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For some reason I initially read the title as "Google ICO" and damn near blew my mind.

What kind of counter point is that?

If Apple has top tier talent, why do they ship an OS with a huge security vulnerability? With a map framework that has memory leaks? With a messaging app that messes up the order of messages?

If Google has top tier talent, why did they create an OS that allowed a third party developer to siphon calls, contacts and messages?

If this is your argument, then no company has top talent.

You have a valid point. Top talent existed in places like Silicon Graphics, Yahoo, etc. I guess you're right, the top probably got off the sinking ship long before the rest of the crew realized what was happening.

However, I still think this event is not "bad" enough for the crew to start fleeing. This is a bump in the road. People may hate Facebook but people sure do love Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Facebook has a pretty strong moat (for now at least).

>Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook

How certain is this? Whether you like what Facebook does or not, you can't deny their engineering talent is top tier. I don't even use Facebook but I'd still want to work there just to work with the people there and the environment. Companies like Facebook and Google are pretty engineer friendly, more so than other companies. I don't think this event will be the tipping point for top talent to leave Facebook.

Thanks for the videos, it's always a pleasure watching good engineers work. A lot to learn.

As a side note, can you share your Terminal color scheme? It's really nice

Of course CS fundamentals are important, I would say they build a strong foundation. However, focusing on specific technologies (mobile, CV, ML, AI, etc.) yields betters results.

I agree. They just recently entered Canada (and it seems only one province), so of course they are going to have bigger revenue growth than Uber as they enter new markets.

A stretch: is Lyft going to use these metrics to go public before Uber to hype itself up?

Working hard certainly doesn't guarantee success, however it defiantly makes you luckier and exposes you to more opportunity. I like Kevin Systrom summed it up (not word for word):

Everyone gets lucky at least once a week. You might find a dollar on the ground, you might meet someone, be somewhere, whatever. What sets you up for success is:

1. Are you alert enough to know you're getting lucky?

2. Are you talented enough to run with it once you get lucky?

3. Are you resilient enough to stick with it once it gets hard?

I've had Spotify before and switched to Apple Music because of the student pricing. When I had Spotify, I would discover new music and new artists all the time. Since getting Apple Music, I really haven't discovered anyone new.

Although I've graduated, Apple seems to think I'm still in school and is still only charging me $5/month. The moment that ends, I'm switching to Spotify. Also, the Apple Music app on iOS is horrible. Spotify's app is so much better.

I also prefer GCP over AWS. GCP has better documentation, better UI and UX, better console and just overall more friendly.

I want to believe this was something extraterrestrial so bad. The sad part is even if they find the answer, we won't ever know.

> Either they have something that is real and extremely convincing to investors that they have been able to keep very secret

Hate to be that guy, but wasn't Clinkle the last top-secret-many-vc-much-money startup that went bust before the product was even released?

Ah man. I'm in Canada too and I wanted to incorporate for the sole reason of getting a Apple Developer account as a company instead of having my name. This would make my "startup" seem more legit. I guess even if an accountant doesn't want to bother with the headache of paperwork and taxes, I shouldn't either.

I'll just get a regular developer membership instead.

Okay I understand. I see from this thread and a thread from a couple of years ago that some people are using this as a background noise. I tried doing this but it's too sporadic and the talking is distracting for me to focus on programming. It also makes me feel a little anxious for some reason.

I didn't mean to offend anyone's interest, I just wanted someone to maybe show me a side I'm not seeing. I should word my questions with more thought and empathy in the future.

Can someone explain to me why police scanners are so popular? I recently came across some guy (https://www.reddit.com/user/regoapps) who made millions off of making a police scanner app. Is the demand really that high? What's the appeal?

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a genuine question... I see listening to police scanners is a popular thing and I just want to understand why

This seems to only allow you to create Sublime color schemes, it doesn't create a sublime theme. Sublime Theme is to style the whole window outside of the editor.

I've been applying to Apple recently and I've submitted well over 20 applications and still no replies. Clearly, they don't think I'm a good fit for whatever they are looking for in a software engineer.

I was taking a shower this morning when I realized... Apple doesn't care about software. I realized almost all the software I use on my iPhone or Mac is third party (excluding macOS and iOS). I realized Apple Music is quite possibly the worst piece of music software ever created by man. I realized iOS 11 is buggy as hell. I realized Siri is the worst "assistant" in the market. Apple clearly makes amazing hardware, but they fall behind when it comes to software. Their hardware design is the best in the game, but their software UI/UX is horrible. I know a lot of good designers who work at Apple and I know for a fact that they do amazing work on their own, yet they are unable to show this in the final Apple product. This must imply these designers' talents are wasted at Apple and they are not given a platform to shine.

So I'm going stop applying to Apple because clearly we both don't see a good fit for one another.

Having a popular open source project is a pain in the ass. At some point the happiness from seeing people use your project turns to annoyance once you become the janitor and problem solver to people who won't take 1 minute to read the README. However, I honestly appreciate people who create open source software and answer all issues and questions.

GitHub should have a Q/A section on repos so that frequently asked questions can be answered there instead of having someone open the same issue every few months.

If an Amazon recruiter emails you, just ignore them. Don't waste your time.

I've had three Amazon recruiters reach out to me (I have no idea how they found my email since I never applied to Amazon), and every time I reply that I AM interested, they never reply.

Probably the single greatest acquisition in history. Definitely the most profitable with an ROI >$1 trillion.

This is amazing news. As a developer the idea of writing once and running on many platforms is weight off our shoulders.

However, I can also see how a lot of developers might not like this. For example, Cultured Code charges $13.99 for Things on iOS but $49.99 on Mac. Why the difference? It is mostly because users expect apps to be cheap on mobile even though developing for both platforms is comparable. However now, developers are going to be expected by users to support both iOS and Mac apps for the same price.

Also, I feel like this news might imply ARM based macOS?

Basquiat, who's paintings are some of the most valuable, started off as a graffiti artist. One of my favourite artists, Kaws, started off as a graffiti artist. In fact a lot of companies liked Kaws' vandalism of their ads.

One of my fraternity brothers has an album full of pictures of all the places he travelled in the world and did some graffiti. It is so cool.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't like graffiti, but I also think we should "enforce" the law so that not every part of the city gets plastered in graffiti. I think the appeal of seeing graffiti in grungy, underground places is a lot more authentic.