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1. 571.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Looks interesting, but I found the fact that they say | Be wary of aggressive performance claims, as benchmarks used by some of these projects are known to be out-of-date and flawed (in the sense that they can be - and are - exploited) on a
2. 572.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Google bought Crashlytics/Fabric from Twitter and that is (was?) a product based on the Rails stack
3. 573.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Could not agree more. This coupled with the feeling of being "defeated" when you need to move cards from this sprint to the next sprint just because you didn't get it completed is why my team went away from sprints.
4. 574.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Seamless!
5. 575.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Sounds like highly toxic environment. Hope you got out!
6. 576.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Others agree. Silk Labs[1] (founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal) seems to be active in this space [1] https://silklabs.com
7. 577.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Not a lawyer myself, but according to the regulation ( https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... ): "In order to ensure that natural persons are not deprived of the protection to
8. 578.▲
   by kevsim 9y ago

   I find it strange that the beef is with Google and not with the sites Google points at. Even if Google removes these search results, the articles are out there, probably linked from some other articles on the same newspaper's site, etc
9. 579.▲
   by kevsim 9y ago

   This is correct except for the cases where a company can show "legitimate interest" in which case it is in fact an opt-out rather than an opt-in [1]. And yeah, I agree - they mean business [1] https://www.gdpreu.org&#x2
10. 580.▲
    by kevsim 9y ago

    That animation on form input errors is amazing
11. 581.▲
    by kevsim 9y ago

    > Also, I (selfishly, perhaps) have more faith in the reliability of an established service than something recently launched. This was my thought as well. I've had a number of projects where I had to deliver large numbers of emails
12. 582.▲
    by kevsim 9y ago

    Was pretty terrible on Chrome (on Mac) too FWIW
13. 583.▲
    by kevsim 9y ago

    Think it's actually 4%. Seriously huge fines
14. 584.▲
    by kevsim 9y ago

    Deeply insightful given your intimate knowledge of OP and his time at Apple /s
15. 585.▲
    by kevsim 10y ago

    Though the docs pretty clearly state "Note: The vm module is not a security mechanism. Do not use it to run untrusted code."
16. 586.▲
    by kevsim 10y ago

    Yep, any sort of event sourcing approach will theoretically give you the time machine this guy is looking for (albeit with the data from the "bad" release being entirely thrown away). However in practice I think it's non-triv
17. 587.▲
    by kevsim 10y ago

    > I was surprised anyone could have such a poor understanding of asterisks. Amazing :-)
18. 588.▲
    by kevsim 10y ago

    I believe Pocket faced exactly this issue once upon a time.
19. 589.▲
    by kevsim 10y ago

    Big +1 on Delicious. I use Pocket now, but I find myself saving things and never ever going back to them.
20. 590.▲
    by kevsim 10y ago

    Didn't expect to see this one here. I worked for Nokia at the time that they bought some of the CodeWarrior assets from Metroworks. Coming from Visual Studio, CodeWarrior felt like a big step down. What do you miss about it?
21. 591.▲
    by kevsim 11y ago

    Nice but the sliders are really hard to use on mobile. Also when the "drawer" slides out in the demo, panning on mobile still pans the main page
22. 592.▲
    by kevsim 11y ago

    I disagree on #1. There's no need to be a martyr as a tech lead. Assign the tasks based on who is the best person to get it done (based on competency, knowledge of affected components, etc.). Treat your employees like adults. They don&
23. 593.▲
    by kevsim 11y ago

    I've found this to be the single greatest challenge I have as a tech lead. It's incredibly tempting to say "oh, I think I'll have time this week, so I can take that Trello card". If it's on the critical path, l
24. 594.▲
    by kevsim 11y ago

    > you need to be the one that monitors and accepts all pull requests I disagree at least in part. On my team all of the engineers have the ability (and responsibility) to merge PRs. It empowers them and gives them a feeling of ownership.
25. 595.▲
    by kevsim 11y ago

    It's a shame people are associating the name StageFright with the vulnerabilities instead of the media framework itself because it's possibly the best named library I've ever seen ;-)
26. 596.▲
    by kevsim 12y ago

    This is by far the most disappointing bit of the release for me. Catch up with the V8 releases already!
27. 597.▲
    by kevsim 12y ago

    Looks cool except that I know using a mechanical keyboard will result in me getting murdered by my colleagues in our open floor plan office.
28. 598.▲
    by kevsim 13y ago

    Pretty surprised the author has never seen crashes. I've been using Mailbox for quite a while now and it regularly crashes on large HTML mails (in my case the massive update emails generated by Confluence). Nonetheless it's still
29. 599.▲
    by kevsim 13y ago

    I know, this one line made my day
30. 600.▲
    by kevsim 13y ago

    I've been on both sides of this. I've been in meetings where people from a company I worked for oversold a product (promised features that didn't exist) and I've been in the receiving end as well. It never works out well