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by sparky_ 5y ago
Same, it looks like a big rube goldberg machine without that context.
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by sparky_ 5y ago
I'm not the person you originally replied to, but just to give a bit of perspective as an EM myself: I think this depends a lot on the person and the team. One part of the gig is just being an effective project manager, and those skill
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by sparky_ 5y ago
I see you're being downvoted; I suspect OP is sarcastically referring to the "dog in a burning kitchen" meme..
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by sparky_ 5y ago
I guess I’d describe SJ as a kind of monoculture. Everyone I knew was a fellow tech person, and escaping the programmer scene was impossible. When I lived in Revere Beach, my neighbours were chemists, doctors, geologists, professors… a brai
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Both Miami and Fort Lauderdale themselves are fairly walkable downtown. But the metro area is LA style car-first. I shipped my car from CA, but I only drive it when I want to leave Fort Lauderdale, basically. Paying $2300/mo for a 1600
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by sparky_ 5y ago
I'm a recent arrival in Fort Lauderdale, from San Jose (though I spent several years in Boston as well). The vibe is uniquely its own down here. The biggest difference is that tech feels like a minority in South Florida. That is, unlik
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Indeed, this looks like a poor quality scan on an old monochrome Xerox machine or the like, not an actual attempt at redacting content. It's readable in Preview on macOS at the right zoom level.
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by sparky_ 5y ago
It's possible if Apple-the-organisation is contributing/driving back to some project, under the corporate entity. See WebKit for example. However an individual employee could not just decide they want to submit some patches to Apa
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by sparky_ 5y ago
That's a correct summary. This is the reason why people who join Apple suddenly abandon their OSS projects. It's worth noting there was a huge debate internally about this around the time I left, with many people dissatisfied with
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by sparky_ 5y ago
A bit late with this reply, but the answer is: Make patches internally, to work around the problematic areas. Often done to avoid the legal necessity to contribute it back upstream. For example, hook code at runtime to jump out to Apple spe
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by sparky_ 5y ago
In some sense, it doesn't surprise me that there's some market for this. For the older audiophile who doesn't understand digital music or networking, their only analog is.. analog. :-) So if you look at the setup with "v
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by sparky_ 5y ago
This is interesting from the external perspective, but let me provide the internal one: Employees are prohibited from so much as _thinking_ open source for anything not directly managed or maintained by Apple. Swift is one thing, but suppos
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Weirdest one yet: >> So he chained her up in her room and he chained up hundreds of angry wolves in the other side of the room. [...] But he made the window and the doors big enough so that the fierce beasts could move in and out and
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The New Covid Drugs Are a Bigger Deal Than People Realize(theatlantic.com)
5 points by sparky_ 5y ago|2 comments
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Ex-Apple employee here. You have it exactly.
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by sparky_ 5y ago
From what I've gathered, the attribution was introduced retroactively, recently, by rebasing the repo with that and on top of the upstream commits, only after the discussion was picked up publicly.
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by sparky_ 5y ago
Hearing from friends in low-level management on the inside that upper management is well aware of the impending attrition, and are willing to (and expect to) eat some low amount of turnover. Will be interesting to see how far off reality is
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by sparky_ 5y ago
I suspect that's entirely the point. By not giving people 2 consecutive days, it requires you to still remain close to the campus and prevents you from doing anything interesting like travel for half the week.
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by sparky_ 6y ago
Does anyone know what causes the "scanlines" we see throughout the image, e.g. https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=134.9718&dec=32.3736&lay... ?
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by sparky_ 6y ago
Anecdotally, I worked at Apple, as a software engineer, and I've never heard of this, or anything like it. I would characterize the actual attitude more as - we have to say no to a lot of good ideas, so that we can go 110% on the grea
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by sparky_ 6y ago
iMacs have always had upgradeable RAM, just about the only user-serviceable part in them. There's a little door you can open on the back by the power connector. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191
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by sparky_ 6y ago
'Twas a simple typo, but I'll happily retcon it into a pun!
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by sparky_ 6y ago
I'd definitely encourage everyone to git GL a try - our teams switched over from GH + Jira about a year ago, and haven't looked back. The integrated CI and project management features are a game changer.
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by sparky_ 6y ago
Must be fun for @sytse to watch these GitHub announcements every year, where they consistently release the same thing GitLab rolled out two years prior. Codespaces -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project&#x2F
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by sparky_ 7y ago
> Most strikingly to me from the complaint is the fact that apple claims that he 1> used his design knowledge to found another company (jeez, people do this all the time) and 2> did so while working at apple (ditto). IANAL, but my
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by sparky_ 7y ago
From the article, this sounds like it was a GateKeeper change, de-whitelisting the signature, rather than an update, per se.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
Streaming content selection is garbage, except for their original programming, and getting Blu-Rays by mail, which are easily ripped, is less risky and higher quality than piracy. Not hard to see the appeal.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
The grammar mistake in the supposed official document - "Keep doing what your (sic) doing" - is very unlike Apple. Raises a red flag on authenticity in my mind.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
I've found it similarly ineffective. I have my packages addressed to "_sparky, Leave at Back Door, 123 My Street". Maybe 5% of them end up there.
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by sparky_ 8y ago
I think there is some aversion to building a product that is too motorcycle-like; regulators may start to get ideas if the scooters look too much like a Vespa.

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