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nanoman··on Merkel Grants Turkish Request to Prosecute German Satirist
> It would have been in line with both the word and spirit of the law if she would have denied this authority.

You're technically absolutely correct, but essentially it is about separation of powers. That is also the public perception.

Strategically and diplomatically it would be the wrong move to deny it - that can only backfire in a much worse way than it does now. This will all blow over.

Altough, I'm not so sure about the other suit which Erdogan placed using his german attorney.

nanoman··on Merkel Grants Turkish Request to Prosecute German Satirist
Well, it's current law and they can't just repeal the law in a few days. Sitting it out is not an option with such a publicly visible case.

The only thing which bothers me is that it is going to be effective only starting 2018. In the current situation, they'd have a huge majority in the parliament.

nanoman··on Merkel Grants Turkish Request to Prosecute German Satirist
I think this is the right move, regarding separation of powers. I trust the German jurisdiction to do the right thing here.

Plus, she said that the law protecting foreign officials from defamation is obsolete and they will void it.

nanoman··on Postman 2.0 with Sync
Paw is great, full-featured and polished - but it doesn't allow collaboration in a team, what Postman Sync is all about.
nanoman··on Postman 2.0 with Sync
We've been using the Sync Beta for a few months now and I can confirm this is the smoothest way to have the client/server teams working together.

We use the collections as both day-to-day development tools, as well as API documentation and a quick test layer.

Kudos to the Postman team!

nanoman··on Supersonic: New UI Hybrid Framework – Ionic, AngularJS, Cordova
I use Appcelerator Titanium pretty frequently - I think it is still the best compromise to develop cross-platform applications.

But - if Supersonic fulfills its promise, Appcelerator will have trouble to catch up.

nanoman··on Calories in, calories out
> There are probably very few people who have the patience to log everything they eat, diet or no diet, unless they have some kind of payoff close at hand!

After trying a few apps, I have found MyFitnessPal and tracking what I eat has become my daily routine. The app makes it very easy, has a great database of foods and in my case, I can almost always choose from my food history with 1 tap.

I'm in the 9th week of my diet, which simply means burning 1000 kcal more a day than I consume. My results are similar to the one in the blog post - spare 7000kcal a week and lose 1 kg.

Sure, measuring calories is imprecise at best, but my results speak another language.

The fitbit app sucks, it isn't well thought out and has numerous UI bugs. I had the fitbit one step tracker for a while until I lost it. Now I'm using my iPhone as step tracker, as I'm almost always carrying it in my pocket.

nanoman··on Apple Maps Connect
That's correct - I have just tried to add my german small business. No chance. Why would they limit it to the US? Google's doing the exact same thing without restrictions.

For a while I hoped Apple would let go of their US-centric thinking, but it seems I was wrong.

Edit: I just remembered that with Google Maps, they sent me a postal letter with a code to confirm the address. Maybe they haven't set that up yet, but my point still stands.

Can anyone confirm if the confirmation process involves a postal letter?

nanoman··on iMac with Retina 5K display
I'd like to second that - I've been using the curved version (LG 34UC97-S) for 1.099 € with a mid-2014 rMBP and it is awesome. I'm not sure if the curving is necessary, but it certainly is nice.
nanoman··on Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps
It's astonishing that the Dart IDE is Eclipse-based - it seemed to me that Google learned its lesson after rewriting Android Studio on IntelliJ Idea, but I've been wrong.
nanoman··on Tus - an Open Source File Upload Protocol
I've been a user of their product https://transloadit.com/ for about a year now for video encoding and am very happy with it. The API is elegant, the whole service is reliable and fast.

These guys know what they're doing.

nanoman··on Yahoo Acquires News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly
Well, it seems he has gathered capital from a number of investors, which may want to be paid back:

"Angel Investors and Advisors include; Ashton Kutcher, Betaworks, Brian Chesky, Hosain Rahman, Jessica Powell, Joanna Shields, Josh Kushner, Mark Pincus, Matt Mullenweg, Seb Bishop, Shakil Khan, Spencer Hyman, Stephen Fry, Troy Carter, Vivi Nevo, Yoko Ono and many more. We are also working closely with News Corporation on the summarization of their content."

Source: http://summly.com/about.html

But sure enough the kid is rich now.