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by kaib 15y ago
Krasin is right, most of the stuff on tinkercad.com is written in Go. There are a few inner loops that use C++ to get better SSE optimizations.
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by kaib 15y ago
This depends largely on material choice and to a lesser extent on which supplier you choose. Tinkercad is a design package, we don't do the printing ourself but outsource it to printing services like Shapeways and i.Materialise. I would sug
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by kaib 15y ago
The answer is somewhat technical so bear with me. tl;dr solid modeling is O(n^3) Computer graphics, which is what most games require, is largely a solved problem. An iPad or a WebGL browser is easily able to run most games from a few years
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by kaib 15y ago
Yes. Real Soon Now (tm). :-) Generic import is starting to be pretty close on the roadmap. After that it's just a question of adding file types as people request them. IGES and STEP are definitely on the list.
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by kaib 15y ago
We definitely want to make an API available that would allow almost anything to connect to the core editor. Using that it should be possible to write specific tools (like a lathe or extrusion style tool). We see Tinkercad as a core around w
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by kaib 15y ago
I used to live in Mountain View, CA and only moved back to Finland quite recently so we have a very strong connection to the Valley. It's no coincidence that we took money from the likes of Joshua, Eghosa, Taher and Jyri who all operate in
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by kaib 15y ago
The first thing you need to realize is that Tinkercad is only partially a browser application, we also run a relatively complex cloud based component. Every operation you make is actually distributed across a 100 core cluster with the resul
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by kaib 15y ago
It is always my fault.. Sadly spell checkers don't help a dyslectic like me with names. Sorry, we still love you! :-)
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by kaib 15y ago
Kai from Tinkercad here. Happy to answer any questions about the product or space.
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by kaib 15y ago
If you are interested in a production quality open source pathfinding library take a look at Recast/Detour. It's used in a number of AAA game titles and is probably one of the most robust implementations out there: http://code.google.com/p
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by kaib 15y ago
Having seen the demo scene from its inception in the late eighties I find it fascinating that after all these years we are close to saturating our analog senses with this digitally created content. 32bit pixels saturated color perception, c
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by kaib 15y ago
Helsinki, Finland Tinkercad is hiring for a number of technical positions (frontend, application, systems programmers, computational geometry, ops): http://dev.tinkercad.com/jobs/ We are a small team building a cloud based solid CAD for 3
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by kaib 15y ago
So I tried to order a scan, given the low price of $7 only to realize the author of this service does not accept customers outside the U.S. and Canada.
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by kaib 15y ago
This statement is false for people writing large scale distributed systems. It turns out tens or hundreds of thousands of computers are more expensive than engineering time. No amount of clean will fix gaping million dollar holes in the bud
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by kaib 15y ago
We are made a cloud-based solid CAD application using it: http://tinkercad.com I think it's important that WebGL gets pushed to the browser. Getting a stable 3D environment is super important for application development and obviously game
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by kaib 15y ago
This is a good article on why research into new devices or physics should keep a healthy dose of experimentation in addition to any computer simulations. I've done a fair amount of simulation work and agree strongly with the notion that peo
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by kaib 15y ago
In the Hacker News context most usually Venture Capital or Venture Capitalist.
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by kaib 15y ago
Don't forget the mercury delay lines. A bit more dramatic from a hazmat perspective but gives you large amounts of street cred.
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by kaib 15y ago
Some of the protobuf implementations are a bit more official than others. We are using the Go protobuf plugin at Tinkercad and it's maintained by Google for internal use. Given the importance of protobufs in communicating across Google is p
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by kaib 15y ago
This is actually part of the language. Identifiers starting with a capital letter are exported outside the package, the ones with a lower case letter are not.
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by kaib 15y ago
This is actually the first proper stable release since the process was introduced, the first tagged release did not go through a similar release preparation. I'm personally extremely happy with this development. We run Tinkercad on a modera
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by kaib 15y ago
I find it fascinating that cloud has become almost a synonym for rapid provisioning and VPS based systems. I think this is really short sighted. Having a great uptime or latency does not automatically follow from being able to spin up tons
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by kaib 15y ago
This is now live, you can activate it using the workplane tool and selecting "Adjust". The UI will change a bit, give us feedback through the app if you have input.
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by kaib 15y ago
This is an excellent suggestion. It's good enough that I used the company time machine to port it back to our iteration planning two weeks ago. Sadly our UI engineer is picky and he hasn't been satisfied with any of the five prototypes he w
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by kaib 15y ago
Cool. I'm happy you guys find it useful! Feel free to ping me at kai at tinkercad.com if you guys have any specific issues. We are thinking about all of those things but some of them might take a bit of time. The internal representation of
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by kaib 15y ago
This was a reference to the machine shop in general and lathes in particular. Cloth will sooner or later get caught in rotating machinery. This is the same reason why machinists don't wear long sleeved shirts. I haven't heard of any glove t
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by kaib 15y ago
I've done some amount of aviation, both civilian and military, and our training officers were always fond of reminding us that the history of most aviation guidelines could be traced back to a death or two. I think it's easy to forget, comi
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by kaib 15y ago
I can't remember if there was an intern limitation, but I don't recall there was one. That said, I no longer work there so I'm not clear on the current requirements. I remember that access to the EE shop is pretty easy to come by. Ask your
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by kaib 15y ago
When I still worked for Google the shops were split into four rooms with separate certification process and access for each. It was easy to get access to the EE or Woodworking shop, harder for the Metalworking and Welding.
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by kaib 15y ago
I've actually worked at Google and been certified to use all of the shops including welding and metalworking. And the industrial grade heavy duty plasma cutter. The shops are really cool and they serve a slightly different purpose than for

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