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by w0mbat 5y ago
Yeah me too. All the assholes went to Facebook. Only one person I like went there, and he quit.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Startups implement Scrum or nothing, but the FAANGs each have an existing unique process with a cargo-cult veneer of Scrum on top. All Scrum really means at a big co is an extra morning meeting that penalizes both people who like to work la
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The office where they came up with the idea and first mixed prototypes is in Soho, as in the story.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The story has always been set in London’s vibrant Soho area, not Essex.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I was hoping he would describe the work needed to make it shelf—stable. After all, anyone can mix cream, sugar, whisky and chocolate powder but that concoction will soon turn sour, clot, separate, etc. Also I seem to remember hearing an ea
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Actually that simplistic approach crashes if the value of the string goes out of range or the string contains invalid characters for the base. For commercial quality code dealing with user input you need to do your own checking char by char
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Security holes like letting any app see the name of the current Wi-Fi network? I didn't know that wasn't the default. I wouldn't really class this as an urgent security hole.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Alongside Xcode I find BBEdit very useful for editing data files, diagnosing merge problems, writing shell scripts, etc. I still do almost all my real coding in Xcode to use the autocomplete. Tower is useful for anything non-trivial in Git.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
...and then Sir Clive died pretty much the next day. RIP my bearded friend.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Apple professionals use Xcode. Using different tools than the ones Apple uses leads to a lot of problems that Apple are not interested in fixing. The days when a company like Metrowerks or Symantec could be a viable third party IDE supplie
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I code several times faster in ObjC than Swift, and this is after writing two released Swift apps. Just a simple thing like writing string to num to string that works in different bases is a nightmare in Swift.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I was expecting a Star Trek article and am very disappointed.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Anything called "Spectrum OS" should have something to do with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. For people who grew up with Sir Clive's cuddly 8-bit masterpiece, the word "Spectrum" has too much history in the context of c
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The company is paying out $300M in employee bonuses instead. https://twitter.com/Shubham/status/1437532055173226499 Ellen Pao sucks. Didn't she fire a Reddit employee who had cancer?
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by w0mbat 5y ago
It was not GWT. I worked on it from 2004 (months before launch) to the first couple of years as a live service. It was Java servlets, generating HTML and JavaScript, using some kind of templating system that was in place when I started, tak
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Nice guy, knows his stuff.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I was the one front-end Java UI engineer and Nikhil (mentioned in the email) was the half. He was a PM who helped out on coding half-time. The Google Video team was very small.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is a story I heard when I worked at the BBC. Years ago the BBC had many reports of bad reception in a certain part of the UK. Eventually they traced it to a isolated house near a BBC broadcast tower. The resident had rigged up a big in
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Who removed all the prepositions from the title? The title on the original article is more readable. I suggest restoring the prepositions and adding a question mark. i.e. "What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Upris
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by w0mbat 5y ago
When I started, the account setup process at Google was done with a room full of new hires on Linux machines, and assumed knowledge of vi. I was like "WTF?" because I'm a Mac programmer and my plain text editor is BBEdit or a
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Back in the 80s, CBS Records had a bee in their bonnet about making music untapeable and developed various technologies (analog and digital) which they branded CopyCode. There was a rumor that Sony bought CBS Records (now Sony Records) just
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Article confuses "filter" with "lens". There were various generations of the Technicolor system over the years, each system comprising special movie cameras (which could only be rented), film, and complicated film proces
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by w0mbat 5y ago
As multiple people have explained, preparing the required paperwork each year is a major expense and hassle, even if you do not owe any tax. Also, if you are technical enough to frequent this web site and you think $108K is a lot of money
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Citrix gave me a page of code which had a lot of tricky obfuscated syntax problems. Code that looked live but was actually commented out, nested comments that were not terminated properly, code formatted in a very deceptive way, strings tha
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by w0mbat 5y ago
A sports team is a business, all businesses deduct their costs in order to calculate the profit, on which they pay tax. That is exactly what is happening here. The biased snide tone of the article pretends their is something unusual about t
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by w0mbat 5y ago
If you think "being very good at something" should be illegal, you are going to hate the Olympics.
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Headline could be "Person uses retirement account to save money for retirement."
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by w0mbat 5y ago
So what is the percentage of people that must be purged every year at Amazon? Does that goal vary by country? I've seen people quote 5%, 6%, 15% and even 30%. The 30% number was in the Amazon India post that was high-ranking here yeste
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Apple uses C for some bits. Also there are Objective C APIs which take format strings, like +[NSString stringWithFormat:] and the system function NSLog(). Even Swift uses format strings in places. https://developer.apple.com&#x2
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by w0mbat 5y ago
It’s such an obvious class of bug that any decent compiler complains if you do the equivalent of printf(theStr); rather than printf(“%s”, theStr); Still this bug regularly crops up all over the place, making the % character

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