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Just use JavaScript. Javascriptcore is a lightweight way to execute JavaScript on iOS and you can use V8 context or duktape on Android. This way you can also update code in your app without an app store update.
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Even if they had your IP address, they would not be able to track which sites you are visiting on the onion network anyway. You could just be visiting the CIA's Official Onion Site.
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The most powerful supercomputer in the world reaches 143 petaflops, bitcoin network in comparison reaches 80704290.84 Petaflops. Granted that a majority of this computing power is in the form of custom ASIC's, but the figure is really
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7y ago
Is your firefox using Webrender? Vanilla firefox is slower than chrome but WebRender is noticeably faster than chrome. Chrome on a 4K monitor slows down to a crawl, but WebRender handles it like a champ. It can be easily enabled with a flag
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Crypto does have inherent value and that is the ledger. The ledger makes sure that the coins that are with you, are replicated on thousands of nodes across the world without a decentralized entity. A dollar for example just represents itsel
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Do Cryptocurrencies provide value and do something that country backed currencies can't? They do have their own advantages and disadvantages, but it purely boils down to how many people trade in it. Take gold for example, people believ
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Top cities most consumption of cannabis, per year, (metric tons)
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It doesn't matter if it's faster or has more features, it is hard to get a foothold in the Smartphone market. Windows Phone was better than Android IMO, it had a much cleaner UI ( Compared to Android 2.3), better battery managemen
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Fintech firm Zeta’s valuation climbs to $300M in its first funding round
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I'm not really comparing the slack of today with mIRC which was first released in 1995. In early 2000s back when IRC was still very popular, mIRC was a breeze to use on computers which existed. It hasn't seen much development over
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For me the gold standard of Chat applications is always going to be mIRC. It supports a ton of plugins, consumes 10-50mb of memory and little to no CPU. You could be connected to multiple servers and channels with DCC scripts running and yo
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Firefox and Chrome updating their browsers to block these certificates won't also work, since the Kazak government can just fork Firefox and create their own browser which accepts their rogue certificate. And block all other browsers w
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It's based on spark V8 which means it's only 32 bit. The blokes who built it say that it can used in servers. Why would some want to use a 100Mhz 32-bit chip on servers ! They say that the price would be around 100rs. At slightly
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Indian cops arrest 3 for playing PUBG
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Apex Legends hits 10 million players in just three days
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It's really easy to find hospitals in India, just google 'hospitals around me' or use the phone number '102' to call an ambulance from any place. Usually, doctors are very comfortable talking in English. I'm fr
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Installing a root certificate is a major breach of privacy. This is what Fiddler does on windows when you need development access to a machine and want to view data being transferred between all websites including https. By using a VPN they
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I prefer laptops to be thin, light and something that I can carry around in my hands. 15.6 inch is too big for a portable laptop and starts to approach desktop replacement territory. Rather get a 14 inch Laptop and plug it into a 4k monitor
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This is a good article which tries to explain how .NET works under the hood. https://blog.stephencleary.com/2013/11/there-is-no-thread.ht...
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Golang is pretty interesting, given how it's architected. But you have the concept of channels added on top of async/await which you need to keep in mind.
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C# is a pretty underrated language. I've worked with JS, Java, C++, Perl and I've always preferred to use C# for personal projects. async/await - C# is the ONLY language which gets this right. Javascript has it now but you ne
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Interestingly Microsoft also had it's own set of problems with Java when Sun was at the helm. Windows used to ship with Java and Visual studio had java as a first class citizen. Microsoft being microsoft, added extensions to Java which
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8-bit techno music playing the background
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I'm surprised that the list doesn't mention consolas. It ships default with visual studio and it's so good that I use it on arch Linux as my terminal font and with intellij. It was designed with programming in mind and has so
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Sorry, I didn't understand. We need a service side service to keep track of ack's that we received from the device. I am not able to understand how a db flag would help.
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There is a way to detect it but it's hacky. You need to use fcm xmpp to send data push notifications with delivery receipts and also send an acknowledgement from the apps background service. Devices where you don't get the app ack
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There used to be a hidden list. I was the head of android dev for flock , a team messenger and we had gotten in touch with OnePlus who added us to the whitelist. More details here : https://hackernoon.com/notifications-in-an
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>We're trying to figure out the best way of telling users how to change their battery settings The best way to do that is to remotely figure out on which devices the app is getting killed by sending data push notification messages a
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It does happen on oneplus devices and it's quite common to find complaints on oneplus forums like : https://bit.ly/2VSkhty . In all cases it is solved by adding these apps to the whitelist. If you aren't facing is
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Killing background tasks is great and Android does that automatically to save battery usage. But these manufacturers have implemented their own functionality on top of Android which cripples even critical messaging applications like WhatsAp
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