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by jarjoura 2y ago
I do find it quite unsatisfying the way the actor executor is somehow magically generated at compile time, without any way to build your own in Swift. It's also not obvious that actors are re-entrant until you stumble into it. It'
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Agreed. When a VC backed company is in hyper-growth, and barely has resources to scale up their shaky MVP tech stack so they can support 100+ million users, I doubt anyone thinks its reasonable to give the engineers 6 months to stop and lea
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by jarjoura 2y ago
The more interesting question I have is how he knew the speed that IG user base was growing. The threat that Google may acquire IG when IG was barely a year old seemed quite paranoid, especially when Google had almost certainly ceded its Go
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Can confirm. I saw a flood of ex-Amazonians come to Meta in the late 2010s. Not sure I interpreted their comparisons of Meta being more cut-throat, but it did seem like Amazon had way more intense politics with opaque decision making that h
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Presumably, anyone at a staff+ level position in big tech, is likely influential and their word carries weight. So, I'm not sure how this is a pro or con for joining Amazon. If anything, someone at that level earns so much money, and h
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by jarjoura 2y ago
HTTP as a pure transport protocol keeps coming back to the default, because it works. Its superpower is that it pushes stateless (and secure) design from end to end. You have to fight a losing battle to get around that, so if you play along
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Research also suggests that we only domesticated ourselves 40-50k years ago. Language and culture are fairly recent additions in our evolution and so when people start comparing how we understand the world, to that of other mammals, I strug
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by jarjoura 2y ago
I'm interpreting your comment as you're using ad blockers and also not paying for a subscription. If that's the case, it's probably true that robbing YouTube of the revenue to cover their R&D and data center costs is
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by jarjoura 2y ago
I had a manager who came from Amazon and shared some of the horror stories from their time on Alexa. It seemed like a lot of senior folks were only using it for career advancement because it was where all the R&D money was flowing into.
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Speaking from big tech, you get things like rust (mozilla) or React (facebook) when your engineers are given the space to solve industry scale problems. Those are both "weird nerd" contributions since the original creators weren&#
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Pretty sure a product at this scale that required several XFN teams to execute on was not dreamt up by a couple people wanting a promotion. This was a product that was meant to drive some KPI metric of some large organization, and it was la
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by jarjoura 2y ago
The algorithm isn’t really the problem if the content itself isn’t made accessible. The moderators could just remove content they disagree with and that’s more than enough power. The engagement ranking done to keep you hooked is probably no
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by jarjoura 2y ago
I know this is a small team and experimenting, but in my mind, this engine is already limiting the potential of games it can output. I don’t know, but Unity is already pretty much point and click game building. I spent a few weeks building
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Yea you might want to update your blog post with some original and creatively inspired new content. Demoing Star Wars is just asking to be picked apart by people.
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by jarjoura 2y ago
Hate to break it to you, but the pop star success formula is actually meticulously detailed and very repeatable. The producers and song writers know exactly how to do it. It’s not about challenges in finding success, so much as, at least in
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by jarjoura 2y ago
The coordinated launch of real ARM laptops across 4 different companies, Dell, Lenovo, HP and Samsung is quite an achievement for Microsoft after a decade of failed ARM launches. This seems uniquely different to me because, there is a real
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by jarjoura 2y ago
I actually think hiding behind “journalism” gives you more freedom to say what you want. In theory, you couldn’t blatantly make stuff up, because you risk getting sued. However, if the last decade has taught me anything, even then, the burd
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by jarjoura 3y ago
No matter the structure of the interview, it will always come down to things we cannot control in the end. 1. You will have shit days and your brain will actively work against you, no matter how qualified you are for the job. If your interv
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Once CoPilot can understand entire workspace and have deep understanding of your project, it will likely seem a lot smarter than it seems now. All I use it for is to avoid repetitive stuff as it's exceptionally good at guessing my next
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by jarjoura 3y ago
WASM is kind of coming full circle back around to when browsers used to support running Java Applets, or flash, or even ActiveX, however, this time, WASM is safe and is built into the browser. Figma has been the one platform to take full ad
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by jarjoura 3y ago
I'm thinking optimistically about this as well, however, it's also true that someone who does well in a large corporate environment and who only knows large corporate operating procedures could struggle to adapt to the needs of st
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by jarjoura 3y ago
The challenge isn't unlinking accounts in the database, that's just a simple copy command. The challenge is in all the metadata that is used for account A (Facebook), and account B (IG) that can no longer share any downstream meta
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by jarjoura 3y ago
So, developer tried to jump into the insanely hot condo market of 2018/2019 where foreign investors would buy up units and rent them out to people in tech. Pandemic happened, and interest rates shot up. Looks like timing is everything,
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by jarjoura 3y ago
That's quite a hyperbolic stance. There's plenty of unerase-able public data on all of us, especially data that's going to be interesting in 100+ years from now. For example, things like owning property are recorded in the co
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by jarjoura 3y ago
I think there's a huge difference when zoning in broad-strokes ways (ie residential here, and dangerous chemical plants here) and zoning in micro-targeted, social engineering ways, (ie. mixed-use only here, condos here, single-family h
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by jarjoura 3y ago
So basically, the same problem any cross-platform framework has.
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Or Rust is just an extremely difficult language to learn when all you really need are shaders and as you say, mutable state. Rust will let you mutate state just like C++, but it's difficult to master in a timely way. So, when your time
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by jarjoura 3y ago
Meta and I'm sure TikTok as well, would be MORE than happy to follow wherever users want to take the platform. The problem is, time and time again, users do not want what they say they want.
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by jarjoura 3y ago
SwiftUI is a black box, yes, but under the hood, it's just wrapping all of the same AppKit/UIKit controls. It likely started as an answer to React for iOS and then late became a cross-platform toolkit. The API to get what you want
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by jarjoura 3y ago
It's bizarre to me how religious this conversation has become. I'm not sure why people are behaving like it's either 100% remote or 100% in the office, and they are locked in a cage. There are PLENTY of companies who have dec

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