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cnicolaouon Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

Surprisingly, I've received a similar storage notice from Apple before the holidays and I decided to download all photos/videos into my own media server instead of hosting it on iCloud. There is not an easy, straight-forward way to download your archive from iCloud. I am slowly getting there using multiple machines and devices.

The issue with the recent changes with Apple is that they increase the prices for no good reason. We're always going to take photos/videos and their sizes keep increasing with modern tech and capabilities.

cnicolaouon Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?

While i really value the books from the US and British armies that were shared, I think "Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey" is a really good book on the topic of Leadership. https://www.amazon.com/Principle-Centered-Leadership-Stephen...

cnicolaouon Open Letter to the Global JSConf Community

A letter addressed to the global JSConf community following the the blog post shared publicly last week regarding JSConf Beirut http://2015.jsconf.eu/news/2016/01/13/concerning-jsconf-beir...

cnicolaouon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

  Location: Beirut, Lebanon (european national)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Full stack dev, Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, JS, HTML/CSS (mobile), Go, *SQL, Redis etc...
  Resume: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/cnicolaou
  Email: constantin.nicolaou@gmail.com

cnicolaouon Facebook breaks logins

Isn't that supposed to increase the chances of guessing the password? Unless there's a constraint on the number of attempts to guess the password, which I think there is.

cnicolaouon Show HN: Designing Web Applications

I got the newsletter via email and headed to buy the book where I reacted same as the majority of commenters on HN. After checking the options/prices, I am going to put that on hold for now. Good luck though, I am sure you've put a lot of effort into this.

For HN users who are wondering about the author, I came across this: http://sachagreif.com/how-nathan-barry-and-i-sold-39k-worth-...

cnicolaouon Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

The title of the post +HN post should be changed after the author updated his entry and clarified Dropbox' position.

cnicolaouon Collect HN: Aprils Fools

Nice one from the AWS team http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/04/announcing-aws-name.html

cnicolaouon Poll: Where do you work (physically)?

At home (Home Office)

cnicolaouon Thoughts on Flash

There is an even more expressive quote for Adobe to peruse: "Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."

cnicolaouon OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands

It's not even wireless... This is definitely a joke. And what a timing, just when Apple introduces the magic mouse with lots of movement functions.

cnicolaouon Facebook: Simplifying the Stream

Again, it's confusing and unpredicted.