MehdiEG

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by MehdiEG 8y ago
By "cents", you really mean "minor currency unit" I assume? In British Pounds, it would be pennies for example. The doc doesn't explain how the library deals with the various different minor units out there (I'
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
Facebook have recently launched Lead Ads [0] which could make them work for an entreprise product campaign if you can find the correct targeting. Worth trying it out. [0] https://www.facebook.com/business/news/lead
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
Relevant piece of trivia: I went to a meetup at Facebook's London offices a few months back and heard a presentation from the FB @ Work lead. This may surprise some but FB @ Work was entirely built by their London team in London. As yo
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
To add to discussion, I've found this interview with Malte Schwarzkopf to be quite enlighning to understand how Omega, Kubernetes and Mesos fit together: https://blog.kismatic.com/qa-with-malte-schwarzkopf-on-distr...
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
It's the LearnGaelic app created for BBC Scotland (or, more specifically for LearnGaelic, a partnership between the BBC and local organizations that promote the use of the Scottish Gaelic language): https://itunes.apple.com&
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
No - I've never worked with Xamarin (although I'll be looking at it in the coming days / weeks for a personal project - it looks quite sweet now). But I've got loads of experience with both .NET and Objective-C / Co
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
My anecdotal evidence: tried it when I was looking for my first contracting gig in Jan 2014. Got one serious lead (short-term contract for native iOS app development with immediate start required and a very tight deadline). Initial discussi
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by MehdiEG 11y ago
This is the sort of "startup" that I've seen commonly done by self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneurs". Hire a developer for next-to-nothing / hour in the Philipines, India or China. Get them to build a quick-and
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Today we are canceling all programs that require employees to travel to Indiana(twitter.com)
14 points by MehdiEG 11y ago|0 comments
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by MehdiEG 12y ago
I was on the other side of this equation a couple of years ago - co-founder of a London-based tech startup that had just finished an accelerator and raised a £100k round of seed funding (we didn't make it in the end in case you're
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by MehdiEG 12y ago
I'd be interested to hear about this as well. The £40k - £60k range is indeed what you can expect to get as an intermediate to senior software developer in London (add maybe another £10k to £20k in the financial industry at a push). Wh
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by MehdiEG 12y ago
Using the Foursquare API for this sort of data aggregation service (i.e. for stalking people) has been done many times before. Unsurprisingly, Foursquare didn't like it one bit [0] and ended up changing their API to prevent this sort o
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
This is typical of government-run or funded programs. The problem is that the word "startup" doesn't have a universally agreed upon definition and different people have radically different understanding of what a "startu
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
You can certainly ask these questions. In fact, as a startup co-founder myself, I would find a prospective employee asking these questions to be a very good sign as it demonstrates that: 1) You understand what a startup is and how it works.
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
Same problem here and I know quite a few people who've had these issues as well. iMessage is a huge mess - even if you're still using your iPhone. Back in December, when I was still on iPhone, I went in a month-long trip abroad. S
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
You mentioned EventVue's excellent post-mortem already. But for anyone thinking of building a startup in that space, Josh Fraser (EventVue's co-founder)'s follow-up post is also a mandatory read: http://www.onlinea
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
I hadn't actually heard of Pelican until now but it looks like Ghost and Pelican aren't really comparable - they're two very different approaches to a blogging platform. Pelican looks more comparable to Jekyll. Personally I&#
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
At that point, I think that Blackberry is suffering a lot from their now disastrous brand image. It's not that Blackberry isn't a real alternative. It's that most people aren't even considering Blackberry at all anymore.
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
Thanks Glen! I was sure I had checked before that the email field was visible to all. Looks like it's not the case though. Now added my email to my bio in my profile.
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Based in London, UK. Happy to work either on-site or remotely. I'm a full-stack developer with a sweet spot for back-end work and distributed systems. Available for contract work from the 8 Jan. Happy to meet for a face-
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
AFAIK RavenDB, which describes itself as a "2nd generation document database", does exactly what you describe. Whenever you run a query that's missing an index, it will automatically create a temporary "dynamic index&quo
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
As far as I can see from a completely outsider perspective, the Maemo / Meego / Jolla team have always been severely under-resourced, have always been the underdog and have always deeply suffered from the political turmoil happeni
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
For those who are wondering why this is up on the front page: Jolla is launching their first handset tonight in Helsinki: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/jolla-sailfish-os-phone-... I always wondered why Jolla is g
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First Jolla Sailfish smartphones will ship on November 27(techhive.com)
8 points by MehdiEG 13y ago|1 comments
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
It's already been done. Get yourself an N9 (same hardware as the lumia 800) or an N950 (most beautiful phone hardware I've ever had the chance to use but hard to come by as only a few thousand units were produced) and install nitd
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
I actually went to OVH a couple of days ago. I needed a new server and wanted to give them a try. But they're not accepting new clients anymore: http://www.ovh.co.uk/a1186.SoldOut I didn't know about online.net. S
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
It's worth putting this in context. Hetzner provides really beefy dedicated servers for ridiculously low prices [1]. You get great support (always had phone calls answered pretty much instantly and emails answered within a few minutes
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
I researched this 3 years ago for our startups and couldn't find anything really good that lets me easily and securely share passwords on a need-to-know basis to team members and see who has access to what. Which baffles me because thi
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
This is very much what I feel every single time I read a tech-related article in mainstream press. The cluelessness of most mainstream "tech journalists" is spectacular. I see no reason why reporting on other matters would be any
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by MehdiEG 13y ago
Add CRMs to that list. There are probably more CRM applications out there than there are companies on this planet :)

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