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Nodu is a minimalist personal development app that helps you stay focused on long-term goals, day by day. Every morning you decide what you will do and what you will not do by swiping away objectives and only keeping ones you want to focus on for the day. Throughout the day you can mark items as complete and check on what objectives remain.

I'm surprised to see Kotlin in your list. Google has stated they are increasingly moving Android development to a Kotlin-first ideology. New official libraries produced by Google for Android are designed with Kotlin chiefly in mind, so it may provide significant benefits to support, community, and documentation.

Considering the popularity of the Android platform and Google's control over it, I don't think it is a bad idea to develop an Android app in Kotlin. According to Google, their Maps, Home, Play, Drive, and Messages apps are all built in Kotlin, and my personal experience is that Android developers like and prefer Kotlin.

I found out about Arctype a while ago when I started writing for their blog about SQL, a topic I really enjoy. I'd recommend checking out their product if you spend a lot of time in SQL databases: it has tons of cool features, a nice flow & layout, and it might just be your thing.

The worst part: if the person sends you a text while you're scrolled up it will jump all the way to present time.

Author here. I have sent/received 643,576 messages since 2009 which totaled 590MB. To my knowledge media is never stored in the SQL database (for iMessage).

While web browsers on iOS are unfortunately just re-skinned Safari, you actually are able to create/download totally custom keyboards. A while back I created a custom keyboard to translate what you type and help you learn a new language.

TerraStride, Inc | Portland, OR / Remote | Full-time | Android Engineer

TerraStride is an established Portland startup making web and mobile mapping applications for outdoor enthusiasts. We're looking for an Android developer with experience developing and launching at least one high quality app. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design, build, and improve our advanced mobile mapping application. A successful candidate should have a strong sense of product ownership and be comfortable working semi-autonomously as an engineer.

Email careers (AT) terrastride (dot) com

Not a recruiter but a co-worker who asked me "Do you know what an algorithm is? We might need one."

While I had a positive experience with the Uber app software-wise (app functioned seamlessly landing in Mumbai from U.S.A.), Uber as a service was not really comparable to what it is like in the U.S. and developed W. European countries. I got the sense that it was more of a strictly ride hailing / request service, not much accountability required from the driver. Often had > 3 drivers cancel after 10-15 minutes waiting before actually getting a ride. That being said, it was still a hugely valuable service to have in India as a foreigner.

I've gone back and forth on this in respect to database tables and ultimately prefer singular. If the table is named "profile", I think it's obvious that it can store more than 1 profile, since... well it's a table and has rows.

I was in Death Valley last weekend. Drove there from SF with Model Y, ended up renting an ICE car to explore the park, especially since we were staying 1.5 hours from the center of the park.

I saw several Teslas around the park, and I think it's doable if you only want to visit say 1 or 2 locations, but without a Supercharger in the middle of the park, you will be limited and won't have the flexibility to see everything.

The resort in the middle of the park has 4 J1772 chargers, which would help if you were staying in the park overnight, but we were simply doing day trips.

I interviewed at Discogs about 3 years ago (after discovering they were local to me in Portland, OR). Seemed like a great group of people working there!

Yeah, wasn't trying to say this was an example of graph. Maybe it is slightly outside what would be considered "standard" relational DB use case? My impression of recursive CTE's in RDBMS is that if you need speed or any more advanced graph-like features, you should move to an actual graph db. So far I haven't taken on any projects that warranted that, though it does interest me.

Either way my intention here was to simply provide an example of a real-world recursive CTE use case.

In the past I used recursive CTEs in Postgres to calculate the BOM of a product. Products consisted of "parts", and each "part" had a cost and could consist of any number of other "parts" (subassemblies). This was for a homemade ERP resembling software.

Returning from Singapore I was asked if I had any "rare feathers"... I said no but was still taken aside and searched.

I worked for Best Buy (Geek Squad) as well, about 12 years ago. I had the same experience. Even if they were going to pay me for the time, it felt wrong that they told me I was not able to leave. At times you could be waiting for 15 minutes. It was my first job at 16 years of age, and I didn't have the care or confidence to correct the time punch. At my store they would have to approve time punch modifications, so it would have been obvious if you did that every night.

