edlea

I built an iMessage app that allows my wife and I to easily send goal updates from our daughter's football matches. Typing who scored what goal, or even keeping track of the score to send to each other when you're standing on the sideline in the cold and rain on a Saturday morning wasn't fun. This works so much better.

The right app, in the right place can make a lot of sense

This is basically llvm but for documents. Makes a lot of sense

So did I. Was the title changed?

The timing of Google's AMP project is especially interesting considering the recent attention ad blockers have received.

By limiting the functionality of pages, AMP makes them load faster, but also allows publishers to include ads. The ads however, can't run JavaScript (or Flash) and so should be a lot less obnoxious.

There's no reason to only use AMP on mobile though - AMP content renders equally well, and fast, on the desktop. These extensions for Safari and Chrome will redirect to AMP URLs for content that has them.

Unfortunately, it only seems to work for apps that are on the US app store. It doesn't create a page for apps that are, say, only in the UK app store.

tldr: Don't use bitcoind's "accounts" functionality

This is the first article I've read that actually details what the issue is and why it doesn't just effect custom Bitcoin clients.

It very much depends on the employer. I've hired people who haven't studied Computer Science (or even a science or engineering degree) and found that they can be a mixed bag. Generally they can program, but the quality of their code and the way they approach problems isn't always as good as people who have been taught Computer Science.

Also, and please don't take this the wrong way as you were posting on HN, not applying for a job, but if you don't have a degree I'd expect you to be more than just a great programmer. The structure of your first sentence would ring alarm bells for me. It's not just your technical abilities that are important but all your skills, including communication.

Looking at iPhoto "Journal", Apple probably decided they couldn't redistribute Google maps so switched to OSM. Just a shame they didn't do it within the parameters of OSM's license.

Hopefully this was a mistake rather than Apple thinking they either didn't need to adhere to a license or that they could just bully their way to what they want.

I'm assuming that most users don't know what root access is or the implications of having it

If your device is rooted you're more likely to have routes for malware to get onto the device. When money is being moved out of your bank account, malware is the last thing you want on the device

It's interesting to read some of the Android reviews for the app; an interesting insight into how users value convenience over security.

Or simply how little they appreciate security

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.barclays.apps.ping...

Work in an industry, any industry, until you get a feel for how businesses currently operate in that space.

Find the things that are either repetitive or hard, or a different way of approaching the problems for these businesses.

Then you have your startup idea and know who your customers might be.

This is something that the BBC did with iPlayer: http://po-ru.com/diary/device-discrimination-on-the-internet...

I've not quite worked out how to implement it though

If you're not familiar, it's definitely worth checking out WebWorks (https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/). Even though it is advertised to work on BB5+ it's only really worth considering at 6+.

Also, definitely worth a look is bbUI.js (https://github.com/blackberry/bbUI.js/). It's still very much beta, but RIM are doing a lot of the UI hardwork for you; without it you end up with a white screen and have craft the UI yourself. It's a bit like jQTouch for BlackBerry.

I must be missing something. I've tried clicking on "Steamscope", billed as a free download, but it opens iTunes and lists the app as $0.99

It's not pretty, but the code is here:

http://edlea.net/o2.js

I've built a simple Twilio script that shows how easy it is to exploit this here: http://edlea.net/

Vistors on an O2 phone will receive an SMS on their first visit. An MD5 hash of their MSISDN is kept in memory to prevent multiple SMS being sent.

I'm seeing something odd with the way you're building the results HTML - on Safari 5.1.2 text search doesn't pick up the majority of instances of a string.

For example, the term you're searching against is only showing up 4 times, when it appears over 1000. It works fine in Chrome 16.

It's useful for times when you see a name you like but want to find the reverse combination.

If you're on an untrusted computer, the network is by definition also untrusted.

What happens if the computer has a hacker's self-signed certificate for https://accounts.google.com installed and the hacker sets up a man-in-the-middle style attack?

The hacker's browser asks Google for a QR code and it gets sent to your browser. When you scan the code and authorise from your phone, the hacker's browser would be logged into your Google account.

Looks more like a UK alternative to Dwolla (https://www.dwolla.com/)

I can't work out if that would be possible or not.

It might be possible to plot the location of a single point in 2D, but how would you differentiate for multitouch? If you have 2 microphones you might be able to calculate the distance from each microphone of a touch by timing how long it takes for the sound of the tap to reach each microphone. However, as the speed of sound in wood appears to be ~4000 m/s (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sound-speed-solids-d_713.h...) you'd need to be "listening" at 400kHz to get centimetre accuracy over a 1m square area.

I can't see how it would be possible to then differentiate between two points moving at the same time (i.e. a pinch gesture). I'm just assuming regular microphones are used as the article suggests - I'm not an acoustic engineer so hopefully I've missed something.