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yoda_sl

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About yoda_sl

Passionate leader (ex engineer) : iOS, Mac OS, large scale back end server system, mobile platform. Ex NeXT, Apple, Netflix…

To reach me: contact.ycombinator [at] tomyrealemail [dot] com And yes the domain for the email above is ‘tomyrealemail.com’; it is not a mistake.

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    I came on board with the NeXT acquisition (or rather reverse acquisition as ex-NeXT often refer to)… So I do recall seeing a few times after we relocated to Infinite Loop, that Ste…

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    Personally I am using GoodLinks: I am most of the time on mobile and it has good support for iPhone and iPad. You can add custom tag, mark link as ‘read’ when bookmarking. Simple b…

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    Comment #26114724

    Yes he used to work at Apple in the Maps team for many years but left a few years ago... thus his guess.

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    Pretty cool! Any chance the app could import some audio file to visualize ?

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    Extremely curious the outcome... I hope they can get some folks in the medical field to provide quickly some feedback.

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    Comment #21369913

    WebObjects starting at version 5 was 100% java so it could run on any system running a Java VM, including Mac OS X. When Apple was selling Xserve then many Apple on Une services li…

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    Comment #17600746

    No surprise there: Craig used to be the engineering manager for the WebObjects team which included EOF. In fact, if you were running one of the example app, it was going to populat…

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    Comment #17587069

    Now each team of rockstar developers will have to find a really good name!

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    Comment #17392212

    Congrats! I have started a similar approach for the last 2 months using LoseIt as my app to count calories, and the goal to loose around 64 pounds by end of the year (going from 24…

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    Comment #16938572

    Time Machine server is now built-in into macOS... it used to be part of macOS server but Apple recently moved it to standard macOS. Personally I have a Mac Mini being used as a Ple…

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    From what I have heard, CloudKit is an API abstraction either of Cassandra/Solr and more recently Foundation DB. So new CloudKit codebase nowadays is being run on top of Foundation…

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    Slightly incorrect! The offices there vary in size from one person to up to a dozen. A lot of offices in various sections of the ring accommodate 2 persons. Yes there is a big glas…

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    Funny I just posted about it... the English name is “The Ice people”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_nov... And yes a great sci-fi book, even so the civil…

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    Over 20 years ago, I read a good sci-fi story which I would love to see in a movie; the book is “The Ice People” by Barjavel (French author). Article on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wik…

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    Comment #15967298

    It was 21 years ago exactly that Apple was announcing the acquisition of NeXT. Who could have envisioned the impact it will have on Apple!

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    Comment #15722980

    Stumble on this video from last night where a few lucky invitees could feel the experience of riding in the new Roadster. https://youtu.be/C6nN-GlghAc

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    See the answer for the 2nd comment: Memory management is cooperating with Objectve-C runtime memory mgmt, see https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/runti... (funct…

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    Comment #15549947

    I guess people like us - i have 2 Belgium Shepherd dogs, are not the target market. Probably for us Amazon will try to promote their “Amazon Locker”. I just noticed yesterday that …

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    Updated to be more accurate and keeping still the initial blog title. Thanks for the suggestion.