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by javiercr 11y ago
It's like back in 2010 when everyone was building free / open source Basecamp clones.
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by javiercr 11y ago
> We’re a YC-backed indie video game company releasing an open source alternative to Slack. Don't want to troll you guys here, but if you're a video game company why are you spending so much time building a Slack clone? I was
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by javiercr 11y ago
IMHO rendering totally different things depending on the http referrer should be considered as cloaking. It's basically the same practice than rendering a different thing if the User-Agent matches Googlebot. I wonder what would happen
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Making Sense of Amazon Web Services: Introduction for Noobs(blog.diacode.com)
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by javiercr 12y ago
Airbnb has tons of things that would be impossible (or annoying to use) without JS: search by map, sliders, availability calendars, price calculation, credit card tokenization, etc. Here is a recent talk where they explain how they solved s
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by javiercr 12y ago
Kudos for the great explanation here: https://stripe.com/docs/recipes/on-demand-app However I still have one question: is it possible to delay payments to service providers? In other words to do escrow. Here is ou
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by javiercr 12y ago
What's your opinion on accelerators / incubators backed by big corporations such as Wayra (Telefonica) or hub:raum (Deutsche Telekom)?
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by javiercr 12y ago
It's interesting that they used "classic" web scrapping while they could just use their JSON API (just use Charles Proxy when using their mobile app and the API is exposed). http://insideairbnb.com/behind.html
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by javiercr 12y ago
By learning different I mean we don't learn in a "broadcast" way anymore. Check out this great article by Don Tapscott: Yet the students, who have grown up in an interactive digital world, learn differently. Schooled on Goog
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by javiercr 12y ago
Hello, this is 2015 and people learn in totally different ways than 20 years ago. In other words, if your students are staring at Facebook maybe is because your lecture is boring as hell. That's what you should be worried about.
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by javiercr 12y ago
Interesting! We've used a similar technique to reverse-engineering mobile apps from different banks in order to create a Ruby gem to fetch bank data (balance and transactions). https://github.com/ismaGNU/bankScrap
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by javiercr 12y ago
That's a good answer :)
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by javiercr 12y ago
Did you choose Airbnb for your demo because they are well known for scraping Craigslist in their origins?
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Uber is not sharing economy(medium.com)
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The CEO that never was a CEO – Why I quit my startup(medium.com)
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Google's patent for improving search rankings using advertising data(google.com)
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DigitalOcean DNS are down(twitter.com)
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by javiercr 12y ago
Wow, this is interesting. Do you have an email? It would be interesting to talk about this. By the way, how did you find this post? Was it just a random coincide?
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by javiercr 12y ago
Author of the post here. Yes, you're right however, as I explained in the post, it was a friend of ours who introduced us to this guy. Our friend would haver never foreseen this outcome. In other words, all his references seemed to be
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HipHop, the "Popcorn Time" for Music, says goodbye
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Rocket Internet (startup cloning factory) launches carpooling clone in Brazil(translate.google.com)
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by javiercr 13y ago
IMHO, what matters most is not if the VR actually helps learning, but that a company such Facebook is putting a spotlight on Education. Zuckerberg could have mentioned a hundred different things where VR would be applicable. The press relea
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by javiercr 13y ago
From Zuckerber's post: > Imagine [..] studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world I think his mention to Education is quite relevant here. Days for traditional Education are numbered.
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by javiercr 13y ago
If what you want is an A/B test based on rendering different views, it's quite simple to do with the gem Split [1]: render ab_test("my_experiment", 'view_a', 'view_b') [1] https://
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by javiercr 13y ago
Definitely agree. Would love to see DHH commenting on the slow tests problem.
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by javiercr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - full stack Ruby on Rails development shop from Europe. We work mainly remote. Since 2010, we have been helping startups transform their ideas into beautiful, expertly engineered web applications. Services: * 3 weeks MVP -
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by javiercr 13y ago
It seems Gmail was already caching the images in emails (before today's change to display them by default). Read Mailchimp's post (December 6th): "Image caching still lowers our ability to track repeat opens, but turning thos
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by javiercr 13y ago
It's funny that both DPR and Walter White made the same amount of money ($80M [1]). [1] https://medium.com/p/fed0d03ab4c0
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by javiercr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - full stack Ruby on Rails development shop from Europe. We work mainly remote. Since 2010, we have been helping startups transform their ideas into beautiful, expertly engineered web applications. Services: * 3 weeks MVP -
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by javiercr 13y ago
This is great. It's similar to this project built during the LAUNCH Hackathon a few months ago: http://www.gowatchtower.com

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