dopeboy

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   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Totally understandable. I wouldn't just because my budget is very tight now.
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   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Big fan of DRF. Great documentation and awesome support on the usual channels. I use it for all my greenfield projects. I can't find a way to make a one time donation. Anyone know how?
3. 573.▲
   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Google Glass was a vitamin. Autonomous driving is a pain killer.
4. 574.▲
   by dopeboy 10y ago

   I haven't experienced crashes but I've had trouble finding certain people. Not sure if that's an android specific issue.
5. 575.▲
   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Really neat. Reminded me of a live stream video conference system I built for an embedded systems course a long time ago: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2009/4840/repor... As far as I remem
6. 576.▲
   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Case in point. (I kid I kid)
7. 577.▲
   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Surprised no one has mentioned this yet - venmo. Does exactly what I want and nothing more. And it's free.
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   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Tangential question - do Stripe and others choose to exclude certain businesses because the rate of chargebacks + fraud goes up or is it just a general "we don't want to be associated with drugs/porn/guns" sort of t
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   by dopeboy 10y ago

   Question for people who learn by video rather than text based guides - why do you find it more effective? I have trouble following someone else's pace in a video (or audio for that matter). I also like to be able to copy and paste code
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    As reitanqild mentioned, the LI is probably to help with basic vetting. Family names - my guess is to perform a more rigorous background check. This is probably more relevant for people of Palestinian descent.
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    No, they did not. Though in practice, they did. Only males did the overnight grind.
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    A friend at Google passed it along. She was on a particular mailing list and it caught her eye. Google for Entrepreneurs provides some financial assistance to Gaza Sky Geeks which is probably why they put it in the mailing list in the first
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    Here's three actual groups from the hackathon to give you a flavor: * Homee (pronounced homie as in “what’s up homie”) - a marketplace where people can buy and sell homemade goods. Think Etsy. This group ended up winning first place. *
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    I didn't inquire but based on what I saw inside the incubator, it seemed computers were pretty available. The only iffy thing when it comes to access are 3D printers.
15. 585.▲
    by dopeboy 10y ago

    You're right - thank you. I've just made an edit.
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    I never felt in danger. But I'm also brown and everyone there told me I look Arab. It's a mix - I couldn't tell you the proportions off the top of my head. There are hard emigration realities that force Gazans to do the forme
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    For the permit, all the basics + scan of passport, LinkedIn URL, my parents' names, and my paternal grandfather's name (!). No one had any problems at the border. Everyone is super professional and courteous. Those that were musli
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    I didn't test the limits. All the social media and news websites that I use on a daily basis were accessible. The only interesting thing I can say is I did a visual traceroute and all traffic was routed through Ramallah which is in the
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    Most were in university or had recently graduated. They got their skills from there.
20. 590.▲
    by dopeboy 10y ago

    Three of the mentors were female. Many of the staff and local volunteers were female. That's a good idea. I don't know to be honest.
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    There are Palestinians that work for Israeli companies. They mostly live in the West Bank. If you live in Gaza, it's very difficult to travel out of it. The southern border to Egypt is closed. The northern border (which is the one we w
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    There was - and I usually started it. I deliberately left them off this piece. There's general angst against Hamas. There's universal mistrust of Israel. There's a good deal of division on how to engage with the Israelis &#x2
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    Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon(dopeboy.github.io)

    343 points by dopeboy 10y ago|152 comments
24. 594.▲
    by dopeboy 10y ago

    Airplane mode.
25. 595.▲
    by dopeboy 10y ago

    Having gone the traditional engineering/cs route through university, I was trained to be a systems engineer. So C, C++, and Java were my first languages. Web has taken me away from that in recent years so I'd like to reexplore wha
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    What's it like for foreigners? Does one have to seek out the ex-pat crowd or does everyone mix?
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    by dopeboy 10y ago

    Just curious - can you elaborate on your second statement?
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    by dopeboy 11y ago

    Same. If there was an app that could send FB messages, whatsapp, and SMS to my email where I could respond from, I'd pay for it.
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    by dopeboy 11y ago

    If you're in Manhattan below 125th st, dumbo, williamsburg, or downtown BK, hailing a yellow cab usually works out. Everywhere else uber/lyft are superior solutions.
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    by dopeboy 11y ago

    Relevant: http://i.imgur.com/4HNM3Gd.jpg Circa June 2013 near Washington Square.