dickersnoodle

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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
> Most of the crap told on Apple nowadays are complete memes from the second wave of Apple cultist (most of them arriving with the iPhone) that completely ignore the true history of Apple and how it got to launch such successful products
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
There is. It's called iOS.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
The BoD is likely in cahoots with the McDonnel-Douglas suits. It would take a shareholder revolt to can them all and put engineers back in charge.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
The company has been run by spreadsheet mechanics and now the bill is coming due.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
And when they start seeing that extra expense they'll go whining to the EU regulators again.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
I've had similar experiences over the years. The Indian devs who were worth their salt were salaried employees; the ones that took all the ELI5 hand-holding were the contractors who seemed to have just graduated from a 60-day programm
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
>But that is also why the "best of the field" get laid off - why pay FAANG salaries to get the best, when entry/mid-level salaries to get "good enough" still meets business needs? Maybe a better chant for town ha
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
Oh, I'm aware. On the way to getting a bachelor's in Chemistry I was drilled on the importance of sigfigs as a way of preventing data contamination by artificial precision (e.g. trying to weigh 16.0000000000 lbs with a bathroom s
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
You could , but you'd be wrong. I've worked with outsourced devs from India, Ukraine, Russia and the 'stans and hands down the worst experiences have been with ones from India. The individual devs, when I could drill down,
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
puts on grumpy old man hat Yeah, back in my day you had to learn about significant digits because we still used slide rules and the calculators didn't have as many functions and we liked it! removes grumpy old man hat
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
It's more than that. In an org with an architecture of silo'd teams that all work on their own independent federated services, you'll need people to test out all of the variations on content, timing and error handling for th
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
It's worse if your team uses a house-built framework that's too complex for its own good. There's a whole team devoted to the care and feeding of a framework that could be replaced with source code templates or just a clear
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
My inner middle-schooler is giggling over the headline.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
>It’s like saying you don’t need a qa team because the developers tested it. Strangely enough, that's happening at a few companies (run by Amazon refugees IIRC) where they think that making devs do QA and removing QA/QE roles w
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
IMO this isn't the correct take. Starbucks' stores are their own property and as long as they follow applicable laws regarding public accommodations, health and safety and the like they're free to run their stores however th
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
>So the legal argument would be that, because Apple allows for a single messaging app, and interacting with that app requires an iphone, they're effectively preventing messaging app competition. That is weapons-grade horseshit. You
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
"Human capital stock". Every time someone says "human capital" some HR drone loses what's left of their soul.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
>> Tests can only tell developers they made a mistake. There is no gain at that moment. This is the dumbest thing I have seen on HN in a long, long time. Full test coverage supported by good mocks is one of the quickest and most effi
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
Word. I work for a reasonably large online retailer that fancies itself a "tech company" and you'd be amazed at the pushback I kept getting for insisting on a proper test infrastructure for their mobile apps - dependency i
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
For a ton of people and roles there's nothing really magical about being in an office. If you're any good at remote communications you can connect with people over Zoom, Slack or (ugh) Teams and form professional connections.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
Try the "Swift Playgrounds" app for a programming-friendly environment.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
You'd have to get past the lobbyists for the residential REITs and private equity lenders who don't want anyone to help with the housing crises because it'll cut into their profits.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
>Relationships, communication, and culture pretty much set themselves up in office. While remote you have to work extra hard for it and it just doesn't seem to be happening for most people. While I understand the motivation for this
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
You can do the same thing the other way around - https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Android.md .
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
Spoiler alert: We (iOS developers) don't.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
Sort of but not really. SwiftUI is reactive, with view changes triggered by changes in Swift variables and those changes triggered using Combine. The later iterations of Swift include async/await to greatly simplify async code (norma
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
u/spez from Reddit would like a word...
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
iOS dev here. What you're missing is that a ton of native-code developers (me included) aren't interested in adopting an abstraction layer that has to be tweaked to approximate the look and feel of the native OS UI layer when we
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
This reads like a ChatGPT version of one of those "Remote Work Is Harmful!" pieces in Business Insider that clutter up LinkedIn and Reddit.
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by dickersnoodle 3y ago
Use Swift.

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