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by wayne 6y ago
I wonder how engineering integration works for an acquisition this size (Wikipedia: ~1694 employees). Google interviews test for very specific things so it's unlikely every engineer in Fitbit would have passed. Fitbit's big enou
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by wayne 6y ago
I similarly have an iPhone app I built and have been enjoyably using on my iPhone for years and slowly iterating on. I'd happy give it away for free and pay the associated increase in web service costs just so others can enjoy it. Bu
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by wayne 6y ago
It does seem messed up that we see a bad behavior, create a law to ban that behavior, and the law's biggest beneficiary is the company doing the bad behavior.
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by wayne 6y ago
I went through the same journey and never built on Google Map APIs ever again. The unreliability hurt more than the money. There's something pure about using a capitalistic API (e.g. AWS, Stripe, Twilio) where you know they're m
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by wayne 6y ago
> Meanwhile at an office down the hall, Azure Maps has been humming along quietly since 2018, beating AWS to the punch by over two years. Microsoft's actually been in the geo API game for significantly longer, pre-Google Maps. MapP
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by wayne 6y ago
Somewhat surprising since unlike their customers, there's no license restriction to Apple running macOS on different hardware. Maybe they didn't want to maintain a separate fork only for internal use. And having their own OS mak
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by wayne 6y ago
That might be true for a tech-competent company with a well-staffed security team, but for many companies and for individual data, I'd trust Amazon and Microsoft to secure my data more than I'd trust myself.
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by wayne 6y ago
I setup a Thinkpad X-series with OpenBSD a few months ago and the hardware support was stellar. I researched ahead of time (lots of googling and reading HN and Reddit threads) and it seemed like the OpenBSD devs were using a handful of Thi
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by wayne 6y ago
Ditto on Chrome with an all-red screen and "Deceptive site ahead".
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by wayne 6y ago
The main time I find myself using Apple Maps is when visiting China. Google Maps is blocked so the place data isn't as great, and the local apps are in Chinese, which I'm illiterate in. I similarly find Apple Pay great for travel
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by wayne 6y ago
Wow! I've been trying to figure out for a year why my financial institution hasn't been able to deliver me electronic statements. Every month or so it's been auto-switching back to snail mail. I even switched email service
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by wayne 6y ago
This level of API obfuscation reminds me of forever ago when MSN Messenger figured out AOL's AIM API, so MSN Messenger could send AIM messages, which annoyed AOL. AOL would make API changes to break MSN, but MSN would update the clien
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by wayne 7y ago
Ah, that was back when AA and Alaska were much closer partners, before the Virgin acquisition... I was surprised when reading the article that Alaska was so helpful. https://thepointsguy.com/2017/12/last-call-alask
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by wayne 10y ago
$1.3M for its COO (Sheryl Sandberg), not CFO.
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Hugo Barra joining Oculus(facebook.com)
2 points by wayne 10y ago|0 comments
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by wayne 10y ago
A friend wrote an article about a NYC millennial who put herself through college collecting cans: http://bit.ly/2aj0IG7
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by wayne 11y ago
He probably meant the other cofounder Mike Krieger. http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cofounder-mike-krie...
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Postmates is buying Sosh(fortune.com)
2 points by wayne 11y ago|0 comments
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Fighting Bulk Search Warrants in Court(facebook.com)
1 points by wayne 12y ago|0 comments
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Building a More Diverse Facebook(newsroom.fb.com)
8 points by wayne 12y ago|2 comments
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Taming the Digital Wild West(nytimes.com)
4 points by wayne 12y ago|0 comments
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The Inside Story Of Snapchat: The World's Hottest App...?(forbes.com)
7 points by wayne 13y ago|0 comments
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The Bacon-Wrapped Economy(eastbayexpress.com)
2 points by wayne 14y ago|0 comments
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Phabricator(phabricator.org)
2 points by wayne 14y ago|0 comments
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What are some top strategies for conversion optimization?(quora.com)
2 points by wayne 15y ago|0 comments
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by wayne 15y ago
If you found that interesting, here's Raymond Chen's addendum to the above article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/08/26/10200... (I found the main link via Raymond's post and found it a lot more interesting, but Raymond
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How long filenames were added in Windows 95 to be backward compatible(home.teleport.com)
48 points by wayne 15y ago|25 comments
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s advice to USC grads(geekwire.com)
3 points by wayne 15y ago|0 comments
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A Corporate Campus Made to Mirror Facebook(nytimes.com)
2 points by wayne 16y ago|0 comments
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by wayne 16y ago
They could also pull a Windows 7, which has the underlying version number 6.1, and decouple the real version number from the marketing version number: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/200...

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