batuhanicoz

In Turkey everything is accessible with API's. Legal records, insurance, education, work, bank records, things you own (houses, land, probably cars), your address (both work and home), your e-mail, phone number, every other phone number you own, you can even do a quick query on if a car has ever been in an accident or if someone has priors.

Not everything is open to everyone though. My company had access to some of this, it was nice. (Edit: nice as in, it made our life easier.)

Turkish Government has an API. You post all the info on the ID to it, and it returns true or false. You have to be a legal entity in Turkey to access it. (Edit: Correction, everyone can access it, and it doesn't require all the info anymore, just ID number, name and birthday. https://tckimlik.nvi.gov.tr/Service/KPSPublic.asmx?op=TCKiml...)

I'm guessing there are other countries that provides this?

Why would you need 5 Macs? I'm really curious.

Works fine on my MBP, on latest Safari/Mavericks.

Can't you give back the Windows license and install Ubuntu yourself? In Turkey, companies are required by law to uninstall Windows once you buy the computer if you ask them to. They give you the money you paid for the license while buying the computer if you haven't activated your computer yet.

I guess this[1] was the post he meant to comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619690

+1 for Istanbul.

As an Istanbulite (is that even a word?), I'm confused.

In day time, I'm usually in Asia for school, and some nights, and most weekends I'm in Eastern Europe.

Voted for Eastern Europe and Other (since this part of Asia is not in the list).

It seems this is a hardware problem so, there is a risk of you being affected, if you bought your MBA "between June 2012 through June 2013".

Do you have OS X available? It says there is a software upgrade that checks for broken SSD's.

This is so cool!

I have one problem with it though, it doesn't seem to support my keyboard. For example when I try "*", it writes "-".

I'm using a Turkish Q keyboard and Chromium on OS X Mavericks GM.

Vodafone Turkey is also really good. I can use my plan in any country that either have Vodafone or a company they have an agreement with.

And also I can call everyone from Europe with my plans as well. Unlimited land-line calls to nearly every country.

Cheese and tomato pizza means, as far I know, pizza with pizza sauce. Which is already in every pizza and is made with tomato.

"All prices include delivery and tipping (which is 0. we don't tip)."

Unless you live in a remote location. But I don't think that'll be a problem for most since Dominos is literally everywhere. (At least everywhere in Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir and Ankara)

According to a quick calculation I made, in Istanbul (or anywhere in Turkey really), Classic Large Pizza is 6.22USD.

One pizza is 19.90TL, which is 9.94USD with current currency. But with 2-for-1 promotion, like you said it's +5TL, it's 24.90TL total, 12.45TL each, which makes 6.22USD.

I've checked both Dominos's website and Yemeksepeti's (the largest online food ordering website here) website.

(I was logged-in to both, I don't think so but, maybe there is a discount?)

Stupid me was thinking "Blink" instead of "Nitro". Sorry :)

Safari 6.0.5, works without problems on my desktop, Safari 7.0 freezes on my notebook too.

Chrome (on iOS) does not use Nitro, it uses WebView.

Do you have a contract? That maybe why price you pay is cheaper. Seems like parent was only in US for a short period of time, so he probably didn't wanted to sign a, say 12 months, contract.

It takes like 5 minutes on average, it's not 10-15 but it's not 2-3 minutes either. And the machine makes it in 3 to 4 minutes.

The source is my mom, who is, like me, a native Turkish person, who just made the coffee I'm drinking now. :)

My full name is "Fırat Batuhan İçöz", it is 17 characters (including the space between my first and middle name). And Twitter didn't have a problem with it, when I used my full name in the past.

And just tried adding my first name again, it works.

Only other company I can think of is Bose[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation

I think you can always use passwords. This is just an alternative, an easier one. I'm guessing both options will be available at once.

This may be useful with Node too. I wish it wasn't a jQuery plugin but a framework independent library.

(I'm aware I can use jQuery on the server-side, but why load jQuery only for a credit card number validation library?)

Other than that, this looks good. :)

I thought this maybe very useful for some of the developers out there like it was to me.

There was a scheduler app for FriendFeed (ffscheduler.com), did all three. It was made by @alpb (ahmetalpbalkan.com).

I'm thinking about forking and adding that features to Circular. Need to add Facebook support to it first though. No promises.

It's something like:

> My teacher* Burak, wouldn't I give you a vote (up) when you share?

By the way, his sentence is grammatically incorrect in Turkish too.

* I've translated "hocam" as "my teacher" but it's not a accurate translation. In Modern Turkey it's slug which means something like "someone who you value their opinions".

edit: kayral's translation is more accurate then mine.

I'm not talking about blocking a website country-wide.

TTNET (biggest ISP in Turkey, founded and formerly owned by the government) gives you username for your DSL line, its usually something like phonenumber@ttnet (or yourname@ttnet1). If your username is like that, you connect with TTNET's DNS servers and your only limit is the sites that are blocked by courts.

But, if you're a school, they'll give you* a username like "schoolname@meb", when you connect with this there is a special black list (which includes word filters too) that can't be passed with anything but proxies. And, BTW, "proxy" is a blocked word.

For example, you can't -even- search for "porn" on Google. I'm not saying you'll need to search for porn on Google in school, just explaining how this black list works.

* A friend of mine explained it to me like this, he was a computer teacher in a government school. Now the system may be changed, I don't have clue, but the block is still there today.

I don't think they are going to just load the PDF files of current books to tablets and give the tablets.

They are saying that everything will be tablet optimized. Don't think your regular school books, thinks about something like, umm, Flipboard. With video and other content in it. All interactive.

I don't know how much they can achieve, but I'm really looking for it.

> You have to back this claim. There were incidents where some blogs were blocked but that was because of a court order which was caused by an individual, not government.

Some parts of the claims can be backed. Just looking at the Internet connection of places which managed by the Ministry of Education can prove that the access WILL be limited.

For example, social networking sites (not just big players like Facebook and Twitter, small ones like FriendFeed as well), most of the blogs, YouTube (and many of its alternatives) CAN NOT be accessed in schools or any of the ministry buildings.

I know blocking social networks and sites like YouTube can be understood since they are distractions in school but the blogs which are blocked shows what they are trying to do. All blogs which has some kind of non-muslim information is blocked. Even my blog, a 17 year teenagers blog, is blocked in schools in Turkey. The reason for it, I believe, is the fact that I'm not Muslim and said so in an old video of mine, which is not removed.

it is for me, if you don't mind me asking, what is your username and browser?

edit: sorry, there was a bug that updated input every time a username is matched which caused people not being able to write their username easily. the bug is now fixed.