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ossama··on $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups
More likely "equitable"
ossama··on New Chromecast 2015
Spotify support for Chromecast was announced today. http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9409673/google-chromecast-...
ossama··on Hacker News API
and one showing all top stories updating in realtime. Obviously, in JS, but the other Firebase SDKs are similar: http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/96voj1xh/
ossama··on Hacker News API
Here's an example showing all topstories and updating in realtime. Obviously, in JS, but the other Firebase SDKs are similar: http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/96voj1xh/
ossama··on Hacker News API
Here's a simple example that displays the top story and votes using the Firebase JS SDK (and updates in realtime): http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/cm8ne9nh/
ossama··on Ask HN: Build a chat functionality in iOS app
Take a look at this iOS open source project: https://github.com/firebase/firechat-ios

It's a basic chat app built around Firebase as a backend.

ossama··on It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment
Scary, but this isn't surprising at all. What the hardware does in these cases is more important than the software that runs it. Couple that with devices that sell in relatively small quantities for high cost, and you get undertested, unstressed software.
ossama··on The Golden Age of Basic
To this day I credit Nibbles and QBASIC in MSDOS for getting me started in programming. This was a little later than the 80s (QBASIC was introduced in 1991). As a bored computer savvy kid discovering a game installed on my computer and realizing that I could change the game was all it took to eat up hours of fun.