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xGrill··on Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
I think you hit it spot on. Developers and software companies have inherently thought the goal is delivery of features, because that is what wins new business, but in reality, it is utilization of those features showing impact that actually matters.
xGrill··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
I don't even think the consumption based pricing is available for the IDE, only Antigravity 2.0, so they are basically killing the IDE.
xGrill··on I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
You would probably hang up if it went to voicemail too so the net loss is 0
xGrill··on The Codex App
Is this not just a skinned version of Goose: https://block.github.io/goose/
xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Dallas / NYC | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective. Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.
xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers

We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective. Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

xGrill··on Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased
If you put black tape over the light, it will not allow you to turn on the camera, however, I believe someone found a hack that said if you started recording and then put black tape over the recording, it would allow you to continue to record, but only for 3 minute increments.
xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
PMG | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Dallas) We are a digital marketing technology company that wants to make adtech and martech significantly more data driven. We are looking for folks who want to transition their careers from Software Engineers to AI Engineers

https://www.pmg.com/careers/job-openings?department=Data%20%...

xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
PMG | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Dallas) We are a digital marketing technology company that wants to make adtech and martech significantly more data driven. We are looking for folks who want to transition their careers from Software Engineers to AI Engineers

https://www.pmg.com/careers/job-openings?department=Data%20%...

xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
PMG | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Dallas) We are a digital marketing technology company that wants to make adtech and martech significantly more data driven.

We are looking for folks who want to transition their careers from Software Engineers to AI Engineers

https://www.pmg.com/careers/job-openings?department=Data%20%...

xGrill··on Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
Longtime Spotify user here. I was part of the beta all the way back in 2013. I switched to Apple Music this year alongside an app that syncs the daily playlists with Apple Music.

I feel like as time goes on, the Apple Music playlist recommendations are getting better and better, but what kept me with Apple Music was actually the integrate with Sonos. I have the Arc, Sub and 2 Era 500s, and the spatial audio tracks are incredible. It reminds me of a time I used to just sit back and listen to music in my room as a kid, always discovering something new about a track that I never really hear.

xGrill··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
This could be potentially really dangerous. Most Okta customers who would use support would be IT admins. This is a pretty good list to start social engineering to get more information from other customers just by calling or emailing IT members impersonating corporate end users.
xGrill··on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?
On average, the CS grads we hire are so much further along in their journey than a bootcamp dev, yet the starting salary asks are about the same. I know there are some organizations that are a bit more desperate for anyone who has the capacity to learn to code, but we also have been exclusively hiring CS grads with far better results.
xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers

We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective.

Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

xGrill··on Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers
The biggest reason has to with cost. The average consumer does not need to take out a loan to buy a phone, but most do for cars. Cars are seen as a large investment that needs added protection, and instead of doing it at the auto manufacturer level, they added dealerships to serve as middlemen to bargain with auto makers on your behalf.
xGrill··on USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?
Lots of comments here are talking about lowering paywall site search results since you can not view them, however, I would actually consider raising them. Free content in journalism has a race to the bottom mentality when it comes to content quality. Free content often is incredibly bias or does not actually do any research. This gets you a lot of “fake news” that can spread like wildfire.

Having papers that are more reputable by having a sustainable business model that allows them to produce better quality content, to me would be worth it over fake news sites.

xGrill··on NSFW Server Designation
No joke, I created an iOS app a few years back that had a web view with a built in search bar and was told I needed to mark my app as 18+ because users could search for inappropriate content. My appeal was denied.
xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective.

Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers

We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective.

Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

xGrill··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
I can think of a few. An app might need to know if Twitter is installed so it can show a button to open a link in twitter or a web browser (This was before App Deeplinking was a thing). Maybe if an app company had multiple apps that it wanted to cross sell and see if they have both apps installed to enable certain functionality.
xGrill··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
My guess is that they will say "no", but in reality, probably yes. My AirPods Pro case will demagnetize hotel keys fairly easily, especially ones that have been rewritten to multiple times.
xGrill··on Apple will begin selling Macs with its own processors in 2021
>>> The report does say that one of the chips Apple is developing will be "much faster" than those used in the iPhone or iPad, though they will not yet be sufficient to replace the fastest Intel chips in the MacBook Pro or Mac Pro

Is it possible that Apple will include both Intel x86 as well as AX processors? Let the A chip handle certain tasks that are low power to be energy efficient and the Intel chip handle everything else? They did something similar with the Touch Bar.

xGrill··on Tesla Model 3 spoofed off the highway
I wonder if, as self driving technology becomes more prevalent and more of these "hacks" become dangerous, if some federal laws around spoofing cars and using objects to influence an autopilot system become major felonies.
xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)
PMG | Dallas-Fort Worth or Austin, Tx | Full Stack Developer, UI/UX Designer, Data Scientists | ONSITE

We’re a diverse group of developers, software engineers, data scientists, and SQL gurus creating large-scale web applications that provide insights for some of the top Fortune 500 companies in the digital space. Check us out here: https://www.pmg.com/careers/engineering/

We’re looking for:

Full Stack Developer - https://www.pmg.com/careers/engineering/#job/6a0091a3-11ed-4...

UI / UX Designer - https://www.pmg.com/careers/engineering/#job/e4f00cdd-d8cb-4...

xGrill··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
PMG | Dallas-Fort Worth or Austin, Tx | Full Stack Developer, UI/UX Designer, Data Scientists | ONSITE

We’re a diverse group of developers, software engineers, data scientists, and SQL gurus creating large-scale web applications that provide insights for some of the top Fortune 500 companies in the digital space.

We’re looking for:

DevOps Engineer - https://www.pmg.com/careers/engineering/#job/34d793e7-1fbe-4...

Senior Dev - https://www.pmg.com/careers/engineering/#job/6a0091a3-11ed-4...

UI / UX Designer - https://www.pmg.com/careers/engineering/#job/e4f00cdd-d8cb-4...

xGrill··on Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
That doesn't help when there is a pedestrian crossing the street.
xGrill··on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
> Goes directly to FBI without telling boss at Apple.

This is really hard to believe. An engineer who found this bug at Apple would most likely be praised for finding it. It is a huge discovery. What motivation would he have to not tell his manager?

xGrill··on Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data
Calling apple support and raising hell until someone makes a mistake is more social engineering than email address security vulnerability.
xGrill··on AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success
Apex Up does something very similar along these lines.
xGrill··on Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads?
Spotify has an ads product. Everyone knows they are collecting the data. It would be foolish to think otherwise. Using it in advertising serves an added benefit of helping their ad sales team tell the story of how much data they have and how they can use it to help target the correct audience.
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