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by fhd2 11y ago
REMOTE or in Cologne, Germany Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, is looking for web developers and Android developers: https://eyeo.com/en/jobs We're in the middle of changing the world of online advertising f
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by fhd2 12y ago
I've actually made the same decision, it's a ~80% remote position. But I got lucky, I ended up becoming lead developer. Can't say I'm completely happy with my hours, but I couldn't imagine not being home most of the
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by fhd2 12y ago
Fair enough, I'm definitely taking less risks. But I'm also a lot more ambitious to improve as a programmer, and I ended up getting better jobs and moving up the ladder as a result of this. Taking risks is not exactly a sure fire
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by fhd2 12y ago
> Throw kids into the mix and its no big surprise. In my experience kids can have quite the opposite effect - I got a lot more ambitious when the first one arrived, and I've almost doubled my salary since then (a bit more than four
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by fhd2 12y ago
REMOTE or local in Cologne, Germany (relocation possible if desired) Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, is hiring: - Senior Web developer ( https://eyeo.com/jobs#senior-web-developer ) - Android developer ( https:/&#
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by fhd2 12y ago
> Question is can they catch Google? I suppose they could, if they went for the same questionable bundling [1] and SEO [2] tactics as Google :) Adding to that the fact that Google occasionally promotes Chrome on their various products (s
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by fhd2 12y ago
I suppose that's fine legally unless you're a monopoly. Windows is (or was?). iOS, arguably, not really.
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by fhd2 12y ago
REMOTE, relocation to Germany possible if desired. Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, is looking for JavaScript and C++ developers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senior JavaScript devel
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by fhd2 12y ago
Not really, it's a fairly limited approach. You can only block entire hosts. Adblock Plus uses a combination of URL-based resource blocking and CSS-based element hiding.
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by fhd2 12y ago
I guess we'll never get this horrible metaphor out of software development, but I keep trying: It's not _reinventing_ the wheel. The wheel is an old concept, so are blogs. This is a new/different implementation of that wheel.
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by fhd2 12y ago
I very much feel the same. But to be fair, with Australis, the whole "widgets" thing is new, and I really like how Firefox and add-ons can both use it in the same way.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Wow, I don't know what's crazier, that they promoted him or that they fired him. I can't believe Ben Horowitz. It sounds like he's in the slave business.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Yup, should sting for anyone really. Everyone gets older.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Wow, that one is even worse, pure ageism. He might as well write about "when to hire female people" etc. Somewhat sad that "culture" is mostly a meaningless buzzword these days, used mainly to exclude people you don&#x27
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by fhd2 13y ago
That's what I thought. Makes the j-word seem rather appropriate for the author, ironically.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Confusing title. I thought this is about, you know, Shadow DOM ( http://www.w3.org/TR/shadow-dom/ ).
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by fhd2 13y ago
> Not to mention most games these days are in Obj-c/Java. Proof? I've seen _quite_ the opposite. Sure, these things (and Flash, still) are popular among small/indie devs, but I haven't heard about a single AAA title s
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by fhd2 13y ago
The C++ you end up with by following Google's style guide is more of a "C with classes" thing, they prohibit several central features of C++. That said, I understand that they mostly do this to be consistent with their older
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by fhd2 13y ago
Agreed. Mandatory curlies might have helped avoid disaster here, but the code in question is still utter rubbish. If blatant nonsense makes it past review (or if there is no review), no coding style rule in the world is going to help.
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by fhd2 13y ago
So much about not selling ads and collecting personal data then I suppose? I actually thought they meant it. [1] Now I'm really excited about heml.is. [1] http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we
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by fhd2 13y ago
If your company is doing things you don't agree with morally, I believe it's your responsibility to do something about it. Sounds to me like you do to some degree, IMO that's something to be proud of. > when design becomes
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by fhd2 13y ago
Even then, I'm pretty sure his revenues from this will be insignificant in a short time. This certainly seems like it lives from new users trying it and accidentally touching ads. The few power users that will still be around one day a
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by fhd2 13y ago
Well, at least in the (indie) gaming industry, it seems to be generally admitted. It's called "app store lottery" for a reason. And there's certainly not much survivorship bias going on.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Maybe he doesn't care about money first and foremost? If nothing else, this move demonstrates it. Granted, he probably made about a million by now, which will presumably last quite long where he lives. Still, he could have just kept it
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by fhd2 13y ago
I don't hate the guy, but what does get me is that some unethical paid download service and a whole lot of luck seemed to be the deciding factors for success, certainly not the game's quality. I wonder if it's gonna get bette
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by fhd2 13y ago
Given how the game is utterly trivial and how the mechanics are already figured out... a day might work.
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by fhd2 13y ago
The only real difference I see is whether or not I personally know my way around the language in use. If I don't know much about it (Haskell comes to mind), I have the candidate explain how to read the code. Doesn't happen often f
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by fhd2 13y ago
> To me, a singleton is a particular implementation of a global variable. Except that it's not. Global variables aren't initialised lazily, and their type can be an interface just fine. I can think of a few valid use cases for
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by fhd2 13y ago
I've been using manual DI a lot (there aren't many reasonable alternatives in C++), and occasionally ran into situations where doing that was insanely cumbersome. Like passing a resource managers down a widget hierarchy. Service l
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by fhd2 13y ago
Not sure about the Java question actually. I'm pretty certain every Java programmer can answer this. Whether they can understand what you mean and recall it in a stressful interview situation is what you seem to be assessing here. Not

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