sciprojguy

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by sciprojguy 5y ago
"A big steaming pile of management work" might be a more apt description... ;-)
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Former manager here - you'd be very surprised at how much effort it takes to act as a human shield for your developers to keep the interruptions to a minimum and keep their roadmap stable. It's work, and it can be delicate. Try
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Don't forget sales/marketing overpromisers and nosy executives who get in the developers' hair.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
In a perfect world you would be right, but spend some time with a bunch of clueless executives who don't know how clueless they are (or are trying to pretend they do have a clue) and you'll realize there's no amount of contex
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Not necessarily. macOS and iOS have multiple accommodations for users with accessibility needs, from dynamic type to UI element voiceover plus pretty decent speech-to-text recognition and haptic feedback. Developers that want to take the
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
This line of argument sounds like a petition-gatherer trying to get signatures for a niche local issue and getting frustrated that they can't get enough people to see things their way.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
"I'm spread too thin" isn't an actual lie as much as it's a reframing. Working with difficult people can take a lot of mental energy, which ought to be considered part of the work effort. It's the polite way
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
This reads like an amateur with a grudge.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Was this a Seagate drive?
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
"Technologies like objective C, C sharp, Azure or swift are designed so you can not escape the company platform. So easy to get in, so hard to move your code to other platforms once you have been programming for years on them." FY
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
You do not have a "duty to your job". Employers love it when they can get their workers to think that way because it raises the threshold amount they can overwork and over-stress you before you've had enough and quit. You h
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
It helps a lot to think your management knows what it's doing. If you're stressing out on the latest likely "swing and a miss" feature that you think they picked using a dart board and ransom-note cutouts from magazines
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
"Samsung Branded iPhones"? This can't possibly be a thing.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
One can certainly hope.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
How can this possibly go wrong?
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Pretty sure you're wrong. If you drive, the commute can be a stressful waste of time.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
I think you're right, and I think it will motivate those of us who want to work remotely to quit and find companies that have that as their culture and let the "back to the office" folks become more homogenized.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Already you sound adversarial, like this is a battle of work cultures and you want your side to win. You say things like "return to work", as if the people who are working from home aren't already working. Did you mean yo
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
FWIW, the styling system mainly talks to the parameterized native components that the build system pulls down from GitHub. You can do the same kind of thing in SwiftUI using View Modifiers.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
You make it sound like users are switching among Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS all the time so the app UI has to have the lowest common denominator. By and large they're not and as such the native UI is the consistent UI: t
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
It's kind of odd that you mention Apple as a company that has "ditched standards", considering it's got very public, detailed design standards and has had them for a very long time. https://developer.apple.com
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
> (Actually, the ad industry ate software.) If Google follows Apple's lead (summarized in https://wwdcbysundell.com/2021/security-and-privacy-at-wwdc2... ) then software may become much less digestible.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
"Smart Approaches to Marijuana". Right. Prohibition failed when it was tried with alcohol; it's been failing with cannabis for decades and decades but these modern-day bluenoses don't want to let it go.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
This. If you're willing to routinely go "above and beyond" your normal work hours, then in management's mind that "above and beyond" will become your normal work hours and it will factor into their planning.
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
You might not have seen this: https://developer.apple.com/swift-playgrounds/ It's pretty nice to be able to build entire Swift playgrounds on your iPad, then share them with your Mac/MacBook. The IDE is sim
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
No, it isn't always laziness. Sometimes it's politics (I had a colleague leave a job because the new director of development mandated they rewrite their flagship enterprise apps in React Native because he got a song and dance from
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Why, exactly, are they evil? It's not as if people who buy Apple (like me, and I develop for iPhone/iPad too) don't know what they're getting. I like the walled garden Apple has because: * It makes my life as a develop
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
"I feel that users will only install the necessary app from the alt store and not anything else." Have you ever had to wipe a relative's computer to get rid of the malware-infested browser toolbars they installed, not knowing
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/05/app-store-earns-7...
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by sciprojguy 5y ago
Long-time iOS developer here who does not want cross-platform dreck to become the standard. UIKit and SwiftUI are deep frameworks that let you build really great user experiences (if you're willing to put in the work to learn them),

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