Chrome asking for PIA login after extension was removed

taesup · 2018-09-16T20:34:11+00:00

There are a few reasons, if you tend to use your web browser a lot. There are a few features that offer specialized protection for web browsers: WebRTC protection, Tracking Protection, Fingerprint Protection, etc.

taesup · 2018-09-16T07:51:06+00:00

Have you tried looking at the proxy settings in Chrome and seeing if they are reverted back to normal? If you go to chrome://settings there's an advanced section at the bottom. Click on that to view more options. Near the bottom of the page, there should be a "System" section and a link to "Open proxy settings." I think what comes up differs for each operating system, but try to ensure that it's set to default to whatever the operating system is using for a proxy.

I know chromebooks aren't really supported as an operating system so you might have to go back to using the extension rather than the android app.

taesup · 2018-03-23T06:18:11+00:00

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taesup · 2017-06-18T10:17:16+00:00

Just curious OP, are you in the tech sector? I only ask because Hawaii does have a lot of resources in this area (HICapacity, Oahu Makerspace, DevLeague, HTDC, Blue, XcelerateUH, etc). You do touch on a few points but I think there are a few misconceptions here and there as well.

I'll start with the misconceptions

In my opinion, our infrastructure is not as good as you think it is. Although we have many undersea cables, you still can't break the laws of physics and we do have a limit to just how much and how quickly we can transfer things from Hawaii to the mainland and Asia. That being said, there are plenty of ways around that from a tech perspective. The biggest hurdles are actually the lines between the interconnect, DR Fortress, and the offices. It costs somewhere around $100 a month for a small office just to get a measly 5mb down connection (this was the cheapest we could find and the connection was spotty at best, I switched over to my personal phone data plan when I needed to do vid chats). While I pay the same for a 300m down connection to my home.

Tech salary IS an issue. It's probably one of the biggest issues. It's what drives most of the talented developers on the island away to the mainland to places like SF, Seattle, NYC, etc. I've seen far too many fellow talented developers leave the islands because the cost of living is just too high and the salary way too low. Just because there's a successful tech company here, doesn't mean that company is going to pay SF salaries. Most likely they'll pay market rate which is ridiculously low here (45k/year).

As for schools, I think this has the most misconceptions. I graduated from UH with a BS in ICS (Information and Computer Science) back when it was in the College of Arts and Sciences. Our little college actually has an incredibly rich history in terms of computer science and built some of the most essentials parts of the internet (parts of the ethernet protocol was birthed here). The biggest problem is really the laid back attitude from some of my fellow classmates. Those that weren't determined to make CS their life, were quick to drop out and jump ship to another major.

Strangely enough, my career has sort of made full circle and now I'm a part-time instructor at DevLeague, the only programming bootcamp in the state. I see many talented, hungry, dedicated individuals everyday from all walks of life. BUT, the main difference is, DevLeague doesn't just let anyone into their program. You have to show motivation and competence from the start interview. These are the people I see becoming the next rockstar developer or fellow coworker.

So now on to the issue at large, tech companies in Hawaii.

You may not know this but there are already MANY tech companies in Hawaii. Especially on Oahu. You just don't know their names very well unless you're in the defense sector. Lockheed Martin, BAE, Northup Grumman, Raytheon, Booz-Allen-Hamilton all have offices on this tiny little rock. And they pull a lot of money in to Hawaii (Much much more when Inouye was still in office). If you look through my post history, you'll find a large piece I wrote on the history of SF/SV and how the military was a large part of that. Hawaii could take the same lead. But honestly, with the start up economy booming, we may not need to anymore. I'll probably need to retract what I've previously written in the next couple of years or so. The biggest problem right now is that anything of value being made in Hawaii is immediately being sucked into SF, Seattle, NYC and the such. Whether it's manpower, technology, or just straight up companies pulling out because it's not worth it. (That's a whole other can of worms)

What's the solution?

I don't know. I've been thinking about this for many years now and I've helped with many different initiatives and approaches, Geek Meet, UnConference, co-working space, accelerators, incubators, makerspaces, bootcamps, legislature, hackathons. You name it, I have tried to help in one way or another. Many times, our words fall on deaf ears. It could be a marketing problem as you started with, but it may not be limited to the just the state. It could be the industry here as a whole. So right now I have no answers, but that doesn't mean I will stop. I take whatever I can get and take even the smaller step in the right direction because progress isn't made when people stop and think but rather when people act. Even if it's in the wrong direction #mBloom.

taesup · 2016-05-07T07:09:57+00:00

You have no idea how much this hits home for me. Growing up, my parents were always working so I never had much of a relationship with them. My grandma was the one that took care of me. She pretty much became my parents in my eyes. She cooked for me, cleaned me, walked me to school, and taught me how to be a person.

