Ologn

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by Ologn 4y ago
> I can pretty much determine in about an hour if a candidate is a good fit or not I have interviewed a lot of people. Most of the time I can determine three questions in if someone is not a good fit. This is on a technical interview.
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by Ologn 4y ago
> targeting luxury segment => Java targeting toasters, IoT and web browsers back in the 90s, but only being able to run on hilariously overbuilt and power hungry enterprise boxes instead. Also, the classloader's open world assump
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by Ologn 4y ago
The most popular Android app that I know of that uses RN extensively is Discord. Read the reviews here as the start of the answer to your question - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discord
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by Ologn 4y ago
I started dabbling in Android App Development in 2009, and did it full-time since 2011. I started using Kotlin a few years ago. Get familiar with using Android Studio as your IDE. Read the Kotlin and Android documentation. Look at the (n
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by Ologn 4y ago
This one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232976 In 2013 I started reading about Bitcoin and became a skeptic as to its long-term value, as well as other cryptocoins. In 2014 Stripe did a free coindrop of thousands o
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by Ologn 4y ago
In terms of a dry 960 page reference book, with references to studies, Code Complete is good and I refer to it and tell others to refer to it. Uncle Bob's Clean Code covers the same ground, but the book has a narrative drive, gives ex
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by Ologn 4y ago
> This avoid merge hell on the CHANGELOG.md file. Right, if you don't do something like this you can be in merge hell very quickly...
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by Ologn 4y ago
The local kid who knew about computers told me that Commodore 64 games were mostly written in machine language. So at the age of 12 or so I went to the library and flipped through the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide chapter
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by Ologn 4y ago
I have shopped for new and used cars lately and found the same thing. Used cars at or more than MSRP. A used car is almost us much as a new car so I got a new car.
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by Ologn 4y ago
Fred Brooks encountered a similar problem as a project manager at IBM in the early 1960s, working on the software for the System/360. In 1975 he wrote The Mythical Man Month about the experience. He said "adding manpower to a la
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by Ologn 4y ago
> how clunky NDK happens to be versus the C and C++ experience on Apple and Microsoft platforms Also in 2012 there was just gcc support, and by 2015 gcc was deprecated for Clang, creating a lot of extra work for app developers due to tha
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by Ologn 4y ago
> third party Retrofit For whatever historical reasons, there has been a flow of Android programmers from Google to Square (and from Square to Google). Square libraries are often written by people who came from the Google Android team.
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by Ologn 4y ago
> Also you need to choose MVC, MVP, Viper, MVVM, AAC, RxJava, and now Jetpack Compose which completely is different compared to other architectures. Insofar as MVC, MVP, Viper, and MVVM - the vast majority of places I know of use MVVM.
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by Ologn 4y ago
> It’s. Just. Not. That big of a deal. There are trailing indicators and leading indicators. The fact that something like Dogecoin can be invented as a joke (according to its investors) and be said to have a market cap of over $8 billio
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by Ologn 4y ago
retail
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by Ologn 4y ago
In 2011 I had a discussion with an Android programmer who told me about a throw off but popular app he and others had written, and how much they had made with the ads they put on it (in my recollection it was hundreds of dollars at that poi
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by Ologn 4y ago
By rich do you mean popping up a captcha every time I search for something?
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by Ologn 4y ago
> We don't know of anything that is provably not computation. How about the halting problem? :)
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by Ologn 4y ago
Correct, I can exchange a Mac for something else, or I can use it. Bitcoins are obviously exchanged but have not use.
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by Ologn 4y ago
> it argues that the entire technology field is worthless and cannot be used for any practical purpose Which I concur with. Cryptocoins are worthless, the idea Bitcoin has a market cap of $5-6 hundred billion is absurd, and maybe the in
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by Ologn 4y ago
> HN posters have successfully predicted 9 out of the last 0 Tether blow ups. People predicting stock market declines have thus far been predicting something which declines and then eventually bounces back. This will not happen to Tether
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by Ologn 4y ago
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres was not published until a month before Copernicus died. On the Origin of Species was not published until 1859 - Darwin had the basic ideas down in 1839, but did not start thinking to publish until
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by Ologn 4y ago
Also, the chart shows Bitcoin price, which does not matter for what it is talking about. What matters is Bitcoin market cap. If only ten Bitcoins exist, a market price of $60k each is easy, or even $120k each. Bitcoin had a market cap of
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by Ologn 4y ago
Thanks, I will probably disable sleep.
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by Ologn 4y ago
I have an M1. I compile Android apps in Android Studio a lot. For a small Android app without many bells and whistles M1 compiles fast (even faster than my Ubuntu laptop). However some Android apps I compile have some C/C++ code com
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by Ologn 4y ago
A lot of it is stone soup - someone wrote something in FLOSS, I notice a defect, or want to extend it or the like - and I send the patch upstream. Sometimes I write code for myself, think someone might want it, so I release it. In 2014 wan
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by Ologn 4y ago
On most Android devices, you can flash a new recovery image on with fastboot. You can not do this with Samsung devices, Samsung has its own proprietary methodology of flashing recovery images called Odin. Samsung is a supported LineageOS
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by Ologn 4y ago
> The new architecture also doesn't make much difference. Stuff just works, though homebrew needs to be told it's not on Intel anymore (terraform breaks weirdly if you don't do this). There seem to be plenty of M1 versions
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by Ologn 5y ago
I probably started using vi in 1989. What I learned then I still use all the time. On the other hand, I primarily program Android at work, and in 2009 Android recommended I use the Eclipse IDE, so I learned how to use that. Then starting a
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by Ologn 5y ago
Like the PP, I can be using a FOSS application or library and notice a bug, or try to run it against some unsupported device, or against the new version of something. I fix it for myself if I can, then I send the patch upstream. It is lik

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