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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 CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
I don't know if they have this, but a good feature a privacy centric android experience would be, to have a simple accessible log of what app accessed what using which permission.
sparaker··on Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)
Sign in takes you to a 404 Github OAuth
sparaker··on How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
1. Google search ads look like search results. While they used to not allow website owners to make their content look like their text ads. 2. Uber shows the rate (and eventually charges) for the maximum possible route from any two locations, when the actual route is generally smaller than that. 3. Amazon charges Import Fee Deposit based on a calculation and when less than that is actually charged, they don't refund it, unless someone actually asks them to.

It seems that world has fallen prey to the mindset, "Screw customer experience, let's extort the maximum amount of money we can."

Technology companies are no longer in the business of making things easier, instead they are in the business of making the most amount of money they can, while not loosing their business entirely. If these companies actually valued the consumer/customer in the past, they've certainly moved beyond that point.

sparaker··on Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
Stop using Facebook already ... it's a liar and deceiving social network.
sparaker··on Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups
I just moved up and down and it detected that as a push up
sparaker··on Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
Looks simple and self explaining framework. Would work well for legacy and small projects that don't need a lot of state to work with.
sparaker··on Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
With all the emails ending with "CEO, MNesty, LLC" I doubt you'll be able to fool anyone
sparaker··on Clean – A functional programming language
For a language that is named "clean", the documentation page is utterly unclean and cluttered.
sparaker··on A 220b spreadsheet app in HTML/JS
I learned the neat trick of -~

Thanks!

sparaker··on Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
Checking up on your friends and family once a week is good enough for most people, Facebook will try to lure you to check it every 4 hours.
sparaker··on Running feature specs with Capybara and Chrome headless
"It is also supposed to improve memory usage and stability"

Did you do a comparison of memory against phantomJS?

sparaker··on Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
It would be interesting to see which subtitles are using these vulnerabilities and what they are achieving with them. We could estimate how long this has been around.
sparaker··on I’ve become worse at programming
The author is clearly feeling burned out and has lost motivation for his project. Working on something for 6 years definitely shows persistence, and persistence is never blind, there is often something fundamental that is driving people working towards competition.

Whenever I feel like this for a project, which happens sooner or later when you don't have users. You should take a break and redefine priorities. Excitement fades when you are prioritizing objectives that don't bring any real concern-able outcome.

Take a step back, see what is at the heart of your project, and see if it still excites you, is it something worth the struggle and effort? If yes, find a better way to do it or complete it with the way you already know. If not, move onto something new, else you'll keep getting more frustrated because of slow progress and lack of motivation.

sparaker··on Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard
Who is to say this guy didn't do the same :)
sparaker··on Hype Driven Development
Many points in this blog post are spot on, The moral of the story is: There is no perfect tech stack or architecture, only pros and cons. The sooner you learn this, the better you become at making decisions.
sparaker··on Show HN: Primitive Pictures
Some benchmarks on the algorithm in the README would be a nice addition, glad this is MIT License.
sparaker··on TypeScript and JSX
This is great news without a doubt, Does anyone know what is the direction Typescript is headed now that ES6 is becoming increasingly supported?
sparaker··on Node v4.0.0
There is http://sailsjs.org/ for people who want a Rails equivalent.
sparaker··on Ideas are Cheap
I think its the loss of excitement mid way executing an idea that makes one lazy. If an idea continues to excite you to a level where you think "you're doing justice to it" i think thats the one worth pursuing.

Try a 100 times and maybe you'll find the one that really clicks with you.

sparaker··on How CockroachDB Does Distributed, Atomic Transactions
But are they written in Go?
sparaker··on Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27M Messages
Anybody know how was he spamming? Using wall or messages?
sparaker··on Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application
This is such a useful project. Seems to be working well in my tests on OS X and i was unsuccessful setting up tmate on my machine.

(silent tears of joy)

sparaker··on Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm (2013)
Had fun trying out your example. I really like this "You will note that who the player is doesn't matter. X or O is irrelevant, only who's turn it happens to be."
sparaker··on CPAN is 20
I think it was the first better done package managers. Saved the problem of installing modules on cross platforms. Most of the time it works without a hiccup. For a perl developer CPAN is a friend.
sparaker··on Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
Phaser is pretty impressive. i am building my first game on it and i am in love.
sparaker··on Disable Windows 10 Tracking
Couldn't agree more.
sparaker··on Tesla Announces $500M Common Stock Offering
That is one way to do it, but i don't think they can trade the shares similarly at least not this way.
sparaker··on Ember.js 2.0 Released
I was waiting for this. Thanks alot keep up the good work. Can't wait to start using it in this new app that i am trying to build for a while.
sparaker··on Vanar.io – Realtime multiplayer browser game: Agar.io meets Asteroids
I have so much delay playing this, its almost impossible to play.
sparaker··on Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow (2012)
I think if its running infront of a proxy this is the default behavior. I think this is configured in other web servers like nginx, etc.
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