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Show HN: Using Meteor on Android for real-time messaging(github.com)
2 points by marco1 12y ago|0 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
"Offer brief, blitzkrieg-like mini-lessons with engaging, assessment-for-learning-type activities [...]" Is that normal usage of "blitzkrieg"? Do you use it in everyday language?
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by marco1 12y ago
Android needs App Ops back. We can't rely on shady for-profit companies to protect our anonymity and privacy. Same for other operating systems, of course.
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by marco1 12y ago
How did you solve the chicken-and-egg problem of getting your first dozens of concurrent users, author?
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by marco1 12y ago
No, except that SSO via such a service is more secure than the email approach. However, being platform agnostic is quite an important reason.
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by marco1 12y ago
The very website they link to [1] via its HN thread [2] states correctly that: "No, email is not a secure medium. It was never designed to be one. It’s susceptible to Man In The Middle (MITM) attacks and a slew of other issues. Users m
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by marco1 12y ago
We shouldn't abuse email for this. Any one of LastPass, 1Password, KeyPass etc. or SSO with Google, Facebook or Twitter can do this way better. You will probably be using extremly long and random strings, i.e. you're storing secur
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by marco1 12y ago
According to their "Team" page [1], ind.ie has three designers, one person for operations and a single developer. With that team, they want to create free versions of Dropbox (Indie Pulse), Android/iOS (Indie Phone), Facebook
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by marco1 12y ago
Yet it was America's biggest IPO to date, right before Visa Inc. with $19.7B. The other three went public in China (Hong Kong Stock Exchange).
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by marco1 12y ago
A simple lock down after several failed attempts would have fixed the normal brute force problem (11,000 guesses), yet not this new one (1 guess). Why don't manufacturers implement this, and why isn't it mandated by the specificat
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by marco1 12y ago
Why prefer this over Chart.js [1] which is responsive as well? [1] https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/
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by marco1 12y ago
JSDoc is just an equivalent [1] to Javadoc [2] (and PHPDoc is another one). Those formats just describe what you can do with your comments in code that look like this: / * * some documentation * / The Javadoc tool converts those c
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Show HN: Code documentation on GitHub with Javadoc to Markdown converter(delight-im.github.io)
2 points by marco1 12y ago|2 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
Can you elaborate on the issue with comedians?
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by marco1 12y ago
Compare this to any admin template from WrapBootstrap and you know why this is at the top. If you look at a WrapBootstrap template, it generally looks nice -- but as soon as you look at the code, your opinion will change. They literally inc
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by marco1 12y ago
Maybe one should only use BaaS providers that promise/guarantee to release the source code as open source when they go out of business. What about Firebase? I hope they're better off.
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by marco1 12y ago
SpiderOak [1] released (or rather "endorsed") an "open source, 'Zero-Knowledge', cloud-based password manager" called Encryptr [2] as well. [1] https://spideroak.com/ [2] https://git
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by marco1 12y ago
With more than 17 million users and their mafia-like business model (i.e. protection racket), they have been able to pay for at least 15 employees. Not bad for a free browser add-on. German source: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/
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by marco1 12y ago
This is not blackmailing but a mafia-like protection racket scheme: They create a problem (ads not showing up) that they offer the solution for themselves as well (white-labeling).
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How to code an URL shortener in 22 lines(github.com)
2 points by marco1 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Android's emoji symbols as single PNG images(github.com)
3 points by marco1 12y ago|0 comments
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Even your strongest Android pattern lock is worse than a 3-letter ASCII password(github.com)
8 points by marco1 12y ago|8 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
Author here, feel free to ask questions or share your criticism :)
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Show HN: Emoji support for your Android apps down to Android 2.2(github.com)
3 points by marco1 12y ago|1 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
No, why do you think so? :) Twilio is actually only a very small part of what makes the app work. It's used for the verification via SMS only, i.e. usually once per usage on a device.
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by marco1 12y ago
You can find some more projects on GitHub [1] as well. But the only web apps are "Localize" [2] for translating Android applications and "Ballmanager" [3] which is an online soccer managing game. [1] https://g
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by marco1 12y ago
You mean that the backend should have been based on parse.com and not be written in PHP? Well, there are several reasons I didn't do this: (a) I wasn't familiar with parse.com (b) PHP code is independent from a single commercial p
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by marco1 12y ago
Agree. And for PHP, there are also quite promising things that you can expect, e.g. HHVM, Hack, etc. But also in PHP itself, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036707
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by marco1 12y ago
Fully agree. Same is true for Poke/Snapchat. And WhatsApp was also using plain HTTP for a long time.
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by marco1 12y ago
Do you really think so? Technical descriptions always differ from "mainstream" descriptions for the end-user.

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