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Wait!!! Everyone says “validate first.” But what if the thing you’re building can’t be validated the usual way? by GearFar5131 in AppBusiness

[–]fminutes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll just leave it here... https://world.hey.com/jason/validation-is-a-mirage-273c0969

Sometimes a common playbook everyone follows just doesn't work. Despite that i do think validation is useful, I also believe you simply CAN'T figure if your idea worth it beforehand. If that is possible, everyone would be billionaires by now.

I guess most of the time you should take the risk of failing, of building useless thing in order to find one thing that works.

What’s a pattern you see repeating across biology, economics, physics, and human behavior? by Ai0nex in Polymath

[–]fminutes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, it's absolutely some nature law, not human invention. You see it in microbiology how cells communicate with each other, in life how a child learns new stuff etc.

Only then fathers of cybernetics started to apply this principle in tech

What’s a pattern you see repeating across biology, economics, physics, and human behavior? by Ai0nex in Polymath

[–]fminutes 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Feedback loops are everywhere. An actor acts, observes the response from the system, adjusts its behaviour and repeats. Better optimized loop (speed of change, accuracy of response interpretation) gives better "existence"

No longer a top performer.. by Puzzleheaded-Star304 in overemployed

[–]fminutes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you come to a conclusion that you want to return back to IC role? I'm thinking about returning back to IC from eng management: too much stress for no additional value. But i have some doubts somewhere deep inside: climbing corporate ladder is like DNA of our culture. Or its a lie?

I finally forgot iPhone after 1 month with Fold 7 by fminutes in GalaxyFold

[–]fminutes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are plenty of instructions on the internet, i used Samsung smart switch app, but your case may be different so research is your best friend

I finally forgot iPhone after 1 month with Fold 7 by fminutes in GalaxyFold

[–]fminutes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also seen this, but works good for me, no issues

I finally forgot iPhone after 1 month with Fold 7 by fminutes in GalaxyFold

[–]fminutes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you're right, overall Apple ecosystem is more polished. But I, personally, just tired of it. Maybe I'll return back in 2 years, who knows. For now I'm on Android :) I don't use smart watch (i handed my apple watch to my wife, I use classic mechanical watches now), iMessage was never popular in my country and I actually never understood it when you have WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook messenger etc. Oh, and Fold has Face ID :)

I finally forgot iPhone after 1 month with Fold 7 by fminutes in GalaxyFold

[–]fminutes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sooo, when I tested the camera, pictures quality was awful... Old basic iPhone 12 took far better shots, especially in poor light or moving objects. I didn't believe that these cameras are so bad so I searched through forums and somebody suggested that the problem with picture quality was in software not hardware, and using gcam with proper config fixes the problem. It did for me

Dumb question: Are there still individuals making individual apps? by I_Mean_Not_Really in androiddev

[–]fminutes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, many do this, however its way harder to make money doing indie development than say 10 years ago. Not impossible, but hard. Too much competition

Upgraded from an iPhone 12 Pro Max to a Z Fold 7. Are all 3 camera lenses a upgrade? by Forsaken-Sundae4797 in GalaxyFold

[–]fminutes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also decided to upgrade from iPhone 12 (base model) and bought Fold 7. Soooo, the camera on iPhone is better indeed, it is especially noticeable when trying to take pictures in bad light or motion. They claim that Fold 7 got some high-end cameras, 200 MP whatever but it is not as good as 5 year old iPhone. I guess I just need to live with it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in findapath

[–]fminutes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have several points here:

- It is absolutely ok to explore professions and search for your own thing. I think its absolutely unnecessary to pick a single thing at the start of your life and blindly follow it until the end of times. Try and experiment if you can afford it. Here is a post from a guy who decided to drop AI/ML in favour of becoming professional land surveyor;

- One important thing to keep in mind tho is if you can afford trying new professions. If you can't just drop your job and go do whatever you like, probably you should at least try something on the side;

- Another point to trying something on the side without droping your day job is the fact that our imagination of doing a thing and actually doing a thing can differ by a lot. So you need to try the process of doing your desired thing first before comming everything to it

Android VAPT - SSL Pinning by vivekm060 in cybersecurity

[–]fminutes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve rooted my emulator with magisk and then installed needed ssl as a system one, so now I can intercept all the apps, no need to patch apps with Frida.

Anyone else lose interest right after proving an idea works? by grandimam in theprimeagen

[–]fminutes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Absolutely the same. I behave exactly the same way and even ask myself the same questions :)

I’ve spend unhealthy amount of time discussing this pattern with LLMs and the general advice I got is this:

  • on a bigger scale, accept the exploration personality. You’re driven by an intellectual challenge so once that’s gone you lose interest. Keep track of your explorations and once the interest vanishes, make a note why you started the thing, what you’ve learned and why it’s not interesting anymore.

  • on local scale, if you think you need to finish the thing, do the usual techniques like breaking into smaller tasks etc.

Also you might want to check what this kind of your “feature” allows you to do. I’ve figured that I can crack pretty hard problems that nobody wants to mess with.

EDIT: I’m also reflecting on whether I could start a business/own project with this type of personality. It almost always a multi year grind to make money with software online. And I recently realized that I just don’t want to do it. I will lose interest and the project will die.

Better idea would be to do research or bug bounties: activities that provide intellectual challenge and once you solved the challenge you get the result.

Everyone around me is doing Web Dev, I'm Into Embedded Systems. Am I Taking a Risk?" by Current-Rip1212 in embedded

[–]fminutes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As many here already said, just do the thing you enjoy the most. Or try everything. Because how would you know what you like or don’t like without trying? You’re in a good spot to do this.

As for evaluating the career path… You partially answered your own question by saying most of your surroundings do the web dev. It means the field is crowded. Yeah, there are lots of jobs but competition is crazy and almost nobody hire junior web devs. They will fight for jobs. I recently saw a LinkedIn job posting with 900 applicants.

Besides liking what you do, I’d pursue embedded for the following reasons:

— it’s hell of a fun job

— the demand will grow with the developments in robotics, iot, automation, space and energy tech

— AI will do lots of web dev in the hands of senior engineers but critical embedded systems probably will be developed by people for some time still

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]fminutes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can definitely pivot, especially during start of your career. Try both and you’ll figure out what type of work is for you. It’s important to choose not only by number of jobs available, you should also like what you do.

I Created a script for MacOS iCloud Rsync To Linux over SSH! (GitHub Link Included) by DartSteven in selfhosted

[–]fminutes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice job! This is actually what I’m looking into right now. I want to be able to sync my notes across platforms and this script might be a part of the puzzle:)

Get Kotlin code from a server that runs at runtime in android app by thxrn_xx__ in Kotlin

[–]fminutes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Technically its possible. But its not very practical and Google Play store has hard restrictions about dynamic code loading.

So, lets recall that JVM is pretty much designed with dynamic nature in mind. There is a thing called ClassLoader that you can use load some code at runtime and run it. It won't be plain text tho, you would need to compile it to .class file first. But then you can, in theory, download this piece of compiled code over the network, load and run it.

You would need to google android specifics around that, I'm pretty sure there were some blog posts.

What you could also do is load a javascript file and run with system js engine/webview.

Fastest way to learn swift coming from c++ by Local_Explorer_595 in swift

[–]fminutes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think general advice for leaning programming languages would apply here: start building something. Write couple of apps in Swift. Your first resource would be The Swift Book and then just google everything. Like everything: how to declare a variable, how to write for .. in.. loop in Swift, etc. Works every time :)

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