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mehdim

583 karma · joined July 16, 2012

Founder at ALIAS, a decentralized data and identity platform. Previously founder of APIdays conferences and OAuth.io.
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mehdim··on Show HN: Discover Recipes by Ingredients
I've looked for recipes with Beef, Caviar, Coffee, Eggs, Ham, jalapeno, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Tomato Sauce,Vodka and it still finds me a dozen of recipes...

I understand that you can take ingredients replacements in account (as jalapeno, still keeping paprika recipes) but here it doesn't make sense anymore.

mehdim··on Ask HN: I'm building an API. Suggestions?
for help on APIS, go on API Craft Google Group or on APIscene.com
mehdim··on Docker is pivoting... again
It's true that Docker has an awesome logo. I didn't know it was the main asset of the company. This is why you open sourced the code still keeping the logo trademarked and copyrighted? Nice move.
mehdim··on Save more with Google Drive
Remember the 33 Google APIs that are no more..RIP http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/07/09/33-google-apis-th...
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mehdim··on An open letter to Dong Nguyen, creator of Flappy Bird
By making Flappy Bird down , he is making his game a "Legend" by stopping at the top of fame.(the virality will go down soon or late with no new versions)

About Branding and Video Game History,it is a really smart move.

mehdim··on Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club
Congratulations. Stripe really changed the payment implementation for Developers. Please know you have this valuation, support more Developers communities in meetups, developers conferences, API conferences. Twilio opened the way in the Telco world, please do it in the Payment one.
mehdim··on Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?
"The Box" Marc Levinson
mehdim··on Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps
This is why OAuth.io is open source, and you can choose to have a commercial license if you want to avoid GPL.
mehdim··on Roundabouts have turned a corner
France has half of the world roundabouts with close to 30 000 ones (for a total of 36000 cities)
mehdim··on Dev Tools with Free for Open Source Plans
To add to your devtools list as you asked in your article :

OAuth.io "OAuth-as-a-service" is also free for open source projects, by using directly the open source daemon oauthd for 80+ providers https://github.com/oauth-io/oauthd

disclosure : I work for OAuth.io

mehdim··on Oauthd: OAuth.io open sourced
from http://www.tldrlegal.com/

GPLv2 : You may copy, distribute and modify the software but you must relicense any changes and your entire project under GPLv2 and disclose all the source code

GPLv3 : You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track changes/dates of in source files and keep modifications under GPL. You can distribute your application using a GPL library commercially, but you must also provide the source code

AGPL : The AGPL license differs from the other GNU licenses in that it was built for network software. You can distribute modified versions if you keep track of the changes and the date you made them. As per usual with GNU licenses, you must license derivatives under AGPL. It provides the same restrictions and freedoms as the GPLv3 but with an additional clause which makes it so that source code must be distributed along with web publication

The most restrictive for me for commercial use is GPLv2, because you have to open source ALL the project, not only the modified part. With GPLv3 and AGPL, just the modifications of the source code , not all the project. It is a question of point of view about "restrictions".

mehdim··on My Experience with OAuth.io
https://oauth.io/#/pricing
mehdim··on Perk : A browser which blocks Ads and gives you rewards
I love the fact of a web without ads, even these are ads which keep investments of companies to go in the web. Ads make the web in a dead-alive state, and nobody is really trying to find an other sustainable business model for internet. You try to do it and my applauses for such courage. As user of adblock and as believer that ads are the cancer of the web, I will try to use Perks browser (I find the perksm odel irrelevant for me personnaly but...if I have a better model I ping you ! ;) )
mehdim··on Working with the Stripe Payouts API
Stripe team will give a talk about it Saturday in SF, on Building APIs for Developers, with design best practices explanations http://sf.apidays.io
mehdim··on Pat's Guide to Running Events
It's funny because most of the best technical speakers I receive in my conferences have always a specific food option. May be this is that which make them so good in what they do :)
mehdim··on Pat's Guide to Running Events
Don't forget to put vegetarians options for food, and clearly mention that is is vegetarian.
mehdim··on HTTP/REST is not big, nor healthy. It's hell no
Very interessant. But the NSA case is flooding the front page and unforunately it will be hard to go in the front page, despite very good content.
mehdim··on So you want to speak at a conference
You can also organize your own conference. I had the same issue of never been accepted as speaker because I was not enough connected or too new in the ecosystem, I did my own conferences worldwide and it works pretty well now. For the fun fact, I'm now sometimes invited without applying for keynotes.
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not for me : http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com
mehdim··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
Developer Evangelist at Webshell.io, Bay area

Webshell.io makes an unified Javascript API integration, authentication and scripting platform for web and mobile developers. The idea is to be the "jquery for APIs" for helping developers to build on top of APIs easily in a consistent ecosystem. We already make lots of evangelisation with apidays.io conferences worldwide (Paris, Madrid, San Francico) and with our blogs apijoy.tumblr.com and api500.com

Your job will be to inspire developers wolrdwide in participating AND organzing events, hackathons that helps dvelopers to build things with APIs.

