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@softwarejameson

3 years

We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half. So for a team of 9, $32k of laptops will actually save $100k in productivity over 2022. The break-even point happens at 3 months. TL;DR Engineering hours are much more expensive than laptops!

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@EricFrohnhoefer @sonofMartha11 @TrexorsT @elonmusk Eric, this thread is absolutely bonkers. We’re hiring senior and staff Android engineers at Reddit. We won’t treat you like this.

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I just quit my job at Amazon.

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2 years

@michael_dehart @EricFrohnhoefer @sonofMartha11 @TrexorsT @elonmusk That’s not a fair categorization of what happened here, and discards considerable context on the tone and spirit of the last several weeks. I know you know that, too.

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2 years

Imagine how unstoppable JSON would be if it allowed for a trailing comma

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This chart is the best rationale for #accessibility that I’ve seen. There are 12 people, only 2 are deaf/blind. Accessibility is about creating a highly usable product.

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2 years

It’s hard to overstate the positive impact @Square has had on Android. OkHttp, Retrofit, LeakCanary, Picasso, Moshi, Anvil, KotlinPoet, etc. Any of these would be a monumental achievement by itself. But in aggregate, these tools provide the entire bottom 1/3 of so many apps.

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1 year

Titter on Market St., SF 🤷🏼‍♂️

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2 years

@_madFrog @EricFrohnhoefer @sonofMartha11 @TrexorsT @elonmusk Lol is this a joke, dude?

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@itsSoftCoding Great question. After a little decompression I’ll follow up with a blog post about it. To summarize in the broadest possible way, though, it comes down to: culture & values

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@sprtnturtle “Once you learn how the sausage gets made, it never tastes the same.”

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Honored to share I’ve reached the final wrung of Reddit’s IC career ladder, Principal Engineer. Many people helped me to get here over the years, including particularly my current manager. Thanks to all of you—& to our users, who make Reddit a fun & worthwhile thing to build.

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1 year

Whoa, remember these “Polycom” things?

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3 years

@SNeverything Stock is down 7% after hours today so I don’t think they took it well at all 😂

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@AmyShackles Poor in wallet but rich in principle

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3 years

Got a great offer today for Staff Engineer at one of the world’s most popular websites. 🎉

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1 year

How it started vs. how it’s going

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@SergiiKirianov 1. Pick Python OR JavaScript & try to build something new every week. 2. Have a solid website, LinkedIn & resume. Have a GitHub link to a good project. 3. Clear & concise writing in all of the above. 4. Embrace being a newbie; be authentic. 5. Apply for a job every day.

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2 years

There're various reasonable ways to divide the US, East & West: 1. Along its N-S population boundary, Fargo to San Antonio; 2. Where tallgrass prairie cedes to short; 3. Where the Rocky foothills first begin. The East is networked, the West has outposts. DFW exists on the line.

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2 years

You can definitely design a micro service that’s “too small.” One time at Amazon I made a new service of one API & few upstream calls. Could have been done by 600 lines in an existing service. 6k “clean code” lines later, the abstraction was pure but we had many new ops duties.

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2 years

The $44B could have created so much humanitarian value. Housing, education, food, medicine, infrastructure. But it was pissed away— and worse, harmed this Community. By a tyrant, without regard to decency. That waste, above anything else, fuels my incalculable disgust for Elon.

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@softwarejameson

2 years

- Fire the staff - Turn off the microservices - Profit

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@DanielNThurau I wrote a whole doc with with spreadsheets and graphs. DM me 😉

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@softwarejameson

2 years

This year at Reddit we’ve been breaking up our monolithic top-level Android module. We now have nearly 500. Here’s that story! Also super proud of my teammate Catherine for her great work & writing in this complex technical area, involving lots of teams!

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@softwarejameson

7 months

Man, interviewing for jobs sucks

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@softwarejameson

3 years

Instead of re:Invent, AWS should do a thing where its employees just enjoy Thanksgiving and Hanukkah with their families. Then instead of announcing a bunch of half-baked product alphas, the individual teams just do thoughtful engineering work throughout the calendar year.

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@softwarejameson

2 years

@werner_fouche { "__comment": "You mean this doesn't 'do it' for you? 😂" }

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@softwarejameson

2 years

I launched a reliability experiment in Reddit's Android video player last week -- so far it's reducing playback errors by 73% & reduces the app's overall crash rate by 13%. *Very* excited to launch this to all users. TL;DR keep your ExoPlayer instances in a fixed-size LRU cache

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2 years

To the engineers at @Atlassian who worked on the WYSIWYG tables in Confluence's web editor: You guys absolutely killed it. This is a hard technical problem with lots of edge cases. But when I copy-paste stuff, it just works. It's performant, & there are no weird rendering bugs.

