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so THIS is what's been keeping you awake lately...

Interesting that WhatsApp didn't bother to update anything that much lately but they took their time to censor Telegram. Cool stuff.

Have you even tried Telegram on the Web? It's clearly superior and yes, WhatsApp's solution feels like a nasty hack when compared to it. Also, didn't get that mention to iMessage.

It's a beautiful app with features being added every month or so. It really feels like the people behind this care. I've also managed to move most of my (at least the tech-savvy) friends from Messenger/SMS/WhatsApp to Telegram.

It's so good to see Yahoo! going back to what I've always liked about it: providing developers with good building blocks to create the web (and mobile) of tomorrow.

I could download the image and print it myself, someone is making it easier. They don't even look to the image to see if it is copyrighted, porn or just Lorem Ipsum. I get you point but if they are a "we print anything you send our way" shop, how can they be liable for what I send them? I guess you can only blame the end user...

NPR: Planet Money Roderick on the Line Radiolab NPR: Snap Judgment

Like this? https://www.paperlater.com/

A couple weeks ago I bought aeropressrecipes.com because I wanted to try new Aeropress Recipes and they are scattered all over the web so I thought of building a simple community based website to allow anyone to create their recipes as well as rate the ones they try. Talk about yak shaving: wanted new coffee recipes ended up building a website...

Yup. I rejoiced at that and backed Andy right away. It may not end up being what Upcoming was before but it felt right to back his initiative anyway even if just to condemn Yahoo!s take on it.

Upcoming is just another example: way ahead of its time. Take the number of companies in the events space nowadays. Take the millions of dollars invested or spent in such companies. Lots of meetups happening everyday around the world...

Yahoo! has just let it die instead. It's even hard to argue that Upcoming was off because it was ahead. I can't see why the events on Upcoming wouldn't turn into what meetups are today. All it needed was someone to take care of the product and the community. Gatherings and events have been happening since before Upcoming was created and are now being managed on Meetup, Eventbright, Lanyrd, etc... It isn't the case of these companies creating a new space for them, they just took it from where Upcoming (and others, probably) left.

It's just sad to see Yahoo! in such a bad shape. I was just talking to a friend about the great Yahoo! in the times of Hack Day! and Brickhouse.

They bought some of the hottest startups back in the days (Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming...) only to neglect them, shut them or let them die. These were amongst the first companies that had put the user front and centre, leveraging the fabled user generated content. This was of huge value for any company and they let it slip through their fingers.

Also, at Brickhouse they developed Fire Eagle, one of the first services to work with location, and a great take on it too. A central and independent place where you could post your location to and then you'd grant access to other services choosing the level of detail (e.g. you phone was constantly posting your most accurate location and then Twitter could have access to your current City, Facebook to the Country you're in and Dark Sky could access Lat/Lon).

And, of course, they once owned Geocities.

Then they shut some stuff down, closed Brickhouse and I think they stopped hosting Hack Days. I know correlation does not imply causation but I find it very difficult to dissociate these two situations. How can a technology company thrive if they kill their innovation internal cycle?

Yahoo! seems to once have had one of the best innovation cultures in industry only to see it disappear like this. Everything that has been happening since then (like death by acquisitions) looks like part of the plan or the lack of thereof.

Once I found a nice captcha replacement (can't remember where it was, tho). It worked like this: at the end of the form, there were 6 to 9 playing cards and the text "Click on the seven of spades". This fitted the theme of website which had something to do with poker or magic tricks (can't really remember what it was) but this can be done with a lot of other stuff that is well known by people and not by robots (e.g. 6 photos of animals and the question "Click on the dog", etc.)

so years of work to find the cure for cancer is on a white macbook and the guy didn't backup it? yeah right.

the same day Duke Nukem Forever goes on pre-order on Amazon? too good to be true.

I wonder who was the guy that got the job and how well he is doing now with that equity

when I noticed that I was messing up when using ln, I started thinking this way: "write what you already know first, so you have time to think about what you'll write next

"what you already know" being the existing file and the second part being the name of the link to the existing file.

I never got it wrong again.

Meh. She doesn't even look any hot at all.

Since they don't own Java, they can't "deprecate" it. They are just ditching their own implementation of Java. According to them, because release cycles of Mac OS X and Java don't match, thus Java being generally a couple of versions late on the Mac.

Windows don't ship with Java preinstalled and it isn't that big of a deal, people install it the first time they need it and that's it.

That's what is going to happen on the Mac.

Agreed. Apple has the same power as others and they should take their side on debates like these. Honestly I don't get the gist of the original linked post because I think there's nothing to worry about.

All the technologies are in the market, some will win and some will lose. The only thing that will define this is adoption, and Apple is adopting the technologies they believe are the best to deliver a great user experience to their customers.

It's http://www.paylane.com/ - I've also heard good things about http://www.adyen.com/

Thanks a lot, Phil. That's a good piece of advice.

The Authorize.net was just an example where we felt like we couldn't relate to everyone else in the industry when searching for a solution for that problem. Now, we've solved that and "replaced" Authorize.net for one of the european companies that do pretty much the same.

So, my post wasn't focused on that specific problem, but on incorporating in the US, mostly because that's where our clients are and if doing it on Delaware would allow us to save a lot on taxes: great ;)

So, the company we have in Portugal could even not relate to the one we would create in the US, by now it is just the common umbrella under which we're been doing business (both client work and that specific product I've mentioned).

just like those guys that see jesus christ's face on a toast. yeah.

after all these years: 95/100. great work huh?

why don't they stop with IE already and start shipping a webkit-based browser? why would they want to always be a couple years behind everyone else on that front?

What? No HTML5? No CSS3?

Oh boy... these feds never learn...

I don't. I just glimpse the list and click on whatever I like.

just like i expected. nobody cares, right?

this guy must be the worst interviewer ever. sometimes, he seems to be so bored...

interesting insights, tho.

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shouldn't the title read "attaching an iphone to SLR lenses"?

I wonder how dumb posts like this end up on HN...