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US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess(theregister.co.uk)
133 points by gregdoesit 11y ago|142 comments
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
Pluralsight author here. Udemy have had lots of piracy issues in the past - for example, paid courses from authors on sites like Pluralsight have been illegally copied and sold. Just a few weeks ago Pluralsight circulated an email on Udemy
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
You're right: it doesn't work when hovering over "self". I am just used to other IDEs handling all cases, self variables included. Yes, agreement on some Swift love needed from the refactor tool team.
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
Fair point. The quote was my from the author, but my interpretation, apologies for the confusion. I've updated my comment to remove the misleading quotes.
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
You would hope so. Unfortunately not if you are running swift as of XCode 7.2, the latest public release. For Objective C it works.
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
This article does a great job explaining the several not really documented steps of finding memory leaks using XCode. I do wish the XCode developers would have implemented a more intuitive UI to do the same - e.g. taking inspiration from Ch
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
The thing that strikes me is how much shorter a Swift style guide is, compared to an Objective C one. E.g. https://github.com/raywenderlich/objective-c-style-guide This fact tells a lot about the langage. The language
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
This aquisition is not a great exit for UStream, that was valued at $150M in 2010, but an exit none the less. I doubt the founders or employees would see as much of the $130M as they would have hoped, due to a massive $62M VC investment bei
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A great developer can come from anywhere(manton.org)
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
I was waiting on this to appear on Hacker News. I take to Twitter to complain whenever a service is down. Now that Twitter is down... I guess all that is left is this HN thread.
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
This article is full of incorrect data: Etsy and Groupon are already public. Instagram, Whatsapp acquired by Facebook, Yammer by Microsoft. The industry definition of a unicorn: a non public company, that took less then 10 years to have a m
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
I think it was denial that messaging itself would be more inportant then video calling. Skype got massive because of video (and audio) calls. That was our main differentiator, and what helped us grow. P2P really excelled there. Messaging wa
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
We did acquire GroupMe with the same thinking: take that startup with a good group messaging product and integrate them into Skype. Except this never happened, GroupMe is still a standalone app and pretty much a standalone team. I am not su
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
Of course we used it as our main communication tool. With each other and within the company. The problem? We had it running 24/7 on work laptops and phones so the messaging issue was less obvious. The typical user started Skype on thei
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
Exactly. In hindsight we should have just built a separate messaging layer with a server backend like everyone else was doing. However Skype had no history of running servers. Just keeping the login servers up and running (a handful of them
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
Yes, there are still traces of the p2p code. Most of messaging has been migrated to server based back ends, but there are still some hybrid solutions in place. Funny thing the company DNA, P2P is still haunting Skype.
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
The problem was the avalibity when the sender was offline. You send a message from your iPhone to your friend who has an Android. Your friend doesn't have reception, and after sending the message you kill Skype b/c of the battery
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
From my experience the same (often random) reason that makes a company succeeds, then becomes their DNA, and finally can make them fail. I saw this happen with Skype where I worked a couple of years. The company succeeded because of P2P: we
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
I worked at Mivrosoft when Tony Bates - curent GoPro CEO - was Head of the Skype divison there. After the Microsoft aquisition, and Steve Balmer announced stepping down, Satya Nadella, Stephen Elop and Tony Bates were the front runners for
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
"Perhaps someone with millions of dollars could give more of their money to organizations fighting poverty rather than investing in a premium coffee subscription service." I do look up to Paul Graham and don't like to see him
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
Too bad the bulk of the article is behind a paywall. One of my friends who got offers from Palantir turned it down, as she wasn't convinced that the stock that was part of the pacakge would be worth anything , while the recruiter insi
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
I would put stay healthy and invest in your health (chair, standing desk, exercise, food) as the #1 for any programmer for next year, and the years after. It's all too easy for us to forget about the long lasting effects of sitting i
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by gregdoesit 11y ago
How much money does the App Store make for Apple? And how much would web based apps make? It's not a technical problem, it's a business model.