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jfisk87 | 4 years ago | on: Two airlines will postpone sales of alcohol amid surge of in-flight violence

I get that there are less first and business class passengers but canceling a whole cabin makes me so so frustrated. I don't need to get into detail that people in this upper classes act a fool. There could have been a better way to address this. If "flight experience" is an issue why not let people on all classses order if they have been with their airline for a sufficient time?

jfisk87 | 4 years ago | on: Transition to React Native

Long story short, terrible idea unless you're in a position like coinbase.

The article is from a high level engineering standpoint about productivity and trying to be efficient. The thing the article doesn't mention is the best react native developer also is an expert in native mobile development. It is crazy hard finding these people.

All techno fluff aside, any component mobile developer knows once you have a solid foundation it is super easy to build on core features. Given how frequently aplkenabd google breaks things which makes reactive native upgrades a mega PITA, the only proper use at a technical level is to utilize the code at a framework level. React native is still on its knees to cocoapods, which as of now is virtually nonpreferred for future projects.

Sorry for the rant, I just think A.:) Coinbase made the wrong decision in the long run because they limited themselves on a technologist that's infamously know to not favor solid user experiences

B:) they underestimated the specific qualifications they need to get the people that are grounded enough to know native mobile development and its capabilities, abs the react native component. Even though they are coinbase the article acts like it doesn't matter.

jfisk87 | 12 years ago | on: PaintCode 2

That's pretty bad way to alienate your loyal customers. They can still have users email them and issue download codes after paying through their website.

jfisk87 | 12 years ago | on: PaintCode 2

Wow, if you bought version 1 they have no upgrade price :(

jfisk87 | 12 years ago | on: Ex-Zynga Employees Tell All on Reddit

as a current employee, his responses rang very true. Rough week :(

jfisk87 | 13 years ago | on: The future of creative work online - Welcome to the new Scoutzie (YC S12)

I used them and had a really bad experience. Our designer was very bad - not Scoutzie's fault necessarily. However, their refund is actually around 70%. They do not refund their pretty big Scoutzie fee. Their customer support is also pretty arrogant..

jfisk87 | 13 years ago | on: What it's like to work with Mark Pincus

notoriously horrible working conditions? really? I work here, interact with plenty of the teams and it is very far from horrible. Yes things get a little hectic when deadlines are due but thats the nature of things. Zynga cant teach you a work life balance, you do, and that seems to be respected by managers.

jfisk87 | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?

agreed with the rest, tons of these jobs are in SF. Mobile development is also huge and salary on the rise if thats your thing.