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> 'His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now.' He designed none of the interface. > '... his obvious coding skills .
by conradev 15y ago
> 'His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now.'
He designed none of the interface.
> '... his obvious coding skills ...'
A lot of the time, a person's coding skills are judged by how readable their code is, and how well they utilize SCM. Also, to be an Apple engineer you want extensive experience with Objective-C.
https://github.com/comex/star_ https://github.com/comex/star_
Now I don't mean to say comex is a bad programmer at all, the stuff he writes is amazing, I just feel like he wouldn't make a good Apple engineer.
- Xuzz 15y agoHe didn't design the interface (Apple did; it's a clone of the App Store, and I guess I designed some of the iPad UI), but he did work very hard to ensure that the user experience was great. There was quite a bit of discussion about that, even: comex spent months porting unionfs for little benefit (right now) than being able to install Cydia without rebooting, so it could look like an App Store installation.
- conradev 15y agoGood point.
- alanh 15y agoWho cares about design or coding skills? Apple should hire him to help improve security, if only by doing what he does right now and sending results back to another team at Apple!
- conradev 15y agoYeah, true.
- Vexenon 15y agoIt's worth mentioning that geohot was, by no means, a fabulous programmer - sure, he's done a lot of great reverse engineering and security work, but if you look at his code, it was both advanced and sloppy. However, Facebook hired him to work on product development, even though he's known to not be much of a programmer. Comex may not fit the profile of an Apple engineer, but I think he'd still do a damn good job as one.
- omaranto 15y agoSCM doesn't mean Aubrey Jaffer's scheme implementation, does it? What is it in this context?