage-based web consulting shop in downtown Mountain View. We're completely swamped with work. We're looking for impressively-focused full-stack engineers and designers to help take on contracts. You will earn more than a typical, tenured position at other companies. You'll also get hands-on experience with a ton of open source technologies -- our stack varies depending on the project.
That said, we currently prefer folks who grok one or more of the following:
- Rails
- Node & Express
- Backbone
- RequireJS
- Single-Page Web App architecture
- HTML5 / CSS3
- Postgres / MongoDB / Redis
- TDD
- BBQ (hey, we have a grill)
Shoot us a note to jobs at elbii if interested. Please include some code, designs, or a link to your github if appropriate.
Have a great weekend. :-)
elbii | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
Elbii | Mountain View, CA | full-time | 50% local / remote
Call us at (650) 735-2448 or email [email protected]
Elbii is a tiny, garage-based web consulting shop located in the heart of Mountain View. We're a friendly bunch who enjoy debating things such as ancient aliens, psychadelics, and Burning Man builds at least as much as scalable web architecture and privacy theory.
Looking for web engineers and designers of all disciplines with a preference toward those who wield master knowledge of Rails, Backbone.js, Node, and/or HTML5/CSS3.
We're a young, energetic team of analytically-minded folks obsessed with focused, creative productivity. We offer competitive pay and a workspace stipend to spend however you like. You'll get to pick which projects to work on and enjoy a flat hierarchical structure that promotes individualism over corporate homogeneity.
A few more details can be found on our jobs page: http://elbii.com/jobs.html
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Except for one major difference: Gag orders. When a warrant is served to Google to access your email, you may never know about it. If they show up at your home and take your email server, who you gonna gag?
Unreasonable or overly-broad gag orders are one reason I always advocate running your own services whenever possible (granted, this needs to be easier).