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by aprdm 6y ago
Hm as others mentioned it is possible to use Ansible in a very "usual" way to solve this problem. I would love if we standardize in Packer, Ansible and Terraform. Luckily it seems like the devops world is standardizing in this sta
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by aprdm 6y ago
This is an amazing write up, thanks for sharing and congratulations on the marriage.
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by aprdm 6y ago
I do wonder what other languages you consider serious apart from C. You could use similar examples for a lot of other languages, C isn't the only language used to keep our civilization alive. I did a fair bit of development in C, and d
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by aprdm 6y ago
What about supporting multiple versions of libraries at a computer? They all support it: npm, rvm, virtualenv, cargo, golang, python, maven and etc. A very common use case is to use some newer version of something than what shipped with the
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by aprdm 6y ago
I tried to do a simple web app with C++ recently.. nothing against the language but trying to decide which framework to use and then trying to integrate them to my project and build took me a couple of days, ultimately I gave up and did the
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by aprdm 6y ago
What is a serious language? Is being used in companies like Amazon to deliver runtimes used by a considerable % of the internet not serious?
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by aprdm 6y ago
For ML use case because there's so much data to process it is usually a better ROI to use GPUs from what I have seen. If you're pipeline is anything like Load a lot of data -> process data -> get output. If it is more like a
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by aprdm 6y ago
What is your background and what do you want out of it? IMO a good way to start is by buying an FPGA development kit such as https://canada.newark.com/terasic-technologies/p0037/dev-boa... which has a bunch of I&#
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by aprdm 6y ago
Fun fact: Photoshop was written by the VFX Industry -- Industrial Light & Magic, John Knoll. Doesn't surprise me that it is also very scriptable
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by aprdm 6y ago
If it is the people I am thinking about (small industry :P ) then for sure! But I wouldn't say they're doing python pipeline kind of work (like your post).
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by aprdm 6y ago
I have worked at several big studios and never witnessed 50h weeks as the norm. Core Pipeline / R&D do overtime very rarely and have a 40h/week with a lot of flexibility. Artists is a different world and can feel very sweatsho
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by aprdm 6y ago
If people are interested in it from a more backend/systems level there's also: * A PyCon Canada presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuV0_AbDgYk * EuroPython: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by aprdm 6y ago
Yep! Look for roles in core pipeline, Random example: https://jobs.jobvite.com/lucascompanies/search?l=&c=Producti... and https://jobs.jobvite.com/lucascompanies/search?l=&c=Technolo... fo
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by aprdm 6y ago
FWIW I don't think Netflix pays as well for people doing more VFX-y python work in their pipelines. Have been contacted and wasn't impressed. It was also the case with others I know. Maybe it wasn't the right roles but it was
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by aprdm 6y ago
odforce ( https://forums.odforce.net/ ) is a known houdini forum.
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by aprdm 6y ago
An artist is mostly about the art and doing things that result in beautiful images approved by their supervisors! Knowing programming can make them more effective but it is not the job, you want something that your CG Supervisor approves an
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by aprdm 6y ago
For people who don’t enjoy doing CRUD and want to play with massive infrastructures, systems level programming and everything in between VFX can be pretty fun! If people are looking for FAANG level compensation then look the other way. Tha
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by aprdm 6y ago
It is very different when it is between ICs and when it is someone who is more of a manager doing the same with the ICs. I like this quote by Jason Cox, - Great leaders are optimistic – They are hopeful, confident, and positive.
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by aprdm 6y ago
I agree with you that is obvious at first glance now a days but I wouldn't want to see it written like that in Python at least... I would prefer to have small functions named after what it is accomplishing and then have 2 function call
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by aprdm 6y ago
Totally. I sometimes made the mistake of "venting downwards" or wanting to be more transparent with the team and it wasn't a good experience. Individual Contributors usually do not want ambiguity or to have a lesser impressio
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by aprdm 6y ago
Totally agreed ! I still haven’t found something other than jenkins that would work for our use case which is very similar to what you stated.
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by aprdm 6y ago
Even if they were the same a big difference is that Hashicorp tools usually work on prems and are OSS. By default I expect google to try to lock me in the GCP and do not trust their OSS tools
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by aprdm 6y ago
Apple notes
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by aprdm 6y ago
Everything is so case specific. And at the same time most of the tools work pretty well for the scale of most companies to the point they it doesn’t matter when you chose what... Because of those two I don’t know exactly what people expect
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by aprdm 6y ago
What is a better developer in an organization with 1000s of developers that have to collaborate in their team, cross teams etc. I am really curious in your definition of a better developer.
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by aprdm 6y ago
Skill is multi dimensional. Depends on the problem at hand and the people you have available. Each person brings an unique set of skills based on their experience (professional and life). I have worked in lots of different industries from d
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by aprdm 6y ago
I don’t agree at all. Just because you could spend 100 years being a better cook and learning how to cook every dish on earth it doesn’t mean you will be a better Italian chef than someone who puts 20 years. It isn’t rocket science really,
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by aprdm 6y ago
I would say to think very hard before adding any dependencies! A dependency is code you usually have no control over and has to evolve with your code base during the years. Let's say you're using Python and you depend on library A
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by aprdm 6y ago
What is it being better at software development even? There are so many different skills involved in being an effective software developer in a team. I would say for senior+ levels the softskills start being much more important than the tec
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by aprdm 6y ago
Congrats on "being a doer" but trying to imply that people who aren't are worse developers than those who are is trying to measure the world by your scale. You aren't necessarily a better developer (or person) for doing

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