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kerbs··on Allbirds S-1 IPO
The wool line made them popular, but the tree runner in my opinion is my absolute favorite shoe.

My white pair has survived about 10 runs through the wash, and damn if there isn't a better looking shoe to wear sockless.

kerbs··on $28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices
On the flip side:

I remember scoring a pint of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout for $10.50 (?) At MSP about 4-5 years ago.

To this day the best surprise beer deal I’ve ever had.

kerbs··on Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs
Has been happening since the 2000s

Tech salaries still went up.

kerbs··on Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
The Retina MacBook and Mac Pro (trash can and new grater) were announced at WWDC within the last 10 years.
kerbs··on Silicon Valley Stays on Top as Tech Salaries Climb Across U.S.
I think Minneapolis seems low, but with these reports I always assume there is some lower tier in the market the typical HN crowd would never be exposed to that is driving down the averages.

I mean those “Urgent!” recruiting emails have to be filled by someone right?

kerbs··on The Brown M&M's Principle
Not every reviewer has a "fine-toothed comb" philosophy.

Unless code is algorithmic in nature, I look at architecture and approach only.

A good post on the topic: https://blog.danlew.net/2021/02/23/stop-nitpicking-in-code-r...

kerbs··on Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes
I believe that’s the point.
kerbs··on Goodbye, Native Apps
I still hold this one close to my heart

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/native-apps-are-doomed-a...

kerbs··on Show HN: Raycast (YC W20) – Spotlight for Developers
Tried it out and really liked it. I'm an Alfred user as well, and am wiring them up for side-by-side competition between Cmd-Space and Option-Space.

Seems like you're really pushing next level integration with things like Jira and GitHub, so I found it a little sad face that both Jira Server and GHE weren't yet supported.

I'm sure that's where the monetization down the road might land, but the area where these productivity tools would really help me out is at the day job.

kerbs··on App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
I’m not sure how you would word this to target the Facebooks of the world.

Especially if SDKs are statically linked.

kerbs··on App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
Can validate, no reasonable way.

Removed the SDK myself from a top 100 App Store app.

kerbs··on App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
I mean what would they do?
kerbs··on Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking Internal Debate
In the US the only real competition is Lyft, who is definitely not treating software as a cost center.
kerbs··on iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers
Under what definition of antitrust is this?

You can still sign in with one of those social providers. You can always put your money somewhere other than Apple.

kerbs··on Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
Devils Advocate:

Fiddling with React Native tooling on day 0 is just as terrible. I may argue it's worse.

kerbs··on Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
Do you think AirBnB's headcount was smaller when they were all-in on React Native?

Do you think they had to go on a hiring spree because they went back to native?

I'm skeptical there is a correlation.

kerbs··on Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
> with 3 developers

There is a fairly large chasm between a small team and a Shopify, AirBnB, or Udacity. These companies have dozens-if-not-hundreds of developers piling on complexity.

These companies don't necessarily feel the pain of building on somebody else's sand on day 1 or day 100, but on day 1000. This is what AirBnB and Udacity ultimately discovered.

kerbs··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
128 GB is the sweet spot. I imagine there is a very large glob of users in the 50-75 GB range, which is right there on the border of "64 GB will give you problems".

Getting the Pro model, the next step up is 256 - which is super eye-rolling. The 128 GB model on the regular 11 is perfect.

kerbs··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
As long as you have a decent iCloud data subscription, all that 4k video quickly gets whisked away to the cloud.

The 64GB on the device effectively houses installed apps and an effective cache of thumbnails and downloaded content.

I have the 256 GB config and the needle basically never moves up from about 45 GB.

kerbs··on Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
It used some pretty interesting strategies around creating Git statistics such as the concept of seperating "new code" vs "churn". They defined churn as "modifying a line that had been previously modified in the last month" (I forgot if it was month or some other timeline).

It would chart if an engineer made a large number of "churn" diffs vs new code vs "legacy/refactoring" which was modifying code that was last touched a long time ago.

kerbs··on Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
I tried GitPrime and thought it was extremely well done. If you ignore the obvious use case of management using it for bean-counting, if you work with 10, 25, 50+ developers it really reveals some enlightening patterns.

It is fairly expensive, however. Starts at around $10k/year which can make it a tough budgetary sell.

I wonder if they'll price it in with Pluralsight as a package or keep it independant.

kerbs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
Are you referring to the reverse engineering role? They aren't describing an app they are making - they are describing the act of reverse engineering apps on the App Store.
kerbs··on Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps
I did not say the app was not nefarious, I said that their enterprise account was not revoked because the app was nefarious.

The enterprise certificates were revoked primarily because they violated the #1 rule of the enterprise account - do not distribute outside of your company.

kerbs··on Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps
Yes, the app was terrible.

The Apple Enterprise terms simply state you cannot distribute to the general public. It doesn't matter that the app was terrible, the violation itself was much more boring.

kerbs··on Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps
I would highly recommend reading the recent articles about the reasons for Facebook and Google’s certificates being revoked.

It is not because the apps were nefarious.

kerbs··on Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
I was showing how they would go about getting the trusted root certificate on the phone, which can be packaged with MDM profiles installed similar to the method used above.
kerbs··on Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
To get a good idea of what they are doing, visit whatsmyudid.com and follow the instructions to use SuperUDID (you don’t need to go through with it, just read the steps).

Similar to SuperUDID, they installed a profile onto their device that provided special privileges for Facebook.

kerbs··on Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
But to the point - this should at least result in a revocation of the Enterprise account.
kerbs··on Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might
A bicycle is difficult to bring on many forms of public transportation, and can require a change of clothes. Scooters can fit on a luggage rack.

Walking is much slower, of course.

kerbs··on Ask HN: Those making over $300k/year, how did you achieve it?
Yes :)
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