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johnwardson Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules

Isn't this just going to drive all the tracking serverside?

Hash up the tracking data in the app, send it back to the app's servers, send it to whoever you like? Same is happening with browsers and 3rd party cookies.

johnwardson Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?

If you only enabled that location tracking you wouldn't be in this problem.... :D

johnwardson Scratch 3.0

https://codeclubprojects.org/

johnwardson Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

Rock solid. We've have had 2 fire 7's in our house for 1.5 years, in the hands of a now 8 and 6 year old and no issues. Things are covered in gunk (like how they manage the touch screen is beyond me), and they keep going.

I don't use unlimited, I've side loaded play store, set age range, enabled full parental controls on play store and on the tablet themselves... They have full control, but web is blocked etc. Play store is great, tells them they need to uninstall things to install the next game. They don't need my interaction to install X or Y now.

They did manage to download an app that let them have full access to unfiltered youtube, but we caught that pretty quick. YouTube kids is great as well.

johnwardson Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

No, they use dual clutches.

johnwardson Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

Oh I hate CVT. I've got a Land Rover Discovery 3 with a non-CVT auto and it's as smooth as anything changing gear, you just don't notice.

Looking at getting an auto for our second smaller car, and CVT is like someone has an elastic band on the gears. Would drive me up the wall. The Citroen box at least comes with paddles which helps.

The VW/Audi dual clutch box is the best, you get the economy of CVT and it's so much smoother. Shame they are so much more expensive second hand than CVT autos :(

johnwardson Stroom helps large organisations understand their systems

And on github https://github.com/gchq/stroom

johnwardson The TV antenna is making a comeback

The TV Licence funds the BBC content, which is Free to Air TV, online stuff, Radio etc. It has no ads and aims to have as much diverse stuff as possible.

The BBC is awesome, I happily pay my tv tax :)

johnwardson Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery

So he isn't pushing anything, both things can be valid.

You don't "need" jQuery, but you might not-not need jQuery unless you do something about those bugs.

yell.com mobile site removed jQuery from their codebase, and used that list during the process. Looking at each bug, does it affect them, yes/no. If yes, code around it.

I'm a jQuery fan, but sometimes you might not need jQuery, but sometimes you might not-not need jQuery

johnwardson PolyConf 2015 – A multi-disciplinary conference for polyglot programmers

Yip: http://theleaddeveloper.com/

johnwardson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

TripAdvisor, Oxford UK, are looking for full stack engineers to join the team.

Have some Java/.net experience, along side some Python/PHP/Ruby and build stuff for the web then we're interested in you :)

We have senior and mid/junior positions open:

* Senior (Salary: £60-100,000): https://tripadvisor.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?...

* Mid (Salary: £40-60,000): https://tripadvisor.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?...

Why join us? Well other than the highly competitive salary and the perks such as share scheme, bonus, family health care, life insurance etc....

You'll join us at the start of a new project building the new supply platform for the Vacation Rentals side of the business, using microservices, CI and CD... working with some of the smartest engineers from across TripAdvisor.

johnwardson There are no projects like side projects

The benefits of side projects can also be demonstrated by "in company" side projects I guess? 20% time etc. (gmail, post-it notes)

I'm trying to attempt to introduce 20% time in my department, trying to convince the management that it is worthwhile is going to be hard I think.

Some of the benefits I can see, learning for staff, fulfilment for staff both of which aid retention, and potential products or product improvements that would otherwise not see the light of day.

Anyone got any suggestions of ways of introducing 20% time, other than listing benefits and crossing fingers?

johnwardson You Don't Need JQuery

Tickets to jQuery UK 2015 are on sale now! http://jqueryuk.com/2015/

(Sorry ;))

In all seriousness I'd recommend watching Adam Sontag's keynote from jQuery UK 2014 which covers the "not needing" jQuery stuff http://vimeo.com/97723665

johnwardson KeyBox: A better way to SSH

Ansible is a good idea for something like that. The groups is a handy feature.

Also the multiple terminal session stuff is rather useful in an emergency patch across a ton of servers. (Drupal patch last month it was very handy)

johnwardson KeyBox: A better way to SSH

The thing about keybox is that it's nice and fast to get better. For someone that doesn't have an ops team, or even an ops person, it is a neat solution.

Yes you need to be careful with it, I ran it on an internal VM, with only 2 users who had access to the admin console.

I'd love to see something as simple to use as keybox based around LDAP, I've had a google and can't see anything.

johnwardson KeyBox: A better way to SSH

Big fan of keybox, used it massively at my old place. So handy to remove contractors from servers at a push of button.

johnwardson Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review

We're hiring btw ;)

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/careers/

johnwardson The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics

Follow https://twitter.com/PicPedant for lolz, and credits :)

johnwardson CircleCI's incident response

So, to be clear. I need to contact Github directly to see if my source has been downloaded using compromised deploy keys?

johnwardson CircleCI security incident

I'm pretty sure that Circle uses the oAuth api to checkout repos, the deploy key part on github they use for their deployment feature.

If the attacker has a bunch of tokens, could they have bulk downloaded source code before the oAuth stuff was revoked by Circle?

https://github.com/blog/1270-easier-builds-and-deployments-u...

johnwardson Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 25th September

Nice to see that you have Mandy speaking. She is also speaking, as yet unannounced talk, at http://allyourbaseconf.com this year.

johnwardson Why Facebook really bought Parse

I think this is the important bit from this article.

However, I have been working on a way to avoid being locked in to Parse, i.e. still use the Parse SDK (ViewControllers, PFObject, etc) but build in a kill switch to have the Parse SDK suddenly communicate with one’s own servers instead of Parse’s. Then to migrate out of Parse all one would need to do would be to build an API server endpoint that quacks like Parse. This would be a much less daunting task than getting every user to upgrade to a new app binary that didn’t use Parse. I thought of the name Parseport, i.e. leave when you want. A proof of concept is here[1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/stevegraham/6067333

johnwardson Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100

Woah I thought it was only me that was pressing stuff with my ear on the phone.

Usually it is "3" when listening to voice mail...which deletes the message!

johnwardson ChessBoardJS

Also has the best CAPTCHA ever. http://en.lichess.org/signup

johnwardson [dead]

Whoops, so used to the web links in spotify didn't realise that you needed to be logged in (sure this is a change)

Try it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

johnwardson Show HN: PouchDB - The JavaScript database that syncs

Here is daleharvey giving an intro to PouchDB at http://allyourbaseconf.com last year.

https://vimeo.com/56632201