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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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by kaib 15y ago
Let me disagree. Within certain demographics, high tech loving makers, you can sometimes get away with using WebGL: http://tinkercad.com Our stats indicate the IE is much less of a problem than expected.
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by kaib 15y ago
Replied to you via email.
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by kaib 15y ago
Just curious, how familiar are you with Paxos? I'm asking because failure detection is pretty much isomorphic with distributed consensus and generally considered hard. Ie. how do you differentiate between down and slow?
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by kaib 15y ago
Doozer is a really interesting project. We run a Go based lockserver at Tinkercad but we haven't got around to adding redundant storage. Doozer on the other hand is tighly focused on just the storage part, which usually is much less applica
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by kaib 15y ago
I thought the list was good without having any intention of looking at the software mentioned. Also, if I were to write a similar list I would probably mention a bunch of software in a similar tone as the author does, except I would obvious
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by kaib 16y ago
There is a second really important reason to blog, if you write software (and are any good at it). Blogging is a great way to improve your writing and the more senior you become the more you will find that your challenge is not just grokkin
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by kaib 16y ago
For Tinkercad the http server is just a relatively simple transport layer, the magic happens with how the computation is distributed in the cluster. We'll blog about it once things settle down a bit, at this point we are just trying to sold
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by kaib 16y ago
WebSockets are really cool but we found the browser implementations unstable enough that we switched back to XHR for Tinkercad. Especially since the secure implementations were super shaky and we run all our traffic over SSL. We also use Go
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by kaib 16y ago
What a disappointing piece of writing. Having worked with BigTable for several years at my previous gig I find the whole premise of NoSQL hilarious. BigTable really is a very specific solution to a very specific problem, creating a datastor
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by kaib 16y ago
I disagree with the tone of your comment. The book cited in the article, "Art and Fear", was first published in 1994. Having read both this article and the original book I strongly argue that neither has lost relevance over time. Re-posts a
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by kaib 16y ago
I'm planning to do a few now that we start to emerge. Sign up for the mailing list or follow me on twitter, I'll announce the blog posts there. Basically we have a client side rendering engine combined with a cluster based solid modeling ke
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by kaib 16y ago
Thanks, we are pretty excited about it! :-) We use WebGL for rendering on the client side. We have a custom 3D engine written just for Tinkercad. Our main UI guy is an ex game graphics/AI programmer http://digestingduck.blogspot.com/ . He'
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by kaib 16y ago
Helsinki, Finland - engineering, computational geometry and distributed systems Tinkercad is a funded startup making a solid modeling web application for artists and makers. The product is currently in closed beta. We work daily with hard p
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by kaib 16y ago
Very close, the company is Finnish. That said I'm a Swedish-Finn. :)
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by kaib 16y ago
Salaries are hard. We are in a somewhat identical situation, seed funded 6 month old, and were grappling with salaries after we closed our seed round. We went with something slightly different but probably more appropriate for a Scandinavia
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by kaib 16y ago
Probably true, but it would be trivial to run the physics loop a few times before rendering the first frame to remove the jitter. A neophyte developer would know how to do this and the folks at Rovio are pretty experienced. My vote is with
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by kaib 16y ago
I think it's sometimes easy for (passionate) programmers to forget that they happen to be obsessed with something that is also a highly marketable skill. From our little group of elementary school computer enthusiasts only one other guy and
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by kaib 16y ago
At least I can still get the old site at (note the www): http://www.mailchimp.com I think the new site looks even worse when you can compare them tab to tab..
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by kaib 16y ago
WebGL is pretty close to prime time as of FF 4 and upcoming webkit based browsers. We have been developing in production mode for it in over 4 months now and are pretty satisfied with the results. AFAIK we have only encountered one crash bu
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by kaib 16y ago
I don't claim as extreme productivity differences as the parent but I've seen people do pretty impressive engineering feats and have heard first hand stories of others. In the cases I've seen what makes people a lot more productive is exper
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by kaib 16y ago
I used to work at Google and outsiders would always speculate about how the perks would disappear if the company stopped making insane amounts of money. There was always an implication that things wouldn't be as rosy then. Truth is, I would
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by kaib 16y ago
You are obviously right. As per mkramlich definition the startup is currently living off us (given only founders have invested in the corp) and we will live off non founder investors before being in the black. I initially hesitated to reply
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by kaib 16y ago
TinkerCAD ( http://tinkercad.com ). Self funded and in soon-alpha mode, 3 FT founders. Quit Google a few months ago after five great years at the place.
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by kaib 16y ago
I've been working on a simple voxel based game as a hobby project on the iPad. It feels reinvigorating how a single person can quickly hack together something really nice when you only need to do 16x16 pixel textures. I think people underra
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by kaib 16y ago
> The only scenario I could see people using it is in the situation where speed is not of the essence but memory consumption is. In the type of code we do (distributed systems programming) speed is almost always directly dependent on me
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by kaib 16y ago
It's getting there. Ken and Russ have been fixing a lot of the bugs I left behind in the arm compiler and it is passing most of the tests now. There is still work needed to get the API ported/linked but at least there is should be closure o
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by kaib 16y ago
Fixed, my memory failed me. You are right, it was Bejeweled 2.
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by kaib 16y ago
A few years ago I taught a short game programming class. Just for kicks we had a quizz where the students had to look at 10 small downloadable games and estimate how much effort had gone into each of them. PopCap's Bejeweled 2 stuck in my m
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by kaib 16y ago
Incorrect, paxos sacrifices availability. Paxos is consistent but does not necessarily ever terminate.

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