throwabayhay

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by throwabayhay 1y ago
They mention macOS as " one platform with consistent APIs and behavior". But macOS (or NeXTStep, as it started out as), an actual UNIX system (certified!), chose not to use X11 to achieve that, but to entirely roll their own.
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
We're moving in circles, but again, I don't believe a company can bring out good products for very long if my experience is the exception. And as so often the case, the "half dozen" other people might be venting for thei
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
And in my experience, FAANG are not bad at it, so my point is: These generalizations don't work. I even stated that I don't doubt this may have been true for you. But if every large company were really so bad in general as is port
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
I said: "I never played any game to be promoted, I simply never consciously sought the goal of promotion, and I was promoted anyway just because of the real, substantial job I did." And I did see other peers who did not play any g
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
I am not sure it is realistic to expect that all the good engineers never get promoted and that there would still be something good coming out over time.
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
I did sometimes, though it still benefitted something in the end. After all, my boss and other people further up the chain have a say in whether I get promoted as well, not just my peers.
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
I don't understand this question, can you elaborate?
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
Just look in front of you. The monitor you are using right now. That's incredible technology. You think that would be possible if people did not care about engineering, having a number of peers around them across multiple levels of the
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers who can't break free from the golden handcuffs and actually do something valuable with their time. I bet there is a lot of jobs where you don't feel (and probably don't do) anything
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
> I left FAANG basically because you had to play the politics and self-promotion game to get promoted. I have no reason to doubt that in the particular corner of your organization that may well have been the case, but you cannot generali
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by throwabayhay 4y ago
That is a bit too much of a generalization. I mean, sure, what you describe does in all likelihood exist somewhere in some capacity in any company that is large enough (and likely many smaller ones as well), because "humans", but
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by throwabayhay 8y ago
Not true, and just more complex in general. EDIT: I just looked at some of your other comments. I think you mean well and have some impressive knowledge for someone not working on those things, but some of it is also guesswork about very co
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by throwabayhay 8y ago
If you want more details: Lots of parts are obviously pure C, but in my experience the C++ stuff is usually quite incremental as well. Changing a header included in lots of places is the obvious multiplier to build time. Linking does take s
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by throwabayhay 8y ago
Nah. What you say is partly true, but I and others build xnu locally and incrementally all the time. Fast enough.