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I've used Parse extensively as a backed for iOS apps before and lately started trying out Firebase as a replacement. Firebase seems like a decent alternative so far, but there's 2 …

First of all, I realize this game is very similar to some existing games out there - I drew inspiration from puzzle games such as Candy Crush Secondly, this game was developed from…

Thanks! It currently doesn't track user analytics, but that could be something worth looking into

Yea, the current version uses a webview to show the street view, and moving/shifting the street view tended to make the app crash, so that's why it's disabled. However, now that Go…

Yup, it was adapted from geoguessr.com, and I'm trying to extend the concept by adding different game modes and in-game hints In reply to your questions: 1. What do you mean by sim…

I'm confused why they decided to immediately remove Summly from the App Store rather than use it to drive traffic to other Yahoo apps - anybody know why they did this?

Cool technical presentation, but trying to optimize moving average trading strategies is a fool's game - you might find a set of parameters that work in all out-sample/cross-valida…

What if my site uses e.stopImmediatePropagation() in any click/event handlers? Would this still be able to capture those events? And if so, how?

Thanks for the shoutout for BlogRoll! :)

This uses Backbone.js on the frontend, and each time you change sites on the left sidebar, a "pushState" event is triggered, which saves the current state of the page (and the back…

Currently not, but I am planning to work on native mobile apps soon! I have tried to make the current website mobile-friendly, though it may be slower on older phones since it uses…

Sorry, it's currently running on a single EC2 instance so it may be slow due to today's flood of traffic, though I'm working on scaling it up

I've been working on this in my spare time for the past few months, and in light of the news about Google Reader shutting down, I thought I'd announce this today: BlogRoll is meant…

Seemed like this would eventually happen since Google stopped updating Reader (and its APIs) a few years ago I've also been working on a similar news reader app called BlogRoll: ht…

Looks like some wages were probably incorrectly labeled as monthly rather than yearly, so that's why those are 12x what they should be

Many large asset managers have mandates to sell their losers and cut losses, or may be window dressing before the end of the quarter and don't want to show to clients that they hol…

From the article: "That means that Facebook's enterprise value is greater than 10x current revenue run rate and greater than 25x EBITDA. These are big multiples folks. I am happy t…

Very interesting that that looks more like a tech startup than a bank office Especially in contrast to CS's NYC office, which is a very old fashioned investment banking/trading flo…