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Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Right to Read movie talks about this very topic, and features the author of this podcast: https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org/
Comment · 3 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 4 years ago
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.
Comment · 4 years ago
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-...
Comment · 5 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Looks like that would've probably been caught if it were written in Swift.
Comment · 6 years ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
One huge problem is that there’s no context-indepedent definition of quality code, and criticisms often suffer from hindsight bias.
Comment · 9 years ago
Jaron Lanier characterizes these kinds of companies as "Siren Servers": http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/the-vibrant-religious-...