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sparaker

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Entrepreneur, designer and developer

talha a.t fallentech.com Twitter: @tal_asad

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sparaker··on How to pick startup ideas
A nice read. I am going to adopt alot of practices from this article. And yes i think alot of times you just get lucky in a few things that can make or break your product. Good affiliations early on can give your product good PR.
sparaker··on Google announces Android for Work
No you'd still need the crypt key to decode the data. Why do you assume this is stored on the device?
sparaker··on Google announces Android for Work
Not if it is encrypted.
sparaker··on My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
I am the kind of person who likes to work with small but effective teams. I like people who are willing to go the extra mile to build something cool and advanced. Although i haven't been to Google, Apple, etc but i think these companies do not leave enough room for people to explore new cool technologies to work in, which is pretty much all you do in startups.

So i'll always go with a smaller and effective team than being part of a very big company where my role is more or less insignificant.

sparaker··on GPG and Me
I use GPG often and it gets the work done. It might be the author is not happy with the long process of using GPG and the shortcomings of the documentation. I think if GPG is integrated with more applications, it might have a lot more users.
sparaker··on Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
I hope i don't see very irrelevant results again cause i might not return again if it fails again.
sparaker··on Unreal Engine 4.7 Released
I have had faster development using unity.
sparaker··on Introducing Pebble Time
$6.2 M and 31 days to go. Wow. This is definitely a successful campaign.
sparaker··on A Story About ‘Magic' (1994)
I would love to have some of those in my office, just to have a psychological change with a flip of a button.
sparaker··on Firefox 36.0 released
Interested in testing out HTTP/2
sparaker··on Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal
Apparently people generally do not "tweet the URL of some snuggly G-rated kittens." Especially not using the tweet button on the porn site. Secondly this is more of a leak from public tweet rather than by visiting your websites. Unless i tweet, you have practically nothing.
sparaker··on Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal
What is this browser fingerprint? If you are talking about some cookies and the user agent string. I wouldn't be concerned.
sparaker··on Artemis is building a 4G network in SF to prove its pCell tech works
I think this is possible.
sparaker··on How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
Its important to look for supporting evidence and gather facts. Yes you're right the masses still believes everything they see on TV and other officially controlled media. The more time someone believes something, the more time it takes to break him out of it.

As for conspiracy theorists these people generally have had atleast 1 experience in the past, where they had picked the right trail and were mislead. These guys generally tend to negate everything they get from mainstream sources and continue to advertise their version of events. I am not saying they are wrong or right, its just psychology. Most of these guys just need a single clue to say to themselves, "You see, i was right".

sparaker··on I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face
I think it will need another 5 years of development before we can get even near that.
sparaker··on Is Blockchain Really the Killer App?
I think its the decentralized nature that is the big win. However for bitcoin to really "win" is when people would actually prefer payments in bitcoin than any other medium. Which is not the case so far, except for illegal market places.
sparaker··on Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal
I think this should only be applicable to sites where you are logged in, as otherwise its going to be pretty difficult for them to identify using your name.
sparaker··on An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split
To gain more development support. More developers = more apps = more users = more revenue.

It makes sense.

sparaker··on 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over
I think there has to be some kind of massive leap before we get to that state, regardless i we'll get creative freedom to do whatever we please and excel in things we might not have been interested in earlier as they had no "economic value".

Obviously its going to be a journey before the masses will get used to not working as they have been all their lives.

sparaker··on Raspberry Pi becomes best-selling UK computer ever as sales top 5M
Yes i was strictly speaking in terms of specs. You are right in this regards, rasberry pi has much better eco system.
sparaker··on Create and manipulate fonts using JavaScript
Looks pretty awesome. Do you have any benchmarks on how fast this is on a mobile?
sparaker··on “RNG broken for last 4 months”
Well they should be on stable, that is what stable branch is for.
sparaker··on Microsoft is interesting again
Microsoft has always failed when they have tried to enforce their own standards in the industry. Moving away from this mistake and recognizing that promoting something that is relevant and makes sense is the only way to go forward is a huge step.

Funding new interesting ideas will always help them also secure a better seat in the open source community as most startups rely on open source technologies.

sparaker··on Raspberry Pi becomes best-selling UK computer ever as sales top 5M
I have always found banana pi to be superior in terms of value for money.
sparaker··on Show HN: High Performance BitTorrent Tracker in Go
A very good choice of language. I hope you keep working on this actively.
sparaker··on Top Php Framework worth looking forward to in 2015
I personally think the only worth using is laravel. CodeIgniter seems pretty much dead in terms of development and others don't have alot of active development.
sparaker··on The Problem with Job Titles
I am surely looking forward to this.
sparaker··on The Problem with Job Titles
A pretty good way to find people that you want to hire. Perhaps if we can add some experience graphs along with these, we can get a good platform up that actually makes head hunting really easy for small companies who do not have the time or the money to do this properly.
sparaker··on Firefox to get a “walled garden” for extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter
I agree with you on this. However i have also seen that alot of malware and adware does indeed make it to the browser to make it more pathetic and i think its a good direction in that regard. However i think that they really need to actually think what users are going to use then just build random features that nobody really cares for. And the imitation game is definitely not good, why be separate if you're going to keep on imitating.
sparaker··on PowerSpy: Location Tracking Using Mobile Device Power Analysis
I think this is a really long article for a relatively very small hack. For the most part location cannot be obtained, at max i think the victims route maybe identified with respect to the cell tower its connected to.
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