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My hardest interview was at Roblox (passing Google and Apple). After passing the normal coding + system design questions, they throw you at leadership who ask you a random analytic…

I can't find the RAM listed in the tech specs page. Any guesses? The 5th gen has 3GB.

Even better: .85/.7 = 21.4%

~$340k for my apps. This is why I thought they would never make a change, because people would be upset without retroactivity (which they would never do).

This is exciting for small devs, even if not life-changing. I made 42k in the last 365 days after Apple's 30% cut (or 60k in sales). That means I will get to keep an extra 9k next …

Since we're talking about ELF binaries, let me drop a link for my favorite size profiler (that is compatible with ELF and other formats): Bloaty McBloatface. https://github.com/goo…

I was hired last year without a reference. I just submitted a resume to the careers page.

I want to use Firestore in Unity. When???

I’ve heard that even if you win in small claims it’s hard to collect from these giant corps. Were you ever able to collect the damages?

Pretty sure it was already the “hip” thing to make fun of mongodb before 2012. Who doesn’t remember this classic? https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Anecdotally, I just came back from New Zealand and was staying at a farm house rented out on Airbnb. The owner was previously an actuary in Sydney, and hated his job so switched mi…

Different word trivia that I find fascinating that I feel HNers will also appreciate: (twelve plus one) is an anagram of (eleven plus two) I guess that should be called a mathagram…

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> I particularly don't like when the first result is the paid result from company X, and the second result is the organic result of company X, which is only paying to outbid compet…

My brother and I make mobile apps. We had an office downtown in a large city. We would often work 20-24 hours and then drive home exhausted. A year ago, one block from our office w…

I have seen that. It doesn't look good for him no doubt. But that equates to less than a billion right? The stock drop alone in the past few days cost him much more than that ($5 b…

Is it unexpected that that one company asked for a newspaper to change their article to remove references that make one of their C level execs look bad? No, not at all. It is somew…

Where's Zuckerberg in all of this? It's strange with all the controversies hitting and the stock crash that he hasn't made any sort of public statement (unless I missed it?).

Surprising that Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness, Jai) is missing, given that Casey Muratori is listed (the other really popular game dev that streams). Nevertheless, he streams g…

What do you do if Tesla is using a Linear Congruential Generator[1] to generate their serial numbers? Then the highest number found gives no information, even probabilistically. I …

It's anonymous in the sense that the account is tied to the device and not the user. It's also anonymous in the case of platforms like Apple where the device id is unique between d…

Yep that's exactly what I was expecting. Thanks.

So I read the article, but I've seen claims like this before: some event correlated with a stock dive equals "proof" the event caused it, when it turns out some other news got anno…

No it's device id first (anonymous) then either facebook or email to secure the account. Given the target audience, google auth probably wouldn't be popular.

My problem as a mobile developer is being practically required to use it to not hinder my app's adoption rate. My personal facebook has been disabled for 9 months and I had to rece…