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Could you imagine using the current feature set to do this? Is there anything missing?

Right, there are a number of tools like that including the (now defunct) Sqwiggle. My goal was to create something simple to fit a few use cases and see what people do with it.

The plan is to keep the current functionality free and add premium features for remote teams in the future.

This is an interesting use of Cloudflare Workers.

My unsolicited advice is to list some specific SEO fixes and improvements in the app description. It's not clear to me what it does and the screenshots are hard to parse.

I live in Bali and occasionally consult for companies back in London. I’m on UTC+8 so if I start early I get most of the day uninterrupted and then an hour or so of overlap.

It’s incredibly productive for me but I’m lucky that I enjoy programming enough to rarely get distracted by my picturesque surroundings during the day.

It is pretty complicated. The article states that it took 9 years of R&D to get it to work.

SurfStream is nothing like real surfing.

Is this not the same as integrating 'Login with Facebook' and sharing my user's profile data with a third party service using server-side API requests? A practice that I'm sure is rife.

The third party JS scripts simply cut out the middleman, but as a side effect the sharing is detectable.

I was curious about this a few years ago and looked it up. It's called hypnagogia and people have been known to try to induce it deliberately for creative purposes.

Granted it's hypocritical unless the original commenter applies the same principle to every country that he or she visits — which would be an absurd way to live.

By visiting Silicon Valley am I supporting the US government's covert wars, extrajudicial drone strikes and interference in the affairs of other countries? Not in any meaningful way. This is an absurd argument.

The routing algorithm uses deep learning® in case that bumps up our valuation at all?

Thanks for the heads up! I didn't spot this.

We post semi-frequent updates on our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/the.limo.diaries

Thanks for mentioning this — I've removed FB login until it's configured correctly to use native login!

Hey folks, author here. My phone is exploding.

I hear you on the Facebook login issue. I misconfigured the Facebook SDK and it's falling back to a web view rather than using native login.

I just pushed an over-the-air update to remove Facebook login entirely for now.

Yep we're currently docked in Portland.

That's White Sands, New Mexico

This recent exchange with DHH may give you some insights: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/787561745686618113

It would be quite amusing if a founder pledged to the Church of Scientology. I still sometimes forget that they actually do have tax-exempt status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology#Classifi...

It's too late. Ether was already hijacked to become a trading instrument.

I'm convinced that Ethereum is going to suffer the same fate as Bitcoin. Here's the cycle that will eventually play out:

(1) Relatively interesting technological breakthrough comes along. Promising but questionable applicability to real-world problems.

(2) It attracts early, idealistic developers, some of whom are genuinely talented. Rational debate is still possible at this point.

(3) The hype builds up and in turn attracts various groups: raging anarcho-capitalists, developers of a mildly libertarian bent, get-rich-quick enthusiasts and teenagers. The price continually bubbles and spikes as fresh money comes in from speculators betting on the hype.

(4) The spiking price is misinterpreted as a signal that the technology is going mainstream and is ready to be applied to real-world problems. Lots of half-baked apps and companies are built. No actual traction is found (with the notable exception of the dark web).

(5) Repeat (3) and (4) until the press and wider community no longer believe the hype. Possibly rebrand to 'blockchains' or some other less toxic noun.

I strongly suspect that you would enjoy the writings of Izabella Kaminska over at the FT:

  Techies look upon the financial world and find its messy structures
  hard to reconcile with the physical reality around them.

  Which is why we’re going to propose that the blockchain fad is mostly
  about putting finance in terms that are understandable to techies — i.e.
  as something absolute – and having them learn for themselves through
  trial and error why that’s actually a flawed assumption in finance.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/30/2143506/if-you-call-it...

Hello, another Siphon developer here.

We're still finalising this, but the paid offering will most likely be differentiated on being able to publish apps to the App Store (and eventually Google Play) with everything else remaining free. Alternatively we may choose to allow a very limited version of publishing for free (i.e. limited by number of users or number of push updates).

Feel free to drop us email if you have some more questions: hello@getsiphon.com

Has anyone tried something like this but with OS X running in a VM? As a distributed team we would prefer not to rely on one of us physically hosting a Mac Mini.

Thanks for writing this.

There was quite a lot of other Tesla-related news today. The company announced that they're struggling to ramp up production for the Model X and, totally unrelated, the Model S got hacked.

Kraken's API is pretty good when compared to the industry average. It's just a little bit whacky.

Having integrated five other cryptocurrency exchanges, I echo this sentiment. I hope it sets the bar.

Pure speculation, but it sounds like they're relaying everything through the handset. That might explain the lack of iOS support, as background processing is still somewhat restricted.

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Fairford.