The one person who did get fired for stealing was simply grabbing laptops, removing them from their box, and casually walking out with them.

TerraStride | Android Engineer | Fulltime | U.S. Remote + Portland, OR | http://terrastride.com

TerraStride is an established Portland startup making web and mobile mapping applications for outdoor enthusiasts. We're looking for an Android developer with experience developing and launching at least one high quality app. This Android app developer will work with our team of talented engineers to design, build, and improve our advanced mobile mapping application. A successful candidate should have a strong sense of product ownership and be comfortable working semi-autonomously as an engineer.

Email careers (AT) terrastride (dot) com

If you're on desktop Safari, the only way to select the maximum 2 years option is to resize the window vertically (smaller) until the dropdown becomes a drop-up.

The SDK is crashing. It's likely crashing because the service changed, but it's causing actual crashes on iOS and Android devices which rely on the SDK.

I experienced this long before I ever saw it on the internet. For me it's especially bad if there is a hole and something small is stuck in it. Even as I type this I remember a specific object I used to see often and I feel my face flush. It's a strangely uncomfortable experience that I can physically feel in my "bones" as they say. I wouldn't say it's a phobia in the sense that I am afraid of it, and I don't often experience it, but it's quite disturbing. An eerie, undefinable discomfort.

Gatekeeping may not be the best word, and I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. OP is not merely pointing out a deficiency: they are suggesting that there is a decline in software quality because of these non-CS people entering the market. Pointing out a deficiency and blaming said deficiencies for a trend of bad software quality are two very different claims. It suggests that one cannot produce good software without a CS background, with which I disagree as an absolute statement. That may be a slight leap, but I think OP made a pretty broad suggestion.

I haven't and wouldn't suggest that people be moved to a position with responsibilities over their head If you want to move up and you need to learn more, of course you need to find a way to learn the required concepts. I did this and continue to do it.

My point about bootcamps is most people who finish them aren't out there getting jobs that require knowledge of CPU pipelines. If that IS happening, someone is really bad at hiring.

Yes, clearly I am not advocating that anyone of any experience should be allowed to do any job. OP is positing that there is a decline in software quality because of developers who don't know those CS concepts. I don't agree.

If you're saying you wouldn't hire a developer who didn't know those concepts in your domain, OK.. I don't know what your domain is. Software is a huge field as I'm sure you know and there are many domains in which the requirements include understanding these CS concepts.

If you're saying you wouldn't hire a developer who didn't understand CPU pipelines in ANY software engineering context, I strongly believe you would be missing out on some highly skilled & capable people.

No, I don't think the quality has gone down. I think this outlook is a way of gatekeeping engineers who don't have a formal CS background. I happen to be one of them.

Most people who go to a bootcamp (I did not, but have hired a developer who did) do not end up working in a role that requires understanding of the 5 topics above you mentioned, with the exception of cache and maybe algorithms. It's just not what most bootcamps are targeted for.

I have seen a lot of terrible code from both sides, and don't believe the quality of the code to be a function of the developer's level of formal education.

I believe this was my first time learning to compile a C++ project. This was 13 years ago; I was 14 years old. Great memories playing with others, chatting, building maps.

I was recently in Zurich and entered a small shop that was honor system. Scan and pay for your own items, no staff. Small food items, drinks, wine available.

Might be different since there could be cameras or some other form of accountability, but I found it interesting.

I have used Postgres with both Django and Flask quite a bit now.

Since you're probably used to dealing with and migrating your tables manually, I would keep custom SQL for all your complex operations, and use SQLAlchemy for doing basic insert/update/select. Django also has an "unmanaged" mode where you can create a model and it will avoid trying to create a migration to create the table.

Of course, you have to manually update the model if you manually change your DDL.

Watch out for differences on how you are serializing data from Django/SQLAlchemy models vs. raw dicts from PsychoPG.

I like to organize my SQL by keeping each query in a separate .sql file and writing a little wrapper that fetches the files (+1 for caching it) and then executing it. I'm not a fan of lots of inline SQL mixed with Python.

Overall I think it's a great + powerful setup!