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devd··on Show HN: Automated payroll service for Indian startups
Congratulations on the launch. Do you need a relationship with a specific bank?
devd··on Ask HN: Your favorite everyday shoes?
Kirkland mens athletic shoes with superfeet green insoles
devd··on Should we do terminal first web development?
I think Django Admin is another way of getting things functional first and then building UI, Web/Native for B2B apps.
devd··on Ask HN: What is a CTO's responsibility when a startup prepares for exit?
Depends on the size of the startup & the acquirer and the role that you played. Usually:

- Prepare a master presentation explaining the architecture, infrastructure, security, usage stats among other things. You will have to present this to different stakeholders (CTO, CIO, VP of Engineering, Product Management) - so keep it generic, but be prepared to dive into specific topics depending upon the audience.

- Get documentation in order. Design documents, Use cases, processes, all services used along with cost per month/year

- Get Copyright issues in order. Ensure that you are in compliant with licenses of all components that you are using. You should have a document assigning copyright to the company from all employees and contractors.

- Be prepared for a code review.

devd··on Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates
Best of luck with this! I had the same idea, but I prototyped a hack using django admin + cron jobs.
devd··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
Back-End Engineer at Vessel (Mountain View, CA)

We are building the next generation of Mobile Personalization and Analytics. You have the opportunity to become a part of the core engineering team. This role is for engineer number 3 on our team, so this is a high impact and high ownership opportunity.

You are smart and hard-working with a background in Computer Science. You like to work on big-data and problems at scale. You will be building distributed systems capable of handling billions of events per day. Having experience in any or all of Python/Java, Distributed systems, Redis & Android/iOS is a plus.

Email - dev+jobsyc@vessel.io

devd··on Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
Cool project - Wish I could remove some of the mandatory components - I could not figure out a way to remove the hard drive.
devd··on Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
I guess there are a couple of lua implementations. However, this pushes some logic on to the client side - (generate hash, get number of hashes, set the appropriate bits) which the server should ideally handle. I have experimented adding native bloom filters here - https://github.com/devendralaulkar/redis/tree/bloomfilter Basically they reuse the bit operations internally, and set multiple bits in a single command.
devd··on Ask HN: How do you save the tidbits of good information you find online?
Put it in a mindmap - I use FreeMind
devd··on TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple
Again shameless plug for our service - Vessel.io We have a Jenkins plugin, which enables you to exactly achieve this use case.
devd··on TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple
You don't need to integrate the framework if you just want to distribute beta builds. Check the Beta Deploy section on the site. We are also working on adding cocopods.
devd··on TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple
Beta distribution is a free service - For A/B testing, we have those price plans. Updating pricing page to reflect the same.
devd··on Gobble (YC W14) Automates Your Dinner With A Subscription Meal Delivery Service
I tried this service out - Was in a bit of crunch mode recently, and I liked the fact that I don't have to worry about dinner anymore. However, I recently decided to move to a low sodium diet, and I now have a system of cooking/prepping over the weekend
devd··on TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple
Co-founder of vessel.io - We have Android and iOS beta distribution service for free. Happy to help you setup your account.
devd··on Apps, made better by everyone
I stand corrected - Now I see it is like developing AGPL products by a group of individuals/community. Interesting concept, reminds me of an idea pitched to me few years back.
devd··on Apps, made better by everyone
Actually the site does not claim to build open-source products. They want to use open-source methodology to collectively build and commercialize SaaS products/apps.
devd··on PredictionIO – A machine learning server
Thanks for pointing this out - I was under the assumption that mongodb is under dual GPL/commercial license
devd··on PredictionIO – A machine learning server
Interesting - The server is licensed under AGPL, the clients are Apache v2.0 and there is a promise that a client is a separate "work"
devd··on Bitcoin accidentally solved my startup's international banking problem
Interesting hack - Best of luck.

btw, would the ruling also cover in-app purchaes? Also, does the law which requires a mechanism to transfer ownership to be built in software (DRM etc)

devd··on Appmaker
nice Signals/Slot mechanism, similar to Qt. The color of the line needs to be matched to connect a signal to a slot. Customization of signals/slots seems to be not supported atm.
devd··on Appmaker
Yes Firefox mobile. Tools -> Apps lists all apps
devd··on Appmaker
There is a widget called as randomcat... took some time to figure it out.
devd··on Appmaker
Cool - Created a simple app and pushed the app to Firefox on Android
devd··on Starting an Airline
Another good game - Simutrans - http://www.simutrans.com/en/
devd··on Vessel launches mobile A/B testing platform after 10 million SDK installs
Thanks!
devd··on New iOS 7 designs vs Android
Pandora on Android looks better than iPhone
devd··on An App Platform for Dumb Phones
I can't wait to get my hands on the 501 - I am pretty excited about this phone.
devd··on WWDC Tickets on sale
Well, did anyone get a ticket ?
devd··on Updated Facebook for Android requires "Retrieve Running Apps" permission
FYI, on Android, you can get a list of installed Applications without any permission.
devd··on Redis as the primary data store
Just use the instance storage instead of EBS. Then write a script to move the AOF file from instance storage to EBS/S3
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