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pawaduon Marissa Mayer: How to make the star employees you need

Not sure I want to take advice on this particular subject from Marissa Mayer...

pawaduon Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly

If you have published apps on Android, the developer console gives you detailed information about YOUR install base.

Couldn't care less about someone in Somalia using Android 4.4 when 80% of my users are on Oreo.

pawaduon Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly

These negative posts always show up on top when something even remotely positive about android is posted.

pawaduon With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

> I don't want a smartphone that only a couple of million bought

Not sure if serious ...

pawaduon With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

Maybe he is using an android converted to Jolla?

pawaduon With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

Actually things have improved considerably this year. You may still not have the latest OS version, but the security patches are arriving every 1-2 months.

Oreo is supposed to improve things even further, but for know its just a theory.

pawaduon With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

Well, I just saw this on Android Police:

agujeronegro

Hey, Samsung released July security patch to Samsung Galaxy S4!!! We are talking about April 27 of 2013. That's 4 years and a half! https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s4/GT-I9505/NEE/d...

pawaduon Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

That's how i feel about "convert" from imagemagick

pawaduon Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

> I didn't know Dwarf Fortress was packaged in Debian

well, goodbye productivity.

I wonder if I can run it on a production server without anyone noticing...

pawaduon Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

wasnt getc() available on windows?

pawaduon Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to millions of customers

At Runkeeper secret facilities, new year of 2019:

"This guy had increased heart rate followed by two minutes of physical activity... Joe, call Pfizer immediately!"

pawaduon Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to millions of customers

Yet Apple is #3 after Xiaomi and fitbit, with more Asian companies closing in.

I think Apple needs this deal more than they admit.

pawaduon Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council

Don't forget Dow Chemical ...

pawaduon Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to millions of customers

"Aetna now reportedly has ambitions to offer it to a wider field — adding large swaths of new health data to pull from and giving the health insurance company insight into the activities of its customers."

Oh God no!

pawaduon Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

why PPA? the official release is already patched

pawaduon Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

This question is brought up every time this happens. Ubuntu uses stable (old) versions and does not upgrade to latest (unstable) releases very often. However, they do back port and apply security patches to these old versions.

Point in case: 16.04 TLS is still on 2.7.4 but it is fully patched and secure.

pawaduon Microsoft Surface Laptops and Tablets Not Recommended by Consumer Reports

Everyone seem to love Surface Pro 2. I wish I had bought one when it was announced.

pawaduon Microsoft Surface Laptops and Tablets Not Recommended by Consumer Reports

> but I never quite got into the tinkering culture

off topic (bikeshedding?) comment: you don't need to tinker with linux: install ubuntu, use it, profit. At work we went from "windows 8 + osx" to "ubuntu + windows 10". Nobody tinkers with anything and everything just works. Its just a bit faster and cheaper now.

pawaduon Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

So what do the designers think of the new office?

I once was at a place were designers always had the last word (maybe because CEO was an architect), hence their new offices looked like a much cheaper version of Starbucks. With fewer couches and the few walls that made it were all made of glass.

The company is no longer around. These days just nearby their old offices brings back horrible memories.

pawaduon Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

LineageOS is pretty good on security and privacy. But IIRC you may NOT have the latest patches even if you have the latest version.

There is a XDA post somewhere explaining this.

pawaduon Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

https://www.google.com/search?q=dissident+apple+malware

pawaduon A Farewell to Go

Could not agree more!

The author has obviously not tried to maintain a project where each contributor has his own coding style.

pawaduon What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee?

I think at this point we can all agree that Damore tied himself to alt-right by doing those interviews.

edit: I find it interesting that most comments criticizing the guy is heavily downvoted while his supporters claim they are being gagged

pawaduon Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

> Make sure it has an Apple logo

From what I hear all those Chinese dissidents that are tragically no longer with us were all using Apple products...

pawaduon Introducing Watch, a new platform for shows on Facebook

Linus has a video explaining their income sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t73wXF8IF-8

pawaduon uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

I still think Chrome has some advantages. For example you can disable a lot of things like location services in the settings. In Firefox you can decline access to location once a site asks for it but I would rather disable it once and for all if I am setting up a machine for a less tech-savvy person.

Also, firefox comes with tons of built in features you cannot disable. In past they have caused security issues (e.g. the pdf.js exploit).

pawaduon Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)

They are now a small company with a lot of diabetic users.

pawaduon [dead]

This is a pyramid scheme, all the bad developers need to do is to invite some even worse developers...

pawaduon Where Is Nokia Now?

Why do you think these are Nokias doing?

The old team is still in charge of app development, the only thing Nokia has changed is the brand.

pawaduon Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game

May I ask, if you are not interested in vim why would you choose spacemacs instead of vanilla emacs?

To me spacemacs just feels heavier than many IDEs.