trangon | 4 years ago | on: On Leaving Facebook
I’d assume after ten years at FAANG, you’d have a decent amount of money saved up as well.
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trangon | 4 years ago | on: On Leaving Facebook
I’m curious what the author will do if they encounter the same issues at their new company.
trangon | 4 years ago | on: Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
Reverse engineering and hacking can be a crazy time sink. It’s truly a game for those with lots of free time.
trangon | 4 years ago | on: Why I prefer making useless stuff
Sounds like you aren’t working on a greenfield project, granted most people aren’t. But it’s not like that for everyone.
trangon | 4 years ago | on: The joys of creating Xcode project files
Xcode has aged very poorly and Apple top-level management refuses to invest further headcount into improving it in general.
They should port their custom tools like IB, view debugger, etc. over to Visual Studio Code and get out of the IDE game.
trangon | 5 years ago | on: Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind
zsh4humans is like ohmyzsh but much better IMO because when you first install zsh4humans, it walks you through a setup wizard that walks you through choosing your fonts, prompt style, completion style, etc. and automatically installs the appropriate zsh plugins and things like powerline fonts according to your choices.
trangon | 5 years ago | on: Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind
zsh4humans is the most recent zsh “trick” I’ve discovered. zsh is a bit like emacs when first installed: it can do a lot of things but it’s not nearly as useful without a lot of manual configuration. I’m honestly surprised it doesn’t have more stars on GitHub.
trangon | 5 years ago | on: Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]
Do it. You never know where it will lead. For example I started screwing around with C a few months ago and now I playing with microcontrollers and cameras because of that.
trangon | 5 years ago | on: Working at Apple (2011)
Isn’t this comment and the Pink Floyd quote a bit patronizing?
trangon | 5 years ago | on: A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
HN, like Reddit, rewards you for writing comments that other people agree with. That’s why controversial opinions aren’t very common.
trangon | 5 years ago | on: iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
How, exactly, are they abusing it? Are you suggesting that they send the contents of the clipboard back to their servers? Do you have any proof that they are using the clipboard for nefarious purposes?
It’s disappointing to see the lack of skepticism applied on a site like Hacker News.
trangon | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?
MVC, the way it’s implemented in UIKit, leads to code that is very difficult to test, mixes business logic and view layout and navigation, and leads to massive view controllers. You have to be very careful to avoid it.
trangon | 6 years ago | on: How is search so bad? A case study
I somehow doubt that all of Google’s internal decisions are as simple as “well we’re an ads company, let’s just not worry about search quality.”
trangon | 6 years ago | on: Reverse engineering course
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but it sounds like you just described “fault injection” or “mutation analysis.”
trangon | 6 years ago | on: Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
Leetcode is just a game that you have to play to get into these companies. I suspect that OP had other interview rounds that went poorly. There is always a chance of getting a bad interviewer, but it doesn’t often happen in every single round.
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