herbturbo

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by herbturbo 5y ago
I've been using Xcode every working day for over 12 years and on the whole it has been excellent. It definitely has some quirks but it is a feature rich workhorse. It has integrated docs, simulators, unit/UI test functionality inc
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by herbturbo 5y ago
It is so cathartic to read this thread and know I am not alone in my disdain for this garbage product. I also got force-updated to the new and improved Outlook today which now looks much worse. I love my job but I hate the infusion of Micro
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by herbturbo 5y ago
What I keep hearing in VC land is that founders no longer pitch them, they now pitch founders. So yeah I'd say there's a surplus of capital. That plus the hype probably makes anything that mentions blockchain worth investing in fr
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Difference is that gold is useful/desirable in of itself. That's why it gained value in the first place.
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Who want to know when they are being promoted in every review.
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by herbturbo 5y ago
I am currently a principal engineer and have exactly the work life you described. Maybe in a bigger company the Principal is split from those archetypes but in my smallish team (within a large global org) I am the Principal because I do all
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by herbturbo 5y ago
The whatever you refer to is natural ability. Two people from a bootcamp turning out to be immediately useful developers says more about the people than the bootcamp which is what the original point was about.
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by herbturbo 5y ago
That said, two of our best junior devs (at Arist YC S20) are Lambda School and Ironclad grads respectively, and neither of them had any background in programming and went right from bootcamp into their current positions. So it definite
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Steve Jobs said that Picasso said "Good artists copy, great artists steal" so your guy at the bar must be a good designer.
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Would love to know how many people's Safari has been used only once to download Chrome. But of course Apple will never tell us that.
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Yes some people just need a nudge in the right direction to carry the task through to completion. And some need to be pushed along the entire way. In either case they don't leave the interview feeling humiliated having floundered in th
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by herbturbo 5y ago
It's a good signal for me when I'm presented with silly brain teasers like this in interviews, especially when the technology of the company isn't that great. I'm interviewing you too, so give me something that reflects
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Never understood this way of interviewing. I get shit now and then for helping people too much in coding exercises, but if someone has reached the point where they are obviously not going to progress why not nudge them along and see how the
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by herbturbo 5y ago
I'm currently implementing Stripe Terminal functionality for an iOS project using the BBPOS Chipper. Does this Stripe hardware do anything that the Chipper doesn't? Or are they simply moving away from generic looking 3rd party har
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by herbturbo 5y ago
Dude just loves his life. Doesn't feel like he needs anything else. Lucky him I say.
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by herbturbo 6y ago
Right - and how did Drake and Taylor Swift rise to that level? Same way Madonna and Michael Jackson did. Getting radio play and touring, which took a record label. Getting people to actually give a shit about your music is a problem Spotify
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by herbturbo 6y ago
Yeah I think it's easy for up and coming musicians to blame Spotify for their financial woes, but as someone who was an aspiring musician in the 90s I can tell you it was no picnic back then. Everyone I knew was broke, so the only way
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by herbturbo 6y ago
I don't see anything in this article that warrants its title. Sure this company didn't properly protect cameras which allowed unauthorized access to live feeds in all kinds of places, and that's definitely bad. And yes some o
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by herbturbo 6y ago
Yes I learned iPhone development in 2010 by watching Stanford's CS193P course on iTunesU
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by herbturbo 7y ago
Main problem facing any app that needs to run in the background is that Apple only allows it for certain use cases - VoIP, audio/airplay, location and BLE being the main ones. That's why since iOS 13 users have been seeing alerts
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by herbturbo 7y ago
Useful read. I now have a few additions to the list of places I'd never bother applying to.
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by herbturbo 8y ago
What is the biggest existential threat to this company today?
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by herbturbo 9y ago
To be fair that's probably a good thing. The BQE and Turnpike are more appropriate places for large amounts of through traffic than SoHo.
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by herbturbo 9y ago
Poor people in NYC don't typically drive into Manhattan.
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by herbturbo 9y ago
One of the big problems with Lambda cold starts is the concurrency issue, especially if your Lambdas are running inside a VPC: https://hackernoon.com/im-afraid-you-re-thinking-about-aws-l...
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by herbturbo 9y ago
Has the author ever visited LA? I'm surrounded by rich idiots here.
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by herbturbo 9y ago
My personal path went something like this: 2009: Had an idea for an app, didn't know how to develop it (I was a network engineer). Paid an offshore dev firm on Elance $8k to build it. They took months to give me a shitty alpha build. E
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by herbturbo 10y ago
True, but it does seem like a good idea for the type of events that everybody knows will sell out, mainly to scalpers, in a matter of minutes.
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by herbturbo 10y ago
Reminds me of a question on the US visa waiver form asking whether you are or ever have been a Nazi. Because everybody knows that Nazis cannot lie, and international terror organizations cannot create dummy social media accounts.
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by herbturbo 10y ago
I only got the Dot a couple of weeks ago and for me it's worth the $50 just for playing music. Anyone who thinks it is a "glorified radio clock" might want to just take some time to think about exactly what it's doing. I

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