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by harryf 10y ago
iOS developers can relax again
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by harryf 10y ago
You're right although most developers are going to get it either pre-built from here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/ and add it manually to their project or via Cocoapods (also pre-built I believe)
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by harryf 10y ago
> Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio. And it's not just the Facebook apps. The Facebook SDK is widely embedded into many other apps Facebook SDK (it's the
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by harryf 10y ago
Video conferencing with Minecraft is pretty cool too https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMH3wLuR9f0
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by harryf 10y ago
Nice - hadn't seen that before - thanks for the tip
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by harryf 10y ago
This ignores Minecraft and things like Scriptcraft ( http://scriptcraftjs.org ) which I've found are far more effective at home my kids attention than Scratch. Scratch is nice but IMO the end result is too limited - kids se
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by harryf 10y ago
Likewise. Might be fascinating for kids to have some "ready to roll" machine learning routines e.g. Watch the cat explore and learn how to get round a maze
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by harryf 10y ago
It gets even more fun to consider all the apps using the Facebook SDK (which is basically everyone - https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce ). Gave any of those apps access to your photos ?
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by harryf 10y ago
Mobile? Context: my daughter (12) wrote her first 5000+ word story on her Android phone without anyone prompting her to do it. But perhaps teenagers and younger are not your target audience?
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Video will not save your media business. Or bots or newsletters or morning apps(medium.com)
1 points by harryf 10y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 11y ago
Disagree. 20 years ago no one would have heard of this. And 20 Turkey was a far worse place than it is today, just about to have a military coup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Turkish_military_memora...
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by harryf 11y ago
20 years ago it wouldn't have been news at all. Now it's hard to make things completely vanish. Its just the balance between scandals and outrage has shifted; far more scandals are floating to the surface in the Information Age an
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by harryf 11y ago
Funnily enough the articles tag line applies quite well to alexa.com > Amazon’s Alexa is a stupendous novelty act that can play thousands of songs, guess your weight, and conjure a pizza from thin air! Pretty much applies to how Alexa.co
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Being a developer after 40(medium.com)
4 points by harryf 11y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 11y ago
> I wish that there was a site with an hn-level of moderation that covered issues like bikes, local news, etc. Maybe that's just not possible? We always assume human moderators are required. I wonder if AI could do something here?
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by harryf 11y ago
> Are web pages much heavier than they need to be? Yes What about the question "do web pages work any better than they did in 2007?" when we were using full page reloads and server side logic instead of Javascipt tricks. I see
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by harryf 11y ago
Because 8% of India is huge - that would mean India has a functioning solar energy tech sector - perhaps one that might be able to compete worldwide
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by harryf 11y ago
If you want to see the problem practice, here's someone's mother trying out the Tesla self-drive... http://mirror.ninja/sniz
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by harryf 11y ago
Or perhaps the variables were defined like foo = "" Or were set via some function that could return a null bar = getValueOrNull()
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by harryf 11y ago
I believe those variables were not handled by the shell but rather in an Ansible "playbook" - see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html i.e. the variables where happening in a Jinja templat
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by harryf 11y ago
> The real question is if society can handle the unfairness that is death by random software error vs. death by negligent driving. Most people have a greater fear of flying than driving by car although statistically you're far more
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by harryf 11y ago
In Southern India Project Green Hands ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_GreenHands ) has focused on planting trees by hand. On 17th October 2007 they started a tree planting marathon that resulted in 852,587 sa
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by harryf 11y ago
> I'm a deeply introverted person That there might be why you haven't learnt to hate Email (or other forms of asynchronous communication). If you want to learn to hate, try running a few mildly successful Open Source projects.
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by harryf 11y ago
So do I understand this right: Doorman could be used to rate-limit access to a website by integrating it with the sites proxy server, the result being individual clients would only get a certain number of requests per minute based on availa
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by harryf 11y ago
But lots of people got to feel important along the way and that's what matters
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Composer (PHP packager) celebrates 1.0 milestone by releasing on floppy disk(m.ebay.co.uk)
3 points by harryf 11y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 11y ago
This really deserves more attention. Insanely cool hack - the "by Hand" means using the Nintendo game controller to move sprites in such a to inject processor instructions into Super Mario World via glitches in the game
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by harryf 11y ago
Worth watching in this context is "How Donald Trump answers a question" - http://youtu.be/_aFo_BV-UzI
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by harryf 11y ago
Looked for a funny Sinclair C5 videos - was not disappointed - http://youtu.be/2fbzSsHx93U
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by harryf 11y ago
They could also add a [srsly!?!] tag for when all comments must express outrage

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