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blin17on Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results

Is this a monthly cost or yearly?

blin17on Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic

Did someone just post this guys blog from 2013 up?

blin17on Oculus Founder: Rift Will Come to Mac If Apple “Ever Releases a Good Computer”

Apple's entire strategy is to release a complete end-to-end experience for mass market production. It would only make sense for the MacBook to upgrade their computer with a GPU for virtual reality if:

1) Customers really wanted to use VR. 2) Apple released their own VR set.

I just don't see a real scenario where VR is ready for mass market consumption yet.

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Ever since TJ handed Express, there's been a lack of leadership. IBM owns Express but hasn't really been fixing bugs, so Doug took over a lot of the development work in the interim.

All the best to Doug and I hope he's doing okay.

blin17on Federal cops gets pulled over by TN cops, car illegally searched

I hear of a lot of startups working on image detection and sound detection, but I'm wondering why there isn't anything done for scent detection. Maybe A2D for scent doesn't really exist yet, but it would limit the need for drug sniffing dogs

blin17on Microchip to Acquire Atmel for $3.56B

Anyone know why the Dialog from back in September deal fell through?