Contact@webshell.io for more details. We can also meet us next June 21, 22, 23 at sf.apidays.io conference + hackday we organize in SF.

mehdim··on [dead]
Do you follow also the Oz protocol that Eran Hammer is making? https://github.com/hueniverse/oz
mehdim··on [dead]
this is the message from the Oauth.io team :)

https://twitter.com/OAuth_io/status/340110998658760705

mehdim··on Namecheap $0.98 com/net per year coupon
Some providers make often 1$ .com or .org without asking you spamming Twitter followers... They may be estimate that a tweet has a ROI of 5$. This is not the case, because influencers will not retweet to avoid paying 5$. My twitter followers worth better content.
mehdim··on GIF search engine, exactly what the world needs
you made my day.
mehdim··on Google Apps Script
Chack webshell.io for this. It is an open AppsScript like. Still in beta.
mehdim··on In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism?
Some theories bring something new to karl marx theory, as neomarxism and robot alienation.

Marx thought that because machines (or robots) can produce lot more than humans and more effciently, a capitalist would replace little by little all humans workers by robots, with the benefits generated by the gain of productivity, for making more money and win the price competition... So the final society will have production only made by robots. It was partially true because he made the theory that these machines, well designed, cost less than hires hundreds humans with social rights, but he didn't expect that instead of replacing human by machines, we have found cheaper human work in China, or India for example, which is less efficient but cheaper at a large scale, when machines were too expaensive to invent or to maintain. New slave humans have replaced old slave humans protected now by social rights, and investments have been made to delocalisation not robotisation.

Neo-marxists believe that the society is not as Marx describe it as always a fight against classes, oppressed or exploited people against oppressor or exploitant people, but is divided in 3 strates. The INNOVATORS, the REPETITORS and the PARASITES.

Innovators are people which make the world move forward by their everyday work. Researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, artists...

Repetitors are people which will not make the world move forward and change by their everyday work. These people are honorable, because they make repetitive stuff everyday to make the society run. It is your bus driver, your cloth seller, the nurse, the waiter at your restaurant etc...

So the innovators work depends exclusively of repetitors work. If nos buses, no farmers, the society falls down (see the Maslow pyramid of needs) and all the philosophers will come back to farm for eating. A funny question is : at which level of productity does we enable the apperance of a philosopher? It will be only when we'll have enough productivity to give resources to innovators just to innovate. Even be an entrepreneur ! If the repetitors were not there, you will not try to make your company. Think to all these repetitors thaht enable you to run your compaany, have employees coming at work, eating etc...

And parasites are people which slows the change, defined often by the cut of money they take of investment that make the workd change (Banks, even investors asking for dividends)

So they think that repetitors need to be and will be replaced by robots. Making repetitive things has no interest for humans, right? Humans are not work or energy like in Matrix...

Humans has to stay innovators, making the world move forward, exploiting always with more productivity the resources the earth provide and always try to better understand our world, with science, with art, with code.

Loking forward to see the robots coming in our everyday's life, enabling us to be really humans.

mehdim··on Show HN: For Twitter lovers - AirTweet
http://tts-api.com/
mehdim··on Show HN: For Twitter lovers - AirTweet
Funny , one of our user made a similar app on Webshell.io mixing Twitter API and tts (Text To Speach) API,

http://webshell.io/editor/thyb/ttsTweet

(you need to Github connect before to access his repo, then click on run, then Twitter connect of course for your own feed)

If you don't want signup or connect: You can also try directly the script in the console tour at the bottom of http://webshell.io homepage by copy pasting

fs.thyb.ttsTweet();

mehdim··on The new sandbox: open-source and self-hosted
Is this a fail about the business model of dependant Paas? IMO open source is not an "alternative" business model, but a complete model (see Redhat, Talend etc...). I don't know open source PaaS that made money then big companies... Curious to see if they will monetize with open source what they couldn't closed source...
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