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Same. I wish there were an alternative (a practical pocket computer), but there really isn't. So I too gave up on fighting my phone, and have also completely stopped doing mobile development. I now treat my phone essentially as an untrusted, prepackaged walled garden with limited utility. :-/

I always find advice like this a little confusing. A lot of these things seem (to me) to be none of the engineers' business.

To me, engineers receive specs from management and implement solutions that meet those specs. And that's it.

I suppose my personal experience must not be how things work elsewhere! Kind of fascinating, and it makes me wonder if people enjoy all this extra responsibility and how things go when engineers disagree with management.

I've seen a lot of new developers shocked by this approach, which surprises me a little. They seem to think that it's up to the application to handle all errors, even those of the programmer(s). This, of course, is unreasonable since it would essentially require knowing all the bugs in advance. :-)

Who Owns 4chan? 4 years ago

I thought they were pretty useful until roughly the mid-'90s. They seemed to go into full hype mode at that point, IIRC... I cancelled my sub around that time.

These people know literally nothing about human perception

I'm sure there's a legitimate way to interpret this statement, but it still made me scratch my head a bit. :-)