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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Damn! It's quite obvious what happened here. CEO is lying by using the term "unusual activity" b'se why would the unusual activity only apply to African startups? But this is no surprise, for example, African startups ar
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Urban Dictionary: Hacker News(urbandictionary.com)
61 points by ElectronShak 5y ago|5 comments
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Another lockdown possibly ? /s
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Real Tone on Google Pixel(store.google.com)
2 points by ElectronShak 5y ago|0 comments
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
eh..this is too much info to reveal online...how bout say, a VPS (with your preferred cloud service provider), which if not logged into in say 40 days, sends an SMS or Email to your Wife or Next of Kin with your secrets, pins, passwords and
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
One of Cloudflare's strengths is taking dev issues really seriously. Couple weeks ago we had a post here about Cloudflare Images having lots of issues [1]. The post did outline a lot of valid issues. Someone from the team commented tha
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
What Has Happened to Twitter? Answer: They hired a "ruthless" product manager, who believes in things like "we should do things that are good for Twitter, but not necessarily good for the world", and probably wants to be
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Ask HN: Now more than ever, is there need to support alternative open platforms?
4 points by ElectronShak 5y ago|2 comments
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
I feel like if instagram were to be driven further in the monetisation direction, we would no-longer have instagram, so someone else could innovate around photos, and take the still photo market. I feel like instagram is no longer an actual
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Okay, thanks.
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Really cool! Are headphones a must for now...?
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Wanted to try it out on android, got the following issues; - The resgister spinner did not terminate, it stayed spinning for 2 minutes, had to exit and relaunch - I now get a toast with the message "Error fetching onboarding stage&quot
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Would Redis Keyspace Notifications [1] help in this case? Like a script that runs when a specific key expires, such that all other related keys can be deleted too. [1] https://redis.io/topics/notifications
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Take-Two Interactive to acquire social game developer Zynga for $12.7B(theverge.com)
4 points by ElectronShak 5y ago|0 comments
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Exactly
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Before Reddit settled on the name "reddit", snew was one of their name ideas..as in "what'snew"...another was 360scope
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How Does This App Blow Out Candles? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ElectronShak 5y ago|0 comments
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
For me, the problem is the double standard that is applied to historical writings; Mention Scripture, "Oh, those are just someone's words", Mention a scientific manuscript from the same time "Oh, my, what a genius"!
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
aa..cool. But then, very few people actually get to "prove" or consciously "observe" newtons laws, but a principle is a principle whether you believe it or not. In fact, at lower levels of education, you simply read and
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
I agree, although I don't look at Christianity as religion, from my understanding of the new testament..Christ was crucified basically because he didn't follow "the law of their fathers"..religion essentially. The aim is
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever." -Isaac Newton "Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own im
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
So much trust in mortals.....nah, I'll pass
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
quoted out of context
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground" [1] From the above portion of scripture, I wonder w
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Tell HN: It Wouldn't hurt YouTube to not show ads on the rickrolling video
4 points by ElectronShak 5y ago|2 comments
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
I agree, and to assume that censorship helps society become better is just daft thinking. What happened to things like "Its healthy to question everything around you".
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Reminds me of https://grep.app , Search across a half million git repos [1] 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
Strategically, Uganda is an ally of the US, in the East and Central African region, but progressive Twitter heads obviously don't like Uganda's politics right now.
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
But Twitter, you haven't even fixed what's "Trending", specifically in the local context. For example, the word "Jane" is trending in your country, Jane is a well known politician who has probably said somethin
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by ElectronShak 5y ago
depends on where you live probably, and how accessible things are on the internet for you...including how easy it is to make payments on the internet for you. Torrents are a blessing otherwise.

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