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by macuenca 14y ago
This is true only for Skype to Skype connections. Calls that have to reach The PSTN[1] need to be routed through telephony servers somehow, exposing the possibility to cause some stress on Skype's servers as FrojoS mentions. [1] http://en.
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by macuenca 14y ago
05:00 PM UTC - New York: 01:00 PM - Bogota: 12:00 PM - Sao Paulo: 03:00 PM - London: 06:00 PM - Berlin: 07:00 PM - Moscow: 09:00 PM - New Delhi: 10:30 PM - Tokyo: 02:00 AM +1 day - Sydney: 04:00 AM +1 day
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Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.(apple.com)
77 points by macuenca 14y ago|52 comments
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by macuenca 14y ago
I haven't used Über, but the idea is exactly the same and the apps are very much alike. I live in Madrid, which is one of the cities where Cabify operates. I've used their service a couple of times and I can only recommend it. Looks like a
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by macuenca 14y ago
That is a (mis)perception most people have (myself included) regarding career development. Professionals follow the path of the higher salary. For me, the path can be something like this: South America < PIGS < France/Germany/UK &
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by macuenca 14y ago
http://mobile.twitter.com/ works for me.
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by macuenca 14y ago
Seems to be already removed, at least that's what I see from Europe with a U.S. account. Remember that whatever amount of money is this publisher making, Apple is taking a 30%. Maybe they don't put too much effort on their side on purpose,
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Ten reasons to use PHP(eschrade.com)
3 points by macuenca 14y ago|1 comments
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by macuenca 14y ago
This looks very promising, but are there any examples of real applications written with RubyMotion and submitted to the AppStore? Everything I see is just stand-alone examples, but can all the pieces be glued together and turn into a functi
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Tuenti Programming Contest Questions(contest.tuenti.net)
2 points by macuenca 14y ago|0 comments
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by macuenca 14y ago
They own the DUCK.CO domain, but use it as a community forum. I think they should use that one as a shortcut to their main product, but probably they don't want to cause confusion. The funny thing is that the registrant of DUCK.COM appears
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Dollar Shave Club(dollarshaveclub.com)
12 points by macuenca 15y ago|1 comments
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A*holes are bad for business(thebrandbuilder.wordpress.com)
2 points by macuenca 15y ago|0 comments
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by macuenca 15y ago
Also, according to Wikipedia[1] Coca Sek, a coca leaves based soda is still sold in Colombia, even though is was removed from super markets shelves. I was living in Colombia when it was launched. It had a big media coverage, so I tried it o
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by macuenca 15y ago
This is the article your talking about: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/os-x-mountain-lion/
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by macuenca 15y ago
What you suggest not to call a "war" has killed thousands of people in countries like Mexico and Colombia[1]. Is this what you mean when you say "deaths of large numbers of combatants"? I come from a country that suffers this "war on drugs"
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by macuenca 15y ago
During my senior year in college I built a company with a very good friend of mine. I came out with the name by picking random letters written in pieces of paper out of a plastic bag, iterating over and over until they formed an easy to pro
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by macuenca 15y ago
To put people who may not know Ryanair in context: is a low-cost Irish airline that operates in Europe. You can get round trip flights starting at EUR 0.01. His CEO is a very controversial person who has been on the press for suggesting agg
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Amazon Spain is selling a magnifying glass for more than 13 Million Euros(amazon.es)
2 points by macuenca 15y ago|1 comments
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by macuenca 15y ago
I'm an aviation enthusiast also bummed by the fact that this feature does not work outside the US. I live in Spain. Fortunately, this current thread reminded me to try it out while being close to Newark Intl. Airport (EWR) in New Jersey. Th
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by macuenca 15y ago
We built a "password strengthener" the other day. During the analysis phase, we ran our passwords database (~10M accounts) against a dictionary. We wanted to do this to ban the top ten most common used words among other things. The results
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by macuenca 15y ago
I asked myself the same question the other day and found a document presented at the General Population Conference in 2001. It's titled "Why Borders Can Not Be Open". I don't want to introduce any bias giving my thoughts about it, but I rec