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mrbombastic
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About mrbombastic
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Mobile Developer in Brooklyn. Primarily native iOS but comfortable working on and learning different parts of the stack. Contact me for remote work opportunities or opportunities near Brooklyn.
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A chef in a michelin restaurant, unless he/she is the sole employee (very rare) is likely in charge of a team of line cooks and while they may get some time and place to experiment…
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Comment #49059372
the claim we are arguing here is not that “linters never make mistakes” it is that “linters are generally beneficial and avoid mostly useless debates we previously spent an inordin…
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Comment #49057602
I also never have these conversations at work…because every repo uses a linter and the engineers are mature enough to recognize most of these debates as bikeshedding. Every once in…
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Comment #48905660
everything has tradeoffs, on the one hand you are right you have one less dependency, on the other hand the maintenance of said dependency is now on you. many times app store conne…
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Comment #48897210
This is cool but also makes me worried about the tendency with llms for all of us to make bespoke solutions rather than building a better community tool or extending an existing to…
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Comment #48835470
Was driving in Lapland with a car like this, snow and ice everywhere on the road except in 2 narrow strips of pavement previous drivers had driven over, naturally it was not always…
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Comment #48762105
You are signing up for another hellscape of unmaintainable slop. Enable package cooldowns and only whitelist internal packages and you are better off than 90%
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Comment #48662538
not to mention rage posting dozens of time a day doesn't scream contentedness
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Comment #48579559
Presumably if they want ai regulation they want evenly applied regulation across the industry, not just for them.
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Comment #48439161
Jira is fine and devs just grow to hate issue trackers because they hate that part of the job. Watch for another one to come and go when people get sick of linear.
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Comment #48327118
I was a fan of Robinhood's mission of democratizing finance and prioritizing UX for casual traders. They seem to jump on every hype train though, crypto, prediction markets, now ag…
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Comment #48310013
Not sure i understand. Sure it doesn’t require it but Apple doesn’t trust you to handle it because you’ll probably drain the battery or spam the user or whatever, that is Apple MO,…
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Comment #48308902
yeah this is what author hints at with "Push as a battery problem". Apps are limited by default in what they can do in the background due to this, so most apps are in a suspended s…
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Comment #48180886
hey now, they should be grateful they get enough tokens for their appointments with ClaudeMD for their statistically below par data labeling performance, we could reduce the allowa…
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Comment #48170686
just this week i pushed back on some requirements in a very detailed product spec I was implementing to speed up time to ship. The pm had no idea what I was talking about because t…
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Comment #48169272
a bit of a roundabout way to answer this, but i think most native devs are okay with a self contained app element using webkit, that is what it is there for and generally stuff lik…
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Comment #48078625
Just make it a semi-hidden multistep option like browsers when you visit a site with a bad cert, just annoying to leave what you are doing go to system settings and fiddle.
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Comment #48054151
Ruta Maya is quite good as well, probably not as big of a coffee snob as the author though.
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Comment #48054101
Are you sure you wanna live like costco people? https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0 (I love the Shatner version, sorry!)
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Comment #47942182
Relevant snl skit: https://youtu.be/wXZNuwY_5-U
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Comment #47933581
I use this all the time dropping files from old android device to mac, thanks devs!