ned_roberts

Joined 15 years ago

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May 17
I like to build things with code, mostly Swift these days.
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Comment · 10 months ago
Search for “LSJ”: Little Saint James, his island.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looking at the “metrics” they shared, going from committing just about zero code over the last two years to more than zero in the past two months may be a 10x improvement. I haven’t seen any evidence more experienced developers see anywhere near that speedup.
Comment · 3 years ago
Which is also being discontinued. Apparently it shares a large amount of code with AppCode.
Comment · 6 years ago
A big one for me (covered in the release notes):

"Experimental support for using client certificates from the OS certificate store can be enabled on macOS by setting the preference security.osclientcerts.autoload to true."

This allows Firefox to work with my company's BeyondCorp implementation. I was forced to use Chrome before.

Comment · 10 years ago
Anecdotally, standing for half the day has helped my hemorrhoids. Not sure if they were caused by sitting for 8+ hours a day in a desk chair, but not sitting definitely helps. Not something I brag about though :)
Comment · 12 years ago
StrataCloud - Atlanta, GA - FULLTIME LOCAL

We're doing some pretty neat things in the virtualization/datacenter management space (converged infrastructure management). We've got a distributed, scalable backend written in Erlang and Python, fronted by a single-page application written using Coffeescript using Node.js and Backbone. We have some marquee customers already and are looking to grow significantly this year.

On the technical side we're looking for developers to work on the product (frontend and backend) as well as develop an expansive automated test suite. We're currently a small team and want to hire people like ourselves: smart, motivated individuals who enjoy the challenge of growing a company.

In additional to technical folks we're also looking for the following:

* Account Executives

* Sales Engineering

* Marketing manager

* Account Management/Support

If you're interested contact me at [email protected]

Comment · 12 years ago
StrataCloud - Atlanta, GA - FULLTIME LOCAL

We're doing some pretty neat things in the virtualization/datacenter management space. We've got a distributed, scalable backend written in Erlang and Python, fronted by a web application written in Coffeescript using Node.js and Backbone. We have some marquee customers already and are looking to grow significantly this year.

On the technical side we're looking for developers to work on the product (frontend and backend) as well as develop an expansive automated test suite. We're currently a small team and want to hire people like ourselves: smart, motivated individuals who enjoy the challenge of growing a company.

In additional to technical folks we're also looking for the following:

* Account Executives

* Sales Engineering

* Marketing manager

* Account Management/Support

If you're interested contact me at [email protected]

Comment · 13 years ago
No need to click on anything. Everything's accessible through the keyboard.
Comment · 13 years ago
Unless you never make changes to your software, development time is as continuous as run time. As someone pointed out below, the fact that Google finds value in Go seems to point to there being enough of a cost in development time that they're willing to sacrifice run time to reduce it.

That said, what makes sense for Google doesn't necessarily make sense for the rest of us.

Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm going to guess the same thing that made me hate it: it covers up the first few letters of about 10 lines in the middle of the window.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm in the process of negotiating for an engineering job with Google now and it's been extremely difficult to get any information about what positions they're actually hiring for. When I was there for the interview there was very little time for me to ask any questions about what the teams actually do and what I might be doing if I joined. This is very different from every other interview I've had before where I'm talking to the team members I would be working with.

Later, after talking with an engineering manager and getting agreement to be assigned to one team, they tell me I'll be working for some other team as if our conversation never happened. It's almost as if the attitude is that I should be lucky to have been offered a job and I should be happy with whatever I'm given.

Comment · 15 years ago
The main reason I use IntelliJ products (IDEA for Java and AppCode for iOS) is the keyboard support. These guys are serious about making sure every feature is easily done with the keyboard. Xcode drives me crazy because I feel like I'm always reaching for the mouse or tabbing through fields or buttons to drive the UI.

The most common refactorings, like rename method/variable/field or change signature are all easily done through the UI. Example: rename (anything) is Shift-F6, <type new name>, enter. I do this all the time.

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