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kaeawc

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About kaeawc

Software Engineer in NYC, currently making Android stuff @ Hinge

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    Sorry to hear that, can imagine the frustration.

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    Comment #17374266

    I actually ripped out Smyte's Android SDK because of how bad it was and replaced it with my own implementation against their API which has a hard limit on retries. But I imagine th…

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    Comment #17371192

    We had 20 minutes notice, and then everyone was kicked out of the Slack support channel and API responses simply died. What the actual fuck. They have mobile client SDKs out in the…

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    Comment #16634726

    I am a developer of an app that makes use of Facebook friend permissions and have seen the various API changes they have made since 2014. Applications using Facebook Graph 2.+ (whi…

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    Comment #16430249

    Whoa. Why is this post so buried?

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    Comment #16372876

    > If there is never enough time to refactor and new features are always being pushed That is a sign of bad culture, both in engineering and product. Whether its starting a green-fi…

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    Comment #15903742

    Have you gone to production with it yet for your backend? Curious Android dev here.

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    Comment #15029296

    I generally agree, except if you click on "Home" it shows a sad PHP 404

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    Comment #14999496

    I figured out how to undo the CSS that hides the release button and had some fun... https://imgur.com/a/QIEv9

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    Comment #14998515

    You don't know how broken the CSS is until you've reached deep conversation... https://imgur.com/a/o2gTo

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    Comment #14364810

    In Kotlin it's much more common to write the following, which is exclusive: count.forEach { // do things }

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    Comment #13259583

    I'm unsure it is possible to translate the Netflix-Marvel series' success to non-Earth stories, let alone to Star Wars. To have the deep stories that you enjoyed they need enough s…

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    Comment #11494392

    I've gotten the exact same thing. Also hoping it clears up

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    Comment #11400334

    I am sad about this. I've used the card since it came out years ago. Reloading, paying, canceling, renewing, locking were all so super easy. Only reason I didn't switch to Simple w…

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    Comment #10525978

    Wow. That is insane. Hopefully his employees find a better place and he is never given a position of power again. How the hell does someone get away with not only doing this but ad…

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    Comment #10492240

    Hinge | New York, NY (on-site, full time)| All The Things We're hiring for Android, iOS, DevOps, Backend API and more. Hinge is an amazing dating startup because of its team, cultu…

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    Comment #10208204

    There are specific clauses in Google's APIs that allow for things like disaster recovery applications to have unlimited access for free.

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    Comment #9663500

    Actually it doesn't. Have you tried making a mobile app with it? The experience is unacceptably slow and janky. React Native isn't officially released. That leaves us... with Java …

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    Comment #9341999

    I'm a bit of a strange case: I'm a runner in the north east US and its been very cold until recently. So I've had my watch on the outside of my thermal sleeve, where it obviously c…

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    Comment #9341862

    Moto 360 owner. I use it for exactly those things, works great.

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    Comment #9285442

    Yes. The nature of git means this has not stopped our workflow. Just because we can't update a central source doesn't mean we can't continue to get things done. Also, if a large en…

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    Comment #9199568

    It says in the article that the police were alerted to bracelet tampering: "The filing said the authorities got suspicious that something was awry with the GPS device on March 6. A…

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    Comment #8999363

    Software engineers should be able to test their own code. The faster they get feedback on their code and its impact to users, the better they understand the various cases and can s…