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by dep_b 6y ago
I always use ratio for this kind of number. Though it could be bigger than 1 since 120% == 1.2
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by dep_b 6y ago
I remember my brother playing (and me dicking around a bit with) Zack McKracken first and then Monkey Island. It's always the sword fighting part I remember the most. It's a pity I don't have time for anything anymore, I woul
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by dep_b 6y ago
Location: The Netherlands, Randstad (Utrecht) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not unless FAANG level of compensation Technologies: Languages: Swift, Objective-C, Elixir Subjects: Mobile WebRTC & Video, message drive
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by dep_b 6y ago
I thought that there's a slight advantage because some imperial measures are 12-based instead of 10? So it's easier to get 1/6, 1/4, 1/3 or 1/2? Otherwise I observe that many things like fitness devices look wa
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by dep_b 6y ago
To run on the simulator or build towards a simulator target you don't need anything.
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by dep_b 6y ago
> ban Epic from doing other lines of business via macOS tools (e.g. Unreal Engine development) seemed excessive compared to other app bans No, if you try to smuggle forbidden features through the approval process by hiding them and only
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by dep_b 6y ago
I have to use my own developer account basically every time I build an app for a customer until they got around to either inviting me to their team or creating their personal developer account. Unless Epic is filled with developers that nev
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by dep_b 6y ago
Yes but any developer can have his or her own account that gives access to every tool, only for pushing software to the store it's vital to have that one particular account for Epic. Epic will lose perks like direct access to performan
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by dep_b 6y ago
Any iOS developer at Epic can still use their own developer account, even a free one, to access all of the tools they need. The only thing impossible is _deploying_ their own software like Fortnite. Any 3rd party Unity dev has it’s own cert
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by dep_b 6y ago
The developer tools are free for anyone with a free developer account. So they still have access, just not with the account they used for distributing Fortnite. Any 3rd party dev using Unity will use it’s own account.
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by dep_b 6y ago
The only thing I play nowadays are mobile versions of board games, to sharpen my skills for the moment we get together again
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by dep_b 6y ago
I see a steep increase of demand for macOS developers from my perspective. I cannot vouch it's a coincidence or not but I believe there's more interest to bring applications to Apple desktops. SwiftUI is really nice, but it's
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by dep_b 6y ago
Gateway to Apshai was also early in 1983, though I think it didn't have a level up mechanism. Same pathfinding tricks were required to survive harder monsters.
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by dep_b 6y ago
I mean that it should be at the top of the case instead of above the keys. If the bottom bezel would be reduced they would almost touch, making it "a part of the screen" instead of a part of the keyboard. The current strip is out
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by dep_b 6y ago
The Touch Bar should have been right below the screen, where I actually see it. Otherwise I need to interrupt my flow by looking at it. I’ve made it somewhat more useful with Pock (using negative spacing) but still not blown away by it. Thi
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by dep_b 6y ago
A macOS automatic activity analysis tool.
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by dep_b 6y ago
It's not like Elixir doesn't benefit from a battle hardened VM since it's older and has been used in these kind of high volume scenarios before Java was.
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by dep_b 6y ago
Apple having a really fast ARM chip is both an advantage and a disadvantage. If no Windows or Linux box will run on ARM for the same typical workloads a lot of stuff never gets ported. It would help Apple if there would be powerful ARM Wind
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by dep_b 6y ago
You can mark it as deprecated with a reference to the replacing function. As long as the argument types match you can automatically refactor
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by dep_b 6y ago
I have a LinkedIn account for quite a few years now after some initial hesitation and the bad feeling never quite went away given the fact they still scrape address books and other dark patterns. I used to leave it on "not interested i
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by dep_b 6y ago
I hate Just Eat in my country. For the life I couldn't get them to put VAT on my receipt. Stopped ordering food almost completely because I was tired of something simple like that failing over and over. Now they're slowly turning
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by dep_b 6y ago
I've seen business owners of startups picking specific days to communicate like every Wednesday during a holiday. If you're worried about checking your mail all of the time you just as well could've kept working. It's yo
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by dep_b 6y ago
If you feel there is a lot of technical debt and the work you are doing never seems to also diminish it then you have a problem. If you still have some parts that could be improved but you are tackling technical debt constantly while revisi
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by dep_b 6y ago
Don’t expect to be able to pay anything with a credit card in The Netherlands. It’s all maestro debit cards.
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by dep_b 6y ago
> The bar is you have to pass a qualification test, which given your 3.5 years of experience, should be enough to get up and running. It's a 5 step test, you might retake one or two steps depending how much they like you and how you
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by dep_b 6y ago
I can't imagine the Belgians being that much more inefficient than the Dutch. I always felt because of the lack of testing in The Netherlands the numbers are probably a bit higher. Until the 1st of June testing was extremely limited ev
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by dep_b 6y ago
Texting was relatively expensive in Europe while it was almost free in the US. Then the iPhone was always more popular in the US as well making it something of a standard. I notice that in the International School kids use iMessage more sin
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by dep_b 6y ago
> For example, unless you describe the tests you want them to write, they may not write tests. If they see a possible refactor or optimization, they won't volunteer to do it. One of the frequent side-effects of this is that the proj
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by dep_b 6y ago
I hear more often things like "oh I don't have experience with X, so let's not use it". I mean programming languages are easy, frameworks are hard. Like learning how to use Django (which is pretty easy as far as framewor
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by dep_b 6y ago
I don't have palm rejection problems at all, touch typist since forever.

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