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FWIW - The Nest lock in question doesn't rely on an active internet connection to work. If it can't connect, it can still be unlocked using the sets of PINs you can setup for indiv…

(my opinions, not my employer's standard disclosure) Lob team has been great to work with - they've accommodated a lot of tweaks we've needed (custom paper, much higher levels of v…

Longer blog post here: http://dna.hioscar.com/2015/10/14/scaling-deployments-at-osc... We work out of a mono-repo and use pants ( https://pantsbuild.github.io/ ) for python/jvm/js …

Even the standalone optical HRMs (e.g., Scosche RHYTHM+) aren't good enough to do HRV[1] even though their accuracy compares favorably with the chest strap models[2] [1] http://www…

EC2 S3 yes (this should be easy as S3 has ssl support out of the box). The bigger issue is stuff like redis (which purposefully doesn't support encryption) which means you either n…

We have a home grown solution for this. We use pants ( https://pantsbuild.github.io/ ) for our Python builds and phabricator for code reviews. Pants gives us a dependency graph so …

FWIW - even inside a VPC on AWS traffic isn't encrypted by default so if you're dealing with PHI traffic between servers also needs to be encrypted. Many databases support this out…

We didn't move away (never were using GitHub), but we've done our CI hooks from inside arc (the command line client for phabricator) and it's worked pretty well (it means you need …

Some of the plugins (which is a big part of choosing IDEA over the sub-products) aren't backwards compatible (I had issues with the golang plugin in 12, but it's fine in the commun…

We use git-crypt ( https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt ) in our ansible repo for credentials. Credentials are stored as variable YAML files so anyone can work with them in templates,…

Mixed bag. The code review part is much better than stash and significantly better than crucible. Namely, diff of diffs makes reviewing changes based on comments infinitely easier …

Mixed bag. The code review part is much better than stash and significantly better than crucible. Namely, diff of diffs makes reviewing changes based on comments infinitely easier …

If you haven't signed up for their beta program, I'd recommend it. At least on the android side the app is much nicer than the one in the app store.

Kinesis Freestyle 2 http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-mac/ with the VIP tent accessory and a trackball between the spilt (raised up so it's at the same level as the e…

A bit further down the page, they cite Zapier "Over a representative time period, Zapier polled for changes 30 million times but only took action on 460,000 of those polls (1.5% ef…

FYI: 4147 2011 1111 1111 triggers the special Chase Sapphire layout (number is on the back of the card, front just has your name + the Chase Sapphire (Preferred)). I actually find …

The first result for mobile is organic as far as I can tell (it just happens to be a google property when looking for Italian Restaurants in Tribeca). Try switching the query for m…

Having swam in the Hudson (NYC Triathlon) and kayaked extensively in the East River (including a trip up the Gowanus Canal - never again), the water quality in the main parts of th…

Vine started out as a small (3 person) startup that Twitter acquired just before their launch. Could they, post acquisition, have gotten the android version out quicker, maybe, but…

I recently switched from using a racing bike for my day to day commuting to a much chunkier Dutch bike that seems to be in line with the Citi bikes and the difference in commute ti…

I filed an online claim and didn't have to do either (the driver pled guilty). I imagine that the requirement cuts both ways (i.e., the driver has to actually appear to contest the…

The NYC TLC does actually follow through on complaints about drivers not following the rules (CC broken, won't take you out of Manhattan, etc.) and they have an online reporting fo…

Sensors are getting better, but the optical characteristics of a lens that fits in a cellphone are limited by physics (namely diffraction).

I believe the "donate towards our costs" button only shows up when there are no patients to donate to. I have a paypal receipt from donating towards their operating costs, so I kno…

Back in the day, I used the original lightroom on a Toshiba m200 (one of the original XP tablet machines). Even with the greater weight, far more limited battery life and relativel…