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I've read the amendment over and over again, but I keep missing the part that says you have to let journalists into a press conference. Can you point it out to me?

"Uber, like many top Silicon Valley firms, attempts to hire only the smartest and most productive people. Getting a management job at one of these companies is tougher than getting into Harvard. So it is not a stupid person answering Fowler’s email"

Oh how I wish this were true.

I've been using Android Studio ever since the first public alpha, and while it used to be a hot mess, they really cleaned things up since 2.0

I personally think that AS/Intellij are the best IDEs I've ever used. That includes Visual Studio Pro.

The article seems to be complaining about WYSIWYG not working well, and slow emulators. I've never found WYSIWYG to be an acceptable solution, but that's just my opinion. But to throw the whole IDE under the bus because of that is just irresponsible.

Also the emulators are blazing fast on my machine.

Ignoring confounding variables, and a sample size of one caused me to discount this "study". While I'm sure sugar consumption is an issue, this escapade seems like more of a capitalist venture than anything else.

I'd amend that to say:

"The greatest weakness? There's no money for Twitter."

I'm all for this, although I do enjoy the map of the flight. Maybe there'll be an app that provides that info...

A new runtime is very different then a new framework/API/OS. The former doesn't necessarily require code changes (dalvik -> ART did not), the latter requires new everything.

I'm not sure the API can ever really be phased out due to the vast amount of legacy apps and libraries.

Besides I'm sure a lot of developers wouldn't be happy that their domain knowledge just went flying through the window. Even if that is a risk inherent in the job.

I find it hard to believe that 8+ years of APIs and OS level code would be abandoned just like that, especially given the scale of Android.

If this ever happens, it would probably be an extremely slow, well thought out (hopefully), well documented (also hopefully) rollout.

I've always interpreted rock star to mean an amazing coder/hacker/architect; not as a personality trait.

I did a double take when reading the headline. Why would we want to stop these amazing people?

Update: I never took personality into account when interpreting "rock star"

I've seen so many projects like this over the years that claim that they're the one that will allow for true cross platform app development, and they've developed a simple abstraction for doing so.

I've never seen any succeed at anything more than the most basic apps.

I put more stock in projects like Xamarin or MOE (and even they aren't perfect).

"evil people like Ronald Reagan"

I guess it's true that every opinion exists, and they just need a person to have them.

From what I understand after watching true video, I think this abstraction could work for extremely simple implementation details, but once the implementation gets even slightly complex, the scale of complexity of coding it with this system balloons.

Same here. But a new engineer I hired who looked great on paper and on his interviews is just obscene. He's not a great engineer to boot. Can't fire him because I need him for now. I don't think it's a self perpetuating stereotype. I think some people are wired that way, and engineers tend to skew there because of the way their brains work (obviously not every engineer).

I agree that it's not acceptable. Doesn't mean it's not futile to ask for it to stop.

I agree with his intent but not his delivery.

However, asking a community with many engineers to not harshly nitpick someone else's contribution is a futile task.

It makes it sound as if he's a champion coder at Google, because it's lacking context. It's a clickbait title to drive views towards an exploitation piece (not necessarily negative exploitation, but still exploitation).

Was just going to say that. I'm all for getting teens involved, but it's dangerous to puff up too much. I'm sure he's very proud of his work, but I'm not sure I would categorize it as a "series of complex technical tasks". I can't find exactly what he worked on, but from a blog post he wrote [1] it seems like pretty basic stuff:

I made a few PRs on the OpenMRS source code (had to squash a lot of commit though), and a PR on the reference application to allow login using only the keyboard! That was the most tricky task I did

[1] https://collingrimm.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/gci-week-7-over...

I remember seeing Twitter switching from ruby/rails to the JVM for a lot of their backend a few years ago. I wonder why they're using node now (unless the mobile traffic was never moved to the JVM)?

https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use

In CS 101 I spent all night working on my final homework, walked into class, put the printed solution on the professor's desk, sat down in a desk right in front of his and fell asleep.

I dreamt about the homework problem, and realized I had made a mistake. I immediately woke up, grabbed the paper, and made the correction. The whole class burst into laughter, but the professor didn't seem disturbed. Later he told me something like that happens every few years (he's been teaching for 30).

When I go to sleep after having worked on something complex and didn't fully resolve it, I'll almost always dream about trying to solve it. Sometimes I see code, sometimes it's more abstract, but it's always disconcerting. My wife says I mumble things like, "I'm pretty sure 'also' is a keyword unless I'm losing my mind and need to check the documentation"

The enthusiasm with which this was written almost matches the enthusiasm the author had about the project.

I think an issue lost in the discussion is that citizens are losing jobs because of this. I'm all for the plight of the immigrant, but as an American, my concern is first and foremost with my fellow countrymen.

Obviously everyone's experiences are subjective, but that didn't sound too bad to me. Compared to the horror stories coming out of startups that seems rather JV.

Not on mobile it doesn't...

Android doesn't run the JVM.

I've been using these arguments at my company for years. There's definitely FUD surrounding the JVM, and it's pretty ridiculous. Sure, it's not a perfect system, but it's usually disregarded for being "old and bloated".

We have a partnership.

I'm corresponding with a Google engineer regarding a bug we're having in a paid product. I happened to see him in a photo at this thing. I kinda wish that he was working on that bug instead.

How many sheep will read this, assume it's true, and not realize it's somebody's daydream?