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by _qulr 6y ago
The tech sites are already going crazy over "M1 malware", which in reality is just malware authors updating their Xcode version and recompiling.
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It works if you copy the Catalina version of Network Utility over to Big Sur.
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I don't think that's exclusive to the Ivy League. People are paying money for college everywhere, and a lot of them can barely afford it. Thus, professors are hesitant to outright fail students. I say this as a former lecturer and
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by _qulr 6y ago
> his professors found him intelligent He had a 77% average in college, which made him a C student. He even characterized himself as an average student, which is accurate. The idea that he was a secret genius is patently ludicrous and is
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> Neither does a 1 day on-site interview process. That seems to be jumping the gun. You don't normally get an onsite immediately, you usually have to go through much shorter screens, the first of which may only be an hour max. So yo
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> you might as well pick one at random Indeed. Is there any scientific evidence that tech interviews are better than random selection?
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by _qulr 6y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Why not both? Again, the sports metaphor breaks down, because winning and losing is a zero-sum game, whereas companies aren't necessarily playing a zero-sum game. Moreover, a team's draft position is inv
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Your point 1 contradicts your monopoly theory. What is my "monopoly theory"? I clarified what I meant: "A platform so gigantic that it's impossible for humans to intelligently manage it". We don't really h
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macOS is at least 20 years old, and Apple needs to maintain it indefinitely. They need engineers who aren't going to accidentally break things for the 100 million strong existing user base. Nobody rapidly specializes in Mac development
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> You get 2 assignments and get paid for both. Is this supposed to be a pro or a con? This is very hard on people who are already employed. Who wants to work 2 jobs simultaneously? The pay of a short-term contract is basically nothing co
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by _qulr 6y ago
There are only 32 starting NFL quarterback jobs available in the entire world, and more or less that number of backup QB jobs. You can't really compare with an anonymous junior engineer position.
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The sports analogy is not great, because tech companies can't trade engineers to fill a need, and there are no multi-year contracts, so any engineer can quit at any time. There's also no hard industry-wide salary cap. With the sal
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by _qulr 6y ago
1) My family is on Facebook. I am not. ;-) It's already the case that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for example have different "crowds", though there's some overlap. 2) Somehow humanity survived without these networks
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No, break up all the tech giants, and prevent monopolistic platforms from ever arising. A platform so gigantic that it's impossible for humans to intelligently manage it should simply not exist.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> There’s plenty of counterexamples one who might wish to dismiss the idea that technology can reasonably manage things Are there? How many historical precedents are there for "curation" at the scale of today's tech giants
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> So long as companies deal with errors reasonably it's all good. We all eagerly await this utopia. Or maybe expecting that is silly, given the many years of empirical evidence?
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> Forbes is a blogging platform nowadays What isn't? A lot of "hard news" stories nowadays are just republishing tweets. So-and-so famous person tweeted this, so-and-so other famous person tweeted a response, yadda yadda.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Yes, I actually deleted my Twitter account and joined ADN. I was gone from Twitter for 4 years. But this accomplished nothing, it only hurt me professionally, and ADN eventually shut down. Individuals can't win in this scenario. Like i
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by _qulr 6y ago
A couple weeks ago Twitter inexplicably suspended @AppsExposed, an account that has repeatedly exposed scams in Apple's App Store and was recently featured in Forbes. The account is still suspended. https://www.forbes.com&#x
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I think the author was coming from a place of sharing one's work on the internet, he pretty much said as much in the article. Did he? "I’ve mostly stopped sharing unsolicited “helpful” just-a-thoughts and comments at work. I
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by _qulr 6y ago
Can we not pretend that we're talking about gardens and bridges, or that the article author is just making things for himself, his partner, and his friends? I really don't think these are useful analogies. Who is commenting on gar
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Who would pass the technical screen must answer me these questions three, ere the onsite he see.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Here in Wisconsin, there were federal subsidies available to build light rail connecting to Illinois and Minnesota, but our brilliant Republican Governor Scott Walker turned down the subsidies. That's why we don't have light rail.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Who is a "maker" and who isn't? This seems like a false dichotomy. An enormous number of people on Earth are engaged in making things. And every maker of things is also a consumer of things. Or is it that only makers of this
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by _qulr 6y ago
The article is so vague that people can read anything they want into it, and judging from the comments here, they are. My question is, who is the target of the article, who is supposed to avoid commenting? Your coworkers? Your boss? Your pa
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I really only cared about the evolution through ABI Stable. Ok, but that came later and wasn't present in 2014. > they did a "hard-sell" with Swift I agree with that. :-) > "Full System API" is the native
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> I actually mentioned that. Like, immediately after the quoted phrase. I'm rereading your previous comment multiple times but unfortunately still failing to see what you're referring to. The only explanation I can see is &quot
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> I don’t do “boring,” as much as I do “mature and robust.” > I’ve been writing in Swift since the day it was announced May I ask how you consider these to be compatible?
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> There aren't enough of the very best developers for a company to plan around hiring only those. I've seen no evidence that companies are even trying to hire developers who "avoid complexity". If anything, the inte
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by _qulr 6y ago
As far as "malware" is concerned, there's no reason to trust an app over a pkg. Either one is going to get you. But there are legit companies that definitely "overpackage" their software. For example, Microsoft dist

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