kaeawc

8 jaar geledendiscuss

Sorry to hear that, can imagine the frustration.

8 jaar geledendiscuss

I actually ripped out Smyte's Android SDK because of how bad it was and replaced it with my own implementation against their API which has a hard limit on retries. But I imagine that other customers were using their SDK and still have live apps out there using it... not good :/

kaeawc

8 jaar geledendiscuss

We had 20 minutes notice, and then everyone was kicked out of the Slack support channel and API responses simply died. What the actual fuck. They have mobile client SDKs out in the wild that are now just eating up battery life as they retry an impossible query forever.

kaeawc

8 jaar geledendiscuss

I am a developer of an app that makes use of Facebook friend permissions and have seen the various API changes they have made since 2014.

Applications using Facebook Graph 2.+ (which is the only option since Spring 2015 or so) who access friend data may only access data of friends who have also given consent to your app. So if A and C log into a Facebook app, and A is friends with B and C, the app can only be aware that A and C exist. This is true of legacy and new Facebook applications. It used to be possible to get basically everything about B (name, age, gender, photo, etc), but that all got shut down when Graph API 1.0 was discontinued. If this is somehow not the case for some Facebook apps that got special permission or there is a hack to get at the data, that would be a huge breach of trust.

kaeawc

8 jaar geledendiscuss

Whoa. Why is this post so buried?

kaeawc

8 jaar geledendiscuss

> If there is never enough time to refactor and new features are always being pushed

That is a sign of bad culture, both in engineering and product. Whether its starting a green-field project in a scrappy startup or building yet-another-feature for an established product if the estimates are constantly redlining everyone's available time and never giving thought to maintenance, QA, testing, code review, and testing then of course it will always feel like that. When estimates include that stuff and you show product you can ship features more reliably more often in the long run, they buy into that. If they don't buy into that they are either very delusional, have only worked with absolutely perfect people, or they utterly do not care how many extra hours / stress the lack of quality causes you / the team / the company.

kaeawc

9 jaar geledendiscuss

Have you gone to production with it yet for your backend? Curious Android dev here.

kaeawc

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I generally agree, except if you click on "Home" it shows a sad PHP 404

kaeawc

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I figured out how to undo the CSS that hides the release button and had some fun...

https://imgur.com/a/QIEv9

kaeawc

9 jaar geledendiscuss

You don't know how broken the CSS is until you've reached deep conversation...

https://imgur.com/a/o2gTo

kaeawc

9 jaar geledendiscuss

In Kotlin it's much more common to write the following, which is exclusive:

   count.forEach {
      // do things
   }

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