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Have any books you’d recommend I check out?

Stored procedures can be such a performance hack. Removing the need for multiple round trips to the database can make a huge difference.

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. D…

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 …

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 mor…

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.

Extracts case reports from Palo Alto Police department's daily pdf files and displays cases on a map and in a table on the web. Source code and background on GitHub: brianhama/palo…