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by noamsml 9y ago
I'm no expert on snapchat, but one thing I can say from personal experience being at an IPOing unicorn -- until about a year into our IPO, we were a "no buy", and all of these giant companies were ostensibly going to crush us
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by noamsml 10y ago
Low wages? Silicon valley engineers tend to be fairly highly paid...
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by noamsml 10y ago
I feel like this is a terribly lacking reply. I'm not a trend-person by any mean: I'm a deep-backend developer, and my main language right now is Java[1]. However, when I have to maintain rails apps, even well-written ones, I find
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by noamsml 10y ago
I disagree. I'd rather getWhenPresent than orElse if the code has nothing to do with a missing value. If someone needs the value and uses orElse without isPresent, their code will break in new and unexpected ways rather than in the obv
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by noamsml 10y ago
Playing devil's advocate here: The only way to really learn the full ruleset of a team is by undergoing a couple of code reviews in which every issue is pointed out. Once your teammates see you've understood the prevailing style,
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by noamsml 10y ago
I wonder if, given the giant set of existing Android libraries written in Java, they'd need to create a swift <-> java FFI.
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by noamsml 10y ago
You mean like https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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by noamsml 10y ago
Where's the redirect to some app store bullshit after 5 seconds? Never buying or using anything from those sleazeballs, and you should follow suit.
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by noamsml 10y ago
Apple Pay uses the same token for many transactions. It's not unique per tap.
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by noamsml 11y ago
This is like people who want to repeal Obamacare and have no alternative. If you advocate blocking all ads, you should at least have a vision for how you're gonna pay for your fucking content. I block ads too (I'm ADD and moving o
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by noamsml 11y ago
Nice. These sorts of warnings are why it's worth investing the extra effort to enable -Werror in your codebase if you can.
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by noamsml 11y ago
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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by noamsml 11y ago
I don't entirely agree. As someone who works in a mid-to-large company, and who has worked in a 50,000 person company (admittedly for both companies not all employees were engineers), I feel it's worth noting that as companies get
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by noamsml 11y ago
Anecdote: I switched back from a kindle after 2 years. My kindle broke in the middle of a thrilling novel (The Magicians by Lev Grossman, highly recommended), and I decided to buy it hardback. Soon enough, I decided to not bother getting my
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by noamsml 11y ago
Is there any way for me to buy a downloadable version and give money to its maker? I want to watch this movie but have no DVD drive.
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by noamsml 11y ago
Are you sure? This is debit, not credit. I believe your rights with debit a fair bit weaker (might depend on issuer though).
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by noamsml 11y ago
IIRC most delivery services actually have online tipping and put it on by default...
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by noamsml 11y ago
Square is hiring payments engineers! http://j.mp/square-payments The payments team enables Square to move money. From developing infrastructure to working with external partners, we find the best ways to move money across d
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by noamsml 12y ago
Uber and Lyft don't provide per-ride accounting for rides for this reason. I think spotify could get away with "N plays - total $X" in this case, especially since user privacy is at stake. Also the %30 cut is extremely easy t
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by noamsml 12y ago
The bad blur option really ices the cake.
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by noamsml 12y ago
This is in the same way as Google is "in the sack" with Yahoo, Facebook, Softbank, Xaiomi or any of the countless companies that have recruited ex-Google execs?
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by noamsml 12y ago
"How to rip apart an article about ripping apart a programmer's CV"
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by noamsml 13y ago
I live in SF, and I can confirm that I'll walk past people and overhear the same fragments of conversation, talking about the buses and gentrification. The tone varies, but just because not everyone is protesting doesn't mean the
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by noamsml 13y ago
Hating techies (and the target of hate, make no mistake, is all tech workers) is easy, convenient, misguided and counterproductive. it is easy, because hatred is a simple, attractive emotion. It is convenient, because it requires no thought
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by noamsml 13y ago
I wonder if they're ever tried that one before.
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by noamsml 13y ago
Yeah, but when attacking a symptom becomes directing your hatred at a group of people, you have a problem.
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by noamsml 13y ago
"I met a guy who lives at 24th and Valencia [Street]. He says the Wi-Fi signal on the buses is so powerful that when the Google bus pulls up in front of his house, it uses all the broadband and his Wi-Fi signal crashes." That&#x27
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by noamsml 13y ago
I think this is a bit misleading. You hear tons of scandalous stories one way, but no stories, scandalous or otherwise, the other way. Which is truly less socially acceptable?
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by noamsml 13y ago
But months ago these were quirks in a beta release. iOS7 is now released software, and it's expected to have matured.
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by noamsml 13y ago
Had to check the date when it mentioned "Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie".

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