Aqua_Geek

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Refactoring Uber’s Rider app (prior to rewrite)(spaceisdisorienting.com)
1 points by Aqua_Geek 5y ago|0 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 5y ago
I had a pancreatic tumor a couple of years ago that messed with my insulin levels (made me hypoglycemic). That gave me a much deeper appreciation for the struggle those with diabetes face. I had a CGM and had to watch to make sure my blood-
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Kid Pix in JavaScript/HTML(kidpix.app)
28 points by Aqua_Geek 5y ago|12 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
There was a pervasive problem of “not invented here” at the company for a long time. I used to laugh at all the “It doesn’t scale!” justifications that were thrown around. On the other hand, having enough people or money to throw at somethi
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Crypto Open Patent Alliance(twitter.com)
2 points by Aqua_Geek 6y ago|0 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
Apple did this in one of the sessions last time I interviewed there. They handed me a project in Xcode that had a number of bugs with varying degrees of difficulty — some caused crashes, others were UI glitches, etc. The assignment was to i
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
I mean, this IS an ad.
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
"Racism is not getting worse, it's getting filmed." — Will Smith
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
I don't follow. How does the "Accept" header factor in here?
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10 letter word stylized as k8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5 letter word stylized as k3s. There is no l
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
His book, "Game Programming Patterns," is great as well: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com
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by Aqua_Geek 6y ago
The "Crafting Interpreters" book by Bob Nystrom is probably a good way to dig in. It has a whole chunk on implementing a VM: http://craftinginterpreters.com/a-bytecode-virtual-machine.h...
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
I think the team that was working on this has been disbanded.
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
Looks like the post got updated with some reasoning: > Why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently? The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessary to take it offline.
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful(tonsky.me)
185 points by Aqua_Geek 7y ago|132 comments
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful(tonsky.me)
5 points by Aqua_Geek 7y ago|0 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1189585020232462340 > Root cause is Catalina regression that fails keyboard inputs when a UIKeyCommand is registered for the same key. UIResponder chain regression most li
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works(figma.com)
268 points by Aqua_Geek 7y ago|63 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
It was: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ (under the "Text Editing" section)
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works(figma.com)
1 points by Aqua_Geek 7y ago|0 comments
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iCloud Clusterfuck(furbo.org)
2 points by Aqua_Geek 7y ago|0 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
I still don't understand the already-existent gestures on iPad.
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
I don’t doubt it. They also do more traffic through their VCS than most companies do through their main product.
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by Aqua_Geek 7y ago
Google has the team + tooling to properly support it. The same cannot be said for many other orgs.
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Epic 2019 Cross-Platform Online Services Roadmap(unrealengine.com)
2 points by Aqua_Geek 8y ago|0 comments
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Happy People Don't Leave Jobs They Love(randsinrepose.com)
2 points by Aqua_Geek 8y ago|0 comments
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by Aqua_Geek 8y ago
It might be due to interop with Objective-C — Foundation's NSString uses UTF-16: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsstrin...
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by Aqua_Geek 8y ago
> The only reason to not use it, is because some of those Apps are built with third party multi-platform frameworks and not UIKit (React) Anecdote: I’ve worked on a few large iOS teams at well-known companies. At all of them, we have mov
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One Small Step for the Web(inrupt.com)
2 points by Aqua_Geek 8y ago|0 comments
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The system always kicks back(ux.shopify.com)
2 points by Aqua_Geek 8y ago|0 comments

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