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by jarjoura 7y ago
Interesting! It seems this is a rewrite of Yoga, by the same author, seen by another comment in this thread. So why start again using flex box as a layout engine? For example, there isn't really a good, equally as rich, grid layout eng
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Facebook operates similarly. They created a culture of working on things that interest you as long as it can show meaningful impact. If you can show maintenance of something impactful, then you can work on it. It's really no different
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I've been in some open office situations where it was so loud that you couldn't even talk to each other about, ya know, work stuff. It was like living in a call center. Conference rooms were overbooked and the situation was simply
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by jarjoura 8y ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/cre...
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Wow, this is like a relationship where one partner tries hard to convey frustration and the other one not hearing any frustration at all but ends up making them about themselves. At first I just felt Spotify was being a little dramatic, lik
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by jarjoura 8y ago
It wasn't just Kindle. There were dozens of really high quality book reading apps that either sold old or hard to find books, comics, or even mangas. All of them evaporated over night once Apple forced the 30% cut. I'm still very
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by jarjoura 8y ago
It’s easy. The mail teams at Apple, Google and Microsoft are running in maintenance mode and honestly there’s no money in it for them to invest in it.
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by jarjoura 8y ago
That absolutely was true prior to 2016, but now the post Brexit, post populist world has shaken a lot of people up. Before people didn't realize what giving up their data meant, and they still don't, but at least now they are hype
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Oh boy, here we go again, another article proclaiming that California is too expensive and you're better off starting your company elsewhere. California has been expensive for a very very long time, decades. Yet, every year, someone ge
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I think if I remember correctly, they were opposed going the store route because it took too much effort building on top of the store sandbox and new installer packaging.
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Is this article implying that previous generations did not have assistance from family? Were families too poor to help in previous generations, but now are better off? I'm a bit confused on the take-away here. Instead this reads as a s
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by jarjoura 8y ago
This is such a fairytale retelling of history. Firefox was well on the way to crushing IE. It was the whole reason Microsoft re-kick started IE development again. Firefox was the dominant browser in 2008. Safari was the browser pushing ahea
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Hmmm, on Windows whenever I plug in a new Thunderbolt device, it requests permission to activate it. I assumed this was for this very reason. If I hand someone my computer logged in and unlocked, it's as good as compromised.
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by jarjoura 8y ago
This is actually an argument for Apple to switch entirely to ARM. If they could consolidate engineers, it could continue to invest in Mac without needing crazy growth numbers to justify it.
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Adobe is already porting their software to ARM architecture. I imagine opening a billboard sized PSD would be painful, but I could see small little icon assets and making tweaks would be a perfectly valid lightweight activity. https:/
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I've been playing with a Windows ARM64 laptop and it's weirdly sluggish mainly because I think ARM IO and GPU cannot compete with Intel's offering. You can run benchmarks and the CPU seems decent for a laptop, but it's a
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I actually think for most of us, after some point, switching to engineering manager track is often far easier to continue leveling up in. Most good companies have an equivalent tech track, but unless the stars are aligned and you're bl
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by jarjoura 8y ago
OMG, the amount of hate in here, it's so disturbing! I know we're all entitled to our opinions, but this is quite depressing. Reddit has been such an incredible space for me to discover myself and adds tremendous value to my life.
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I used Makefile in university and that was simple enough until you needed to do something more complicated and then it started to become unwieldly fast. Back then, GNU was popular and automake/autoconf were attached to every project. I
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I actually don't think this is as nefarious as the article makes it out to be. Section 8 housing in SF is basically little pockets of shitty, poorly constructed, slum lord managed ugly buildings. Would I rather have this than tent citi
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Berkeley is as close to that as you’re going to get here.
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Every so often one of these articles comes along and someone writes at length about the struggle of living in the bay area. I've been here over 13 years now and these articles are a constant. First, the Bay Area never promised to be an
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by jarjoura 8y ago
I think the take-away isn't that his idea is pretty radical, but that he was 15 steps ahead of himself and that seemed to set himself up for failure. Not sure if it's that the article was poorly written, but he didn't seem to
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by jarjoura 8y ago
It’s interesting to note that some credit card companies are allowing government employees carry extra balances and not pay them off during this shutdown. However, I do wonder if they will be charging interest on that balance. If not, then
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by jarjoura 8y ago
The conversation that you're either starting a company in SV or not seems silly. Of course you can start a company in most civilized places in the world, people do it all the time. Case-in-point the article above. Plenty of industry de
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Not really sure what the point of your comment is? Are you asking the NH community to feel sorry for you? You made some life choices about what's important to you and that's great. The OP made their life choices and decided to stu
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by jarjoura 8y ago
My friend worked with Travis back when Uber was just a proof of concept in San Francisco. They used private limos and a basic app to connect the two. It worked, was cheap to build, and they proved demand rather quickly. I would call that ga
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by jarjoura 8y ago
For everyone bitching about VC's demand on speed and profits, it wouldn't be any different working inside of FAANG. Your team is given a time limit on how fast it can work and it will need to make the parent organization money oth
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by jarjoura 8y ago
Another problem this article misses is that it's quite arrogant to assume a founder has other means to build a company. Most founders are quite honestly usually young and that also means they lack capital, but would otherwise be brilli
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by jarjoura 8y ago
My take on work is there's always someone who will be your boss and dictate what you can and cannot do. If you bootstrap, then it'll be your paying customers. If you take family/angel/seed money, then it'll be them

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