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Since the whole issue boiled down to "providing some functionality to users who saw the app in the App Store and downloaded" and completely moved on from the initial IAP discussion…

You’re right, I should have mentioned that as well. I didn’t go into those details because I was strictly talking about the project in the article and the compute time limit would …

There are many different ways to do it. You can simply whitelist the IP addresses of the CDN (many of them provide them in their documentation or provide an API for it) in your buc…

This isn’t actually one of those solutions where Lambda shines, pricing wise. I would simply trigger a Lambda function once a minute (or every X minutes) using CloudWatch to fetch …

They recently added splash screens to Instagram and WhatsApp apps which I presume was a step towards smoothly introducing the Facebook company logo to their app brandings with upda…

Yes, that’s the one! Thank you so much!

Impressive how well MS-DOS games stood to the test of time. I still find them much more enjoyable than modern games. Well, since the topic is relevant, a quick question to those wh…

From my experience so far, yes it's reliable. I'm using CloudMounter to mount an OwnCloud instance in our company network using WebDAV. It was able to properly pause and resume syn…

I would list all of Panic’s apps if the question did not specifically exclude well-known apps. They are hands down the best at delivering just beautiful software. --- I use Reeder …

> Concerns about server going down or changing cloud provider imo is not particularly interesting or even useful advantage to mention for personal infrastructure. I look at this fr…

I once had a credit card with the CVC code of 007. Although it looks cool and everything, I spent a few hours on the phone to manage to activate it. Why? Simply because only a few …

Thanks, I enjoyed the read the first time I came across. I really don't want to come across as an annoying person but please do not submit the same content marketing articles over …

For the edit: If the endpoint works on HTTP that is. We no longer allow HTTP connections to our API servers for instance.

What about tracking everything you type for a month to see which letters you use the most as well as their frequency and then generating a keyboard layout that will actually work f…

This reminded me of the future of the television in the Idiocracy. https://montevallotimetravel.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/idi...

For some reason, I always thought it was matter of time that Bitcoin would be declared illegal. People say different things regarding its legality so I will continue to stay away f…

I'm aware of the fact that this makes attackers' jobs easier. However, many websites (including Codecademy) tells you whether the email address you provided is registered or not, w…

I knew someone would say this :) This is not an excuse for most of the sites (including Codecademy) because when you follow the "Forgot password" link and type in an email address,…

As I mentioned in the text, I think they were the best in terms of usefulness. Though you are right about the hindsight bias, there is no way to tell. Maybe, just like many human b…