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by aprdm 6y ago
lol. It doesn't matter much if you're not the one in the lower bracket.
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by aprdm 6y ago
How do you learn if you don't have to maintain what you wrote after two years...? Also, creating connections and really understanding a company/business is really fun IMO.
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by aprdm 6y ago
House/condo have very different prices. You can totally buy a condo anywhere in Vancouver with a software engineer salary of 120k+ which is very doable for senior positions..
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by aprdm 6y ago
I agree with you but out of curiosity what do you suggest as a solution ? You believe all we need is the fine and then the company goes under ? If that's true then all the individuals who failed could just as easily go to another compa
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by aprdm 6y ago
> Curious which ones? The Visual Effects industry in my case. Reason is unreleased content, for example, the new iPhone commercial or a new Marvel movie that hasn't been announced yet. > Did you have to audit all the vendor code?
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by aprdm 6y ago
> You mean the development environment you worked in or is this referring to production? I worked in. Is fairly normal to work without internet in some industries / environments (including my current one) > Tools like babel don&#
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by aprdm 6y ago
I really enjoyed reading this! If I had a company is how I would wish to run it.
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by aprdm 6y ago
React does not require compilation.
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by aprdm 6y ago
The software environment was very locked for security reasons, no internet and etc. Just felt it was simpler to not use JSX and to deploy with scp ;-) In fact every dependency was manually downloaded and put on a vendored folder of the proj
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by aprdm 6y ago
> The syntax I disagree. My team has written a medium size web app ( ~30 pages) without JSX and the API works pretty well. You get used to it if the whole project uses it (just like any API). > create-react-app I disagree. It is clear
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by aprdm 6y ago
Thinking that you have to Take a Side is IMO a false dichotomy. There is a whole specter of opinions. Between "I support what facebook did" and "I do not support what facebook did", or "I support Trump" vs &quo
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by aprdm 6y ago
Regardless of being the right thing to do or not, it is very interesting to see a software platform banning a president of a country. Interesting times.
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by aprdm 6y ago
The problem with .deb and .rpm is that their spec file format is horrendous. I've packaged multiple RPMs and every time I have to do it is a complete PITA, lots of quirks, macros, flags, etc. The official docs are like a deep man page
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by aprdm 6y ago
Been using it for a while ! Really easy to get going and does everything I need.
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by aprdm 6y ago
100% in agreement. Is how I've been running my teams in all the companies I've been to too.
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by aprdm 6y ago
I do not think you said anything wrong, is much less about what you're saying and more about how you're saying (as if it was a simple thing to get right and people are dumb for not doing it in an optimal way). > Actually most o
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by aprdm 6y ago
> This person is valuable in that they are trying to make completely excessive situations work. Telling people (or demonstrating to them) they are being ridiculous is not his responsibility and is a tight rope to walk in his position. U
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by aprdm 6y ago
Focusing on the technical steps and what might be technically feasible or not versus the existing world and artists workflows. Also speaking as an authority that knows best patronizing who actually works in the industry.
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by aprdm 6y ago
Others have said already but switching cloud providers, kubernetes, ci/CD, couch... it seems more like you were more interested in playing with tech than building a company
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by aprdm 6y ago
You might be surprised about how much code underpinning our society has no tests at all, how many huge companies place no value on test coverage. And it all mostly works just fine. It might be even the right decision some times to not spend
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by aprdm 6y ago
Your opinion on something doesn’t mean much when confronted with real world experiences from the biggest studios.
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by aprdm 6y ago
Great article! Really enjoyed reading. It does seem that golang is well suited as a language for backend services running in an Unix environment and I think that’s an Ok trade off for a language to make. It’s okay not to excel on everything
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by aprdm 6y ago
Everywhere I worked has been traditional NFS, and I've seen more than 3 times the figure you quoted working well. Usually you have different mountpoints/vfs`s in different servers for different kinds of files.
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by aprdm 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I've been in VFX around ~6 years and was in the sw industry before (and the hw industry before it). I find VFX really fun as far as job! Sometimes I do think about leaving mostly for Pay reasons but the
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by aprdm 6y ago
Out of curiosity, did you move outside VFX and if yes to what industry, have you been enjoying and what motivated you? Cheers
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by aprdm 6y ago
It is far from trivial actually. Kubernetes and Render Farms are trying to optimize for very different goals.
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by aprdm 6y ago
Can be either. You usually have digital artists creating them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_artist
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by aprdm 6y ago
Not Pixar specifically but Modern VFX and Animation studios usually have a bare metal render farm, they usually are pretty beefy -- think at least 24 cores / 128 GB of RAM per node. Usually in crunch time if there's not enough nod
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by aprdm 6y ago
FPGA is really expensive for the scale of a modern studio render farm, we're talking around 40~100k cores per datacenter. Because 40~100k cores isn't Google scale either it also doesn't seem to make sense to invest in custom
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by aprdm 6y ago
Yes we all turn our cameras on in meetings, I believe body language is important. Can’t imagine working in an office without seeing the people you work with in some cadence

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