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dozy

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About dozy

engineering @ mParticle

we're hiring! Send me a note at sdozor at [company name].com

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    Comment #27028096

    mParticle | https://www.mparticle.com/ | Remote (US timezones) | Full time mParticle serves as critical data infrastructure for engineering and product teams across the Fortune 500…

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    Comment #24447044

    In case it's useful to any - here's a diff of what Apple changed since the last update in March: https://gist.github.com/samdozor/637d21424cc3240b25fe5cd7007...

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    Comment #12205906

    Agreed. I was commenting on this workaround's viability to be used by a bad actor attempting to compromise the game and other players of it.

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    Comment #12205782

    Patching an APK like this would break parts of the app, specifically the parts that are arguably the most crucial to be followed by pinned API calls. For example, in-app purchases …

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    Comment #10992073

    Yep definitely, Urban is a great option.

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    Comment #10991976

    Appboy, Kahuna, or (shameless plug) mParticle if you want multiple options :)

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    Comment #10991939

    Parse authenticates with GCM using the API key that you provide, as do all other services AFAIK. So, all developers need to do is use that same key in their new push provider, and …

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    Comment #10903316

    The Soda Ban is NYC-only, in response to the city's childhood obesity epidemic. Albany is a long way from the NYC mayor's office, both geographically and politically ;)

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    Comment #10624074

    Been having fun playing with Lambda to power various Amazon Echo skills[1]. Definitely easier than having to deploy with something like Elastic Beanstalk, or even App Engine. We're…

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    Comment #10298872

    Also, the improved 808 SoC at 20nm manufacturing process should offer better battery life over the 800 in the N5, even if they had the same battery capacity (which they don't, so i…

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    Comment #10298166

    Though hard to say if this is true, it seemed their argument during the presentation was that the bigger sensor/pixels in both devices make up for the lack of OIS, and they specifi…

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    Comment #10217618

    > renders it more dangerous than not having it If I were your friend, I would tell you that this is still dubious owing to the fact that without it, many people might use very weak…

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    Comment #10148881

    Worth noting that Apple releasing Apple Music on Android is the exception to the rule - what other 1st-party Apple software/apps are available on Android? Also, Apple Music on Andr…

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    Comment #10079752

    not on Verizon :-(

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    Comment #9735401

    In Android it's all been rolled into the Intent/IPC system since day 1. Apps are composed of Activities, and Activities can defined Intent filters. Intent filters describe what the…

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    Comment #9422408

    It's still pretty top-of-the line, I love mine. Best Android device in my opinion with the possible exception of the Moto X, which is very similar (just smaller and slower). The lo…

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    Comment #9214575

    > I've seen things like this before It's actually pretty common in Android. Methinks you're an iOS user :) > any app could register to listen to those addresses This is core to the…

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    Comment #9141969

    > read a message from a glance at a wrist Do you expect to read all messages you get from a glance? How about emails? In fact, many messages you get won't be fully visible on the s…

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    Comment #9141788

    Yes, you can scroll.

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    Comment #9141785

    You can scroll that card to see the rest of it. I fail to see how this is a problem.