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I imagine that you could build a functional equivalent with an ESP8266, a power adapater, and a Twilio account - no server required, since you should be able to measure volume directly on the ESP8266 itself. The parts would cost you less than $20 - probably less than $10.

To get the react-scripts command, you'll need to globally install the react-scripts package with:

npm install -g react-scripts

I don't see why that wouldn't be possible, it likely wouldn't run in realtime though.

It's perplexing to me that to own something, you must agree to a contract.

Docker's fairly easy to get your head around in a few hours if you do a bit of reading. It's being used as a base tool for more and more projects now, so I'd definitely recommend having an understanding of how it works at a basic level, at least.

I was affected by this - I lost some credit that I had remaining from the Github Student Pack due to it expiring with relatively short notice. If I open a support ticket, will I be able to ask to get that credit back?

Putting off or tasking someone else with jobs you don't want to do doesn't seem like the healthiest long-term strategy.

Well there's a surprise.

I believe it's down to how your bank sets up your card, and how the retailer's set up. In the UK, when I pay with my debit card at Tesco, after entering my PIN it instantly says I can remove my card. Apparently it's because the card reader skips communicating with my bank until they cash up at the end of the day (the "available balance" of my card doesn't reduce after shopping there until the next day). Tesco is the only retailer where I've seen the card work almost instantaneously, but I expect that NFC payments work that way every time.

Working on a mid-2012 15" non-retina MBP. I was able to pick up the tune on various frequencies, starting around 650khz and on various other bands right up to around 1500khz (my radio's upper limit).

If you're being picky, then I can be picky too: the concept of a "pull request" isn't defined in that manpage, only the command "request-pull" is. A "pull request" is an entity in itself.

The command may exist within git, but it's not a part of most people's git workflows. "Pull Request" is a term that's far more commonly attributed-to and associated with tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket etc.

Did you know that git has the ability to send patches via email, built in [1]? Git has a lot of functions that the majority of people don't use.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

For a car that you never use because choosing to driving in London is a questionable choice.

If you include io.js, sure. Node did technically jump considerably.

"dependency hell" is a bit of an exaggeration. It has one dependency.

This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :)

(not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

Documents like this are fantastic as a potential collaborator.

You could submit a pull request to hub to fix it!

Perhaps not using hub to do so, though.

Have a look at this: http://lightpack.tv/

If you change your algorithm, your old tokens are still usable because you know which algorithm was used to create them.

I haven't tested it, but https://appear.in/ seems to do what you're describing.

I've paid for it once, but before that I had at least two extensions, and since I paid I've had one extension.

It's not really an excuse to waste more resources though. Saying "this only wastes a tiny amount of resources compared to this other thing" isn't justification to waste it anyway.

It's disappointing that we are in the situation where we have several competing protocols for streaming audio - Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA.

As a society we are capable of making software and hardware that interoperate among manufacturers - email and HTTP are good examples. We could be a far more technologically advanced world if capitalism didn't encourage companies to create competing closed-source protocols that only benefit the companies themselves, to the detriment of everyone else.

Some would already argue systemd is already fsckd.

Did iOS 8 add something that allowed this app to be created? Tasker has existed on Android for years, so I assume that there had to be a technical limitation as to why a comparable app wasn't created for iOS.

Is this new? FireChat does exactly this - chat over an ad-hoc mesh network - and that came out months ago, maybe even a year ago.

I thought that was questionable too. Why was there a prescription to pick up to treat a viral infection, which there is no treatment for?

The sample wands and cartridges are single use - see the FAQ page: https://cue.me/faq

It's hard to win the game when you can't determine what the goal is.

While it's not built-in to Android, the app Glympse does exactly this.