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by adnam 13y ago
Tell me about it!
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by adnam 13y ago
> I think it's time for someone to build a new messaging app And that it precisely what I am helping to do! We have built a Whatsapp-style messenger, with the added benefit of being able to make free calls to US, Canadian and UK num
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by adnam 13y ago
We also do free calls for German, Spanish and UK users.
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by adnam 13y ago
To be fair, he was the commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe which carried out bombings, torture and killings. By anyone's standards he was no peacenik.
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by adnam 13y ago
Out of interest, have you tried upptalk?
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by adnam 13y ago
Would't it be more like this? points = [(0, 0), (3, 4), ...] sum_x = sum([x for x,_ in points]) sum_y = sum([y for _,y in points])
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by adnam 13y ago
Amazon already have a film-on-demand service called LOVEFiLM.com.
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Show HN: just launched Uppwireless.com and we're on Techcrunch(techcrunch.com)
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by adnam 13y ago
Those pearly-whites will be burned on my retina for the next week or so...
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by adnam 13y ago
Or allergies.
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by adnam 13y ago
You are not alone, and you're right that it can get very annoying. But I think one day computer programmers will look back and wonder how we ever had it so good.
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by adnam 13y ago
Dear Colin, You're extremely lucky to have talents that are highly sought-after and well paid. I know many talented architects and designers with experience who just scrape by. Just ignore Google's recruitment advances and move on
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by adnam 13y ago
Since we offer free VOIP phone calls to US, Canadian an UK land-lines, of course I use it every day! But by using Upptalk almost constantly I've come across hundreds of small bugs and fixes that otherwise I might not have found. But to
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by adnam 13y ago
Thanks, you're right I haven't come across Simmons until now. And perhaps he acquired his writing style at the same progressive high schools, eh? ;)
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by adnam 13y ago
How's your Erlang? http://joinupptalk.tumblr.com/post/71969117552/server-core-s...
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by adnam 13y ago
In some countries like Spain, you don't have a right to decide what your (legal) name is. Your parents are required to register your father's first surname as your first surname, and your mother's first surname as your second
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by adnam 13y ago
The worst part for me is Bill Simmons apology in Grantland[*]. With phrases like "we definitely screwed up", "moving forward", "we appreciated the dialogue", it reads more like a server-outage postmortem, rathe
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by adnam 13y ago
$ echo 'Fuck you!' > fuck_you.c; gcc fuck_you.c fuck_you.c:1:1: error: unknown type name ‘Fuck’ fuck_you.c:1:9: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘!’ token
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by adnam 13y ago
I just generated an icelandic hobbit and it GAVE ME MY OWN NAME! I actually WTFed out loud.
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by adnam 13y ago
You're welcome ^_^
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by adnam 13y ago
It was just an example.
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by adnam 13y ago
Also, django and Flask are extremely powerful. Django gives you an automatic admin interface and ORM, and Flask makes it easy to create a simple API to your data. from django.conf import settings as django_settings from myapp import
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by adnam 13y ago
You're right. I think a lotvof developers don't even know they're born.
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by adnam 13y ago
It looks like EAV is staying https://github.com/magento/magento2/search?q=EAV
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by adnam 13y ago
My main problem with Magento was it's lack of an API to integrate with 3rd-party systems. Someone implementing a competitor should start with a decent API, and build the interface on top of that. If I had time and money, I would do thi
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by adnam 13y ago
So you know it's not full of water and safe to open the door. (Yes, the washer will ensure this can not happen, but you the user do not necessarily know that).
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by adnam 13y ago
The prose sounds like a schoolgirl wrote it: "At first I thought it was fun, I thought it was weird but maybe I would mess with them or something and freak them out and tell them I was a guy or something..." (Without wishing to of
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by adnam 13y ago
Call me jaded but I suspect OKCThrowaway22221 was in fact a woman, posing as a man, posing as a woman.
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by adnam 13y ago
IANAL, but I believe if they run by EU companies and use cookies to track users, they are breaking the law. Sad but true.
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by adnam 13y ago
Hi itry. Unfortunately, the EU Cookie Directive mandates that we have to give informed consent over the use of cookies, which practically every website in the world uses. http://eucookiedirective.com/ I should add, the app

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