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by oautholaf 2y ago
As a former Eazel employee, I can say that indeed Eazel did not get acquired by Apple. As the Wikipedia page states, a sizable pool of people went to work on Safari 1.0 (and some are still working on Safari). Others went to Apple to work on
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by oautholaf 2y ago
Yeah I completely agree. In the era where people could build a career in this area, they developed skills and brought insight that made the whole product better. Automated testing and SRE/DevOps reliability that I see focused on today
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by oautholaf 2y ago
This is totally a thing. In the late 90s when I worked at Microsoft and then at startups, QA was made up of full time employees whose leadership had input into the product process. Today at my large tech company, QA is mostly contract emplo
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by oautholaf 2y ago
They seem to be a common part of the Airforce One entourage. When the President is in the SF Bay Area, I see these commonly fly over residential areas. Given their history and the apparent unexplained failure, this has always struck me as u
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by oautholaf 2y ago
Have to say, I bought a DJI drone that I enjoyed, but then the app stopped working after my Android phone upgraded to a new OS version. Even months later, it appeared that DJI had made no effort to fix this issue (which clearly did not affe
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by oautholaf 4y ago
Not reset, reprioritize. Fred Vogelstein only talked to one source who was on the Android team for his book, and that source may have had their own agenda. Other sources, such as Chet Haas's book, make it clear that what became the G1
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by oautholaf 4y ago
In my experience, a working strategy for handling signout or revocation for statically verifyable tokens like JWT is straightforward: - Clear client side state where you can. - Write signed out/expired tokens to something with a cheap
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by oautholaf 5y ago
Most applications written using HTTP, in my experience, do not have deep dependencies on the longevity of the HTTP2 connection. In my experience, TCP connections for HTTP2 are typically terminated at your load balancer or similar. So reconn
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by oautholaf 5y ago
I worked for a while on a well-known product that used (and perhaps still uses) WebSockets for its core feature. I very much agree with the bulk of the arguments made in this blog post. In particular, I found this: - Our well-known cloud ho
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by oautholaf 5y ago
The original Danger OS was home grown by some of the same folks that later started Zircon!
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by oautholaf 5y ago
Sort of feel it would really be helpful to replace the narrative of the creation of the modern smartphone ("the iPhone sprung forth from the head of Jobs!") with a picture of the decade+ of efforts made by the computer industry to
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by oautholaf 5y ago
They had to refuse. They needed to grow their talent pool. The others were focused on defending against msft.
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by oautholaf 5y ago
Sorry, Android was well underway before this agreement was in force. And I can tell you key members of the original Safari team are still at Apple 20 years on.
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by oautholaf 5y ago
This type of thing has also happened to me with Google Maps and Android Auto. I used Google Maps to locate a store to get a gift for my wife. Later, we used the car. When I plugged in my phone, Google Maps displayed the store as a recommend
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by oautholaf 5y ago
As important was Apple's brand power. Everyone already had an iPod in their pocket and loved it. That gave them legitimacy to set terms with carriers.
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by oautholaf 6y ago
Slack's innovative idea was to build IRC as a service. They knew MSFT was going to come after them years ago. Why weren't they more prepared? Why did investors believe this day would never come?
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by oautholaf 6y ago
Also I was basically in the room for the birth of the modern consumer smartphone and I'm not a billionaire. Huh.
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by oautholaf 7y ago
Here's one thing I don't understand: In addition to enabling dynamic linking, this mechanism allows Swift to compile less code (generic functions only need to be compiled once) and therefore reduce instruction cache misses. But ce
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by oautholaf 8y ago
This runs linux binaries on darwin. You know what would be awesome? Running darwin binaries on linux so I can do iOS development without a Mac.
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by oautholaf 8y ago
I agree, and I would go further: I think the idea that any human system can occur without fraud is ridiculous. People who claim to believe that systems should exist fraud-free often want to demolish those systems for other reasons.
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by oautholaf 8y ago
You're right to push back on this. My wife works in the California system. As with anything, fraud does exist throughout it -- including employers, doctors, and law firms...not just applicants. However if you looked at the legitimately
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by oautholaf 8y ago
I actually refused to use Spotify for years because they required Facebook login. I gave in eventually as Rdio lost to Spotify in the market. Like many, though, I am deeply concerned about Facebook's policy direction and leadership. I
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by oautholaf 8y ago
FWIW I was able to avoid this charge as a DSL subscriber, and do not now as a fiber subscriber. But part of your experience could be because, as the article describes, since 2005 the incumbent telco (the ILEC) no longer has to provide the C
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Sonic is a small ISP that competes brilliantly with the big guys(latimes.com)
2 points by oautholaf 8y ago|2 comments
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by oautholaf 8y ago
Mac OS came from Mach, an open source microkernel from CMU in the 80s. Although Objective-C was originally proprietary, NeXT implemented it on GCC and open sourced it. The origin of modern MacOS/iOS is definitely open source.
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by oautholaf 8y ago
One thing that happened after the finding of fact (in early 2000) is that the Microsoft stock price fell in half and stayed roughly at that value for the next ~15 years. So even if the actual government anti-trust actions didn't seem t
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Slack forms safety engineering team to reduce outages(venturebeat.com)
1 points by oautholaf 8y ago|0 comments
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by oautholaf 9y ago
I think the most stunning thing is that NeXTStep basically won in the end, and has far more mindshare today than anyone would have ever imagined... But yeah, it was way better than CDE and Motif in it's day, but still on the margins.
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by oautholaf 9y ago
Sonic is still alive, except that now (a) they have fiber coverage in San Francisco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14424753 and (b) it's cheaper ($50/mo)
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The unlikely success of California’s Sonic.net (2012)(arstechnica.com)
22 points by oautholaf 9y ago|10 comments

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