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by flatline3 14y ago
I have no idea what is wrong with Mail or why you wouldn't recommend someone use it. Mail was Steve Jobs' baby ever since NeXT, and it was built to be used (and useful) internally at NeXT/Apple. It's the best mail client I've ever used, in
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by flatline3 14y ago
Not that hard. Apply improper member alignment via aligned/packed attributes, or hit a compiler bug, or just do something funny, and then execute code that requires specific alignment, like, say, an SSE code path in a PNG decoder that expec
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by flatline3 14y ago
C isn't the kind of thing you dabble in.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Can I include compiler bugs? I've had to deal with a slew of those over the years. If we put those aside, then the simplest example is probably when someone else's code crashes due to your input (though the bug may be theirs), and you don't
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by flatline3 14y ago
I'd be interested in hearing more about benzodiazepines and open-back visibility. I assume you're referring to nervousness about having your back facing a room? My wife is "neurotic" about other people being behind her and being able to see
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by flatline3 14y ago
You don't need to study compiler theory to understand the kind of code the compiler will output. That's very easy to reason about, and much harder to implement. Knowing x86 assembly is more than enough to reason backwards from assembly to t
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by flatline3 14y ago
He stated that 'you can get by', not that 'you can get by fine '. Writing C without knowing basic assembly is writing code you can't debug. I'd say that's clearly not acceptable.
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by flatline3 14y ago
They're not sockets, they're WebSockets, and they require a custom HTTP server setup just to open a socket connection to a service. This means that I can't do something that should be really simple -- like open a VNC connection to a remote
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by flatline3 14y ago
All of your problems can be solved with one simple step: Stop using recruiters. They provide you with net negative value.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Actually, not so much. Leveraging the technology from your last game development cycle is par for the course.
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by flatline3 14y ago
The other replies made to your original comment are defensive. Perhaps we all misinterpreted your comment.
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by flatline3 14y ago
"I love that ..." is the rhetorical equivalent of "Don't take this the wrong way, but ..." There's a pretty clear implication that it's silly to "crop out" pictures of mars, focus on knots, and the kind of people that would do that would be
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by flatline3 14y ago
Your comments are simply misdirection of blame by cutting me down instead of the original knot expert you started with. The problem, as you see it, isn't that you ascribed a negative to the engineers (cropping out mars, focusing on knots,
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by flatline3 14y ago
I don't think your reply (the tone can be effectively summarized as "Toughen up, nerd") is any more inclusive than the first comment.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Your backhanded compliment is a bit disturbing for being the top comment. I've largely dismissed the complaints about the HN community becoming more negative, largely thinking that mature realism was being mistaken for unwarranted negativit
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by flatline3 14y ago
Nowadays, what's the difference between a standardized PC running a custom/customized OS and your hypothetical console? Now, if Valve actually moved backwards to a day when consoles were simple devices that didn't require OS updates, instal
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by flatline3 14y ago
RubyMotion didn't support IB at all when it was released. Glad to see that's improved, but how does IB parse your code if its in Ruby? Also, 'going back' to ObjC would mean a rewrite, not keeping around mountains of code you have to continu
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by flatline3 14y ago
> 1. I hope you've taken everybody's boilerplate negotiating advice and not put yourself in a hard position over money. Did you tell them exactly what you're currently making? Or exactly what you want? If so, next time don't do that. E
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by flatline3 14y ago
> I've managed to write production firmware for Atmel chips without having to use Atmel Studio; I have instead found gcc and gdb to suit my workflow better. How long did it take you to set up avarice and GDB to work with jtagice? What
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by flatline3 14y ago
Says the individual that had to farm out mobile development until you could use a language with which you were already familiar. There's little I've seen in RubyMotion that provides a substantive improvement on ObjC, and a lot that is worse
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by flatline3 14y ago
For the same reason we don't use MonoTouch on client projects; it would creat a maintenance and hiring nightmare for our clients. You jumped on RubyMotion out of laziness or inability to learn something new.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Maybe. Or perhaps the communication and people skills of the generation that came before them were somewhat lacking. Or perhaps we valued substance and were not so easily misled by style. Meanwhile, the bubbles have given inordinate
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by flatline3 14y ago
> That's the beauty of all this, everyone is welcome. If you can't see that, you've missed out on some important lessons in your decades of engineering work.. Not all ideas are equally valid. Socially-driven technology shifts are ofte
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Sounds impressive (but, no pointers/links? How to differentiate from some random guy on the interwebs?). Well, that's the trick, innit? > But surely with those credentials you don't have any reason to belittle some guy for usin
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by flatline3 14y ago
> I really don't understand how the world of iOS development has become one of the most cloistered developer communities in recent memory. Is it the gold rush mentality, maybe? You must understand that the iOS development community ha
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by flatline3 14y ago
> I'll end with an advice to (new?) programmers: don't let fear (of being replaced) choose your skills and tools for you. I'm more concerned about propagation of bad ideas. The current job market and VC climate has given extremely jun
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by flatline3 14y ago
You could have also just learned how to write Objective-C. It'd be more fair to your clients.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> What exactly have you done in iOS programming to feel so entitled? One of the top-grossing apps with ~$60M/year in revenue. Considerable open-source libraries. A huge number of applications are running my code, even if you discount
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by flatline3 14y ago
I, for one, am not looking forward to an influx of Rails engineers redefining the iOS development culture in their image. The lack of respect for knowledge gained over 20+ years of platform development is staggering, but not unexpected. The
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by flatline3 14y ago
The only time I need to pull out a debugger is when I can't reason through the problem on my own (possibly with a couple print statements) By and large, the only time I can't reason through the problem on my own is because the code in quest

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