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My hardest interview was at Roblox (passing Google and Apple). After passing the normal coding + system design questions, they throw you at leadership who ask you a random analytical question. I struggled with knowing what sort of depth to go into, and asking clarifying questions did not help.

I can't find the RAM listed in the tech specs page. Any guesses?

The 5th gen has 3GB.

Even better: .85/.7 = 21.4%

~$340k for my apps. This is why I thought they would never make a change, because people would be upset without retroactivity (which they would never do).

This is exciting for small devs, even if not life-changing.

I made 42k in the last 365 days after Apple's 30% cut (or 60k in sales). That means I will get to keep an extra 9k next year, assuming revenue stays flat (it mostly has).

Since we're talking about ELF binaries, let me drop a link for my favorite size profiler (that is compatible with ELF and other formats):

Bloaty McBloatface.

https://github.com/google/bloaty

I was hired last year without a reference. I just submitted a resume to the careers page.

I want to use Firestore in Unity. When???

I’ve heard that even if you win in small claims it’s hard to collect from these giant corps. Were you ever able to collect the damages?

Pretty sure it was already the “hip” thing to make fun of mongodb before 2012. Who doesn’t remember this classic?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Anecdotally, I just came back from New Zealand and was staying at a farm house rented out on Airbnb. The owner was previously an actuary in Sydney, and hated his job so switched mid career to farmer. Pretty large change.

Different word trivia that I find fascinating that I feel HNers will also appreciate:

(twelve plus one) is an anagram of (eleven plus two)

I guess that should be called a mathagram?

.games

> I particularly don't like when the first result is the paid result from company X, and the second result is the organic result of company X, which is only paying to outbid competitors that could appear as #1 when people search for "X".

Haha that annoys me too, and I can totally follow the logic for choosing the organic result, but I use the reasoning that I want to "stick it" to the company whose advertising and force them to pay for the ad they are showing me, so I actually intentionally click the paid result.

My brother and I make mobile apps. We had an office downtown in a large city. We would often work 20-24 hours and then drive home exhausted. A year ago, one block from our office while stopped at a red light, we saw a vehicle turn left hard on a yellow right as a bicyclist was crossing and hit the woman and she flew at least 6 feet vertically in the air. We called emergency services and someone else was right over helping her. When we drove past her she was out cold on the cement. I don't know what happened, but I assume she lived or I would have been called back by the police for my testimony. That was the day we decided we would no longer go to the office even though we had 4 more months on the lease. It just wasn't worth risking killing someone. I'm glad to have had that experience to shock me into realizing how stupid it was to be driving tired.

I have seen that. It doesn't look good for him no doubt. But that equates to less than a billion right? The stock drop alone in the past few days cost him much more than that ($5 billion from one article I read).

So given that he's probably not an idiot, it looks really bad to sell if he thinks it's going to drop, and the money he made from selling is far outweighed by the drop from the controversies, it doesn't seem likely to me that it was because "he knew it was going to drop."

I don't like the guy but my feeling is it was unlucky timing.

Is it unexpected that that one company asked for a newspaper to change their article to remove references that make one of their C level execs look bad? No, not at all.

It is somewhat thought provoking though that said newspaper may have felt compelled to comply with the request because of Facebook's power (for instance not wanting to lose favorable placement in feed or trending sections).

So to me the newsworthiness of this depends on how likely it is that they changed it because it was simply inaccurate versus something more nefarious (such as above). I believe that may be too subjective to determine at this point so probably no fruitful discussion can come in trying to figure that out.

Where's Zuckerberg in all of this? It's strange with all the controversies hitting and the stock crash that he hasn't made any sort of public statement (unless I missed it?).

Surprising that Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness, Jai) is missing, given that Casey Muratori is listed (the other really popular game dev that streams).

Nevertheless, he streams game development and creating his programming language at @Naysayer88 on twitch and regularly posts his videos to Youtube. Skip the beginning of his stream or you may be instilled with the overwhelming desire to go out and buy cupcakes.

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow

* Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88

* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888

What do you do if Tesla is using a Linear Congruential Generator[1] to generate their serial numbers? Then the highest number found gives no information, even probabilistically. I don't know what the laws are on VINs though, so maybe it's forced to be sequential.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

It's anonymous in the sense that the account is tied to the device and not the user. It's also anonymous in the case of platforms like Apple where the device id is unique between different publishers. Note this is a widely accepted way to refer to device id type accounts on mobile.

Yep that's exactly what I was expecting. Thanks.

So I read the article, but I've seen claims like this before: some event correlated with a stock dive equals "proof" the event caused it, when it turns out some other news got announced like a quarterly result. Is that what's going on here?

No it's device id first (anonymous) then either facebook or email to secure the account. Given the target audience, google auth probably wouldn't be popular.

My problem as a mobile developer is being practically required to use it to not hinder my app's adoption rate.

My personal facebook has been disabled for 9 months and I had to recently reactivate it because you can't have an app (for using their auth) without a personal account.

So yeah until the network effect they have changes (the majority leave), people are "trapped" using it.

Okay interesting, I thought I was alone. Guess there's a lot of us "noncontributors" on here haha.

I'm still working my way towards earning the downvote! I have been on the site for over 6 years and browse more than I contribute, but I still am shy a little of the 500 karma required. I wonder if there are users with even older accounts than mine that are still active and don't have the karma yet either.

Interesting you have jblow on there, as I just was watching his programming stream on twitch yesterday and he said he doesn't really come to HN much anymore. His reasoning was basically that he wanted a place where programmers were working on harder things (basically CRUD web devs).

I think he is missing a lot of content on here if that's his true opinion. I think you can find all sorts of varying levels of depths on a vast amount of technical issues.

For me the coolest thing about HN is the breadth of experts here for any (even niche) tech field. This allows for in depth understanding of new products (when someone who actually worked on the team making it is here) or calling out conspiracy theories about why some company shut down some product (because they have inside knowledge and can actually explain the reasoning).

I can't count how many times I've read 'I work on the team that built that' with some new insights or opinions just sitting nested in a comment chain 4 levels deep.

Ah yes I hadn't really thought about that for some reason. Do you view HTML as something that should only be used where necessary in MD or just go crazy with it?