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marcomonteiro

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About marcomonteiro

Ex-Apple SWE on Special Projects and Apple Music. Past life as an iOS engineer on Google Nest and Xfinity Home.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46956321

    There was never an Apple Car, but if there was ever a thing that might have become an Apple Car it wouldn’t look anything like this.

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    Comment #42915536

    That's the "pattern".

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    Comment #15235866

    Isn't it though? It's the "password" to the secure enclave which then provides a "password" to the OS. Edit: I agree with your statement that "a password is something i can change …

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    Comment #15166382

    Thanks for being so open to sharing. Do you have a blog? How do I find your blog? Before you posted this comment how would I even know to look you up. Just because someone on the i…

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    Comment #14810760

    No. Please file a radar. They get read and the more dups increases the likelihood it'll be addressed.

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    Comment #14113141

    +1 Though I do leave the occasional TODO or FIXME comment in code I prefer using deprecation attributes so that it results in a compiler warning. I spend a lot of time in Xcode so …

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    Comment #13795891

    Actually that's (almost) exactly how I did it joining Apple. I had already interviewed and been turned down with the group I wanted to join twice. Now I was coming in for another i…

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    Comment #8549976

    The title is misleading. Looking at the About Us section it appears that only the CEO/Founder worked at Apple. It's nice to see a new entrant into the industry none the less though…

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    Comment #8295187

    Can you elaborate on how static library support is a hard requirement for your workflow and why frameworks (LLVM modules) don't meet your needs. I'm genuinely curious as I haven't …

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    Comment #8185844

    I feel there's an important amount of context left out for anyone to give you sound advice. Do you have a wife/husband? Children? Ages? Any other commitments? A mortgage, car payme…

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    Comment #7936588

    Hey Vibhu, Marco on the Apps Team at Nest.

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    Comment #7782312

    I literally write more than 90% of all code away from the office. People walking by, random questions/discussions, pointless meetings that make people feel like they accomplished s…

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    Comment #7782251

    This was my first thought and I actually looked to see if it was a gag site. Otherwise I agree with other comments that it needs to be a CLI tool to become truly useful for me.

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    Comment #7709344

    Negotiate for an extra $100M worth of acquiring company stock, a permanent seat on the board, and the $10M cash now. Oh yeah and a reserved double-wide parking spot near the front …

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    Comment #7709043

    Not from my experience.

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    Comment #7709038

    I agree. I was a little thrown off by the quick link to being racially insensitive. I figured he just left out a lot of context. It was also a little strange that something like th…

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    Comment #7608587

    self in that context would be the class. The issue he was facing is that in subclasses, "self", would refer to a different class and therefore the lock wouldn't apply. What he's po…

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    Comment #7352866

    Cheap trick to boost Windows Phone market share numbers?

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    Comment #7352841

    You obviously didn't read the article. This isn't an issue of someone losing their password and subsequently being locked out of their account --- something that Apple would help w…

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    Comment #7237895

    It doesn't really matter what the language is, SQL injection vulnerabilities are serious in any language. A competent web developer understands that -- especially a "Programmer Ext…

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    Comment #5484774

    Same. I think I've read every post in NSHipster at least twice.

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    Comment #4799961

    Daylight savings time?