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by jarjoura 13y ago
Not to take away from this post but I wanted to share a little bit about my own job search. Hopefully engineers who regularly interview candidates have some interesting feedback to share. There was a post I actually just hearted on Secret t
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Not sure why this isn't on the front page already?! Especially when this time last year Adria Richards' story wouldn't go away for a week.
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GitHub puts founder on leave, kicks wife out of office after harassment claim(arstechnica.com)
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Microsoft should join the LLVM group and just port any MSVC extension not supported in clang over already. :-)
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by jarjoura 13y ago
If all you're building is a service proxy to a database, node will get you very far really fast. Its thin layer will allow you write a clean REST api that consumers can reliably call. Javascript does not scale well though when a projec
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by jarjoura 13y ago
I've had the same experience jumping into Clojure even though it's less "pure."
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by jarjoura 13y ago
I 100% agree San Francisco needs to build more high-rises for the enclaves of south-bay workers who now live here. Let them have all of SOMA in fact, it shuts down after 7 PM and remains dead on the weekend anyway. They won't even be h
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Writing a large scale iOS app with 100s of XIB based views is equivalent to writing a Visual Basic app in my opinion. Suddenly your app is now dependent on -awakeFromNib and subclassing requires yet another another XIB. Just some reasons I
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by jarjoura 13y ago
What does this have to do with desktops? This article is saying that as people apparently migrate to larger phones they will then find tablets unnecessary. I think there is room in the world for people to have both a small one-hand useable
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Surprised to see Clojure going down. I only heard about it last year for the first time and it seems to be popping up more and more.
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by jarjoura 13y ago
My own experience goes like this: I was only an employee, so the motivations for selling to a parent company could be different. Yet from my angle, it was either, A) go for another round of funding or B) find a company that would be a natur
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by jarjoura 13y ago
I can sympathize with RMS's argument that companies like Apple & Google can create plugins and modules that are proprietary because LLVM/Clang has a non-copyleft license. However, it would not be in any contributing companies
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by jarjoura 13y ago
I think this is a bit of an unfair comment. Apple has been constantly improving their App Store. When it launched it was literally a direct port of their Music store over with little thought of how Applications and their use cases actually
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by jarjoura 13y ago
My #1 would be Beta testing through the store. We need a way to get an application out to set of people to test in the field. TestFlight requires managing a provisioning profile that has been filling up quickly as the group of testers come
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Well I guess in theory since you could build clang/llvm for Windows and Linux you could build the iOS cross-compiler toolset. The code-signing (not sure if that one is open sourced already for OS X) would need to be ported. App install
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by jarjoura 13y ago
This video seemed to celebrate the software that ran on the machines more than the actual hardware itself. I get that they are trying to market the emotion behind the experience but I almost feel as if the emotion they are conveying is misp
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Google Ventures backed much of the company. So I doubt the VCs would let Apple make a lowball bid for the company (typical of Apple acquisitions). Plus Apple is never known to leave a company running, instead fully integrating it and all of
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Xcode (and the entire tool-chain) has support for static frameworks that would negate any distribution problems the OP wants. Apple snips that functionality out of the iOS SDK for some unknown reason, but I suspect that would be a much bett
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by jarjoura 13y ago
That is not the reason Apple didn't provide true background application support in iOS 2 & 3. It was a battery driven initiative by designing the push notification system over letting apps manage their own background runloop. Plus
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A/B testing has nothing to do with the application review process. It's for either A – bringing a new service online that cannot handle the load right away (server tuning), or B – testing the UX and fine tuning it before releasing
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by jarjoura 13y ago
I agree with most of the review, except the controller. The battery life on the dual-shock 4 is really poorly designed. Playing games for more than a few hours at a time almost always requires plugging it in to keep using it. Note: The Dual
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Would be great to see the changes made in the ARM variants too. I know there's no value in compiling libobjc for ARM, but at least for academic value.
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Well right now people can buy super cheap $9 a month DSL service that provides very basic speeds. The difference right now is that the user of that service can decide where and how they use that bandwidth (assuming it's all legal). So
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Well, lower income families in the US are far richer than equivalent families in emerging markets. Either that, or they at LEAST have access to credit to make access possible, just a burden. So that's not really a fair comparison.
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Why would Wikipedia be given cheaper than say, dictionary.com or nytimes.com? Or what about this website and all of the links it provides access to? "Poor people" need access to high quality content too ya know :-P. Unless you wan
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by jarjoura 13y ago
IMHO, this isn't about Netflix, YouTube, or even Amazon having to pay for higher tiered access to customers. They have the deep pockets and smart lawyers to construct contracts that work out for them in the end. So I see that as the s
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by jarjoura 13y ago
hooray! So happy to see them make it this far, great job guys! Every iteration has been getting better and better.
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by jarjoura 13y ago
A few things people might be missing from this announcement. 1) Simply recompiling an application with iOS 7 SDK unlocks a different set of view metrics and subtle behaviors that are non-trivial to address. Developers need to make sure view
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by jarjoura 13y ago
Working in the consumer space is not just an easier sell from a sales prospect, it's also easier to persuade talented people to join your company. Great engineers and designers want to show off their work to friends and get bonus point
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by jarjoura 13y ago
A lot of what I read here reminds me of the Apple I joined 6 years ago. That's great to see other companies understand the value of small autonomous teams.

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