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xer··on iPhone 7
The thing about 3.5mm jack is economy. Can you afford wireless? Apple is all premium.
xer··on Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
Good job so far, just add some airbnb hook there and you got income.
xer··on Deprecating: java.util.Optional.get()?
What do they mean with "god forbid a microservice"?
xer··on Dropbox Is Probably Not Stealing Your Files
It's very unlikely that dropbox would upload every changed file from your computer, that would not go unnoticed.

A desirable capability would be on-demand upload or download of any file on the clients system. For that you would need the entire filetree+checksums so, imo, that's what it's syncing.

xer··on Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones
Just ask the user for their location right away. Most don't care anyway.
xer··on How we redesigned Spotify in 24h
I agree, all great work is in the details
xer··on Is my private key secure?
If you post your private key on this site it's not private anymore, so it should always answer it's not secure.
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