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Re:Epilogue of my time working at Twitter on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:32PM (#36898924)
Having also been part of an acquisition in 2020, I found her assessment of Twitter internally was spot on, and was something that I believe isn’t discussed enough in the context of the Elon acquisition.

There was a great sense of shared vision and purpose internally, but this also masked a fair amount of cynicism / political machinations (launch a feature we don’t actually believe to prove it won’t work — Fleets), engineering tech debt (I worked on the iOS client) leading to extremely long product / dev cycles, and ultimately the most destructive, a sense of complacency about it all. It was ultimately why I left, even before the Elon drama.

Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:59PM (#35603474)
The Right to Read movie talks about this very topic, and features the author of this podcast: https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org/
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023) on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:14PM (#35431383)
Locket | Multiple roles | Full-time | Los Angeles, CA / SF / Remote (US / Canada) +/- 3hrs of PT | http://locket.camera

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Locket is hiring!

Locket puts your best friends, relationships, and family at the center of your phone. Throughout the day, you’ll see live pictures sent from your favorite people, right on your Home Screen.

Locket launched one year ago and has gained incredible traction since then:

* 20M people have signed up

* Over 2 billion photos have been sent on the app

* Millions of people use the app daily

* Users love the product — thousands of people have created TikToks about the app, generating 100M+ organic views

* Selected as Cultural Impact Winner in the 2022 App Store Awards

We have a unique shot at becoming one of the defining social companies of the decade. If we’re successful, Locket can become the best way to feel closer to your friends and family. We want your help building Locket.

We have open positions for talented iOS engineers, a founding Android engineer, product designer, and full stack engineers.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:10PM (#34988394)
Locket | Multiple roles | Full-time | Los Angeles, CA / SF / Remote (US / Canada) +/- 3hrs of PT | http://locket.camera

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Locket is hiring!

Locket puts your best friends, relationships, and family at the center of your phone. Throughout the day, you’ll see live pictures sent from your favorite people, right on your Home Screen.

Locket launched one year ago and has gained incredible traction since then:

* 20M people have signed up

* Over 2 billion photos have been sent on the app

* Millions of people use the app daily

* Users love the product — thousands of people have created TikToks about the app, generating 100M+ organic views

* Selected as Cultural Impact Winner in the 2022 App Store Awards

We have a unique shot at becoming one of the defining social companies of the decade. If we’re successful, Locket can become the best way to feel closer to your friends and family. We want your help building Locket.

We have open positions for talented iOS engineers, a founding Android engineer, product designer, and full stack engineers.

Please visit http://locket.camera/jobs for more details.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023) on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:48PM (#34614457)
Locket | Multiple roles | Full-time | Los Angeles, CA / SF / Remote (US / Canada) +/- 3hrs of PT | http://locket.camera

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Locket is hiring!

Locket puts your best friends, relationships, and family at the center of your phone. Throughout the day, you’ll see live pictures sent from your favorite people, right on your Home Screen.

Locket launched one year ago and has gained incredible traction since then:

* 20M people have signed up

* Over 2 billion photos have been sent on the app

* Millions of people use the app daily

* Users love the product — thousands of people have created TikToks about the app, generating 100M+ organic views

* Selected as Cultural Impact Winner in the 2022 App Store Awards

We have a unique shot at becoming one of the defining social companies of the decade. If we’re successful, Locket can become the best way to feel closer to your friends and family. We want your help building Locket.

We have open positions for talented iOS engineers, a founding Android engineer, product designer, and full stack engineers.

Please visit http://locket.camera/jobs for more details.

Not exclusively, of course, but the degree of processing of food greatly influences our body’s insulin response, which can over time have huge impacts on health (leading to fatty liver disease / metabolic syndrome / obesity / diabetes). This is why, for instance, fruit juice is so much worse for us than the whole fruit — most of the fiber is removed which would otherwise slow down digestion and temper insulin response. For more info I’d highly recommend Jason Fung’s Obesity Code book — he’s a nephrologist specializing in diabetes treatment.
Re:SwiftUI in 2022 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:22PM (#31508462)
One point that's not being discussed enough -- using SwiftUI (since it's heavily value-typed / struct-based) prevents a whole host of problems around retain cycles, typically the bugbear of iOS dev. I recently built an iOS app from scratch with recent grads with zero Swift experience (but had done React).

It was ~2mo before they even had to learn what a retain cycle was, and that was from using UIKit.

Of course you still eventually see this if / when you use `@ObservedObjects` and their implementation, but in our case we were also using https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture which hides this away as well.

Re:SwiftUI in 2022 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:57AM (#31506363)
Yes, I recently built an entire app with 70+ frameworks that works fine in Previews. The key is to isolate dependencies into their own modules, and also split those into interface / live implementation modules if needed if the live impl causes preview crashes. See https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep171-modularization-part-...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021) on Monday November 01, 2021 @06:02PM (#29073795)
Muze | React Native Engineer | Remote or Brooklyn office | https://muze.chat

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Looks like that would've probably been caught if it were written in Swift.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018) on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:24AM (#18360690)
Bird is hiring iOS developers too! Apply through the link above, or you can also email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:57PM (#16371190)
One huge problem is that there’s no context-indepedent definition of quality code, and criticisms often suffer from hindsight bias.
Re:Can Germany Fix Facebook? on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:23AM (#15628880)
Jaron Lanier characterizes these kinds of companies as "Siren Servers": http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/the-vibrant-religious-...
Re:Social Media Is the New Smoking on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:46PM (#14860172)
Not to mention smoking is often a social activity -- the "smoke break."
Great point; the question then becomes why is this interference necessary? Largely due to ads. Instagram made their feed algorithmic recently for this reason.
Re:IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:49AM (#12581764)
"IBM says it's ready to receive its next Apple check"
Re:Introducing Twitch Creative on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:55PM (#10472940)
I'd assume because DASH is generally a newer spec, and HLS was driven by mobile usage
FYI: your link to the GitHub project halfway down the article is broken.
Re:Duetto compiles C++ applications to JavaScript on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:21PM (#5559034)
More information available on the author's blog: http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/?p=798
Re:Analyzing mbostock's queue.js on Monday April 01, 2013 @10:46AM (#5473333)
My pleasure. I figured this was a bit more manageable than doing d3.js at the moment ;).
Re:Isla, a programming language for young children on Sunday July 08, 2012 @06:57PM (#4215982)
Excellent reference. Papert created his own theory called constructionism based on the tenants of learning by doing and accumulated knowledge acquisition (genetic epistemology). He emphasized making learning tools meaningful and relevant to children, so that they could use their prior experiences to help model new concepts. With LOGO, children used imperatives to command a turtle around on screen. When things went wrong, children could "act like a turtle" to debug, often by physically acting out the commands themselves. He called it body syntonic learning, as opposed to the more traditional disassociated learning we typically see. Shameless plug: I recently wrote more about this in a review of the book "Mindstorms" that this was an excerpt from: http://bsumm.net/2012/07/01/mindstorms.html

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