pixelp3

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by pixelp3 4mo ago
I think nobody they acquired from Character.AI is at Google anymore.
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by pixelp3 9y ago
What's next? We shouldn't expect programmers to be aware of how characters, integers and floating point numbers work on a computer?
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by pixelp3 10y ago
Nightlife in the south bay is rather lame. But here's one thing I've found: People who really want to have fun find a way. There are small pockets all over the bay. SJ downtown is a little lame but it is getting better
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by pixelp3 10y ago
you are basically talking about all the streams you can find on the internet. And yes they are illegal - they are often taken down
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by pixelp3 11y ago
I think you severely underestimate the amount of serious work put into all these "tech properties" (I'm guessing you mean Facebook/Dropbox) by very experienced, in-demand engineers.
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by pixelp3 11y ago
VR and AR both need just one hit application. What would be a hit application? 1) It should just work, with no annoying aspects. Should be completely intuitive and engaging/fun 2) People want to use it on a regular basis. For example
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by pixelp3 11y ago
C++ is not relevant? What world do you work in?
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by pixelp3 11y ago
This is in the embedded world, unfortunately the gdb for this platform is rather limited and watch breakpoints don't work as expected. Essentially here is what was happening: -Create C++ object -Try to point some reference to this obje
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by pixelp3 11y ago
From what I read somewhere Facebook was making their mobile engineers use their app on older Androids (and maybe iPhones), which turned out to be very frustrating for them. I'm sure they are aware of the problem...
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by pixelp3 11y ago
Yes what the author doesn't realize is that C is still an extremely important language no matter what, just to make computers run properly and fast. If there were good alternatives then maybe we can discard C. But if you want to become
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by pixelp3 11y ago
I think it is very important that computer science students learn C early on. Learning concepts like memory management and word alignment (which he mentions) is very critical imo. For other majors which have require some programming it is b
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by pixelp3 11y ago
Limits for "lottery" green cards makes sense. But for educated professionals who are already working here? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
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by pixelp3 11y ago
A lot of startups only think in terms of "hey let's make a simple app/website and let AWS do all the work!". They don't realize how deep computing and computer science truly are. Data Structures and Algorithms, Comp
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by pixelp3 11y ago
"It seemed to me like you try hard to prove yourself to get in just to be on the bottom of the totem pole where being recognized would be very hard. So I didn't bother and worked at other smaller companies." Is recognition
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by pixelp3 11y ago
"it's a younger person's game." If you expect to work on projects like Google Maps/Earth, Android, search, images (machine learning), cardboard VR, gmail, etc. etc. and don't have an understand of algorithms or
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by pixelp3 11y ago
This argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me when it comes to bigger companies like Google, MS, Apple, etc. etc. Do you know how much H1Bs at these companies make? The data is open, you can look at how much Google pays them in the B