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by cflewis 5y ago
I sure am tired of Javascript being the lingua franca of the web. Imagine if we decided C was good enough and now all programming languages from that point on should just be something that cross-compiles to it.
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by cflewis 5y ago
I changed teams at work (Google) to one that uses a C++ codebase that has survived for 20 years. As someone writing C++ for the first time, clang-tidy has been huge. It stops so many screw ups before I get to the code reviewer. I've no
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by cflewis 6y ago
Happens to me with Powerbeats Pro too (usually the left one for reasons unknown).
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by cflewis 6y ago
Yes, this has been a perennial rumor which is probably propagated by how much people don't like Face ID all that much. Face ID is fine when it works, and sucks when it doesn't. And mask wearing has really accelerated it being much
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by cflewis 6y ago
I once asked an engineer I respect deeply “what’s an acceptable timeout for this integration test?” His answer has stuck with me for a long time: “whatever your users will tolerate when they attempt that workflow.” Software can always be ma
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by cflewis 6y ago
Can confirm that I don’t.
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by cflewis 6y ago
As a Googler, I'd just say it's a boring meme that shows little thought and just wastes time actually getting to interesting discussion here. It's almost akin to "first" from the old days of Slashdot or the race to
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by cflewis 6y ago
How do you access the Material Shell settings? I can't find them _anywhere_.
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by cflewis 6y ago
I miss Apple using color. I know they abandoned it because they want their machines to melt away and just have the screen left, but they abandoned fun in the process. Computers don't just have to be windows into a virtual space.
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by cflewis 6y ago
He's doxxing people again that he guesses are responsible, just like the last article. It leaves a very bitter taste. He's not law enforcement. He should be handing these personal details to the FBI for investigation, not puttin
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by cflewis 6y ago
I know this is happening. Without any insight into what the teams are doing, my guess is that results will be some time as they are likely focusing on engineering outcomes that require multiple survey styles and longer timelines, e.g. code
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by cflewis 6y ago
Compare this to Facebooks SDK “postmortem” and you can tell which company cares more about its customers.
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by cflewis 6y ago
It’s not much of an apology because the final paragraphs try to push any future responsibility onto the SDK consumers by saying they should make sure they are updating as fast as FB would like them to. It’s an odd addendum to put in and app
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by cflewis 6y ago
Hmm. My interest is piqued but this book is from 2017 and I am wondering if it is not horribly out of date at this point. WDYT?
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by cflewis 6y ago
The Go tool builds Go on a package by package basis. It won't help you with anything else. As soon as you need to build anything that isn't Go, or you need to do some pre/post-flight work, or you need to push artifacts etc et
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by cflewis 6y ago
I don't drink coffee at home. I don't make it at work. I will get it sometimes at work from the barista bar. But when I am working from home, I will _always_ go to a coffee house to work. It is difficult to state how important tha
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by cflewis 6y ago
Interesting; is this in Auckland or Wellington? What sort of companies are opening up?
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by cflewis 6y ago
I lived there for a couple years about a decade ago. I left because the job opportunities for highly-qualified software engineers in NZ was basically zero. The only real option presented for Kiwis was to move to Sydney. It is very frustrati
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by cflewis 7y ago
Dude, seriously? This title is so editorialized it makes me want to barf. The location information is available to everyone. Not just governments. Jesus.
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by cflewis 7y ago
My feeling is that Apple beancounters have decided macOS is mostly a gateway to Xcode for iOS development, anything else is just to help sell laptops. The stuff in "anything else" doesn't need to actually work well, just exis
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by cflewis 7y ago
Unfortunately sometimes it's just the luck of the draw on who you got as your interviewer. Remember that it is expected for false negatives so it is totally normal to just apply again in a year. The thing you can do to help yourself is
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by cflewis 7y ago
Alright, so Mountain View is waking up now and you'll get comments from Googlers, so here is mine. DISCLAIMERS: 1. I work for Google, but these opinions are mine. 2. Everyone at Google is expected to interview, but I no longer do, and
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by cflewis 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Either the product managers or the PR people are tone deaf (or why not both?). I once saw a PR person talk about how you had to earn your way to allow yourself to be part of certain larger societal conversatio
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by cflewis 7y ago
I like the idea of a license that is "fair", but there's something about GPL that rubs me the wrong way where I feel it accomplishes the goal of fair in some antagonistic manner. To me, GPL feels more like holding a legal gun
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by cflewis 7y ago
My guess is he means "on the highway". The scary bits of self-driving is person detection, crossing detection, roadwork detection, cyclist detection (e.g. coming up on the right when you are trying to make a right turn). The Waymo
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by cflewis 8y ago
Isn't Stardew Valley an anxiety creator? I haven't played it, but I'm deliberately not because I hear people talk having to plan their days to maximize the output of their crops and such. I really don't want to have a ne
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by cflewis 8y ago
Yeah, there's so many ways this could happen. The one that came to mind for me was an engineer who thought passwords were being filtered by the time it got to their part of the stack, but somehow didn't notice they weren't be
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by cflewis 8y ago
Because we all know we are one bad morning away from doing it ourselves. People are distinguishing between extreme incompetence (storing plaintext passwords in databases) vs people trying to do their jobs. It's the same reason when the
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by cflewis 8y ago
I have done the same thing as OP. The kid doesn't get photos put online outside Google Photos, and those are only shared with family members who know not to leak them. For me, old enough is "when you can demonstrate meaningful und
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by cflewis 8y ago
It's the relationship with the significant other that suffers the most IMHO, and I think most people ignore that bit. You can just about find hours in the day to work a job and get the kids fed and to bed, but then you have < 1 hr b

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