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by ken 6y ago
I think much more highly of a two- or three-word .com than a one-word .{co,ai,io,...} These are clever but I wouldn't call them good.
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by ken 6y ago
> The company, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest employers, is giving U.S. staffers who are approved to work remotely until Jan. 1, 2021 to update the company on where they plan to base themselves, at which point their salaries will be adj
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by ken 6y ago
I can't, and even if I could, everything else I do is in the city. As much fun as it would be to live out in the boonies, it'd mean having to spend hours commuting every day. There's things I hate about living here but it&#
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by ken 6y ago
And yet, lots of software developers do quit and spend a few months off, and then go work somewhere else. Because managers do threaten and bully employees. This is considered 'normal' for the field. One running joke in my c
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by ken 6y ago
> What's odd is that at some point, I managed to stumble onto the Google spreadsheet (yep) they were using to track feedback for the process. There were dozens of entries, and they were all gushing about it, like oh it was so good,
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by ken 6y ago
It’s clear from the docs that CoreData can use SQLite internally but doesn’t give the programmer full access to all the features of the database. No bitter experience necessary.
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by ken 6y ago
> Much like the starving kids in Africa, it's rapidly becoming a "Well, it's tragic, but I can't see it" problem. That's exactly how this is different. Most people in the UK or US don't have a starving
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by ken 6y ago
GNOME, 2020: > The entire backgrounds panel was rewritten from scratch, so technically every single feature that it had was momentarily removed and then most were subsequently re-added as entirely new implementations. jwz, 2003: > I r
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by ken 6y ago
> Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? It's a mystery. I'd certainly be much more willing to buy a machine if it came with good documentation. Back in the 1980's, they (Ap
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by ken 6y ago
There's no black magic here. Everything you see here can be found by running the profiler and reading the docs. I haven't been a Mac developer nearly as long as he has, and almost all of these are things that I do.
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by ken 6y ago
I tried googling various subsets of keywords from your claim, and your comment is the #1 hit, and the rest are completely unrelated. Can you be more specific? Saying it's on bing/google doesn't exactly narrow it down.
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by ken 6y ago
FFC 23 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyvEgHo5sTU&t=4m32s
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by ken 6y ago
The EU gave us Spotify, SoundCloud, Minecraft, and Angry Birds. There's plenty of EU software companies you've heard of. It's true that most brand name consumer software is from (companies headquartered in) America right now
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by ken 6y ago
It sounds like it was introduced at the EU in a budgetary context, and that's how the article begins, but the party is not just looking at money. The first thing they say about it is: "Open Source Software improves transparency a
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by ken 6y ago
I’ve been writing software for 30 years and Firefox still confuses me at times. It is many things but not simple.
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by ken 6y ago
Because they write the software that runs on Apple's computers.
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by ken 6y ago
This just doesn't seem like a terribly difficult problem. Web browsers have figured it out. Any webpage that isn't served over SSL says "Not Secure" right at the top. I can think of a dozen ways which the OS could prom
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by ken 6y ago
This happened to a friend of mine recently, who didn't care to fight it, so we all lost. The part that I don't understand is: Shazam is really bad at classical music. Unless it's the exact recording of the piece as their dat
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by ken 6y ago
Here's what IBM was giving programmers in 1978, thanks to the work of architect Gerald McCue: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/IBM's-Santa-Teresa-Lab...
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by ken 6y ago
Liking an activity doesn't mean it needs to be an integral part of your workplace every minute of the day. I like playing the drums, but I would never do it in the same room as my coworkers while they're trying to write software.
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by ken 6y ago
Unfortunately, that doesn't help, since 100% of software employers with offices use open floor plan offices, or some variant of the same. I always ask people in the industry what company has private offices for programmers. The only a
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by ken 6y ago
How much do knowledge workers cost? A leather chair and fish tank would be some of the cheapest perks ever.
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by ken 6y ago
> I think its our time to bargain If only there were some sort of organization that would enable us to do this collectively !
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by ken 6y ago
Answering (with a human voice!) the correct time zone for the wrong "London" is about the mildest possible bug you'll ever see. I might not even call it a "bug". Let's call it a mild inconvenience of modern
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by ken 6y ago
> With internet enabled, it was reproducible by relaunching the application and triggering the code that called SecKeychainFindGenericPassword. I have issues with a lot of APIs, but SecKeychain has got to be one of the worst. I don&#x27
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by ken 6y ago
No, even "cp -c" creates a new inode.
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by ken 6y ago
Full Disk Access was added in 10.14 (2018), so it's relatively new.
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by ken 6y ago
I think the saying goes: fool me once, shame on you; fool me for like 7 or 8 years in a row, shame on me. At this point, if MongoDB could turn on a dime from being an unreliable system to a robust one, that would be the most remarkable part
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by ken 6y ago
> At least with the ORM(-ish) tools I worked with, it always felt much more straightforward to just change classes within the application code and automatically generate the respective migrations... There's your answer, no? You&#x2
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by ken 6y ago
But the post points out that Siri from other Apple devices gets it right. Apple’s “generic knowledge system” can answer this. It’s only Apple Watch which has trouble. That’s kind of weird. It’s not that Siri is especially bad. It’s that “Si

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