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The tech Stockholm syndrome

The tech Stockholm syndrome

Your company is not your identity, your worth is not valued by the KPIs you meet, and working more than 40hrs (arguably should be less, sweet spot being around 35 for me) only leads to burn out and disappointment.

Things I don't like about working for clients

In my experience working for clients I've come to realize that most of the time they don't want the best app they can have. Or, at least, they don’t act that way. Most of them ignore willingly the fact that you know best, that you want them to succeed

Is fragmentation really that much of a problem in Android?

I always read the same and never-ending articles / posts / tweets about Android's fragmentation. The same boring infographics [http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation.php], the same Google Play pie charts with Android version penetration, and always the same argument about how the developers are crazy about it, like if it's impossible

Android's Camera Intent killing my Application

Working with the camerais always a pain in the ass . But at least in Android we have Intents. So, with little code we are able to get a working 300×300 thumbnail or even a picture with the best quality the device can offer. So I used it for a

Ditching Eclipse, at last

I’m kind offed up with Eclipse . I acknowledge it’s a good IDE, but too broad and too cluttered for me. So after I returned to work after my forced leave, I finally got to put in practice one of my new year resolutions: switch toIntelliJ IDEA [http://www.

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The outrageous story of the mighty CTO intern

Worst job offer ever. A CTO offer, with that many technologies required (they ask for high skill in them)… 40h per week (8 hours/day) with a contract of 4 months being an intern. Yes, a CTO intern. And for 600€ ($775). Unbelievable. I don’t know if cry or

Why, Apple?

I’m always forgetting to install Xcode’sCommand Line Tools after every Xcode update. I mean, if I install it once, why shouldn’t it be installed automatically after each update? Is it really that difficult? I remember with love and fluffy feelings how my life was before all this.

Recruiters who don't give up

There are some recruiters that doesn’t seem to understand the word NO. They come again and again trying to recruit me but it’s funny because they offer me half my salary and much worse work conditions for a boring and meaningless work. They come from consultory firms. That.

How to burn $50

If you want to burn $50 without having to search for a lighter, now you’ll know how! Just set up a campaign with Admob . You’ll see a very noticeable increment in your downloads… 1 person out of 1000 clicks! Awesome. Yeah, yeah, this is plain trolling. I know.

Why do people who can't read buy smartphones?

I know one must keep the cool in these situations but they make it hard. At least I know I must not answer, just ignoring them does the trick. Ah, well, haven’t said it yet. I’m talking about the people whopunish your app in the stores (App Store

Meetings make a developer sad

But let me rephrase that. There aremeetings and there are meetings. And there is the chance there are shitloads of them and then you’re sad. Of course, daily meetings for status report are not up for discussion. When you are preparing a big estimation for a project where lots

This grinded my gears... A LOT

A friend of mine tweeted yesterday [https://twitter.com/_TheAway/status/221114784672776193] about a conversation he overheard when he was having a coffee at a bar. They were talking about computer specialists in general, stating that none of us is good, and outrageously they asked for a wage over 700€