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by coldcode 6y ago
Complexity in just what I and doing right now is impossible to comprehend. Imagine a mobile app with dozens of dependencies taking on a "secret" project involving a dozen of those dependencies that are drifting far way from the re
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by coldcode 6y ago
Seems fine on Safari for me.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I wish I could work in a place like this. Here each designer is held hostage by an army of VPs, few of whom know anything about design, who oversee all decisions and can override any design at whim. Thus us engineers have to constantly deal
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by coldcode 6y ago
One problem with determining how a civilization could travel is we only know what we know now or can reasonably speculate. A hundred years ago we didn't really have the ability to even get into orbit much less imaging visiting another
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by coldcode 6y ago
As an artist who uses code a lot, this is going right into my toolset. Manipulating colors is a huge pain.
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by coldcode 6y ago
They automated taking pictures of app content on an unlocked Android phone, and bragged about it as a breakthrough tech, then deleted the article and replaced it with fluff. Embarrassing.
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by coldcode 6y ago
If you go to MSN Finance page for a stock, look at the Financials tab, Cash flow tab you see the value. Price/Cash Flow is a metric that can't be manipulated like P/E can since its based on revenue not profits.
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by coldcode 6y ago
It's doesn't matter. Tesla's stock price is around 450 times its cash flow, which is an order of magnitude beyond insane for a public company. Apple is around 30. The average S&P500 company is around 15. For Tesla's
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by coldcode 6y ago
Most school software of this type are designed to profit the companies and lose the students forever.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Bullshit. Every single company in the US buys stuff from companies from foreign countries who promise to deliver things under contract. This is not an Apple owned company, or an Apple problem, or a U.S. problem, but a problem at a company i
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by coldcode 6y ago
It talks of emulators, so these were all Android devices? An article about such an attack should be more specific.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Goes to show that you are only as secure as your weakest dependency. Allow and trust software into your organization built by a system protected by an obvious single factor password (which you didn't know about or ask) and no matter wh
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by coldcode 6y ago
No one gets rich paying money to the little people. I don't think many people if any got paid. Perhaps some lawyers.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Clearly whoever is the CIO/CISO could care less? I find it hilarious that people get these positions without seemingly a care in the world. Or maybe they do care and the CEO didn't? Hardly anyone ever gets fired in these circumsta
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by coldcode 6y ago
If there was a non gamefiable system for allowing people to pay a small amount automatically for reading content, and that system allowed you to specify you did not want to pay, which then told the website this and allowed it to show ads in
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by coldcode 6y ago
Transport of perishables costs way more than growing them in the first place; so doing it locally is cheaper, less polluting and much fresher. Saying you could do it remotely is about as convincing as making ice in your house as opposed to
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by coldcode 6y ago
Some things are incredibly important but not directly related to the customer; like services called by service called by services called by clients. It's not always easy to connect the dots especially in a micro service world. But with
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by coldcode 6y ago
Paying for dead cobras always pays off. Also ticket != value. Lots of tickets for things that involve almost no work and things that actually make a difference to the customer/product are not equal. Everything I work on is new products
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by coldcode 6y ago
We started with Swift 2.X as well but it became Swift 3 before we shipped anything; Swift 5.X now is much more mature and we have no issues. Trying to do too much with a new language plus all the other things was asking for trouble.
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by coldcode 6y ago
When you write code like shit, the language doesn't matter. What Uber did was write a monstrosity with too many engineers and too many features without considering that was beyond their ability to deliver reliably. The product decision
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by coldcode 6y ago
Until the business just uses the cash flow to buy back their stock, making everything look great until the day a pandemic hits and they need government bailouts.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I fail to see how this is any different that Boeing 737 Max which killed even more people. Everyone looked the other way and ignored real engineering, just to make more bucks (or pounds). Sadly I think that even is the company CEOs had thei
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by coldcode 6y ago
I drink one cup in the morning, occasionally a second after lunch. Increasing doses only works up to a point, your brain has only so much capacity to support caffeine; anything beyond that just affects the rest of your body but does nothing
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by coldcode 6y ago
I changed my employer's name to something like Random Large Company as people were scraping the company name and generating emails to my internal company email in order to spam me. But I still get emails anyway as some people scraped i
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by coldcode 6y ago
Yet this very site thinks paying these wages to Google interns is just fine. I have 4 decades of experience and deliver products that make $100M a year and I don't get paid these salaries because I don't work for a FAANG company,
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by coldcode 6y ago
If they come back with guillotines, then I would be more worried.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Great satire. But I have seen teams of incredible engineers doing amazing things perfectly and still go out of business because its not how amazing your engineering is, it's how amazing your product or service is to people who are will
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by coldcode 6y ago
Building the Pantheon today would be a demanding feat, imagine building it 2000 years ago and even imagining the dome would hold up when you started the work, much less for 2000 years. Whoever the architect/engineer was, they were unbe
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by coldcode 6y ago
That last one did not care for peanuts. You could tell its body language was like, wtf, more peanuts, this thing is broken.
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by coldcode 6y ago
IF the old interface is replaced by the horrific one that shows like 5 articles I will never visit again.

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