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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by conradev on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:30PM (#2833693)
> 'His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now.'

He designed none of the interface.

> '... his obvious coding skills ...'

A lot of the time, a person's coding skills are judged by how readable their code is, and how well they utilize SCM. Also, to be an Apple engineer you want extensive experience with Objective-C. https://github.com/comex/star_

Now I don't mean to say comex is a bad programmer at all, the stuff he writes is amazing, I just feel like he wouldn't make a good Apple engineer.

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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by Xuzz on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:52PM (#2833793)
He didn't design the interface (Apple did; it's a clone of the App Store, and I guess I designed some of the iPad UI), but he did work very hard to ensure that the user experience was great. There was quite a bit of discussion about that, even: comex spent months porting unionfs for little benefit (right now) than being able to install Cydia without rebooting, so it could look like an App Store installation.
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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by conradev on Thursday August 04, 2011 @09:48AM (#2845937)
Good point.
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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by Vexenon on Monday August 01, 2011 @09:20PM (#2835284)
It's worth mentioning that geohot was, by no means, a fabulous programmer - sure, he's done a lot of great reverse engineering and security work, but if you look at his code, it was both advanced and sloppy. However, Facebook hired him to work on product development, even though he's known to not be much of a programmer.

Comex may not fit the profile of an Apple engineer, but I think he'd still do a damn good job as one.

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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by alanh on Monday August 01, 2011 @04:23PM (#2834224)
Who cares about design or coding skills? Apple should hire him to help improve security, if only by doing what he does right now and sending results back to another team at Apple!
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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by conradev on Thursday August 04, 2011 @09:47AM (#2845934)
Yeah, true.
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Re:Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps ... by omaranto on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @08:44AM (#2836896)
SCM doesn't mean Aubrey Jaffer's scheme implementation, does it? What is it in this context?
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