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by matt_s 8y ago
MacOS will not be replaced by iOS, but they will bring UIKit to MacOS so you can port apps. That sounds like they are unifying the two OS's to me, or I am mis-remembering the question Tim Cook answered with a definitive No?
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It is a good facilitator of that conversation but you don't need to do estimating to have that conversation about implementation details. Once a team arrives at common patterns of implementing things then those conversations really on
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The teams I've been on that just 'jive' usually start with some process framework but then evolve to just work well together. There are strong philosophies in Scrum and Agile that should be kept as guidelines. The key is bei
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It sounds more like experience discrimination.
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It would have been great if they took the time to interview a few female players of Fortnite for the article. It would have provided some perspective into what pulls them into the game. Is it celebrities that play? character skins? social
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A lot of noise comes from what you're driving on. As far as improving efficiency goes - I assume you mean miles/gallon or per kwh? The average driver doesn't pay attention to tires until they become flat or don't pass i
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by matt_s 8y ago
I've seen corporate IT environments with memory and CPU utilization highly under utilized. People tend to order a lot more compute power than they need because of the bureaucracy involved with getting it from another department and ge
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by matt_s 8y ago
I've had ideas in the real estate area of apps. Do you plan on getting access to MLS data (I assume you are in US). That has always been the barrier to just trying out some things. It seems there is a paywall of sorts to get access
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by matt_s 8y ago
Risk Aversion. The smaller companies (aka startups) will do most anything to get customers. At some point in size when they become larger entities they will do almost anything to not risk losing business. Make changes fast turns into asse
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by matt_s 9y ago
> No one believes that anyone can actually code. Is it just our industry where you have to prove you aren't a complete impostor every time? Basically we treat every applicant like they are Frank Abagnale [0]. A senior role should
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by matt_s 9y ago
You'd probably be surprised how fast a hand saw can cut through a board. Buy a handsaw at the big box store when you buy your wood, cut it in the parking lot before loading it into a cab/uber/rental car. Only do rough cuts (
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The same reasons why adaptations of books aren't better than the book, usually. The medium is different, books can go into much more detail and leaves many things up to the readers imagination which is based on their own worldview, pe
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All of the repetitive missions in games would work well in a series. I mean most TV shows follow that formula, you know at a certain time in a cop show they will figure out whodunnit and proceed to the thematic close of events.
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by matt_s 9y ago
When moving from Java to Rails, I tend to think in SQL first, then translate that to Rails' ORM. I didn't really use ORM's in Java, too heavyweight and the stack we had was old. I would go with this approach too - use the OR
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The difficult part of cross-play is probably in the matchmaking and friend lists. My guess is Sony and Microsoft have different methods for implementing those. I think it would be game changing if it pushed the industry to not have platfor
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by matt_s 9y ago
Games that take an existing model (100 player PvP) and add a twist can be called game changing. The twist with Fortnite is building (ala Minecraft in a way) which is game changing as far as how you play. The other element is Epic Games pus
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Battle Royale wasn't in their plan though. They were making the PvE version ("Save the World") for a while (years) and had just released a beta version you could buy over the summer. I believe the story goes that just a coup
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It helps keep the game running. Have you read through some of their technical write-ups on the outages they've had? Talk about scaling issues. Do you normally think all businesses that make a profit are obscene? I think obscene is ch
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That is one perspective. My kids played Skylanders and Disney Infinity when they were younger. Those games both had elements of shooting projectiles at enemies to eliminate them. Fortnite is rated T and not M because there isn't real
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by matt_s 9y ago
Ok those numbers wouldn't work out. I picked $40/yr since it sounded reasonable. Maybe this is an opportunity for a startup to create a paid social media platform?
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by matt_s 9y ago
Why don't they just come out with a subscription version of Facebook? $40/year for no ads, no data miners or data sharing and a customizable "news" feed (e.g. no shared posts from crazy Uncle, prioritize family, etc.) S
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It used to be easy to tell non-technical people that a Nigerian prince trying to wire money (or whatever) is a scam. How would you summarize the deception involved here to tell your non-technical Aunt? Basically, don't use facebook, o
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Could this spark a small tech bubble burst? Will non-tech people be fed up with their data being abused by tech/ad companies? If this trend goes viral (ironic, eh?) it could mean less ad money. Advertising has had it really good comp
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Former manager, back to engineer checking in. I tried to practice the above, to an extent where possible. Sometimes upper management or other teams have a way of interrupting engineers with stuff that isn't a priority. It happens. M
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In the case of Facebook, users are the product. If they lose 20% of their users, the usefulness of their product diminishes. Social media companies would literally vanish if all the users stopped using them. What would actual users stand
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Giving the visceral comments and opinions on Facebook, those that probably saw ads were already committed to one candidate or another. There is rarely a discussion on the internet where someone is convinced to switch to a different candida
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Frameworks are needed to get developers past disagreements on organization of code and focus on delivering business value. They also help organize work for larger teams of people working together. If you are solo and your application is go
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I worked at a different, large Fortune 500 company and this behavior was also common there in the upper ranks. The sheer time wasted in political infighting makes me think anyone in a Fortune 500 with a SVP or VP title (or higher) basically
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I didn't really comment on if it was enforceable, just that in a logical manner there is a path for amendments to be removed, added or changed. Doing minimal research on prohibition since I had no context into what triggered it: "
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This is a site about startups and tech and hacking. Doesn't this sound like a golden opportunity for someone to stand up a video service dedicated to this niche? Basically Google and Reddit are stating that they don't want to los

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