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by jarjoura 7y ago
I'm not so sure the problem with Microsoft was its toxic culture. So many of the key points in that article you could say ring true of Apple. Steve Jobs relished in the fact that people feared him. He literally built an entire company
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Point taken, but the language is not the thing I would hire for anyway. It's the environment and skill-set beyond the language. A mobile developer even requires a completely different set of instincts to be successful than an engineer
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I'm pretty sure if you touch the feed at all, or it detects you haven't seen the content before it'll put a button there that won't move you to the top of the feed until you tap on it for that very reason.
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by jarjoura 7y ago
When I worked there under SJ, the Mac OS org (then under Betrand Serlet), it was sort of open amongst the org itself. It was really easy to walk to someone's office and strike up an interesting conversation. Many late nights were spent
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All of the underlying tools are native 64-bit, but it's hidden behind a project property that you need to turn on to use them. I think it's just the C# code editor process that's still only 32-bit.
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If I remember correctly, 99% sure anything sold from Cingular & Bell Atlantic came super locked down and you had to go through their SMS service to download the PRC files. You could enable developer mode by installing some app called Ho
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by jarjoura 7y ago
There has never been a mobile platform that allowed desktop level freedom to install whatever you wanted. That has more to do with mobile carriers demanding it than the platform companies. Android has been the most open, but even then, the
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Developers obsess about JSON for a simple reason, JSON works natively with Javascript. If you have a backend service written in C++, then communicating over JSON is easily consumed by nodejs and the browser. Of course there are other data t
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Ok, I'm starting to think this article is click-bait. There is no need for a backdoor with WhatsApp because messages are stored on the device. If police have the device on hand, they should be able to see the messages (assuming they ca
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by jarjoura 7y ago
Why is this article Facebook focused? Is this click-bait? Telegraph and iMessage also support unbreakable end to end encryption. Also, if we're talking backdoors, why not just force Apple to unlock devices so that police can just read
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by jarjoura 7y ago
I think there’s some confusion in here that everyone buying vinyl is repeating the habits of our parents and grandparents. I think there’s this misconception we’re buying records of whatever the latest hit band is with only 3 good songs and
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by jarjoura 7y ago
Not to minimize your frustration, but if you put yourself on the other side of the hiring table, I could see "spark" as a coded word for "soft skills." The good news is, it appears that because they spent a significant a
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by jarjoura 7y ago
Let's be clear that senior C++ developers are masters of their domains because they enjoy solving a particular set of problems that a low overhead systems language requires. However, in the mobile world, from my experience, hiring good
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Exactly, I have a friend who's from China. His parents bought his house in SF as a "graduation present," though the deed is under his name so it's technically his. However, if he were to lose his H1B, then it's esse
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Poor Antarctica right now.
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Obj-C was niche yes, but Obj-C worked really well with C/C++.
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I don't really understand what Bill Gates is getting at here. Back in 2010, Android was still very clunky and sluggish. Windows Phone was sleek and fast. Both OSes allowed you to install developer tools and write software for free. How
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by jarjoura 7y ago
I think Apple released this Mac Pro & Display at the wrong event. From every indication, it was designed for Hollywood. Developers don't need expansion, but Audio and Video producers do! Announcing at an LA event for producers and
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by jarjoura 7y ago
I think all you grumpy commenters in here are nostalgic af! I hated radio in my youth. It was 20 minutes of the same songs followed by another 20 minutes of commercials. The same playlists over and over, and really the only value-add were t
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It's quite amazing that Apple is doing this at the exact time the government is investigating them for anti-trust violations. Essentially what Apple is doing is creating a new gate as they've done before with forcing developers to
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I haven’t seen anyone upset over the feature set. The only complaints I’ve seen are those uneasy with Apple’s forceful hand. They are both the gatekeeper to the store and now gatekeeper to the login. This is happening at the same time they
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I like that Microsoft is moving more of its stuff to their store in a way that encourages people to use it. The desktop is becoming a powerful tool for getting work done, and I think this is a great move.
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This is so freakin' fascinating. The only reason Apple can get away with this is because they are making devices that large numbers of people actually want to own. The software has gotten quite stable over the years and I am happy to u
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I'm a little confused by the implications the article is making. Density in the outer suburbs is probably not a good idea, for all the reasons the article mentions, such as traffic. Then you have to factor in all the other things like
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I had an interesting experience the other week, as I went to Montreal in Canada. It was still super cold up there, barely getting above freezing this late into the year. Holy hell, the sheer amount of homeless people I saw on the streets, t
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by jarjoura 7y ago
I love how they go to great lengths to describe and recommend that for Win8 and above you should use Pointer API instead of the "legacy" mouse and touch events, because it'll also handle Pen too. Yet when you actually go to c
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Hmmm, this is interesting, because when I was in college (early 2000s), most of Apple's docs were littered with "description forthcoming" EVERYWHERE. The only way you could possibly understand the proper behavior was to use a
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by jarjoura 7y ago
FWIW, I think this past year everyone has been expecting Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and Pintrest to unlock a flood of money. Anecdotally, a researcher friend of mine turned down FB to work in Snap Inc, research and someone else's wife also tur
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Meh, if anything the Apple Store is a victim of its own success. For all the complaints in this thread about slow Genius bar experiences, it's important to remember it was originally designed and conceived as a way to teach people HOW
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I think Tumblr is a lost cause. The younger generation has shifted to Instagram/OnlyFans and Reddit for their porn fixes.

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