dirtydroog

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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Not true, Symbian was highly locked down. You needed permission for pretty much anything, and some of them required you to ask Nokia for permission. It's probably part of the reason why it didn't take off in the US.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
This is an accurate account of what happened to Nokia / Symbian, from insiders. Symbian hated Nokia and vice versa. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkab...
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
But it's the OS that allows apps to spy on you.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
These are the tasks of an Engineering Manager, not a Tech Lead.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Or, you know, the OS could have displayed a prompt screen to the user telling them that the battery needed to be replaced.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
To be honest, your fear is being realised since every couple of weeks or so, there's an 'X worse than previously thought' article about something.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
We shouldn't really be encouraging people to program in vim. I mean, an 80 char line length limit is very 1995. People have massive monitors now.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
The thing is, git is a tool, it should be pretty easy to use. If someone has to write an entire book about rebasing then, in my opinion, there's something wrong. I just push/pull/merge. I've never had any issues, a monke
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
This guy has a sweet job, Professor of Profiling Code.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Ah I see you've dipped your toes into the Sea of Apache too. Horrible software. Should have died in 2000.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Didn't get past the opening paragraph. Sure, this is from 2003 but they're wrong. Look at redis. Thread-per-connection is just plain dumb. Threads aren't free. Context-switching is a thing. Modern advice is to try not have mo
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
They should be provided with SSH access to a proper build machine then.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
I'm on your side pal! Laptops are a total waste of money, Ryzen has changed the game.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Really? Isn't is still the case that signed integer arithmetic can lead to UB? Despite this, there's a push for Almost Always Int from the C++ powers-that-be. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16188263/
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
The Russians will never give you a slice.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
How so? How many cores on the machine? Maybe you have some false-sharing, maybe thermal throttling is kicking in.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
'const' all the things.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Where did futures/promises come from? They just seemed to appear out of nowhere. I'm not particularly a fan of them either. C++'s current version of std::future is particulary useless.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
You don't have to fingerprint if you have the IDFA. But I suppose the main reason is that that info is too intrusive and may be of limited use.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
No way
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
There is one OS out there that would have stopped this... Symbian. It was locked down everywhere. It was also a bitch to develop for, but hey ho. The source code is out there somewhere.
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Only hundreds / sec? Amateurs!
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by dirtydroog 7y ago
Odd, I've worked for a DSP for years too. These data points you talk about are rarely all there. 99% of the OpenRTB spec is optional fields. I also never seen a bid request that listed other apps on the phone - calling bullshit on this