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@softwarejameson

2 years

Over the past month, I've had an Amazon recruiter reach out every week: 1. AWS 2. Twitch 3. AWS 4. Amazon Connect Things I've tried: - Responding "No, I'm not coming back." - Explaining to Recruiting why I'm not coming back. - Same, but to Leadership. Doesn't work.🤷 Tips?

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2 years

Nope, we’re not doing it

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@softwarejameson

3 years

There’s a saying that when a man turns 35, they have two choices. Either they can specialize in smoking various barbecue meats, or they can specialize in World War II history & trivia. I’ve made my choice. I’ll be taking the WW-II path.

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@softwarejameson

1 year

@stubbornella Yea - corrosion, oxidization. Old phenomenon. Combo of water and oxygen exposure. But it weakens and eventually destroys the material after a while.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

Proud to be at a GRANDMA’S PLACE tech company: Google Reddit Apple Netflix Dropbox Microsoft Amazon Stripe Pinterest LinkedIn AirBnb Coinbase Epic

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@softwarejameson

2 years

@Data_Sams @martini245 @theRealKiyosaki TLDR: he wrote a book that says don’t bother with school— instead buy a triplex as a tool to take other peoples’ money. This tweet definitely lives up that low caliber of intellectualism & class. & based on those qualifications, it’s also clear why he’s unfamiliar with software.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@NegoZiatoR 5 years. 4 teams. AWS - EC2, Alexa, AWS - Mobile, Amazon Go.

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@softwarejameson

1 year

That was crazy ~6 months back when people were like, “This particular JPG? $5,000.00 for this JPG.”

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@softwarejameson

2 years

Avoid these words in classes and module names. They’re too broad to have meaning, so will suffer from scope creep and create heavy, monolithic components. - Common - Manager - Base - Util Any others?

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@softwarejameson

3 years

Assuming an engineer costs $150/hr, And she works 50 weeks per year, The opportunity cost of inviting her to a weekly-recurring, hour-long meeting is $7,500/year in payroll. For a line manager and her team of 7, the cost of the recurring meeting is $60k/year.

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@softwarejameson

2 years

Okay, I'm excited about this one. Fred on our @Reddit Android team shipped a feature using Google's Dynamic Feature Modules. It's one of those capabilities most Android devs have heard of, but few have actually used. His post is hilarious. Check it!

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@softwarejameson

2 years

@giananicolee Woke up my girlfriend at 7am for this tweet after confirming news sources

The 1975 Confirms New Album, Teases July 7 as ‘Significant Date’

The 1975 confirmed its fifth studio album is on the way via Instagram and teased July 7 as a possible single or album release date.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@Suvitruf We use build machines for CI. Doesn’t help for doing UI heavy mobile tasks. Need to be on a local machine. Yea, you can work, but switching contexts every 10 minutes isn’t very productive.

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7 months

@visualbasic97 The location of said chilling

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3 years

@TheTechRally Haha! I’d be honored. We’ll have to use Zoom (?) instead of Chime, though. 😀

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@softwarejameson

3 years

Being an Engineer in FAANG & interacting w/ external recruiters Being an attractive woman on a dating app, interacting w/ men I suspect the two experiences have a lot in common. No doubt the first is a better experience. Has given me perspective & sympathy for the latter.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@MorganTHarris I got a big response on this tweet, I'll do a blog post to follow up.

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@softwarejameson

2 years

Today on our Reddit Engineering Blog, my teammate Emily talks about our journey to adopt IPv6 in our Android app. As part of that work, we're now using OkHttp's new Fast Fallback functionality in production. A big thanks to @jessewilson . Check it out!

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2 years

@Zhuinden Dude. No. Most of this app is MVP. Please be at least one of: - Correct - Kind This is your second time being 0/2. It’s embarrassing.

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2 years

Amazon stock is down about $1000/share since I put in notice. Just sayin’.

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@samsja19 @far__el Engagement bait. The approach is to leave out the obvious thing people would want to know, so that they comment asking about it.

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4 months

Anyone use the Signal Messenger app on iOS/Android? It’s open source, which is cool. I put up a few tech modernization PRs:

Pull requests · signalapp/Signal-Android

A private messenger for Android. Contribute to signalapp/Signal-Android development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@softwarejameson

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@shayanasadi_ Hypothetical quotes from the 2 groups: “Yea, I’ve never questioned anything about myself. Life’s pretty easy!” “My first suicidal ideation began at a young age due to daily bullying/violence sround my identity. Gender affirming care helps but I’m still at a big disadvantage.”

