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by w0mbat 5y ago
Nah. I've worked at other FAANG companies and I'm afraid that none had anything close to the Apple level of red tape. I have barely scratched the surface of describing it.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
> I will never interview for Google or any other company that > asks questions like "How many jelly beans fit in a school bus?" I conducted more than 100 interviews at Google and saw the questions the other i
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by w0mbat 5y ago
OMG the red tape at Apple is unbelievable, but this is the first time I've seen anyone mention it. On my first day at Microsoft, I checked in code. At Apple it took nearly two weeks to get granted separate access to the apps's sou
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I got asked to whiteboard the Dijkstra Shunting Yard Algorithm at TripAdvisor in Palo Alto. I didn't get the job, which I could have done in my sleep. It's way too complicated to code on a whiteboard. I would never have asked some
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Surely the author meant, "Your Board of Directors Will Probably Fire You', or some other statement that makes sense in English. I know the horrible grammar comes from the original article.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The group r/cocoa used to be about Apple's Cocoa framework, but eventually got taken over by chocolate lovers.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This reminds me of the dispute between FAANG companies and big ISPs. The ISPs were saying "You are benefiting from our networks for free! Pay us!". The companies like Netflix were saying "Without our services nobody would wan
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Try watching stupid people. Then you will feel terrific.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
LAPD is worse than novel, it is already used in another context where it is very well known. Most people will already know this, but LAPD = Los Angeles Police Department, often featured in TV shows, films and the news.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
One big selling point of the DX7 was it did a decent piano sound, which was never really possible on analog. Once ROM got a bit cheaper though, you could get a much better piano sound from new instruments like the Korg M1 which used interna
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Who peed in your cornflakes? Lighten up.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Right. Time was of the essence with this service, and it was still very reliable and scalable in its original simple form, because it leaned on a lot of existing Google infrastructure. Later on it got upgraded to follow the rules better.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
When I first started at Google I got things done a lot faster because I didn't know all those rules existed and nobody stopped me. My service was still plenty fast & reliable. Eventually it all got rewritten by other people to do
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I had to check Smoldesu's post history to understand this comment, as Apple loves people writing native software, even if they don't care if devs can make a profit and the store is a mess. Smoldesu is mad that Apple will not suppo
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Write a real native app. Stop trying to get out of doing it properly.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Other products I can think of in that early 90s period included "Small Blue Planet" from Now What Software and "Virtual Museum", a tech demo CD-ROM from Apple that included a real-time rendered globe.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
There were a lot of 3D globe products being created in the 90s. I was one of the creators of Electronic Arts 3D Atlas which shipped in spring 1994. It sold two million copies on Mac and won many awards. EA was the publisher but we developed
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by w0mbat 5y ago
No, he is using the past tense because personal computers with small color palettes are largely a thing of the past now.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
It has been known for a while that people who switch from regular soda to diet soda (and make no other changes) do not lose weight. This is a crazy result given the calorie difference, so there must be something going on. Somehow the body
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I don't think it was actual Japanese Americans who shut down the kimono exhibit, but woke people intervening. The Japanese diaspora is very sharing, and I've always felt welcomed into events like the Obon summer festivals in the U
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I can confirm. I reproduced this problem and the stated fix on the work MBP at my previous job a few months ago.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This story is a month old, by the way.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I agree, describing EMI as "the Beatles record company" is true but very misleading. EMI was a diverse conglomerate that was involved in all kinds of stuff, from military RADAR systems to making TV cameras, computers and blank cas
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by w0mbat 5y ago
That's only the tip of the iceberg I'm afraid. If the singleton has methods that perform actual work asynchronously and different threads are hammering on it, all kinds of issues come up. Of course a seasoned developer is going to
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Even worse are people that talk of "code smells", applying their personal opinion of style in a judgmental and often unjustifed way.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
People also bash singletons, so you can't really win. You can get issues with a singleton being accessed for the first time from multiple threads at once, for example, so you end up with more than one instance being created or a situat
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is how hard it is to get any sense into indoctrinated anti-vaxxers. The actual facts are rejected as propaganda and reeducation. They won't trust eminently respectable sources of truth like the CDC or the WHO. However, wildly untr
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This makes no sense. For photographs, a decent quality JPEG is smaller and better looking than a dithered PNG or GIF.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The tendency for anti-vaxxers to believe in their delusions more the more they are contradicted with facts is a thorny problem. However the flow of new misinformation also strengthens their beliefs, and draws in new people to the delusional
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I agree. I have worked for a lot of FAANGs and nobody I knew ever went to Amazon. I was partway through agreeing to an interview request from Amazon last year when my research turned up how stingy their 401k match is. Similarly their stock

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