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coastal-fiesta commented on iOS 15 Humane potential.app/ios-15-huma... · Posted by u/uffo

eloisius · 5 years ago

If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. Require app developers to submit a template string (and not "\(message)") for each notification the app can deliver for approval in the App Store and let me have an on/off switch for each one.

"Notifications" across every platform drive me crazy, because they usually start out as useful, but because people tend to pay them more attention than all the other channels that have already been tuned out, companies start juicing them for engagement. I use twitter rarely, but every time I do I am perplexed why my "notifications" are full of crap about who recently tweeted. Shouldn't that just be in my timeline?

coastal-fiesta · 5 years ago

I was so glad to see iOS offer the ability to grant apps access to a subset of your photo library, rather than your entire photo library or nothing at all. I hope they take this approach with notifications too.

coastal-fiesta commented on Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity adsknews.autodesk.com/pre... · Posted by u/gwintrob

inferiorhuman · 7 years ago

If it's any consolation I got headhunted by PlanGrid earlier this year. I knew of them in a professional context and was ready to sign on the dotted line after the recruiter's opening salvo. Turns out the hiring manager and recruiter were completely disorganized and seemed more interested in playing games than actually hiring. PlanGrid basically snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Reading this news blurb resulted in a bit of mixed emotions for me. Earlier this year, prior to my run-in with PlanGrid, I walked away from a decent chunk of unvested stock options in a rather well known publicly traded company. I suppose they deserve each other.

coastal-fiesta · 7 years ago

Curious about the details here. What games were the recruiters playing?

coastal-fiesta commented on The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security troyhunt.com/the-effectiv... · Posted by u/MandieD

tvanantwerp · 8 years ago

I always answer the security questions with gibberish that I also save with my password manager. I now use a method like correct-horse-battery-staple to create answers, but I used to use long alphanumeric strings. I switched methods because, yes, one day I had to read the answer over the phone.

Rep: "Tell me the answer to this question."

Me: "Ok, let me see what I set it to..."

Answer: F^O9dA66@wUPpK5$lTXBbrQ#yLP1EGl$

Me: "Oh... Oh no."

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

This is exactly what I do. Keep it easily human readable but it should still be nonsense that no one could social-engineer their way into getting.

coastal-fiesta commented on Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/petethomas

astrodust · 8 years ago

It should be illegal for municipalities to throw huge tax breaks at companies so they don't have to fight to the death for each and every scrap.

This should also apply to stadiums where, for reasons I cannot even fathom, small cities throw billions into a building that they don't own, that has an astonishingly short life-span, and for which they derive very little in the way of actual benefits.

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

What is the lifespan of a sports stadium?

coastal-fiesta commented on AT&T confirms it is buying ad platform AppNexus reportedly for between $1.6B-$2B techcrunch.com/2018/06/25... · Posted by u/chauzer

asafira · 8 years ago

Extra props for including "old." there.

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

Why the dislike of the new interface?

coastal-fiesta commented on What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job mtlynch.io/since-quitting... · Posted by u/TonnyGaric

greggman · 8 years ago

I glad it worked out for the author but so far it hasn't worked out for me. It's been 5 years which wasn't my plan. I thought it would be 6 months until I figured out what I want to do. Things that happened.

Travelled: found it mostly extremely lonely to travel alone. Got sick of seeing the same things (this place's contemporary art museum, that place's famous church). Of course I saw some amazing things but I now think I agree with some happiness researcher who claims travel is best in short < 1 week bursts every few months.

Worked on personal projects. I do get some feeling of accomplishment but mostly I just feel lonely and isolated. At good jobs I had the camaraderie of close co-workers who became close friends and we really collaborated. I tried hanging out at cafes and coffee shops and that's better than staying home but not all that less isolating. The random people that show up are not people I talk to or become close to.

I don't feel "free" at all. I'm sure it's partly in my mind. I might also be age differences. I'm older and need to think about retirement I realize I can't just make any random decision because there isn't time to correct. I tell myself I don't feel free because I don't have enough money to never work again. I do have to do something that earns significant income (enough to retire in 10-12 years). If I did have enough to retire maybe I'd still not feel free like not having enough to do X where X is whatever (fund that project, whatever...) though maybe I'd feel free to do things and never worry about income (volunteer for various things?). Now I don't volunteer because that's not going to help me earn money to retire. I'm not sure I'd volunteer or not.

I'm pretty much completely lost at this point. No idea what I want to do anymore. I waste my days reading HN and browsing the net and working on personal projects that have no future prospects and answering questions on SO. I go to a meet up or 2 a week and that's about it.

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

>I agree with some happiness researcher who claims travel is best in short < 1 week bursts every few months.

Got a link to that?

coastal-fiesta commented on Solving dynamic programming interview problems blog.refdash.com/dynamic-... · Posted by u/otasevic

Karishma1234 · 8 years ago

I have always found the word DP to be a bit confusing. DP problems are essentially recursion + caching. I do not even like the word "memoise".

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

Indeed, it sounds like someone is just saying "memorize" incorrectly.

coastal-fiesta commented on Solving dynamic programming interview problems blog.refdash.com/dynamic-... · Posted by u/otasevic

nilkn · 8 years ago

We pay very well for the area. We are not in Silicon Valley, but I know some of our salaries are higher than those of my friends who are at Google's MV campus.

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

It's not terribly impressive to have a higher salary then a GOOG employee, but higher total compensation after stock and bonuses would be saying something.

coastal-fiesta commented on LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time robertxiao.ca/hacking/loc... · Posted by u/uptown

8_hours_ago · 8 years ago

I just wrote to my senators and representative in congress, and I urge everyone else to do the same. It is unacceptable that our personal information is so easily sold to 3rd parties by our cell phone carriers, with no way to opt-out.

coastal-fiesta · 8 years ago

Mind pasting the letter you wrote?