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nickfox

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About nickfox

Home of the Google Map Gps Cell Phone Tracker.

https://www.websmithing.com

https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9443311

    There is a solution. Tiny houses on wheels. That makes a lot of the permitting go away... Google it.

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    Comment #8747089

    I have no idea what you people are talking about. All of my websites are https but the problem I have is that Google is NOT serving data from secure servers. Open the chrome consol…

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    Comment #8314491

    I built an anonymous android tracker. It allows people to track an android cell phone for 4 hours without having to use a user name, password or email. Just a disposable tracker. h…

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    Comment #7902774

    I strongly, strongly recommend that you take up swing dancing. You do not need a partner and you do not need to know how to dance. I promise you that if you take a beginner class i…

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    Comment #7887137

    After reading about this on Hacker News, I went straight there to find my current favorite song, Happy, by Pharrell Williams. It wasn't there so I bought it for a $1.29. I wasn't h…

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    Comment #7694407

    My Gps Tracker is an open source project that allows you to track android, ios, windows phones and java me phones using various mapping providers such as google, bing and OpenStree…

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    Comment #7461270

    I also can no longer read reCaptcha. So I did the smart thing and got rid of it. Instead, I've been using this: http://www.nucaptcha.com/ A MILLION times better. It's actually a pl…

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    Comment #7426586

    2014 and the best we can do is a Dick Tracy watch. http://i.imgur.com/hpSgOcA.png

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    Comment #7426553

    I KNOW what the fox knows.

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    Comment #7369217

    I wouldn't mind some help. https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker Nick

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    Comment #7106529

    Hey, thanks for your comment. I use SF as a distribution channel. I use github every day and love it: https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker

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    Comment #7100499

    I have been working on my Google Map Gps Cell Phone Tracker for several years now. Recently, I updated the project to include tracking for Android, IOS, Windows Phone and Java Me/J…

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    Comment #6994539

    > The most important thing you should do is the thing that's most important to you. I had to go google this exact statement to see if you were quoting somebody else. What a profoun…

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    Comment #6658538

    real programmers do it natively. :) And if anyone wants an app written on all 3 platforms, feel free to message me.

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    Comment #6435928

    I wish google would change their motto from "don't be evil" to "don't be assholes". I bet they would get a lot more mileage out of the second one. Really, when has google ever care…

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    Comment #6434790

    I'm not too much of a conspiracy theorist but I wonder if the Chinese are behind Colony Collapse Disorder that is devastating our bee populations... They destroy our bees and we ar…

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    Comment #5922088

    No, I am not overreacting, you are merely part of the conspiracy. I bet you are a web developer. :o)

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    Please Stop the Madness

    The past few months I've been seeing a trend in websites. And that trend is to display a popup (or two) asking users to become a member, take a survey, like them on facebook, twitt…

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    Comment #5678861

    I am NOT a bad developer. I have a resume that just kills. 15 years of experience. But, I am 52 years old now and basically have been thrown out with the garbage. Why hire me when …

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    Comment #3545633

    The short answer is no. You really need a mac to run xcode on. Yes, you can google hackintosh but it's not worth the effort. If you are on a budget, then get a mac mini.

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    Comment #1830089

    Prose is just prose by any other name... :o)

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    Comment #1705903

    Excellent. Thank you.

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    Comment #1705897

    Is this yours? http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

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    How to deal with so much Hacker News

    I recently put Hacker News back into my google reader and now I'm seeing about 150 posts a day. There are a lot of really excellent conversations, links, content, etc., but I simpl…