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heroic··on What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic
So basically someone trying to call all phone numbers and identify your number, when it rings falls in the same category?
heroic··on Why I’m rewriting my SaaS
Rackspace email? Why not gsuite?
heroic··on Jenkins Is Getting Old
try jenkinsx. It's only named jenkins, but works without it. Supports Kubernetes only though
heroic··on Alibaba Puts SDK Flutter to the Test
How does this compare with the new RN architecture coming in? Does anyone know what kind of gains we can expect?
heroic··on I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
I use Brave and Netflix and PrimeVideo work fine. How does that happen?
heroic··on Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams
How are you different from Jenkins X?
heroic··on Earnest Capital is live
Hi Tyler, this is amazing! Going through the FAQ it seems, you're not investing in India right now! Would love to know if and when you do!
heroic··on It is fast or it is wrong
This is by far the weirdest of all arguments ever. The OP compares faster execution of code to being a comfortable aircraft and slower to an uncomfortable train. What he missed out on is, that it's easier to build out code that may execute slow, but works(making it more comfortable - room for quick changes to the product), rather than making something that takes a hell lot longer to make(and then spend proportionately longer when you have to change something)

I'll take Ruby vs C as an example. If I was to test out a weekend project, I'd rather choose ruby, even if it's going to be slow, as I can focus on finishing everything in the few hours that I have

heroic··on A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine
In our university they had locked down the windows to not allow us to install anything... A friend had a linux boot disk that would remove the windows admin password. And we had AoE on our the last bench computers! Counter Strike on the second last bench! The admin realized the password was gone, and he reset the system a month later, and the process repeated! Oh so much fun!
heroic··on Ask HN: I’m a non-tech founder, would you recommend me working with freelancers?
As a former freelancer myself: here's what i hate about clients:

1. Know what you need. Don't go to a freelancer assuming he understands, or cares, about your product as much as you do. 2. Be clear on every single functionality about what you need. If there's something you did not define, the freelancer will mostly always choose the easiest to implement and probably most unwanted option 3. Have a wireframe. Always use a wireframing tool to make a "flow" of how your app will work. If you can't use mock up tools, use powerpoint, but please have something ready 4. There is nothing like a cheap, or expensive freelancer. It's mostly all experience and knowledge. What you want is someone who can make what you need, and has done similar work before. A good question to test out someone's basic tech knowledge is to ask them if they know the difference between, hashing, encoding and encryption.

heroic··on Show HN: Smallest Node.js Docker images
This is the builder pattern in docker. You do things in one "throw away" container, use results from this container and copy them into another. The final container gets only one layer now, instead of maybe 10s that your "throw away" container had.
heroic··on Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
PayPay is a Japanese payment company
heroic··on Introducing Network Service Tiers
> There are at least three independent paths (N+2 redundancy) between any two locations on the Google network, helping ensure that traffic continues to flow between these two locations even in the event of a disruption. As a result, with Premium Tier, your traffic is unaffected by a single fiber cut. In many situations, traffic can flow to and from your application without interruption even with two simultaneous fiber cuts.

What does this mean? N+2 redundancy should mean, that even if both go down, then service will not be affected at all, no?

heroic··on Explaining React's license
Try out weex
heroic··on Ruby on Guix
I am quite sure RVM now offers a signed download too.

https://rvm.io/rvm/security

heroic··on Ask HN: Any way to find why users uninstall my app?
Are you asking them to give them their email ids, etc to you? If yes, then why don't you email users who haven't used the app in a long time, about news features, etc and also include a feedback link there. You might get some responses.

Also, try to find the uninstall rates for other todo apps. I personally in a moment of self realization decide to make todos, but the very next day I get fed up and uninstall the app, maybe thats common across a lot of users?

heroic··on India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to popularity of mobile
To be precise, 85-90% of their customers are now coming through mobile app. Going forward, it doesn't make sense for them to support so many platforms. People using their website are now a minority. Keeping the website operational is just too much effort in the long run for them.

You can compare this with, how many developers worry about Blackberry when they launch? Hardly any! The reasoning is simple: it's a platform whose usage is sinking(was?).

heroic··on TANX: online multiplayer tank battle using WebGL and Node.js
I was having the same issue. Just turned of AdBlock and it worked.
heroic··on Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?
To give an idea I'll tell you what my employee had to bear with me:

1) He was a fresh out of college, and had no job for an year. He started working on Ruby on Rails for me. Every day, I'd make sure I let him know when he wasn't performing upto the mark, sometimes even going to extremes where I ended up making him cry. (I know it was bad on my part, and I apologized). 2) I did however make it a point never to tell him anything to solve his issues. If I thought/noticed that he isn't progressing, then I'd just drop a word or two, and leave it upto him to figure out that I have left him a hint. 3) I considered myself the worst senior to have, but today, due to him being hard working and the go-figure-yourself attitude I gave him, he is currently very successful at him current job, and is able to take on problems and come up with solutions by himself.

Coming to how is this relevant to you: Are you sure your colleagues are not giving you hints, or pushing you to find answers by yourself? Lending a hand is okay, but mostly I have seen that ending up creating a spoon feed me mentality.

On how to keep your dignity, I'd say there is no other way than to keep learning. If you are a software dev, attend hackathons/talks/etc, and keep yourself updated on the latest.

Rotten attitudes is not always the case, but sometimes the pressure to be the best pushes you to that side. It's important to remember where you started at to remain a human.

heroic··on Show HN: Update your app, without publishing on play store
Also,

You can login with demo@appengagementoptimizer.com / demouser

heroic··on Show HN: Update your app, without publishing on play store
Hi dang,

We are not connected to the above user. This is a project by my girlfriend and me, hence it is free as well(or at least till we can figure out a sensible business model around this).

heroic··on Show HN: Update your app, without publishing on play store
It takes less than 10 minutes to integrate it within your app!
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PS: Open this link from your mobile.
heroic··on Better Rate Limiting with Redis Sorted Sets
If say you wanted to perform an action 10 times a minute and also maintain a gap(in other words, time between action to be 6 seconds), could you simply not have done this:

1) Use SETNX, if you are able to do it, then set a TTL of 6 seconds on the key. Do these in a MULTI. 2) Perform action.

Now you have rate limiting as well as gap between actions. Also, no blocked actions, will affect anything. If I got something wrong from your post, do let me know.

heroic··on Artificial Intelligence, Really, Is Pseudo-Intelligence
Lets see it this way, does the amoeba simulation ever begin to show signs of evolving? Even if given a millenia? If no, then it's not intelligence, call it video playback if you will.
heroic··on Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
Why not set up forwarders? Simply setup your email on whatever service(every domain registrar provides one), and forward emails to another gmail. In your gmail account setup a from address. Done.
heroic··on Taking PHP Seriously
Why can't something like PHP to Java be done? It's been done for everything to Javascript.

That way they could simple move PHP to the other language, and write whatever new in the other language?

heroic··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)
SEEKING WORK - remote only:

RoR, PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, NodeJS, JavaScript, AWS, memcached, Redis, Java, Android

github: http://github.com/heroic

recent projects: contentforest.com eashmart.com rackstare(android)

Rates: $80/hour, ($60 for projects extending over 120 hours/month)

Email: findme at itsamit dot com

heroic··on Ask HN: Facebook status updates and sharing down
I can't even change my password!
heroic··on 5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
How awesome would it be if this was then used by NSA to provide agents with backups of all snooped data, available in their pockets, in a piece of glass!
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