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by flatline3 14y ago
> HN has been a pretty strong critic of the way tarsnap is being run (specifically from a marketing point of view), the collective view is not that it is too expensive but rather that it is not yet expensive enough and that it needs to
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by flatline3 14y ago
It would be far easier if they simply sold the new version. Relying on the good graces of the user population hasn't prevented them from integrating Amazon advertisements, and won't likely prevent other bad decisions in the future.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Ubuntu never gave me the option to purchase hardware and an OS of Apple-level quality. So I haven't. I would like to.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Of course, Apple apologists will jump to say that you can just get a 3rd party app ... I don't think Apple "apologists" will be jumping in on this one. In this particular case, Apple has, objectively, significantly reduced (or outri
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by flatline3 14y ago
I largely agree with your point, but I have to respond to this: > I'll never understand why people think these huge multi-bazillion dollar companies are being run by total morons. And make no mistake, if you write a blog post about how
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by flatline3 14y ago
The skills you list involve very simple knowledge acquisition. Once you have core CS competency, you can pick those things up very easily, and do a better job by far than the person that lacks the core CS competency. To use your examples:
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by flatline3 14y ago
The WiFi on Virgin America has grown steadfastly slower as more people became aware of it, and despite the $10-$17 price point, has now reached the point of being nearly totally unusable on most of my flights. Unless Jet Blue has a solution
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by flatline3 14y ago
$84k average salary is surprisingly high for non-production-ready engineers who are still in training, especially when compared to the rest of the industry. I wouldn't have expected there to be so much money in a field that is so approachab
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by flatline3 14y ago
Factor in RTT/latency and concurrency. There's no reason multiple requests can't be in-flight at once, up to the point where you're overloading your uplink or the server.
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by flatline3 14y ago
They advertise as being accessible to individuals with no prior experience whatsoever. If you do have prior experience, can you tell me why you want a $12K bootcamp instead of just learning Rails yourself?
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by flatline3 14y ago
9 weeks isn't enough time for anyone to be learning how to write production-quality code, much less take a job as anything more than an engineering intern. The fact that TapJoy is hiring people straight out of DevBootCamp makes me serious
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by flatline3 14y ago
You failed to address the parents point entirely: it's a lot easier to start strict and loosen restrictions later, than it is to start loose and add restrictions.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Hopefully he's not wasting a bunch of time debugging cross-browser javascript because A) He already knows how to fix it, or B) It didn't break to begin with. JavaScript is hardly difficult material. As for documentation, I'm not sure quite
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by flatline3 14y ago
Sell software and a service. Make it so I can install your code and run it indefinitely. Provide your source to paying customers. See Atlassian for an example.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Not only can I not think of a way to do it, I have never, in 15 years, seen an organization that successfully managed junior engineers in a way that resulted in the production of code on par with what senior engineers would produce. Getting
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by flatline3 14y ago
No, it's simply impossible to babysit junior engineers to a sufficient degree as to prevent bad implementation without effectively doing their job for them. It's not worth the effort.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Does j2objc ensure that internal exceptions never bubble through framework stack frames? Also, I believe arc itself is not exception-safe.
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by flatline3 14y ago
That sounds like too much logic is in your UI.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Technically cute, but works only for non-UI modules, which comprise approximately 4% of a mobile app. Where on earth did you get that number? UI code in a well-structured application is a thin-shim on composed, testable backend code
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by flatline3 14y ago
How are you handling translation of exceptions to ObjC given that none of the OS frameworks are themselves exception-safe?
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by flatline3 14y ago
I've never worked with a top-notch young engineer. Brilliant, yes, top notch, no. Every single one has had misguided priorities, significant experience gaps (leading to both bad engineering decisions and misguided priorities), and -- even i
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by flatline3 14y ago
In the US, age is only a protected class for the range of 40+, as per federal law. However, what we're talking about is experience . Those with little experience are not members of a protected class.
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by flatline3 14y ago
There are always bad engineers, which is what you're really describing above. All other things being equal, I'll always pick the older engineer with more experience and maturity than the young engineer without.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Are you replying to yourself below? flatline responds to flatline3. Suspicious. No. Caused me to raise my eyebrows too.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Yes but that doesn't mean any 25 year old must be wiser than any other 18 year old. On the flip side, it means an equally applied 25 year old will be just that much wiser than the 18 year old.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Like it or not, it is a reality that the Mail & Calendar are broken ... They work just fine for me, when using servers that conform to standardized protocols. > And again, Exchange is one of the most used corporate infrastr
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by flatline3 14y ago
> There are plenty of people with wisdom well beyond their years. I still haven't met any. I've met plenty of smart kids, and I'm pretty sure I was one, 15 years ago. However, I had no idea what I was doing, and worse yet, had the hub
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by flatline3 14y ago
The pitchforks are out because this demonstrates complete incompetence on their part.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Calendar~ I use it with an Exchange server ... Ah, there's your problem. > Mail~ Not mentioning the poor user experience, the modal dialogs complaint apply as well, mails are not often sent, HTML signature is a pain to setup, o
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by flatline3 14y ago
I have somewhere between 15-20GB of e-mail in IMAP and Mail is quite responsive, and search is both fast and reliable. Perhaps it's related to either your specific hardware, gmail, or Mail's support for gmail?

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