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by timwis 8y ago
Check out the fxtec pro1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/slider-phone-reborn-fxtec-pro1...
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Is he referring to the way that you talk to your team, or the way that you talk to him? If the latter, there's a chance he's insecure about his lack of technical knowledge and reassures himself that his role is to be the "lea
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by timwis 8y ago
Would you consider putting a preview of a card on the homepage? I'm hesitant to click the download button on my mobile without much context.
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This website blocks visitors from Europe because of GDPR...
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by timwis 8y ago
Having to write all those components from scratch would be a real pain in the neck, and they'd look very basic. I don't use bootstrap, but I at least use something like bulma so I have a professional-looking starting point.
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Hah, I built a mass text messaging SaaS product called TextBlast in 2012 :P had the domain TextBlast.org. I've since shut it down but funny coincidence.
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For me the barriers have been implementing the server (especially with authorisation logic); consuming it as a client was the relatively easy part.
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Um, how do they know what their customers do when they're not watching Netflix..?
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by timwis 8y ago
Snooze is a bit easier; boomerang is a service that offers that for at least outlook as well.
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by timwis 8y ago
The feature that makes it so hard for me to leave Gmail is the automatic bundling of promotions, updates, social, forums. That has made managing my inbox actually manageable. Is that any way to get a feature with another email provider?
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City of Philadelphia | Director of Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineers | Philadelphia, PA | ONSITE (great city) Hey folks! My colleagues at the City of Philadelphia's Office of Innovation & Technology are revamping the
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by timwis 8y ago
What about Hangouts calling (inbound/outbound) with your Google voice number? I'm moving from the US to the UK next month and was hoping to maintain my US number by porting it to Google Voice and using Hangouts calls. Anyone know
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I love it!
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Great idea, but the main CTA is hidden on mobile! Had to switch to desktop mode to see the main button.
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Particularly interesting in light of linux's "everything is a file" principle...sockets, printers..
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This is really helpful to convey all the use cases!
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Following Chicago's lead, the City of Philadelphia hosts a mirror of the site from before it was taken down: https://www.phila.gov/climatechangeisreal/
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by timwis 8y ago
Anyone up for an analysis of Philadelphia's 311 data? https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/311-service-and-infor...
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I'm nervous about switching browsers because if I have to switch back then I have to deal with importing all my bookmarks back. Does anyone have a good way of syncing bookmarks between all my browsers? The only thing I've seen is
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Sounds like a great idea!
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Nicely written for more general audiences! Big news :) Congrats Juan, Matt, Michelle, and team if you see this!
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by timwis 8y ago
I switched back to Gmail a few months ago. Used boomerang for snoozing until Gmail added the feature itself. The biggest benefit for me is the auto filtering of primary/social/updates/forums. I've yet to find an alternat
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by timwis 8y ago
Same here. Very complex to implement, or you decide to use libraries that provide tremendous abstraction. And you still have to worry about query optimisation and n+1 problem. Not to mention if certain users can see certain fields!
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From what I've seen it's just that clients like Apollo cache already requested properties so there's less unnecessary fetching. Not that compelling IMO.
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by timwis 8y ago
Personally I use markdown files synced with Dropbox and search with the silver searcher. But I think I better answer to your question is perkeep (formerly camlistore): https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep
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My first thought is why would I need a SaaS app for a checklist, but I figured there must be something to it, so I poked around the site on my phone for a screenshot or something but the only option is to sign up, and I don't know what
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by timwis 8y ago
But newspapers are curated; twitter is not. A closer analogy to twitter is the Postal Service.
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What if Apple comes up with some new invention for the charging cables in a year or two, for example some even faster Quick Charge that USB C can't handle?
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I'm guessing here, but probably that plugging in something that expects a different voltage could start a fire
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I agree I've never seen my dog do any research

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