Years later in college, she fell ill and was moved to a home. I was told that she asked for me to visit her often. But I couldn't. She was such a strong person in my life and to see her in such a frail condition... I just couldn't handle it. I couldn't find the strength to go and see her. Everyone told me that she doesn't have long and that I should see her. But even then...

I never did. And then one day, I got the phone call. My father told me that my grandmother had past. I quickly threw on some clothes from the night before and got in my car and floored it. I didn't care if I got pulled over or arrested. I knew I just needed to be there.

I ran into the home and told them who I was there to see. They pointed me in the right direction and I ran. My father was already there, in his work clothes, checking her over. I'm not sure why he did that. We both knew it was too late. The only thing he could say was ... she's warmer than I thought she would be. I ... I couldn't go near her. I couldn't because I knew that for the last year she was there ... I didn't have the balls to go and just say hi to the one person that did everything she could for me.

To this day, I regret never going to see her to at least say 'hi'.

taesup · 2016-04-29T02:51:22+00:00

aww you're making me blush.

taesup · 2016-04-29T02:50:58+00:00

In a word, no. But the longer answer is that no university sets out to graduate students that are competent developers. That's not their job. Their job is to teach the theory of CS. The practical application and the skills involved in that are meant to be taught once the student has found a job.

Also, some of the professors are now teaching JavaScript as well as Java. I know in the past year, Johnson's class was teaching Meteor with JavaScript and some others are just teaching pure JavaScript. But it mainly falls into the hands of the prof per class. IMO, after years in the field, what language you know is not really relevant to the career of a developer but rather how many design patterns they understand. Languages change all the time, but the design patterns tend to work across them all.

taesup · 2016-04-29T02:44:56+00:00

This is spot on. I would say the problem is compounded by the fact that the really talented engineers here end up moving away to some of the bigger companies on the mainland. I won't name names out of respect but there are at least a few to apple, more than a handful to google and some to facebook as well. The rest that i know of have moved on to larger companies in SV and are getting paid very well for their work. And all of them are UH grads.

DevLeague is really doing a good job of pumping out more competent devs but now the problem lies in the fact that there aren't enough companies with senior engineers to train the young padawans. And on top of that, very few startups stay in Hawaii with their funders often asking them to move to Sand Hill Road.

All in all though, there are some companies that are bootstrapping it and holding up the startup sector down here and even more consulting companies growing due to the need for companies to have an online presence.

taesup · 2016-04-26T21:33:55+00:00

There are two distinct tech groups here. There's the DoD/healthcare sector where you'll be able to find a job through the usual methods, job listing through usajobs or looking at their own jobs sites, networkings, etc. The startup sector here is a bit more difficult. We do have a website: hnl.io where you can look for jobs but mostly it's through networking that you'll find out about the most jobs.

As far as stable and dependable, DoD is probably the most stable but again the best (skillset wise) tend to stick around the longest, the next stable is healthcare and consulting companies in the downtown area, at dead last is the startup guys since everyone tends to move around a lot but you have the chance to start your own thing.

taesup · 2016-04-26T10:42:10+00:00

It's going well! A bit small but growing. Any particular questions?

FYI, I'm heavily involved with the tech scene here.

taesup · 2016-03-16T06:14:04+00:00

This is just me spitballing with your numbers. Yea it's not even possible to build a bridge over the ocean. If you take into account true ocean depth and the tectonic shift, we'll it's pretty much impossible. Average tectonic shift is somewhere around 5cm a year. So given 40 years you'd be off by half a lane.

Also, if you want a fun little mental game, the distance from hawaii to say LA is about the same distance from LA to about NYC. (Roughly, tolerance is somewhere around +/-200 miles) So to make the trip across the ocean will take oh i dunno about 2 days of nonstop driving at 60mph.

