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ryanshaun

Re:Please review my project on Thursday April 24, 2014 @09:23AM (#7640077)

Best way to pull in news to my app. Theoretically.

I'm thinking of making an app which pulls in various news items from different publishers.The app would display a list of news items that are to do with education. so would pull from BBC education, guardian and various other sources I could find I deem good for the users.Simply, whats the best way to the news items in terms, of speed, load and efficiency?Maybe RSS, some sort of API?Please...

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Ask HN: How to respond to someone who puts down a programmers passion

Today at work, theres a new guy joined in the MI team. So being an MI analyst, I thought he might share a tiny bit of passion for programming.We were making small talk, I asked what his main hobby was. He responded: 'Golf'. which is awesome. Most like a round of golf every now and then.When he asked me mine, I responded: 'My main hobby is programming.'. Fair enough right?But no, he laughed in...

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