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To be honest, there were about 10 bikes within 400 feet of where I was. There just wasn't one exactly at the restaurant. I would have had to walk probably 2-5 mins to get another bike. That 2-…

Another data point of one, but when I was in Arizona in March, I tried Ofo bikes. The fact that I could ride to exactly where I wanted to go without having to find a dock was the only reason I though…

I get emails to my gmail account for some elderly person who lives in NYC about him not seeing his doctor all of the time. He has my same email address with a dot between his first and last name. I …

Will this be the Trojan Horse that gets me to switch to GitLab? I've been reading a lot of great things about GitLab's CI/CD. They also have cheaper plans for developers and if everyt…

Actually I just double checked and I was incorrect. I just remembered that I have another app on my phone called AdBlock[1] which is responsible for blocking requests at the network layer. They run …

Is this like One Login?

Also another viable solution although slightly more complicated than adding a line to a file. A question I have is whether you're talking about running your own DNS on your machine or on a serve…

See my comment on TAForObvReasons - If you invest in a Safari Content Clocker that allows custom rules, you can effectively do the same thing as a hosts file. Safari Content Blockers prevent network …

On an iPhone without jailbreak you can use 1blocker[1]. Since every browser on the iPhone is basically a UIWebView/SFSafariViewController controlled by iOS, Safari Content Blockers[2] apply glob…

Oh now I have to look this up. Whomever that person is sounds quite entertaining.

LOL who is that? — I don't think I'm apk.

Any browser plugin is inferior to using a hosts file. Hosts file's blackhole any network request before even attempting to make a connection. These browser plugins only help if you're us…

Steven Black's list is better. More complete and also has hosts for other social outlets, ad networks and trackers to block. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/ …

I don't use that list, I use Steven Black's [1] list has 1004 entries which is more complete than this list. It would be less, but more than 16. Even at that, you're right it would de…

That would only slightly help considering they own so many TLD’s.

> By declining Steve Jobs’ proposal to make the original iPhone CPU in 2005, Intel missed a huge opportunity. I'm really intrigued by stories of missed opportunities. Certain companies have …

Is there a book like this but on building your own custom version of Android?

I was a Sr. iOS Engineer, but I was doing Principle Engineering work.

When my salary was around there, it was 9k/month after tax and rent was 2600 (shared 2 bedroom apt which I paid more for bigger room). You’re looking at around 6k.

This would be really cool as a GitBook[1]. That way people could download a clean pdf, mobi, or ePub file while still maintaining open contribution. [1] - https://www.gitbook.com …

You have access to all of Haskell. I built a command line utility that downloads GitHub status from different cryptocurrency repos and ranks how productive each tokens development team is. It's…

What operating system are you running on? I paid for and downloaded Haskell For Mac[1] and it's been a great dev experience so far. The IDE is similar to Xcode (I'm an iOS developer) and th…

Watch apps were definitely an interesting release. The first version of the Watch was extremely underpowered with a very limited SDK. I also think that Apple was trying to figure out what the Watc…

I don't know, but I hope so. I worked at Amazon when the Alexa was released and one of the things people love about Alexa are the custom skills. I've heard that the store is a bit of a mes…

I completely forgot about this product over the past week until just now. I would have loved to order one, but since there is no development ecosystem, I don't see myself buying this at the mome…

Honestly, I don't know — but I'm sure there is some history or context to their actions. I'm actually mixed — Dad is caucasian/Austrian and mom is African/Sierra Leonian. I …

If these companies were profitable from the beginning, some sort of profit sharing mechanism could compensate for providing a financial reward. The challenge is that these businesses are setup to los…

> This is not a good precedent. If you're only analyzing this from the side of the drivers, I would agree. As someone who has used public transpiration my whole life, the service that taxis pr…