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jogzden··on Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
This feature has been available on Android M for a while now. Sadly, the fragmentation of versions running on the Android platform is the biggest threat to its security.
jogzden··on Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found
Oh, I am not by any means trying to turn the news into something. I am merely expressing my distaste with nationalism and what it can do to people.
jogzden··on Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found
As someone with a Macedonian background, what bothers me most is my father's reaction to this news when I told him about it. I am legitimately excited about this news, and all he could really think of was if the Greeks would claim Philip II as theirs and began ranting about the whole Alexander being Macedonian/Greek debate.

I understand his justification for thinking that way, but it's just sad that the Macedonians and Greeks won't be getting excited about the discovery, but will instead be using it to fuel the existing hatred between the countries.

jogzden··on Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
It's really great to see good things coming Trello's way with all of this. Those guys have worked ridiculously hard at it.

I distinctly remember them keeping Trello running through a disaster and keeping all of it's users informed. Great job, guys!

jogzden··on Show HN: Animated GIF of latest World Cup Goal in Slack and Hipchat
I'd love to try and get gfycat support for this.
jogzden··on Putting the Chat into Snapchat
I just got the update now. Check again. I'm really liking the new UI.
jogzden··on Project Tango
I can see tech like this being used in the next Bond film. Every day, the advances in modern technology surprise and impress me. I love our line of work, where we can set our mind to something and just make it.
jogzden··on Introducing Sourcing.io
I don't really see the point to Twitter for hiring purposes.

But both LinkedIn and GitHub serve as e-resumes. Any decent tech company will want to see what you've worked on/contributed to, and a lot of the time and dev worth their salt will voluntarily provide their GitHub on a resume. LinkedIn, even though it's more social than GitHub, still serves as a professional site. You don't voluntarily put your information on LinkedIn only to hide it from potential employers.

jogzden··on Show HN: Drink Plan
I'm assuming this only works with Chicago?
jogzden··on Ask HN: How does Medium calculate how long it will take to read a post?
Most likely.

http://www.spreeder.com/ says: "To train to read faster, you must first find your base rate. Your base rate is the speed that you can read a passage of text with full comprehension. We've defaulted to 300 wpm, showing one word at a time, which is about the average that works best for our users. Now, read that passage using spreeder at that base rate."

I wouldn't be surprised if Medium is calculating read time the same way. It's just aesthetically pleasing and somewhat useful.

jogzden··on Show HN: Visual Invoice Design with Spot Invoice
How would this stack up against something like Manager.io (http://www.manager.io/) which provides the same functionality and more for free?
jogzden··on Wally: a home sensing solution
Seems like a great idea, but I couldn't help but find this http://i.imgur.com/h7DjXen.png picture to be really awkward.

What's going on with her legs?

jogzden··on Firepoker.io - Planning Poker built with AngularJS and Firebase
Any idea if you will there will be future integration for something like JIRA? This could really speed up the process of getting things up there.
jogzden··on Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week
What about something like, let's say, a kindle made for school, which stores the student's textbooks and readings. I'd think that this would be a much better alternative since it has limited use to begin with.
jogzden··on BackgroundCheck
This is a pretty cool concept, but it still needs a bit of work. While I agree with black borders around the text, I think it seems to meme-like. Maybe work on getting a shadow around the text when it is over multiple colours (e.g. the third picture near the concentration of lights). Other than that, it's a great concept, and I'd love to use it.
jogzden··on HTML5 image editor wants to replace Photoshop and Gimp
What will you provide in terms of image editing, that something like pixlr doesn't? I currently use that for image editing, since Gimp is just total rubbish to use, and I need a damn "business case" to get Photoshop.
jogzden··on Ask HN: What is your favourite algorithm?
The gif on wikipedia (http://i.imgur.com/ZQMaGhj.gif) was actually a very good example. Thanks! :D
jogzden··on Show HN: Fileti.me - Snapchat for file sharing, a weekend project of mine.
This is actually a really good idea considering how much we've learned to hoard and store things all over the place. Good stuff!
jogzden··on Show HN: Responding to NSA spying with a simple consumer VPN service
I assume you know what a handshake is, right? A TCP connection requires a handshake and is evidently a much more reliable and safe connection. A UDP connection doesn't require a handshake. This means that you never know if your data has reached its destination or not and due to this is much less reliable. Skype uses a UDP connection, and at times it is evident that it does when video resolution drops, etc.
jogzden··on Ask HN: What is "expert" level Javascript?
A friend of mine once told me that someone who knows Javascript inside out knows how to do things in jQuery with bare javascript.