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Re:Apple Self Service Repair now offers 200 parts, tools, repair manua... on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:45PM (#33886768)

Interesting! Will bookmark

Show HN: Social Climber – an app that locks social media behind an exercise goal

Posted by mapierce on Monday July 20, 2020 @05:13AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://socialclimberapp.com/

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Ask HN: What's a good recent programming related movie you've watched?

Posted by mapierce on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've just watched Zero Days and it was awesome. Curious as to some other code/programming related movies out there.

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Ask HN: Suggestions for SaaS notification platform for use with Cordova

Posted by mapierce on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've got an app built in Cordova and am looking into different providers for push notifications. I've tried using Parse but all the Cordova plugins I tried we're awful and I couldn't get it up and running properly.I'd like something that would manage the UDID's itself so we don't need to. Urban Airship isn't bad, but it's very expensive ($250 a month for the entry plan). I've also looked at...

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Re:Ask HN: Why would people trust their banking credentials to a servi... on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:23AM (#9995555)

I'm currently doing the same thing for my own personal use. My bank has recently redone their mobile app and it's actually very nice, but I still don't have the insight I'd like without breaking out my calculator.

Where I'm from the banks run on ancient software (we're talking COBOL in most cases) and when an ATM breaks, you see it briefly boot through Windows 98.

Web scrapers could be feasible for an e-commerce service (that's mostly what Yodlee is, the service that powers Mint) the hard part is the regulatory issues surrounding banking web scrapers. It's a very very grey area.

In my opinion with this stuff, if there's demand, it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission and third party banking apps could/can provide endless functionality and insight.