This has been a recurring theme for me in 2014. https://t.co/H613AEUvwj

— Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) December 1, 2014

People have asked how I make changes so quickly to my code, it's because I've made it so it can be changed quickly.

— Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) December 1, 2014

Build what you have to build, then make it more generic so you can use it again without the code gaining entropy.

— Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) December 1, 2014

As a bad math student, the best advice I got was to solve for one scenario, solve it for another, and only then try to connect the dots. Continue Reading →

— Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) December 1, 2014

I tweeted earlier, comparing DuckDuckGo to Google when searching for the term “Go 1.4 beta”, and how the first 50 results (I got bored scrolling and didn’t go further, no pun intended) on DuckDuckGo didn’t even have one mention of the language. Gabriel Weinberg being the good founder that he is (he seems very smart, and I highly respect what he’s doing) replied asking for more examples of things queries that he can investigate to improve, so I figured I’d use the opportunity to leverage my thoughts, instead of the discussing the symptoms. Continue Reading →

I’m starting to think that the ramp up in sapphire production from Apple isn’t about a screen, but TouchID sensors on every Apple product… Continue Reading →

The internet decided last week, the iPad is dying. Too bad, I really enjoyed using mine. Well, not really for the first 4 years, but when Apple released the iPad Mini, it became my computing partner. Supposedly the Mac is sitting in the corner rapping “don’t call it a comeback.”

It depends on what you want out of a computer, and yes, I’m calling the iPad a computer. Continue Reading →

With rumors swirling about a bigger iPhone 6, I figured I’d touch on them (haha, puns). A few years ago, I thought the idea of a larger iPhone would be something I disliked. With my small-ish hands, even the iPhone 5’s 4 inch screen is too large for me to reach the back button in the top left corner of the screen with one hand.

But now, since iOS 7, I don’t fear a bigger phone, I would even welcome one.  Continue Reading →

I’ve been doing Objective-C for almost 5 years (woo!), so at this point I think I have a better understanding than most of Apple’s motivations and intentions, with relation to building the language.

That said, recently I’ve been loving working with Go, and there’s a few reasons for that. Continue Reading →

It's short notice, but I’m giving a talk Stony Brook University tonight about How Startups Fail. So if you find yourself in the middle of… Continue Reading →

All day every day. Continue Reading →

There's one company I've got my eye on in this new year. I don't necessarily expect them to succeed or fail, but do think that this will be a pivotal year in their history. Continue Reading →

The Good

1. You can’t just get funding for any old idea.

Being the financial capital world means that people are wary of giving money to stupid ideas. Ok, ok, less wary, but it still happens. But New York is very grounded with respect to technology, and that gives me [some] confidence in the ideas that are being funded here. Continue Reading →