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bendtherules··on The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
How is that not iterating (admittedly within the stdlib methods)? They are not literally for loops, but the same concept of iteration.
bendtherules··on Ask HN: How to distribute paid Visualization JavaScript libraries?
Some of the enterprise customers want to self-host and also buy intranet licenses. So, how do you deal with them?
bendtherules··on M-Pesa – a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service
Why is this even so popular today? Vodafone started it years ago.
bendtherules··on Show HN: A unique utility that free you from remembering passwords
This is one of the shittiest password generators out there. Use two consecutive numbers and see how most of the generated password is so same.
bendtherules··on Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?
Can you give a link to where you get that information from?

All the places I read are talking about Linux and Windows containers on a Windows machine, but not windows containers on linux machine.

bendtherules··on Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?
This CI supports only windows though, so best way is to use Travis and Appveyor together for covering all platforms
bendtherules··on Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?
Appveyor (http://www.appveyor.com/) seems like the best solution out there and fits my bill.
bendtherules··on Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?
Ok, can you provide a tutorial link or something to help ease the process? Does jenkins-ci.org itself allow you to run tests on Windows?

I have seen Jenkins, but it looked so unfriendly.

bendtherules··on Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?
But how can they run windows images on top of docker?

I was looking for something like that, but didnt think it was possible.

bendtherules··on Ask HN: What do you want in a text editor?
1. Because stories are long, it should have multiple views for the same file. SO that writers can recap what they have written much earlier without losing their current context.

2. Quick find for "Markers" / sections of the writing, so that one can easily scroll up to Chapter 1.2, say.

3. Multi-cursor like Sublime Text to edit multiple mentions of the same name, say

4. Spell-check, it is rudimentary.

bendtherules··on Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
"WhatsApp doesn’t talk much about its engineering work" - Wrong as hell. They first talked about this in erlang conf about 3 yrs ago, in 2012. [Youtube Link]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDk6l3tPBuw ).

I hate how tech blogs take a thing thats quite well known and old and spins into a "did you know?" post like it was just unraveled (Oh, maybe your staff just heard about it, doesnt mean no one knows shit.)

bendtherules··on Tell HN: We need uber for TV and billboard advertising
Yes, I understand that it probably wont be possible to run instantly. But manual approval should be possible within 24 hours, allowing for next-day ADs.

As for local Ads, in my country India those are run only in "local cable channels" which is basically some extra channels inserted by local cable providers (in US, I think(?) there are only nationwide cable providers). There is little scope for such deals in mainstream channels.

bendtherules··on Tell HN: We need uber for TV and billboard advertising
Also, Bid4Spots.com seems to be radio-only. Did it support TV ads too earlier?
bendtherules··on Tell HN: We need uber for TV and billboard advertising
Wow, I didnt know this things actually existed.

On the hindsight, we will need bigger players. Because the physical Ad networks in different countries are so wildly different that it'll need to approach them one-by-one like Uber. Probably, they wont be able to buy in bulk just at first, instead will use some local 3rd-party providers.

bendtherules··on Ask HN: Where can I find “unsolved problems” for various industries?
Irregular newsletter on problems submitted by users. http://probhunt.com/
bendtherules··on Ask HN: Password-less login
Infact, this distinction of login system from the account itself can help in interesting consequences.

Consider like a command-line app running (actual stuff you do after login) along with a separate command center (your email), so that you could do queries about your account like who are logged in, logout everyone, or are there any pending notifications, and even is the service properly running?

But yes, people today dont like to do anything other than clicking buttons, so only geeks would be impressed with this.

bendtherules··on Ask HN: Password-less login
How about telling them to reply something like "ok" to the email just sent on login request. That email should properly have this instruction written so that someone can copy paste that code word if required.

Also, the email can have pre-built email link with the text and aprropiate sender written so that one just click it and send.

bendtherules··on Show HN: E-cards
This is pretty sweet, animated really well and might even reduce the non-humanly touch a little bit.
bendtherules··on Show HN: Generate command-lines in Python using YAML or JSON files
This is really neat. I do prefer cmdline configurations in a separate file, much easy to visualize and modify. Great that someone got the time to make this.
bendtherules··on Show HN: HumbleMatch – Easy type-checking for Python
HumbleMatch is made to add a zing to your mundane type-checking and duck-checking code.

* Check your function arguments reliably, add more flexible signatures and most of all, have a lovely API.

* Or just sprinkle some assert checks to ensure the data is what you expect it to be at any point.