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turkeywelderon Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China

Sorry badly worded on my part - he meant in perfect condition apart from the fault (ie: we hadn't drowned it or dropped the phone to cause any issue) but couldn't do anything

turkeywelderon Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China

I'm pursuing the retailer/credit card company under the consumer rights and consumer credit act in the UK but they're requesting an engineer's report stating this is a manufacturing fault which is very difficult to get.

Tried cleaning it, there's no dirt or anything in there

turkeywelderon Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China

Not always.

I took a 14 month old iPhone 7 into the store which wouldn't charge or communicate via the lightning port. In the engineer's words it was "in perfect condition".

They couldn't repair it, wouldn't do anything because I didn't have apple care and the only way to get around it was a new device.

Nice paperweight though

turkeywelderon When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

In the UK you only get assistance up to 15.5mph on an eBike (legally) so they're generally no quicker than a normal bike

turkeywelderon Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

While I take the point cold weather affects range. Norway, Sweden, Finland and many other cold climates have very high electric car usage. Mostly due to the subsidies, but it appears range isn't a major concern there.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/23/tesla-electric-cars-con...

turkeywelderon #c0ffee is the color

Genuinely, seriously I never noticed this.

aaaand THAT's why we do code reviews!

turkeywelderon #c0ffee is the color

It's missing Badass: #b4da55. Lovely green colour :)

turkeywelderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Mediaburst Ltd | .NET Developer & Devops | Manchester, UK ONSITE

Mediaburst make web apps that send text messages and work in Telehealth.

It's not boring and it's not old tech - they're doing great stuff with banking, healthcare and engaging users in products.

They're after a .NET Developer with 2+ years of production .NET experience to help improve the products. You'll be working on the SMS API (www.clockworksms.com), backend queueing and routing, the SMS Survey app (www.surveymill.co.uk), the online text product Textburst (www.textburst.com) as well as the telehealth product FlorenceLight (https://www.florencelight.uk/ )

Also after a Devops/Infrastructure engineer to help run the platform and make the devs lives easier.

Full details: https://www.mediaburst.co.uk/jobs/

Questions? Just send an email to hello@mediaburst.co.uk

Full disclosure: I no longer work for Mediaburst, but trying to help them find a replacement dev. Loads of perks and a lovely office with nice people. If you're in the North of the UK, just pop in for a coffee and a chat if you're looking for a new role.

turkeywelderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)

Mediaburst Ltd | .NET Developer | Manchester, UK

Hi, We're Mediaburst and we make web apps in Telehealth and send text messages.

I'll keep it short:

We're after a .NET Developer with 3-5 (or more) years of production .NET development to help us improve our products.

You'll be working on our SMS API (www.clockworksms.com), our backend queueing and routing, our SMS Survey app (www.surveymill.co.uk), our online text product Textburst (www.textburst.com) as well as our telehealth product FlorenceLight (https://www.florencelight.uk/ )

We're also after a Devops/Infrastructure engineer to help us run our platform and make the devs lives easier.

Full details: https://www.mediaburst.co.uk/jobs/

Questions? Ask away.

Apply with an email to hello@mediaburst.co.uk or reply to this comment

turkeywelderon 43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach

If you're after either a primary or backup SMS route or numbers (especially for the UK), I may be able to assist

turkeywelderon Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

Dev from ClockworkSMS here.

Just want to correct this list, as we definitely do support SSL, and we've just upgraded the certificate: https://www.clockworksms.com/blog/ssl-sha2/

If SSL isn't enough, we can also do VPNs directly to our (only UK based) datacentres.

Feel free to ask questions if you have them. We've got good links to the US and great coverage throughout the rest of the world

turkeywelderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

Mediaburst | http://www.mediaburst.co.uk | Manchester UK | Fulltime | Preferably onsite but possibly remote.

We're an SMS company: We have an API (https://www.clockworksms.com/), an online texting app (https://www.textburst.com) and we also provide an SMS based telehealth service (https://www.getflorence.co.uk/).

We're constantly trying to improve our products and need bright minds to do so - we've got a mature tech stack so there's no firefighting. We're just trying to make nice SMS apps that people enjoy using and do some good in the telehealth sector too. We're not a startup, we're a small, agile team without layers of fluff and responsibility.

We need a .NET dev and a Designer: https://www.mediaburst.co.uk/jobs/

We've got loads of plans for our stack, loads of ways of improving the apps and new apps (https://www.surveymill.co.uk) in the pipeline.

the current stack: C#.NET, Perl, Angular, ReactJS, MySQL, CentOS, HAProxy.

Fancy a chat about it? https://www.mediaburst.co.uk/jobs/

turkeywelderon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

Manchester UK - Onsite

Senior .NET Web Developer (C#) ASP.NET MVC, vNext, JS, Angular etc.

Looking for someone to join our team working on SMS and healthcare apps and give some direction to the existing .NET devs.

http://www.mediaburst.co.uk/jobs/

turkeywelderon [dead]

I'd add another SMS API to that list:

http://www.clockworksms.com/