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Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes (in-person in Greater Boston area OK) Willing to relocate: no Technologies: iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, concurrency), Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Co…

I think this thread gives some good answers to this: https://twitter.com/jandersen/status/1009247005233692672 . Basically, problems you get from being at massive scale and supporti…

It's not a requirement. Apps can use these to send someone to another app, along with optional information. For example, it's how you used to login via Facebook (before it was buil…

For apps that support deep linking, you could check if the device responds to a URL with a corresponding scheme (e.g. "twitter:///")

If GitHub profiles really are becoming the "new resume", I think users are need more control over them. Certainly sorting projects is a good start.

It should be noted that you can still get push notification support if you use Google's Gmail app on iOS.

Managing load with thin workers isn't very hard...haproxy [ http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ ] makes it pretty easy to setup rather complex load distributions (certainly more complex than ra…

To me the most interesting part of this article are the comments: many people questioning Arrington's impartiality since Yahoo is a competitor to AOL. It'll probably subside over t…

Yeah, I could see using it for my Mac Mini, I just wish you could somehow attach it to the wireless keyboard. Having two separate devices on your lap doesn't really work...

Seems similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148328 . The internals of any VPS aren't really secure from the hosting provider, although I don't why that means CSRs should …

It seems like marketing would still be an issue though. Even to make $1/day, someone has to find your software. If you're not marketing through a blog or Twitter, that leaves adver…