Posted by Nando:
Rafael Fischmann wrote:
Google wants you (if you’re a Mac developer)
A new posting on Yahoo! hotjobs finds Google seeking the talents of a “Senior Macintosh Developer.”
I’d go for it.
I didn’t know you were a senior macintosh developer
Posted by Rafael Fischmann:
Rainer, here’s your opportunity:
Google wants you (if you’re a Mac developer)
A new posting on Yahoo! hotjobs finds Google seeking the talents of a “Senior Macintosh Developer.” The individual join the team in charge of bringing Google’s client applications, such as (but not necessarily including) Desktop, Picasa, and Talk, over to the Mac. Google only recently released Google Earth for Mac OS X.
Google has long billed itself as being platform agnostic and embracing open standards but to date efforts beyond the Web have involved almost exclusively Microsoft’s Windows platform.
I’d go for it.
What do you think about it?
More comments on this by DrunkenBatman and John Siracusa; worth a read.
Posted by Nando:
colpa wrote:
While Apple jobs are prestigious and important, I could imagine working at Apple and wishing I was out on my own where I could work on any project that suits me. And so we are!
Funny you should say that, I just read the Audion story and Cabel got to the same conclusion as you. Thinking of it, I don’t know if I would take a job at Apple either. As an icon designer in my case, but even so. I think I like being able to do my own stuff. I’d love to build an amazing carreer on my own, and not hidden behind a big company.
Posted by colpa:
While Apple jobs are prestigious and important, I could imagine working at Apple and wishing I was out on my own where I could work on any project that suits me. And so we are! 
A couple of days ago I managed to finish off most of my remaining offline problems and, since I’d seen news that the ADC Compatibility Labs now had the new iMacs for testing, applied for a couple of days at one of them.
No, I’m not going to Cupertino, but rather wanted to try out Xcode’s Remote Debugging.
As a result, I now can confidently say that XRay 2 will be fully compatible with the new Intel Macs. I’ll also be licensing the new Universal logo.
It’s rather late in the day, but tomorrow I’ll post technical details…
Nando wrote:
Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
This of course disqualifies me…
Maybe it’s time you learn something ‘old’ and get one of those positions at Apple. I don’t know of anyone more prepared than you.
Thanks for your vote of confidence; 10 or perhaps even 5 years ago I’d have been interested. Now, I’m more interested in learning more about Cocoa. I suppose Steve Gehrman of Path Finder fame would give you the same answer, and he’s way more “prepared” for writing a new Finder than I am… now, if they’d specified Cocoa and telecommuting, that’d be another story.
Posted by Nando:
Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
Preferred experience:
5+ years of experience developing software.
Experienced in using STL, Boost.
Shipped shrink-wrapped products.
Knowlege of Core Graphics, HIView and Carbon, Core Foundation.
This of course disqualifies me; I’ve carefully avoided most of those so far. Hmmm…
Maybe it’s time you learn something ‘old’ and get one of those positions at Apple. I don’t know of anyone more prepared than you.
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