loarabia
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Comment · 3 years ago
I think we do use this turbine but with thicker liquids and in reverse as a pump -- maybe it was in oil or some of the chemical industries?
Comment · 3 years ago
Currently I’m a GTPM at Meta and this is the expectation we have for onboarding to a new team unless you’re early in career. I’ve seen this be the case for SWE and other roles in the technical domain. Typically you have an expertise area and at least on my team a starter project or 2 with a tangible deliverable to get you going on something while you ramp and meet others and figure things out. Meta is a big place though so could be other expectations in other organizations.
Comment · 4 years ago
This should be the music rework. http://www.medievalfuture.com/precursors/music.php
Comment · 5 years ago
For Japanese go server, I'd suggest IGS aka PandaNet.
It's hard to say how much larger it is than OGS. OGS has an enormous population of correspondence players but generally smaller for live play maybe by 3x?
Comment · 5 years ago
If I recall correctly, these are actually used today but with more viscous fluids like oil and in reverse as a pump.
Comment · 6 years ago
Most of the buildings I spent time in for the last 7 years didn't have private offices any longer. Studios A-D had hybrid models where leads and the most senior engineers often had very small glass offices and teams sat in bays (I think some of those might have reverted to all small glass offices). 16,17,18,40,41,42,43, some of the buildings in the 30s as well had all moved to open. Many of the newest buildings (which I forget the numbers of were open) and IIRC , the new campus when complete was to be open. There were still to be sure many many buildings with offices but as buildings were remodeled they were mostly converted to open offices.
Comment · 6 years ago
Recalling my time there, one tweak-- EVP > CVP so those are backward. There are a hand full of EVPs but quite a lot of CVPs running around. TBH Past Partner (68) I'm not sure the levels really matter much and I forget the pure Software Eng equivalents to those higher levels (Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow).
Comment · 6 years ago
I do agree on avoiding electron if possible as users do notice. I've seen folks who perhaps don't know the intricate details of software run into performance issues.
A public example: Dwyrin is a YouTube streamer playing Go/Baduk. After most streams he reviews the game and likes an app called Sabaki. About 8:10 minutes in, he remarks on the performance of the app (https://youtu.be/vrX4qlbpQfU?t=492). Sabaki is an electron based app.
I do however disagree with removing right click / highlighting. That makes copy paste difficult or impossible for the typical user. I spent years working on Silverlight and UWP and one of the things I recall the team looking back on particularly with Silverlight and regretting was that TextBlocks by default didn't have highlightable text. Its too useful for users sharing error messages with you as the developer or data with each other to get their jobs done.
Comment · 7 years ago
I wondered the same thing. Apparently a Scheme to C translator. http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Getting%20started
Comment · 8 years ago
Edge fails in the below code on TrimEnd with this message
Microsoft Edge 44.17763.1.0
Object doesn't support property or method 'trimEnd'
: function createTemplateArr(number) { return '1fr ' .repeat(number) .trimEnd() .split(' ') }
MDN's compat chart doesn't make clear if Edge supports this or not but manual experimentation suggests not although trimRight is supported so a possible polyfill. I filed a bug against Edge just now.
Comment · 8 years ago
Did Netflix allow you to work remote? I was under the impression they are pretty strict about engineers being in Los Gatos or LA.
Comment · 8 years ago
Can you shed more light on doing one thing at a time? Is this about removing distractions while you're trying to learn or is this as much about picking one topic to learn at a time? IE don't try to learn to play the piano and learn to speak Chinese in parallel? My assumption is that section 1 is about the small distractions but I was also wondering if the research indicates anything for multiple courses of study in parallel.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's awesome. It just seems to need a todo app sprinkled in somewhere. Maybe somewhere around 1st job?
Comment · 9 years ago
There were the below two items [0], [1] which are runtime and tooling pieces. I've used them years ago in side projects and they were helpful but haven't kept up with them recently. They both help find or handle argument validation issues as enumerated above.
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-trac...
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/pex-and-mol...
Comment · 9 years ago
Two Projects
1st Problem: Went through a round of interviews a while back and was talking with friends about the feedback or lack thereof and thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could practice and get feedback from someone who actually does this and made . . .
Project: http://site-1146624-6257-8128.strikingly.com/
2nd Problem: Grew up playing Star Control 2 which was open-sourced as the urquan masters. However, the project seems to have lost some momentum and I feel like (on Windows at least) finding all of its exact dependencies is not easy.
Project: I've been porting a fork of UQM (http://sc2.sourceforge.net/) to Windows 10 and SDL 2 (still private) and playing with VCPKG at the same time.
Built UI Frameworks for Microsoft for a few years (WPF, Silverlight, UWP) and later Developer Platforms (Windows SDK then Azure SDKs). Now working on Infrastructure at Meta (Facebook).