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Ask HN: Any way to create ebook reader on top of Kindle/iBooks?

HiI'm thinking about creating an ebook reader as a personal project, but I don't have any intention to enter ebook selling business!I mean, I'm just considering creating a simple reader, and I want it to be useful (surprise!), so I want to be easy for users to add their books, and since most of us buy our books from Kindle or iBooks, I want to know if there's any public or private API or any...

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Ask HN: What should I learn as a product manager with tech background?

HiI've recently switched from being a developer to a product manager, so from the triad of tech, design & business, I have a good background in tech.Now, I don't know what I don't know. I'm seeking resources (books/blogs/blog posts/...) about the other two domains, which allow me to be an excellent product manager.While I have a habit of checking Hacker News nearly every day for the last 8...

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Re:Ask HN: What tool do you suggest for Websocket development? on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:26PM (#12667489)
I dont think so, I haven't seen anything like that

Ask HN: What tool do you suggest for Websocket development?

HiI'm implementing a Webscoket server using go, and I need to have an interactive way to send messages to it and debug it. For REST APIs, I use Postman, and it had simplified my workflow hugely. Is there something like that for Websockets? Currently I'm using Dark Websocket Terminal, and it leaves much to desire for.Thanks a lot.

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Thank you.

When you say it reflects needs of facebook, do you mean it won't help a team of 2 to do web & mobile front ends? Do you think going fully native (I mean java & swift) is easier?

Ask HN: Does using React Native and React really help cross-platform code reuse?

HiWe're planning to release a MVP for a product that needs web, iOS & Android front ends, and they have some similar components in them.My question is, if you have any first hand experience using React for creating your web front end & React Native for your mobile apps, did you find code reuse between these platforms easy? Was it something happening routinely? I know that theoretically...

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Re:Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week? on Saturday May 02, 2015 @08:39AM (#9476837)
http://ben-evans.com/news/ a weekly newsletter by Ben Evans, which is highly insightful on mobile world. It has a seperate 'stats' section which is really nice
as an iranian, i dont give a damn. i already route all of my traffic to my vps in US, so i can access everything that is blocked to me either by iranian or american government. but this kind of sanctions, just like financial sanctions on iran, increases the hatred of americans in iran, and shows their hypocrisy.
> Maybe if our government didn't threaten other nations with annihilation, this sort of shit wouldn't happen to us. Who knows.

yes, you can blame our government, even when US is putting the pressure on our people, not the government. it makes prefect sense.

> The truth however is that the link between query intent and your social interactions for interests and places is much weaker than FB wants you to believe.

i must diasgree with this line. facebook is not the place that you could search for a specialized query (for example algorithms or scientific data). instead it is a place to search for people, restaurants and other day to day subjects that people tend to talk about in daily chats, and they may share links or write status about them in social networks. yes, maybe number of likes is a bad measure to rank the results, but it definitely is a measure.

Re:Ask HN: Can you guys tell me your initial impressions? on Friday January 18, 2013 @04:32AM (#5077874)
i dont like your color pallete. i think a good free resource about this is Sacha Greif's Colory Theory ebook. the "buy.sell.trade" banner is uglu, too big and useless. it seems that you've adopted a flat design style, but in the product page the "cash/trade" button is 3d. i love that it has keyboard shortcuts. but i cant figure out why you have such selection of shortcut. for example why search is #? i think / is more appripriate. or why list an item is D? shouldn't it be L? the same thing for categories. and the simplicity is awesome.
Re:So you want to be a "real" programmer?(2011) on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:54AM (#5077784)
yet its so difficult to find the good technology to learn & adopt, since several languages & frameworks are created and fail everyday.
Re:Ask HN: How can I make Hacker Newsletter better? on Friday January 11, 2013 @11:18AM (#5043291)
it seems that you yourself read articles that are in the email. so i think writing just a few lines that describes every link is a good idea. Dave Pell is doing a good job about this in NextDraft.

also points and number of comments are important things to be included in email, but they may clutter it. personally i prefer them to be there.

and the classics part is really good ;)

Re:Safari is released to the world on Friday January 11, 2013 @09:23AM (#5042752)
maybe every reason of making iOS Maps is acceptable here too.
Re:Safari is released to the world on Friday January 11, 2013 @09:18AM (#5042733)
maybe nothing other than an angry steve and a not-that-fascinating-presentation.
Re:Host me in California on Monday January 07, 2013 @02:07PM (#5022557)
it seems this is more of a "charity" than a "business". also it may be possible to take back your expenses when he graduates.
Re:Host me in California on Monday January 07, 2013 @02:04PM (#5022550)
even if they are not of a higher quality, it is much easier to apply to a good american university from an american high school than a slovakian one.