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@softwarejameson

3 years

In 2021, my Amazon compensation is going down by $149,131.00.

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@softwarejameson

6 months

Just wrote my first Android Studio project creation template!! Right now it doesn't have a lot of configuration options. But this will generate a customizable little Compose/MVI-based list/detail app skeleton. Installation notes on GitHub

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@softwarejameson

1 year

My teammate @AlessandrOddone just posted an article on Reddit's Engineering Blog about our Jetpack Compose-based Android Design System. Check it out! 🎉

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@softwarejameson

9 months

Laptop’s going back, this is it! A difficult aspect of life is in reflecting on yourself and your environment to convert obstacles into growth and opportunity. And, after a time when you’re stagnant in that process, it’s time to initiate bold new actions to regain momentum.

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1 year

This concept that America's Largest Corporations are pushing - of blacking out your reality by strapping a consumer wearable to your face - is so fucking dystopian. Let's all please just touch some grass. Before it's too late.

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@softwarejameson

2 years

@hussien_coding I did that training session in Seattle, & then did the tech screen on-site. I spent the time implementing a Trie from scratch on the whiteboard & ran out of time, board entirely covered in clean Java. They wanted me to come back for a second screen, & I was like, yea… nope!

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2 years

Uncontroversial take here, but the Northwest is a wonderland of cosmic majesty, filled with a bounty of spectacular dreamscapes

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@3One_Oh @michellesanver @denvercoder For I am James, son of James. My father was a Senior Developer as was his father before him, and so forth, back to the days of the Creator. It was my bloodline that structured the first datum. It is by birthrite that my sons shall be called “Senior,” before even they may be born.

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@sfstandard Love this Dean Preston quote

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15 years in software engineering and using recursion in production for the ~third-or-so time 💪

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3 years

I wear a mask so that people know I’m not a Republican.

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Same. I wear a mask because it is still the rule in my state and in the establishments I would like to visit, and it's not a big ask, so I do it. But then, I'm a grownup.

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1 year

Thali night 🤘

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2 years

You all should follow @GergelyOrosz . The density of insight in his content is particularly high. A couple weeks back, he shared this Venn diagram of roles/responsibilities. I was surprised my job sat so close to TPM? But today he shared “What do TPMs do?” — and yup!

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2 years

When you Google “mobile developer productivity,” my face comes up as the first result

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1 year

Man, Dropbox is kind of expensive. $132 for the year. There’s got to be a cheaper way to store 250GB of data (in the cloud), right?

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2 years

I used to use Twitter for Internet culture and networking in the tech community, But tbh now it’s mostly just to watch this dude’s Diet Pepsi & pistol-fueled, public meltdown

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Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?

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3 years

@kenstruys @itsSoftCoding Not a long shot! Twitter’s hot stuff - and with that remote work policy. What icing on the cake, indeed. You’ll be picking up entire departments of Amazon L6s this Fall.

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3 years

Today I’m celebrating my sixth year without alcohol!

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7 months

@RadioFreeTom @KathySelvag @littlish Antisemitism exists, and is ugly. You abuse the word to lump legitimate political dissent under the term, in an effort to silence opposing views. That’s dangerous behavior. It dilutes & discredits a word we need available to label & combat real, identity-based bigotry.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

Some VERY exciting Snoos to share: I’m starting as a Staff Engineer at @Reddit this month! 🎈 Free & open dialog is the basis for free society, & is one of the Internet’s most cherished gifts. It thrives at Reddit. Here’s to strong communities & authentic human connections. 🎉

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1 year

Did anyone go to @droidconke last year? I’m really hoping to go this year!

droidconKe

Droidcon is a global conference focused on the engineering of Android applications. Droidcon provides a forum for developers to network with other developers, share techniques, announce apps &produ...

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2 years

Has anyone ever worked on a large, 50+ engineer project that used an event/message bus as the primary method of communication between subsystems? Was it really as unhinged and unpredictable as folks claim? Or was it a beautiful temple of decoupled bliss?

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1 year

A great tragedy of American life is the way Ramen, a Japanese noodle dish, is introduced. Actual Ramen is pictured on the left. On the right is how many American college kids first learn of it: boxed poverty-rations to sustain dorm life. I only encountered the left in my 30s.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

@Louis_CAD MAX w/ 64GB, although from other data I’ve seen, it wasn’t a big difference between the various 2021 models for our iOS builds. Both are just a lot faster.

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3 years

@kenstruys @itsSoftCoding Projects actually get more challenging as an org grows, isn’t it? There’s the old adage: “what one dev can do in one day, two devs can do in two days.” That certainly scales to 100+ contributor mobile teams. It can become chaos w/o proper guardrails or boundaries of ownership.

