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ropiku··on Ask HN: What would happen if Apple removed Uber from its App Store?
It doesn't, Uber processes their payments themselves. You don't have to pay the Apple tax for physical goods or services.
ropiku··on Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world
You need to signup & login but the account is free. Unlike Openzone or others which are not free (in $) for everyone.
ropiku··on What future for BT and the UK's broadband?
Some new buildings are wired by OpenReach with FTTP.

What amazes me is that Hyperoptic sells 1gbps internet over OpenReach fiber but BT only sells 300mbps (at a higher price) http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/08/hand...

ropiku··on Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers
You can totally use CocoaPods to add and update Fabric https://docs.fabric.io/ios/fabric/cocoapods.html. I'm not sure if this still requires the Fabric app but I didn't have issues with it.
ropiku··on The Madness of Airline Élite Status
On a long haul international flight ? I doubt it. It's hard to find even mile redemption availability.
ropiku··on Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers
FYI it's built using Swift and ReactiveCocoa. They put up all the dependencies licenses in Settings so I made a list of the packages they use https://gist.github.com/ropiku/b259f35060a40eab1597.
ropiku··on The Madness of Airline Élite Status
You would only need one per alliance.

You still need to fly quite a lot to get even first level status if you are flying economy and spreading around in multiple airlines. That won't get you much, not even lounge access which is a big benefit. Also on some airlines miles expire.

ropiku··on Justice Department Wants Data from About 12 Other iPhones
But it wouldn't be just the US. It would be any other country, and not just the country's citizens.

"Why should there be a virtual space where people can hide from US/China/Russia/Saudi Arabia/etc."

ropiku··on What 5G Will Mean for You
Data caps should go up as people move to more spectral efficient technologies. Even as carriers fight it, competition slowly makes data caps bigger.
ropiku··on Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”
Sundar Pinchai tweeted https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/700104298600886272
ropiku··on Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come)
Twitter was offering RSUs since before the IPO (I worked at Twitter).
ropiku··on Interest Rates, Unicorns and What the Fed Means to Silicon Valley
The problem is even if they could be profitable, they choose to invest all the money they can in growing rather than making a profit. So it's hard to know.
ropiku··on Fundraising values Skyscanner at $1.6B
Since those flights are not on the same booking it's not a connecting flight and they don't have to help you. They might, but if they don't there's nothing you can do about it.
ropiku··on iOS 9.3 Preview
Here are the docs for Safari 9.1: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...

No support for service workers unfortunately.

ropiku··on San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country
If you have a good transit system you don't need parking.
ropiku··on All NYC Subway Stations to Receive Wi-Fi by End of 2016
If you pay or if you have a plan with a partner mobile carrier it saves your credentials and autoconnects. Other SSIDs like "EE-Auto" use EAP-SIM authentication.
ropiku··on PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
Great that Heroku sponsored upsert and have support for 9.5 right now (in beta): https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/1/7/postgres-95-now-av...?
ropiku··on New York is installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi
As far as I know in many markets they can't, the monopolies were granted by cities. Comcast even sued some cities trying to build infrastructure: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8530403/chattanooga-comcast...
ropiku··on PostgreSQL 9.5 RC1 Released
Yes ! Really looking forward to having native upsert instead of custom functions.
ropiku··on Ask HN: Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?
No, it does not. It's the difference in value when you exercise. However you expose yourself to a big risk if you exercise immediately after joining, depending on how much the options cost you.
ropiku··on HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
For HTTP/2 it's a lot better to have fewer domains since they download in parallel as you say. I think the only advantage of hosting jQuery from a shared place would be caching between servers. CloudFlare already acts as a CDN for your static files.
ropiku··on HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
Does anyone know if they support HTTP/2 on the backend side too ? They didn't with SPDY and I think it would help to multiplex connections all the way.
ropiku··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
Envoy - San Francisco (ONSITE, VISA and relocation support)

Envoy is a beautiful, modern visitor sign in system for the iPad. Collect visitor information along with support for signing NDAs, printing badges, or automatically sending SMSs to their hosts. We have unheard-of word-of-mouth growth, early (and sustained) revenue (pretty rare around here!), and customers who adore our products and support.

We're looking for iOS, Rails and Ember engineers. We want people who use the right tool for the job. It's not always about perfect code, and it's not always about hitting deadlines; we look for a healthy balance of both.

We’re still small, and as Envoy grows, we'd like your responsibility to grow too. We live and breath autonomy (make your own decisions), mastery (learn from smart people), and purpose (build what people want).

https://envoy.co/jobs/

Reach out to jobs@envoy.co if you're interested or see my email in profile.

ropiku··on Maybe Clockless Chip Design's Time Has Come
Manchester University did develop an asynchronous ARM compatible chip: http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/processors/amulet/
ropiku··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
Envoy - San Francisco (ONSITE, visa and relocation support)

Envoy is a beautiful, modern visitor sign in system for the iPad. Collect visitor information along with support for signing NDAs, printing badges, or automatically sending SMSs to their hosts. It's visitor management re-imagined.

We're looking for iOS, Rails and Ember engineers. We want people who use the right tool for the job. It's not always about perfect code, and it's not always about hitting deadlines; we look for a healthy balance of both.

Team Envoy is small yet mighty. This is a great place to learn, grow and participate first hand in something that’s going to be huge.

https://envoy.co/jobs/

Reach out to jobs@envoy.co if you're interested !

ropiku··on How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service
It does, at least on TV series it autoplays the next episode. Definitely does that on the Apple TV.
ropiku··on Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
The other repliers added more info, sorry.

You are correct about share options, on which your gain is only the price difference for which you pay CGT (or not). But the liquid tech companies (Google, FB, Twitter) give out direct stock which is taxed on their Fair Market Value at the time of vesting. RSUs are taxed the same way both in UK and US.

ropiku··on New analysis of the impact of tech buses in San Francisco
I think there's also the US rule that passenger trains sharing the track with freight trains need withstand collisions. That's why they are heavy and less efficient than lighter european trains.
ropiku··on Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
The cap gain is only paid on the profit made when selling. RSUs are taxed as regular income when they are awarded. Most likely the employees are high rate tax payers so it comes out at 40-45% tax + National Insurance.
ropiku··on Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through
Looks like it's using the list from Eyeo (Adblock Plus) https://acceptableads.org/
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