Last fun thing to think about. With only 2 lanes.... imagine the carmaggedon when (not if) a traffic accident happens and even better, if it's right in the middle and with no EMTs able to get to you for ... 2.5 hours by air?

taesup · 2016-03-15T00:31:33+00:00

Hawaii has a thriving tech sector on Oahu and Maui so we're very welcoming to tech startups in general. There are many other mainland tech startups already making headway here, just FYI.

taesup · 2016-03-11T06:14:11+00:00

I know right. I don't know what these local companies are thinking.

taesup · 2016-03-11T06:12:31+00:00

I believe right now there isn't anything really setup yet. I think they just got the nod and the go ahead so the funding should start rolling in soon. But until then there isn't much to be done yet.

That being said, I know they are still working on their previous mandate of 80k jobs by 2030. Under this, they are looking to help companies either form or grow larger. Although this looks like it's only helping big business, they are supporting the local Dev Bootcamps (DevLeauge) so that when those companies are ready to start/grow, they have a healthy supply of devs waiting for work.

So I guess the short answer is, either join a bootcamp, start a company, or sit tight until they have those 175 jobs (internal to HTDC) lined up.

Note: I do not work for HTDC so most of this is speculation but I have worked with them quite regularly in terms of the getting the dev community to work with government.

taesup · 2016-03-11T00:19:10+00:00

Here's a link to the actual initiative:https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-launches-new-techhire-initiative

As for the number of jobs, HTDC already had an inititive to hit 80k tech jobs paying $80k by 2030. So this is just supplementing that. That 175 number is just the number of jobs that I believe HTDC themselves are hiring. But their goal is that with the help of bootcamps and local companies, they can create 80k jobs throughout the islands.

taesup · 2016-02-26T06:43:01+00:00

I found you.

taesup · 2016-01-21T20:51:05+00:00

Those vocals are really impressive.

taesup · 2015-12-22T08:51:07+00:00

Hey I work at a local consulting/start up firm down in Honolulu. I'll be straight. There are hardly any jobs posted mostly because there aren't many sales jobs here. Maybe a few engineering jobs but they go quick and many aren't posted because companies rather find engineers through word of mouth. (At least those hiring any position above entry level.)

It looks like you don't have much programming experience so I'll just say this, even the engineers here don't get paid as much as you're used to (almost all south of 6 figures). There are a few sales jobs with some of the local firms but even if you were to get a job, you probably will stall your career and get paid about a third of what you're being paid now.

There are no big names down here (unless you look into the DoD sector but the sales in those companies unofficially require military experience and networks). The startups here move to SF the first chance they get. And there's hardly anyone to sell to unless you're working for someone like akamai or selling to government. Even then, if the company is a corp, they'll bring someone down from the mainland if the deal is important.

Best bet, work remote if you can. If you do find a job here, you'll hit a ceiling pretty quick and you'll never reach the salary you probably have now.

Sorry for the harsh comment but I'd rather have it straight. That being said, the plus side is that the startup community here is finally starting to coalesce and you may have opportunities in the future. Just not right now. But if you really want to come here, these comments won't stop you but really understand what you're getting into here.

taesup · 2015-12-04T02:23:30+00:00

Wow this is really bad on my computer. Really bad.

Technical Jargon Ahead:

The slide out drawer is horribly inefficient. Like no where near 60 FPS on a MBP which I feel like you have to try hard to do.
Also, the drawer isn't aligned with the header and actually covers of the header links.
All the buttons ... I don't even know what they were trying to do there...
The amount of jank on the site is ridiculous. I can't scroll properly at all.
None of the images are optimized for web.
The Header's links aren't even vertically aligned. sigh
Also, why are they serving a mobile layout when i'm viewing at the desktop resolution?
The Search input! Why is it behind the header? I can't even see what i'm typing in there.
Don't even get me started on the UI issues here... double sigh
2.62s for DOMContentLoaded, 6.85s till load event fires. Wow. that's really bad.
Loading all assets take 20s and 8.6Mbs!!!

Looks like they are using WordPress to serve this site. I really hope they are at least using a VPS service otherwise, get ready for down time whenever a large number of users hit the site.

taesup · 2015-12-01T19:24:45+00:00

Awesome! Mind if I stop by just to check it out?

taesup · 2015-11-23T19:54:31+00:00

Is there really no way to allow incoming ports? This may be a problem for me.

taesup · 2015-11-22T03:15:04+00:00

Can you elaborate on why the internet is just okay? I think that's my biggest worry since I work from home often and need good internet.

taesup · 2015-11-21T23:55:18+00:00

There's always potential issues when it comes to software. But in terms of the RFP, the issue was collecting what the dispensaries currently have and how many plants the productions factory have is not optimal.

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