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by jakejake 11y ago
Most likely it's just that Chang has enough class and good sense to not bad-mouth a former employer publicly.
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by jakejake 11y ago
The attitude that moss is like mold or that nature is to be controlled doesn't seem like "American" attitudes as far as I've ever heard. I try to speak up whenever I hear people generalizing about the country. The US is
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by jakejake 11y ago
I don't even know what it means to say that Perl 6 has been released anymore.
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by jakejake 11y ago
The author seems to think that somebody would want this machine so badly as to break into somebody's house?
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by jakejake 11y ago
It's interesting that the money at stake at the time when Gates and Allen started Microsoft was in the 5 figure range. It's funny how in hindsight everybody was trying to "change the world" but in reality, they were sayi
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by jakejake 11y ago
Yea the title should really be "what I learned from losing $200 million of other people's money"
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think that is how the "reputation traps" develop.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Also when external vendors start dropping hints to you that they haven't been paid for their previous invoice (and you are not responsible for finances).
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by jakejake 11y ago
Having the entire team suddenly focus on a superfluous project like the company intranet or any non-critical busywork. Not a good sign!
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by jakejake 11y ago
I definitely agree that's the way it should be. I've seen the reality inside a few large corporations and basically nothing would surprise me.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Having built several in multiple languages, I'd recommend for anyone to build their own email client. It's quite easy to get the basics up and running but quickly becomes tricky getting all of the messages to display consistently.
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by jakejake 11y ago
We have an integration with google calendar and they seem to make endless tweaks, like date+time zone requirements. About every six months I have to go in and undo what was done the last time. Debugging is also a nightmare when it comes to
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by jakejake 11y ago
I can imagine this as not totally different from software dev and QA. Many times the development team puts in some feature that doesn't have any visible output for the testers to test - rather it is some internal change or improvement.
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by jakejake 11y ago
My opinion is because HN is highly entrepreneur+VC focused and tech happens to be the area of interest. As such the discussion leans towards investments with huge payouts. Companies that are profitable and don't need funding are not pa
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by jakejake 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing about all of them except the girl who's boyfriend fabricated his life story for her.
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by jakejake 11y ago
When you submit your app you can opt for Apple to release it immediately upon approval, or wait for you to manually release it. Mozilla likely submitted the app a couple of weeks ago and just hit the release button today.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I worked on a healthcare IT system at one point as a consultant. I tried to the best of my ability to improve upon the UI or the software, at least for the small tasks commissioned to me. I think that most of the other programmers tried to
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by jakejake 11y ago
"I sat through a 3 hour meeting today and it was pure torture." "I skipped breakfast today. I'm starving." If you are truly uncomfortable with these sentences then it's possible that you are either a bit overly
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by jakejake 11y ago
The language will compile, but all of the UI frameworks for iOS aren't available on other platforms. It strikes me as similar to how .NET is cross platform. Command line apps will run, but anything with a GUI would have to be written w
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by jakejake 11y ago
If there's some technical or performance reason for getting rid of this as far as the swift compiler goes, then I guess whatever just tell me how to increment a number and that's what I'll do. But to try to say that x++ is co
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by jakejake 11y ago
I'd hate to think what would happen if one were to run into a ternary operator!
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by jakejake 11y ago
Interesting, I guess it is always surprising when you actually log stuff as opposed to just going by memory.
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by jakejake 11y ago
It's kinda maddening sometimes, I have an app that every time XCode is updated it pretty much has at least one little change that has to be done to get it to build again. It makes me somewhat dread every update. But, at the same time,
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by jakejake 11y ago
It's interesting that new devices always have a ratio of "cool factor" vs dorky, show-off or elitist (partly due to jealousy as well as actual dorkiness). The iPhone for example, I'd sa initially had about 90% cool facto
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by jakejake 11y ago
I find it ironic that the iPhone itself probably got a significant number of people out of the habit of wearing watches. Once my phone could tell me what time it was, that was the end of my watch-wearing days. Though, I never really liked t
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by jakejake 11y ago
Just curious what benefit do you get from sleep tracking? I had sleep problems for a while. I wasn't really sure how helpful it would be for an app to tell me I had a crappy night's sleep! Is there more to it than that?
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by jakejake 11y ago
I usually have error logging/reporting with full stack trace. This was a quick one-off that I definitely didn't mean to commit! One web app that I worked on years ago would save the entire session state of the user on error. We ha
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by jakejake 11y ago
I have tried it and it's not horrible. The difficulty is that the chrome is styled one way, and the text inside the editors is styled another way. And neither of them are quite able to style everything! I found the dark themes to look
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by jakejake 11y ago
Ah, but every few months there's a new celebrity!
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think they were onto a great idea, but their main premise that people want to design their own clothes was wrong. People want to buy clothes that are a known brand or recommended, worn and endorsed by tastemakers. They have a platform tha

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