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by fnayr 3y ago
My hardest interview was at Roblox (passing Google and Apple). After passing the normal coding + system design questions, they throw you at leadership who ask you a random analytical question. I struggled with knowing what sort of depth to
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by fnayr 5y ago
I can't find the RAM listed in the tech specs page. Any guesses? The 5th gen has 3GB.
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by fnayr 6y ago
Even better: .85/.7 = 21.4%
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by fnayr 6y ago
~$340k for my apps. This is why I thought they would never make a change, because people would be upset without retroactivity (which they would never do).
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by fnayr 6y ago
This is exciting for small devs, even if not life-changing. I made 42k in the last 365 days after Apple's 30% cut (or 60k in sales). That means I will get to keep an extra 9k next year, assuming revenue stays flat (it mostly has).
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by fnayr 6y ago
Since we're talking about ELF binaries, let me drop a link for my favorite size profiler (that is compatible with ELF and other formats): Bloaty McBloatface. https://github.com/google/bloaty
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by fnayr 6y ago
I was hired last year without a reference. I just submitted a resume to the careers page.
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by fnayr 8y ago
I want to use Firestore in Unity. When???
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by fnayr 8y ago
I’ve heard that even if you win in small claims it’s hard to collect from these giant corps. Were you ever able to collect the damages?
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by fnayr 8y ago
Pretty sure it was already the “hip” thing to make fun of mongodb before 2012. Who doesn’t remember this classic? https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by fnayr 8y ago
Anecdotally, I just came back from New Zealand and was staying at a farm house rented out on Airbnb. The owner was previously an actuary in Sydney, and hated his job so switched mid career to farmer. Pretty large change.
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by fnayr 8y ago
Different word trivia that I find fascinating that I feel HNers will also appreciate: (twelve plus one) is an anagram of (eleven plus two) I guess that should be called a mathagram?
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by fnayr 8y ago
.games
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by fnayr 8y ago
> I particularly don't like when the first result is the paid result from company X, and the second result is the organic result of company X, which is only paying to outbid competitors that could appear as #1 when people search for
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by fnayr 8y ago
My brother and I make mobile apps. We had an office downtown in a large city. We would often work 20-24 hours and then drive home exhausted. A year ago, one block from our office while stopped at a red light, we saw a vehicle turn left ha
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by fnayr 9y ago
I have seen that. It doesn't look good for him no doubt. But that equates to less than a billion right? The stock drop alone in the past few days cost him much more than that ($5 billion from one article I read). So given that he'
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by fnayr 9y ago
Is it unexpected that that one company asked for a newspaper to change their article to remove references that make one of their C level execs look bad? No, not at all. It is somewhat thought provoking though that said newspaper may have fe
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by fnayr 9y ago
Where's Zuckerberg in all of this? It's strange with all the controversies hitting and the stock crash that he hasn't made any sort of public statement (unless I missed it?).
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by fnayr 9y ago
Surprising that Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness, Jai) is missing, given that Casey Muratori is listed (the other really popular game dev that streams). Nevertheless, he streams game development and creating his programming language at @Na
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by fnayr 9y ago
What do you do if Tesla is using a Linear Congruential Generator[1] to generate their serial numbers? Then the highest number found gives no information, even probabilistically. I don't know what the laws are on VINs though, so maybe i
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by fnayr 9y ago
It's anonymous in the sense that the account is tied to the device and not the user. It's also anonymous in the case of platforms like Apple where the device id is unique between different publishers. Note this is a widely accepte
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by fnayr 9y ago
Yep that's exactly what I was expecting. Thanks.
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by fnayr 9y ago
So I read the article, but I've seen claims like this before: some event correlated with a stock dive equals "proof" the event caused it, when it turns out some other news got announced like a quarterly result. Is that what&#
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by fnayr 9y ago
No it's device id first (anonymous) then either facebook or email to secure the account. Given the target audience, google auth probably wouldn't be popular.
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by fnayr 9y ago
My problem as a mobile developer is being practically required to use it to not hinder my app's adoption rate. My personal facebook has been disabled for 9 months and I had to recently reactivate it because you can't have an app (
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by fnayr 9y ago
Okay interesting, I thought I was alone. Guess there's a lot of us "noncontributors" on here haha.
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by fnayr 9y ago
I'm still working my way towards earning the downvote! I have been on the site for over 6 years and browse more than I contribute, but I still am shy a little of the 500 karma required. I wonder if there are users with even older accou
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by fnayr 9y ago
Interesting you have jblow on there, as I just was watching his programming stream on twitch yesterday and he said he doesn't really come to HN much anymore. His reasoning was basically that he wanted a place where programmers were wor
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by fnayr 9y ago
For me the coolest thing about HN is the breadth of experts here for any (even niche) tech field. This allows for in depth understanding of new products (when someone who actually worked on the team making it is here) or calling out conspir
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by fnayr 9y ago
Ah yes I hadn't really thought about that for some reason. Do you view HTML as something that should only be used where necessary in MD or just go crazy with it?

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