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I think that Auth Tokens are easy to understand, use, and implement. They can generally be invalidated if the developer feels that they have been compromised.

Some APIs also use self-invalidating auth tokens based on an expiry date. For more secure data, I'd prefer that.

It's not... elections are not won by good policy. It's won by populist policies.

Nope, this still does not work.

I restored my iPhone to factory settings which erased the OS and then re-installed the updated iOS11 (I was on iOS10). I restored the phone from my local backup, downloaded Uber and tried to sign-in with a new phone number, but still no luck.

The Uber app throws me back to the sign-up screen after signing up and entering my name, etc.

Haven't tried it. Will I be able to restore from backup after this, though?

OP Here: So, is there any solution how can I start using the Uber app again?

Uber support doesn't seem to care what the issue is and keeps telling that they can't do anything about it.

I don't have any other Uber apps installed on my phone, can get a new phone number to signup.

But, in my case, isn't this the wrong use of DeviceCheck-ing? Why is it not allowed by Uber's policies that a user get a new phone number and make a new Uber account?

How is that fraudulent? I tried explaining the same to the Uber support, but they aren't ready to listen and keep replying with the same canned messages.

Aren't phones supposed to get cheaper every year?

Perhaps a follow-up blog post on which department the people who attended the program were from and how did the program help then in their day-to-day work.

Once, we have success stories, more companies would be interested in implementing such programs.

Kudos to the initiative!

Woah... this definitely seems over the board! If all of this is required, it's a recent thing, I guess.

I have been to the US multiple times with a B1-Business Visa and didn't do any of this stuff. I just showed up and the customs officer asked a bunch of questions about my purpose of visit and that's about it. I didn't need any invitation letter or hotel bookings, etc.

Hotel bookings and a LOT of other documentation is required when applying for a tourist / business visa for Europe or UK, but traveling to the US has always been fairly straightforward (except that you need to make two visits the US embassy or consulate twice for the visa formalities).

At all times, I had my company laptop with all the data + source code.

Is this something that has recently begun?

You can go to the Reader mode on Safari and export as PDF, then email the PDF to your Kindle (enabling conversion). I did that and it looks near perfect.

However, you have to do this for each article, which takes some time.

Well... not as smooth a process, but the articles are long-ish and worthy of preservation on your Kindle.

This is not just for contracts. Gigster does that even when recruiting. After three rounds of interview, I got a canned response that they are unable to take my application forward.

I asked them for feedback and got the same reply that they can't provide any feedback (even after 3 rounds of interviews).

I reached out to the developer who interviewed me and after a couple of days, he replied back saying that Gigster doesn't allow him to provide any feedback!

Avoid interviewing with them, in my opinion.

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I want to learn to market something and make some money from one of my products.

I have been develioping web and mobile apps for about 6 years and now I want to create something for passive income.

I seriously don't understand why the updated Uber app asks to access my location all the time -- as opposed to only when I'm using the app. Not only is it not required but it's a huge drain on the phone's battery, potentially decreasing the battery's life.

Now I'm from a third-world country and can't afford to buy a $1000 phone every year, so I have to be careful with the life of my phone.

The turnaround this, I found, is to disallow location to the Uber app when not using the app and allowing access only when I use the app. This, however, is a pain and the Uber app behaves weird if I do so (the previous trip does not end after hours of it actually ending).

Very poor UX from Uber, potentially dangerous, definitely unethical. This is definitely a trend -- startups start with being caring of its customers, but once they grow big, they become callous and even malicious when it comes to users (I don't ask of them to give every customer personal support, but not mis-using customers is the least I can expect).

Has anyone completed any business courses / specialisations on Coursera? Are they worth it for a developer trying to make the move into a business-oriented role? And, do you think, that certificates matter for securing such roles in companies?

Probably that's why the new app sucks... just like it's predecessor.

The article does mention this at multiple places. For example, “Their intended audience is always their peers. That’s who they have to impress to get tenure.”, "Others say that academics have traditionally been forced to write in an opaque style to be taken seriously by the gatekeepers—academic journal editors, for example" and some more.

No free version is simply stupid.

How do you handle recurring payments without the user having to enter their PIN (or whatever again). I'm talking about subscriptions like in Stripe?

Also, how do you get around the step where the user is redirected to the bank page to enter the 3D secure pin / internet banking password / IPIN?

Ah.. okay.

What are the values in the body that is sent in a webhook? Are those dummy values.

Mostly, in response of a Stripe webhook, one would want to do something based on the id. For instance, for a charge failed event, one would like to retrieve the customer for which the charge has failed and would retrieve the customer details from Stripe. Dummy values will not help here.

Just thinking aloud, how would one use this? I have been in need for something to test Stripe webhooks.

I like Mobile Gmail much better than iPhone Mail client.

Is this like http://errorception.com/ ?

Any API to make rooms? I need a button to start rooms by someone and then someone can join.

Situation: Number of people on the website. One of them chooses to start a room-chat with another targeted person. How can this be done ?

Is this possible to dynamically start rooms? Say, two people on my website want to connect to each other... so they start a room together?

Can one do excel like formulas? Or any other library which can provide such a functionality?

Can it be used with some other database like MySQL? I mean the main database is MySQL and in the offline mode PouchDB can collect data.

Also, what about security of the main database? How does the syncing take place?

Can anyone explain why should we be having this discussion? How does it matter whether or not you are a tech company.

Nothing. I sleep peacefully.