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@HockeyTown_19 @michael_dehart @EricFrohnhoefer @sonofMartha11 @TrexorsT @elonmusk Jeff, have you ever read The Mayor of Gary, by Carl Sandburg? It’s my favorite poem; happens to be about the steel industry. I believe there are analogs that one can draw between that mayor and Elon Musk.

The Mayor of Gary, by Carl Sandburg

I asked the mayor of Gary about the 12-hour day and the 7-day week. And the mayor of Gary answered more workmen steal time on the job in Gary than any other place in the United States. ...

www.poeticous.com

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Looking forward to starting at @Whatnot , a live video shopping app, this week: My second adventure at a @ycombinator company, but one of my first experiences at a company still early in its journey (Obligatory “starting a tech job” swag pic below👇🏼)

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1 year

As engineers, we love a good bard’s tale about heroic feats in our field. Musk & George have tried to peddle such tales as part of their marketing package for Alt-Right Twitter (“2.0”) But indeed, the problems remain hard. & boisterous arrogance has done little to solve them.

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2 years

Damn. That Android Studio bug where it doesn’t actually deploy the new APK after you make changes. That shit hits different, dawg. In that it hits my productivity in a negative capacity.

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1 year

Big shout out to my teammate Aaron for his article on @AndroidDev - "Building Reddit Recap with Jetpack Compose on Android"

Building Reddit Recap with Jetpack Compose on Android

Here’s how we leveraged Jetpack Compose to build a new Reddit Recap experience for our users, making the whole experience buttery smooth.

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@softwarejameson

3 years

Honored to have one of my tweets featured in @MKBHD 's video about the M1 Max MacBook. Cheers, Marques!

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@MKBHD

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NEW VIDEO - My Review of the M1 Max MacBook Pro! The most powerful and capable computers I’ve ever tested. These laptops are next level 👀

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Me on LinkedIn: “Cordial greetings, esteemed colleagues. It is with considerable thought that I submit to you a bit of personal news; I have transitioned employment to a new Corporation for a next season of professional life.” Me on Twitter: “‘Sup my dudes? 🤙”

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2 years

6,000 followers! 😮 I resurrected this tiny account about a year ago. Since then Twitter has been a useful loudspeaker for me. Had a few viral tweets, met many interesting people, found new jobs for people & new opportunities for my employer. Thanks, all, for listening to me.

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2 years

Okay, all, here's the real deal. I badly need a Senior/Staff Android eng. to come define/build Reddit's home feed. Right now I'm reviewing all of the PRs & can barely even keep up with that. Need someone to just come in & own the entire area. You?

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1 year

Which companies have the largest mobile engineering teams in the world, in terms of headcount? Going to guess Facebook has a few of them, maybe the Amazon Shopping app— who else?

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3 years

@shubhpatel108 @TheTechRally We could do a Twitter fleet!

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1 year

People are talking about how SMS is a least secure method of MFA. It’s useful discourse. However, I’d like to highlight an even less secure form of MFA: not having any enabled.

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2 years

I've been developing for like 15 years, and I still do basic debugging with stupid log statements like: log.v("ASDF something I want to grep") As such, I officially grant the inalienable right to all developers to do this. You do not NEED a fancy debugging/breakpoint tool.

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AWS won't stop emailing me about jobs. They do $600k+ now for Sr. SDE - a lot. Today I re-read this article I'd written last year. It's about coming back after selling out. Standing up for yourself & for those more vulnerable. Things worth more than $.

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@GordonMcGregor I doubt that. I estimated these would save 22 minutes per day per Engineer. Not life changing, but definitely 6-digit savings to be had when you scale to a team.

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@miah_ Maybe. I understand the moral conflict well. The System is one of brutal capitalism. For now, we have to live within it. The thinking we have as foot soldiers of Amazon is that we are just trying to get by ourselves, even if the world is flawed.

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3 years

The ability to deploy backend code whenever you want is a significant advantage over mobile, where you’re at the whim of the Google Play and Apple App stores, in order to get your changes to customers.

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2 years

@sachee This is a powerful resume bullet “Fired by Elon for shitposting”

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Whoa somehow I missed these in Gradle 7.0

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Mock/verify-style unit tests are not *always* useless, but usually are. Adding a bunch of such tests at organizational scale can balloon build/test cycle time— and with low ROI to quality goals. “Fuck tests?” No, def not. But prefer black-box verification of unit/system output.

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Cold contact here — “Hey, supposing that we had open roles (by the way, we don’t), we think you would theoretically be a great candidate for our non-existent roles.” Thank you, Facebook 🙏

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