mncolinlee

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by mncolinlee 2y ago
> It's my understanding that despite the high cost to run Meetups, the company itself has never been in a good financial position. They've been bought and sold multiple times. Former Meetup employee here. A company being bought
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by mncolinlee 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Minneapolis - Remote Expert Android/Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform Engineer Experience: Over 20 years in software development, specializing in Android for 11-12 years. Notable Projects: Firefox for Android, Meetup, Am
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by mncolinlee 2y ago
Prediction achieved: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_s...
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by mncolinlee 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Minneapolis - Remote Expert Android/Kotlin & Kotlin Multiplatform Engineer Experience : Over 20 years in software development, specializing in Android for 11-12 years. Notable Projects : Firefox for Android, Meetup
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by mncolinlee 2y ago
I've been building a game in Compose Multiplatform and have been learning how to integrate new UI features across WASM, Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows. It's great new tech with a lot of promise even though it's still early.
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by mncolinlee 2y ago
Code quality has been plunging for years while we've become more dependent upon code. Devin AI working Upwork jobs blew minds, but it succeeded for a reason. Upwork and similar sites are plagued by low quality contractors who do little
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by mncolinlee 3y ago
SEEKING WORK – Minneapolis – Remote Remote: Yes, please. I've been remote since around 2017. Android/Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform expert engineer with over twenty years of software experience. I've been building highly suc
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by mncolinlee 3y ago
I've been an organizer both pre- and post-pandemic. I can say that my pre-pandemic programming Meetup group has been tricky to re-launch. We did decently in virtual Restream sessions during the pandemic, about 15-20 attendees and many
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by mncolinlee 5y ago
They're truly different beasts, but each has clear value. As but one example, I've seen outsourced apps for financial firms where there were literally hundreds of basic security flaws. Would you trust the same review process that
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by mncolinlee 5y ago
I have certainly done this. PullRequest bought the Moonlight developer gig platform. A lot of full-time developers from Moonlight also took on gigs from PullRequest as they've been using the platform to sell their service. I'd gue
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by mncolinlee 5y ago
Having done more than a few PR reviews and code security reviews for their platform as an Android/Kotlin dev, I've found that the opposite problem is more common. A lot of organizations suffer from insular thinking and their own t
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by mncolinlee 5y ago
Former Amazon (retail division) mobile engineer here. A lot of the comments in the OP are true, but possibly a bit overstated. They definitely expect a lot of engineers to leave after one year with only 5% options. In fact, they'll ref
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The Bug That Stole Xmas: A Horror Story About Releasing Firefox Focus 8.0.4(colintheshots.com)
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
I personally worked in Y2K support at the time on PC hardware. Most motherboards we tested worked, but some needed BIOS updates and one model needed a new BIOS fix which didn't exist. We swapped out the bad motherboards, updated softwa
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
$100/hr is remarkably low in agency mobile work. When I was doing agency work five years ago, even our Bulgarian developers were billed out at more than that. I was billed out at 3x that back then and it would be more now. It's re
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
People are not optimal machines. Instead, they make decisions based upon narratives. An inferior product can win based upon a superior narrative or because it was seen more often and recently than a competitor's product. Generally, a c
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Honestly, the most interesting chapter in Butler's career has to be when he stopped a Fascist American coup attempt against FDR by many of the war profiteers he spoke about. https://www.npr.org/2012/02/12&#x2F
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
There is some great theory around moderation which goes far beyond this piece. David Lakoff's book "Don't Think of an Elephant" is a classic. Moderation is rarely a choice. There's an old expression, "The only
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Committing crimes, even just omitting required notices, falls outside of management discretion. At-will doesn't apply.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Perhaps one of the most noticeably hackable tests I've participated in is democratic elections. I ran for office a few times and learned a lot about how the system actually works. I believe this is why politics has such a negative conn
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
It's worth noting that Germany has less solar energy potential anywhere in their country than in any single state in the USA, including Alaska. Yet they had more solar deployed in watts than the entire USA for a long time.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
> Are more granular (or at least visible and understandable) privacy settings coming in future releases, or is this just the UX direction? Why is Mozilla making it so much harder to enable desktop-class protections on mobile devices? Yes
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
I disagree. Polling in 2016 clearly showed Trump and Clinton were each individually the two least-liked nominees in their parties in modern presidential history. First-past-the-post and bitter primaries were largely responsible for the resu
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
That's what you get for a game where king white hat tries to capture king black hat by keeping him in check.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
It's not even that new. A professor was using a much earlier version of this same tech to steer his boat in the 90's. It was very easy to read left and right signals to control a rudder as a prototype. There have been commercializ
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
No one knows a lot when they first start out. However, there's a lot of value in learning new skills by doing. It's the main skill programmers need to succeed in their jobs. No one becomes a great programmer by taking a new coll
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Opera's been using the terminology that way for years now.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
I have no CS degree, but at the time I was in college, CS programs seemed embarrassingly poor compared to today. I took a few, elective CS courses and did CS research back then and remember numerous graduate students trying to cheat off of
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Yes, we're sharing Rust code through Kotlin on Android and Swift on iOS. https://github.com/mozilla/application-services/tree/master/...
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
The first type of attack that should come to mind with SMS-based 2FA is SIM cloning. Identity question answers can be purchased off the dark web from previous leaks. Also, social engineering is notoriously effective against several of the t

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