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My hardest interview was at Roblox (passing Google and Apple). After passing the normal coding + system design questions, they throw you at leadership who ask you a random analytical question. I struggled with knowing what sort of depth to go into, and asking clarifying questions did not help.

I can't find the RAM listed in the tech specs page. Any guesses?

The 5th gen has 3GB.

Even better: .85/.7 = 21.4%

~$340k for my apps. This is why I thought they would never make a change, because people would be upset without retroactivity (which they would never do).

This is exciting for small devs, even if not life-changing.

I made 42k in the last 365 days after Apple's 30% cut (or 60k in sales). That means I will get to keep an extra 9k next year, assuming revenue stays flat (it mostly has).

I was hired last year without a reference. I just submitted a resume to the careers page.

I want to use Firestore in Unity. When???

I’ve heard that even if you win in small claims it’s hard to collect from these giant corps. Were you ever able to collect the damages?

Anecdotally, I just came back from New Zealand and was staying at a farm house rented out on Airbnb. The owner was previously an actuary in Sydney, and hated his job so switched mid career to farmer. Pretty large change.

Different word trivia that I find fascinating that I feel HNers will also appreciate:

(twelve plus one) is an anagram of (eleven plus two)

I guess that should be called a mathagram?

.games

> I particularly don't like when the first result is the paid result from company X, and the second result is the organic result of company X, which is only paying to outbid competitors that could appear as #1 when people search for "X".

Haha that annoys me too, and I can totally follow the logic for choosing the organic result, but I use the reasoning that I want to "stick it" to the company whose advertising and force them to pay for the ad they are showing me, so I actually intentionally click the paid result.

My brother and I make mobile apps. We had an office downtown in a large city. We would often work 20-24 hours and then drive home exhausted. A year ago, one block from our office while stopped at a red light, we saw a vehicle turn left hard on a yellow right as a bicyclist was crossing and hit the woman and she flew at least 6 feet vertically in the air. We called emergency services and someone else was right over helping her. When we drove past her she was out cold on the cement. I don't know what happened, but I assume she lived or I would have been called back by the police for my testimony. That was the day we decided we would no longer go to the office even though we had 4 more months on the lease. It just wasn't worth risking killing someone. I'm glad to have had that experience to shock me into realizing how stupid it was to be driving tired.