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by brad0 10y ago
There's some okay tech here - nothing like Seattle or San Francisco. The biggest difference is the market. Expect to get paid 1/3 to 1/2 of the US. --- EDIT that being said, contracting can pay well if you have the right skil
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Amazon to remove stack ranking(uk.businessinsider.com)
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Multi OS Engine – One Codebase for iOS and Android(software.intel.com)
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by brad0 10y ago
I sincerely hope apple still offers a version of their MacBook with physical Fn keys. I use them in day to day dev and can't imagine switching to memorizing touch positions.
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The Hiring Game(techcrunch.com)
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by brad0 10y ago
s/fragmentation/fragments/ FTFY ;)
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by brad0 10y ago
There's an easy way to tell if someone is junior or not. Are you an implementer, a solver or a finder? An implementer is someone who gets given a task and does it. That's a definition of a junior. Middle of the range is a problem
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by brad0 10y ago
I can see your point. Facebook isn't doing anything short term that is going to achieve returning money to investors in two years. However it's been noted that Zuckerberg has longer term ideas of where the company is going. There&
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by brad0 10y ago
Satellite for the Internet.org project https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102407675865061 Drone www.theverge.com/a/mark-zuckerberg-future-of-facebook/aquila-drone-internet GraphQL http:/&#x
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Amazon accidentally announces a cheaper Echo Dot(recode.net)
1 points by brad0 10y ago|1 comments
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by brad0 10y ago
seek.com.au is a good start. If you're looking for a mobile role you could try Outware Mobile http://www.outware.com.au/working-at-outware/ . I worked there some years ago (in Edinburgh now). EDIT: Another place to
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by brad0 10y ago
For a bit more context: Twilio announced its first earnings after the IPO It's tripled since IPO price of $15 Today they're trading around $48.70 http://amigobulls.com/articles/is-twilio-inc-stock-a-buy-aft...
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by brad0 10y ago
I think as standards become more adopted it will become easier to use tooling for the majority of backend development. What is it that keeps backend developers in a job? We write code to give access to data in a way a consumer can use. ie:
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by brad0 10y ago
Short answer: Understand all of Cracking the Coding Interview. Surround yourself with other developers who know the material well. Long answer: The big 4 hire thousands of engineers a year. They have an interview process that brings in deve
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by brad0 10y ago
It sounds someone's just serving up a scrape that was done before the original went down.
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by brad0 10y ago
From the sounds of things it's four main components: - Keyboard - Screen - Battery - DisplayLink They're all components that exist already, it just needs to be packaged in a nice way. The biggest issue is how to scale this to the
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by brad0 10y ago
Na bro don't be hard on yourself. Being a dev means you're always learning!
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by brad0 10y ago
It's a base64 string. Out of curiosity, what's your background?
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by brad0 10y ago
I've heard that the mobile developer supply in Melbourne is extremely limited. What salary range are you offering?
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Inventory shortages may herald rebirth of Apple’s aging Thunderbolt Display(techcrunch.com)
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by brad0 10y ago
Read Deep Work. It's not a long book.
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Ask HN: Interest in HN Google Inbox style mobile app?
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by brad0 10y ago
I'll be blunt and say there's no way you're gonna get 200k with no network and avoiding finance. Finance is the only place I can think of that you'd be able to pull 200k and that would only be with a lot of contacts.
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by brad0 10y ago
Knowing nothing about CSS I looked into why there's different box-sizing values... Dear god working with web front end looks like a nightmare.
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by brad0 11y ago
Anyone who knows android dev knows this is a non issue. The permission they request doesn't even do anything in lollipop and later. Sounds more like a bad dev than anything malicious. What's the saying? Never attribute to malice
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by brad0 11y ago
Well done! I'm curious, are you consuming the HN search API or scraping it yourself?
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by brad0 11y ago
From the sounds of things there's nothing really when taken orally, though I'm not sure if taking this orally helps with cardiovascular issues.
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by brad0 11y ago
This is really outdated IMO. Why not just build using latest and greatest with gradle?
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by brad0 11y ago
Supposedly. The new emulator runs at 3x plus you get all that Instant Run goodness that reduces build times.
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by brad0 11y ago
Great post. A good thing to remember: no one knows what the hell they're doing, no matter what stage of life they're in.

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