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by xasos 11y ago
The continued Asian investment in messaging apps like Snapchat (Alibaba), Kik (Tencent), Hike (Softbank), and Viber (Rakuten) is really interesting and makes sense. Apps like WeChat and QQ are extremely popular in the Asian markets, and the
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by xasos 11y ago
It's more of an all-around package/dependency manager. You could use bower as well, but npm seems to be a lot more popular.
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by xasos 11y ago
Love this.
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by xasos 11y ago
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946981
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by xasos 11y ago
Wow never realized that the latest version of ngrok isn't open source. Strange that you can just hide versions of your software, because you don't want it open-sourced
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by xasos 11y ago
I think that's the main reason why you'd have them. To incite discussion in your interview, and discuss what and why you like to build stuff.
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by xasos 11y ago
I think that's the main reason why you'd have them. To incite discussion in your interview, and discuss what and why you like to build stuff.
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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data (2013)(blog.alinelerner.com)
65 points by xasos 11y ago|42 comments
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by xasos 11y ago
Really big fan of the simplified permissions feature. It's something I've always wanted that Android never had. In addition to the supposed battery usage improvements, I'm looking forward to the new streamlined Android Pay fe
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by xasos 11y ago
Wow this works great! I tested it on a few random company ideas I had, and it returned very relevant potential competitors.
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by xasos 11y ago
What kind of security measures do you have in place to prevent from malicious attacks?
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by xasos 11y ago
Wow, didn't know this was so popular overseas as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol i.e. Japan Display Inc. is a conglomerate that encompasses the LCD businesses of Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi
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by xasos 11y ago
Really interesting that UBC uses Racket for the intro CS course, because UWaterloo does as well
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The new assembly line: 3 best practices for building (secure) connected cars(blog.lookout.com)
1 points by xasos 11y ago|0 comments
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Researchers discover six security flaws in Tesla Model S(ibtimes.co.uk)
2 points by xasos 11y ago|0 comments
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by xasos 11y ago
Nice work on the project! Big fan of the graphics also :) Reminds me of Divshot [0], a heroku-like service for hosting static sites. It's great that you can roll your own site, and don't need a middleman to host for you. [0] http
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by xasos 11y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Many projects are more about the research, and less about the time purely spent coding. Many times, my research time > coding time, so it would be cool if WakaTime made a Chrome plugin that could track that time.
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by xasos 11y ago
Video for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKp_jFxQJc It has also spawned plenty of parodies :)
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by xasos 11y ago
This reminds of Chicago's recent "cloud tax" [0]. It places a tax on anything related to the cloud, include AWS or Netflix. Most of the premises don't make any sense, and it just seems like another revenue stream for the
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by xasos 11y ago
I'm assuming that LAX is the largest U.S. airport to allow regular Uber pickups? You can request an UberTaxi or Uber Black car at ORD [0], which is the second largest airport in terms of traffic in the world [1]. [0] https:/&#x
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by xasos 11y ago
Exactly - The BLS takes a selection of 400 common household items to calculate the rate of inflation [0]. It's really quite interesting what items they include and their thought process behind it. [0] http://www.bls.gov&#x2F
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by xasos 11y ago
> 47% of Coinbase users are now from countries outside the US I wonder what the country breakdown estimation is for all Bitcoin transactions. I would guess more international use than Coinbase numbers
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Jailbreaking not a requirement for infecting iPhones with Hacking Team spyware(blog.lookout.com)
10 points by xasos 11y ago|1 comments
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by xasos 11y ago
Some developers/companies buy "virtual addresses" where their companies can have a virtual address, receive mail, etc.
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by xasos 11y ago
I agree, Apple should front the costs during that 3 month trial period. It's just not fair to not pay artists. The only benefit I see from this is that artists can get exposure they normally wouldn't get, because of the smaller li
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How to Read a Technical Paper(cs.jhu.edu)
4 points by xasos 11y ago|0 comments
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by xasos 11y ago
Isn't this a concern with most APIs? (Even paid ones can shut down, like Ordrx recently)
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Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform(techcrunch.com)
90 points by xasos 11y ago|51 comments
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by xasos 11y ago
They have some huge names under their belt - Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Alipay, etc.
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by xasos 11y ago
> losing 80% of its peak user base I'm assuming this is just for the main FB platform? They still have access to many users through messenger and FB login.

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