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by hboon 9y ago
I don't know about the internals. But OTI developed Visual Age for Smalltalk and other VA for X products such VA for Java. They were all written mostly in Smalltalk, including VAJ (very interesting! It was a VM that ran both Smalltalk
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by hboon 9y ago
Singapore launched SingPass in the early 2000s. There was a breach a few years ago and they have since implemented 2FA. It's really convenient, but scary at the same time.
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by hboon 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are exampl
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by hboon 9y ago
There're 2 ways to access a geolocation service: 1) Secure your own database(s) and offer it as an internal library/API 2) Use a hosted version. IP Sidekick offers the latter option. The advantage over running your own version is
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The Google Fit SDK(developers.google.com)
1 points by hboon 9y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 9y ago
Yes, I plan to include a lat/long somewhere down the road when I can get it to be more accurate. Slightly related, what can someone do with the lat/long in that data set? (since there's only a canonical lat/long for each
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by hboon 9y ago
Good point. Thanks for the feedback.
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by hboon 9y ago
One thing I want to do with IP Sidekick is to include additional information about the location it resolves to. For now, the result includes the national public holiday of the country it resolves to. This should work for the next few hours
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Show HN: IP Sidekick, geolocation API with additional metadata(ipsidekick.com)
8 points by hboon 9y ago|8 comments
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by hboon 9y ago
I use https://www.guardian.com.sg/antinois-ear-plugs-3pair/p/22916... which is silicone-based. Works really well.
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by hboon 9y ago
They have been doing this the last few years.
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by hboon 9y ago
Without more context, my suggestion is to sell to the CIO instead. You are already in contact with him. Get him to initiate a project. Blueprint-sell, solution-sell, or whatever is the current hotness in enterprise software nowadays :) Joke
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by hboon 9y ago
Based on a sample size of 2, I was pretty sure that among FitBit, Jawbone, Misfit and Health mate (remember them?), Jawbone UPs provided the most accurate sleep tracking.
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by hboon 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * App maintenanc
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by hboon 9y ago
You most definitely can change the email address that represents your Apple ID account.
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by hboon 9y ago
Can you recommend other similar podcasts?
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by hboon 9y ago
I wrote https://github.com/hboon/genie which lets me run create directory-specific aliases such as: push -> git push origin develop; git push origin master; git push origin --tags; terminal-notifier -title "Pus
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by hboon 9y ago
They are active in more than 600 cities. Even assuming tech support, design, engineering and R&D staff are negligible, 20 employees per city seems to make sense. Partnership, Marketing, legal, operations, vehicle rentals. Their software
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by hboon 9y ago
This is on behalf of the other knights of the square brackets, and anal folks like me. The language name is spelled with a lower case T, like this: Smalltalk.
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by hboon 9y ago
I keep a text file open in my text editor and set up a macro to expand `tt` to the current time, so I end up with entries like: 02:52 AM - 03:24 AM Plan 03:25 AM - 03:37 AM ProjectX 04:16 AM - 05:17 AM ProjectX P At the start o
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John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE(youtube.com)
3 points by hboon 9y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * App maintenanc
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by hboon 9y ago
In their guidelines, IAP is specifically for virtual goods and services (i.e. definitely not physical goods).
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by hboon 9y ago
FWIW, This is by Manton Reece and Brent Simmons. And Simmons is known (among other things) as the creator of NetNewsWire which has been around for more than 15 years. He does know a bit about Atom and RSS feeds. https://en.wikipe
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by hboon 9y ago
Possibly. On hindsight, RIM totally underestimated the onslaught on mobile started by iOS and later also by Android. They never thought those platforms could take off, so their decision is understandable (but totally wrong of course).
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But they didn't have first mover advantage. There was ping and a few other similar apps on the iOS app store. WhatsApp focused (correctly) on distribution over several platforms.
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by hboon 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * App maintenance. Bu
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IndiaStack – Technology for 1.2B Indians(indiastack.org)
15 points by hboon 9y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 9y ago
> That being said Lucky Plaza food is pretty bad What? The Ayam Penyets are nice.
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by hboon 9y ago
It was in one of the 10.3 betas but was removed. I don't think it can be deleted reliably without losing data if iCloud keychain is enabled, e.g. another device might still have the same app or share the app group.

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