dirtydroog

This is an accurate account of what happened to Nokia / Symbian, from insiders. Symbian hated Nokia and vice versa.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkab...

But it's the OS that allows apps to spy on you.

These are the tasks of an Engineering Manager, not a Tech Lead.

Or, you know, the OS could have displayed a prompt screen to the user telling them that the battery needed to be replaced.

To be honest, your fear is being realised since every couple of weeks or so, there's an 'X worse than previously thought' article about something.

We shouldn't really be encouraging people to program in vim. I mean, an 80 char line length limit is very 1995. People have massive monitors now.

The thing is, git is a tool, it should be pretty easy to use. If someone has to write an entire book about rebasing then, in my opinion, there's something wrong.

I just push/pull/merge. I've never had any issues, a monkey could do it and would have to go out of their way to screw it all up.

"Noob! You don't understand how git works"... maybe true. I understand how source control should work. I have far more important things on my day-to-day plate then to dig into the internal workings of git. The branching setup described in the git-flow thing has been around far longer than git.

This guy has a sweet job, Professor of Profiling Code.

Ah I see you've dipped your toes into the Sea of Apache too. Horrible software. Should have died in 2000.

Didn't get past the opening paragraph. Sure, this is from 2003 but they're wrong. Look at redis.

Thread-per-connection is just plain dumb. Threads aren't free. Context-switching is a thing. Modern advice is to try not have more threads than cores. Thread-local storage is a very useful, having 1000's of thread may make TLS unfeasible.

They should be provided with SSH access to a proper build machine then.

I'm on your side pal! Laptops are a total waste of money, Ryzen has changed the game.

Really? Isn't is still the case that signed integer arithmetic can lead to UB? Despite this, there's a push for Almost Always Int from the C++ powers-that-be.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16188263/is-signed-integ...

The Russians will never give you a slice.

How so? How many cores on the machine? Maybe you have some false-sharing, maybe thermal throttling is kicking in.

'const' all the things.

Where did futures/promises come from? They just seemed to appear out of nowhere. I'm not particularly a fan of them either. C++'s current version of std::future is particulary useless.

You don't have to fingerprint if you have the IDFA. But I suppose the main reason is that that info is too intrusive and may be of limited use.

No way

There is one OS out there that would have stopped this... Symbian. It was locked down everywhere. It was also a bitch to develop for, but hey ho. The source code is out there somewhere.

Only hundreds / sec? Amateurs!

Odd, I've worked for a DSP for years too. These data points you talk about are rarely all there. 99% of the OpenRTB spec is optional fields. I also never seen a bid request that listed other apps on the phone - calling bullshit on this one.

LMT does not hide your IDFA. You can reset it fine, but it's always there.

Also, hell hath no fury like a brand-safety conscious advertiser whose ad appears next to dick pics on Grindr.