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I'm no expert on snapchat, but one thing I can say from personal experience being at an IPOing unicorn -- until about a year into our IPO, we were a "no buy", and all of these gian…

Low wages? Silicon valley engineers tend to be fairly highly paid...

I feel like this is a terribly lacking reply. I'm not a trend-person by any mean: I'm a deep-backend developer, and my main language right now is Java[1]. However, when I have to m…

I disagree. I'd rather getWhenPresent than orElse if the code has nothing to do with a missing value. If someone needs the value and uses orElse without isPresent, their code will …

Playing devil's advocate here: The only way to really learn the full ruleset of a team is by undergoing a couple of code reviews in which every issue is pointed out. Once your team…

I wonder if, given the giant set of existing Android libraries written in Java, they'd need to create a swift java FFI.

You mean like https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Where's the redirect to some app store bullshit after 5 seconds? Never buying or using anything from those sleazeballs, and you should follow suit.

Apple Pay uses the same token for many transactions. It's not unique per tap.

This is like people who want to repeal Obamacare and have no alternative. If you advocate blocking all ads, you should at least have a vision for how you're gonna pay for your fuck…

This is like people who want to repeal Obamacare and have no alternative. If you advocate blocking all ads, you should at least have a vision for how you're gonna pay for your fuck…

Nice. These sorts of warnings are why it's worth investing the extra effort to enable -Werror in your codebase if you can.

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I don't entirely agree. As someone who works in a mid-to-large company, and who has worked in a 50,000 person company (admittedly for both companies not all employees were engineer…

Anecdote: I switched back from a kindle after 2 years. My kindle broke in the middle of a thrilling novel (The Magicians by Lev Grossman, highly recommended), and I decided to buy …

Is there any way for me to buy a downloadable version and give money to its maker? I want to watch this movie but have no DVD drive.

Are you sure? This is debit, not credit. I believe your rights with debit a fair bit weaker (might depend on issuer though).

IIRC most delivery services actually have online tipping and put it on by default...

Square is hiring payments engineers! http://j.mp/square-payments The payments team enables Square to move money. From developing infrastructure to working with external partners, w…

Uber and Lyft don't provide per-ride accounting for rides for this reason. I think spotify could get away with "N plays - total $X" in this case, especially since user privacy is a…

The bad blur option really ices the cake.

This is in the same way as Google is "in the sack" with Yahoo, Facebook, Softbank, Xaiomi or any of the countless companies that have recruited ex-Google execs?

"How to rip apart an article about ripping apart a programmer's CV"

I live in SF, and I can confirm that I'll walk past people and overhear the same fragments of conversation, talking about the buses and gentrification. The tone varies, but just be…