allo37

16 ms·

121.
by allo37 6y ago
Maybe from a purely semantics standpoint they're not, but from what I've seen they go hand-in-hand. I think if you went around saying you "knew OOP" but didn't know what a factory was, people would look at you funny
122.
by allo37 6y ago
I've seen "OOP" defined as "I have a base class and a couple of derived classes", and then I see "OOP" where you have this behemoth of factories, controllers, managers, classes with at least 6 layers of in
123.
by allo37 6y ago
Is there a bit of survivorship bias in this? You hear these stories about how some big company poo-pooed some employee's idea, only for that employee to run off and turn it into the next big thing, but you never hear about all the idea
124.
by allo37 6y ago
Hah, first company I worked for involved the development of embedded systems and the boss wasn't shy about buying parts from AliExpress (thankfully most of it was still DigiKey). Some stuff had a significant cost difference: Official O
125.
by allo37 6y ago
How well would these tools have worked with source control? Interface builder effectively uses XML files, but they are not meant to be edited/understood by humans. This effectively hides a layer of the "onion", but it makes i
126.
by allo37 6y ago
Hah, if he finds Gradle arcane and unintuitive, wait until he actually starts developing the Android app itself...
127.
by allo37 7y ago
I'm not 100% sure about the rest of Canada, but in Quebec: If you pay a yearly fee to be a member of the professional order of engineers, you can call yourself an engineer. Sure, you have to have minimum a bachelor's from an accre
128.
by allo37 7y ago
Well, glad to hear it's consistent at least :) Good news is we got a handle on all the little issues and now our code runs well on a wide selection of devices, but yeah, next time around I'd find a library that handles all the gor
129.
by allo37 7y ago
On Android, that there hasn't been much love for C/C++ and the NDK is full of interesting pitfalls: Oh your camera gives you NV21 frames, but the hardware VP8 encoder only accepts I420? Makes perfect sense. Oh, we don't actua
130.
by allo37 7y ago
I'm not sure what your experience has been, but in my experience friends set each other up with dates all the time. Tinder even tells you if you have mutual friends with someone. Maybe because people are too busy with social media to h
131.
by allo37 7y ago
I feel like a lot of "Next Big things" incubate for much longer than people realize. It's usually that some technological tipping point is reached where a good-yet-impractical idea suddenly becomes just a practical idea and i
132.
by allo37 7y ago
In my experience, the CLSC sends your blood to a nearby hospital's lab for testing. We also have CDL which does private testing.
133.
by allo37 7y ago
It's funny, when I started I found programming tedious and thought that writing some software with 100 layers of abstractions so computers can talk to other computers was boring and soul-sucking. I liked designing small embedded system