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jacoplaneon Why did Facebook decide to shut down Parse?

Attacking his integrity seems kind of uncalled for.

jacoplaneon Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative

jacoplaneon Show HN: My temporary email app I built in react-native in two weeks on the bus

You might try posting here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/

jacoplaneon In search of a European Google

I don't think enough users care enough about privacy for there to be a massive market there. If not why didn't more people switch to DuckDuckGo or Diaspora?

jacoplaneon New law proposal makes The Netherlands privacy-unfriendly

So they're doing exactly what the NSA and GCHQ are doing but they're actually being transparent about the fact that they're doing it?

jacoplaneon Docker containers on the desktop

Linus agrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8#t=298

jacoplaneon 16 Things

Hey, your site is great, just a suggestion, you might consider submitting your site to PocketCasts (email support@shiftyjelly.com), it's the most popular podcasting app on Android, and you don't seem to be in their directory. I've added your feed to their app, but it would help people discover your show.

jacoplaneon Alibaba Raises $21.8B in Initial Public Offering

Planet Money had a decent piece on Alibaba recently: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/03/345310125/episode-...

jacoplaneon It's time: bring Dart to Android

Except that Dart compiles to JavaScript so you can still 'write once' and have it run anywhere. Also I don't really see how Dart is "proprietary" since it is being standardized in Ecma TC52 and is licensed under the BSD license.

jacoplaneon Can you hear me now? No, I don't have that app

Isn't this what WebRTC will fix? http://www.webrtc.org/

jacoplaneon How British satellite company Inmarsat tracked down MH370

Chris McLaughlin (the guy in the video) is a PR guy, not a scientist.

jacoplaneon The future of Fiber

More competition in this space can only be a good thing. Besides, Google has done a whole lot more to protect their users from government surveillance than the telcos have.

jacoplaneon iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced

Email?

No, it doesn't do this, at least not for me.

jacoplaneon Nexus 5

https://www.google.com/nexus/5/

jacoplaneon The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones

This is why I love my Kindle Paperwhite so much. I could read on my Ipad, but it's so easy to jump into something else with that. The Kindle's limitations let me get on with reading without being tempted by other things.

jacoplaneon Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference

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

Kindly funded by the Spanish government :)

jacoplaneon Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.

People in the reddit IRC channel are talking about using HackerNews: brace yourselves :)

jacoplaneon Books in the Age of the iPad

I've basically stopped reading books, and have gone 100% audio books. I listen in my car, in bed, while going jogging. I love it, although I imagine it's not for everyone.