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by varelse 15y ago
Naive question: Does Trigger.io allow multiplatform use of WebGL?
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by varelse 15y ago
5-10 seconds? This guy is complaining about 5-10 seconds? I hate bloatware. I despise behavior like the sloth and neglect Microsoft inflicted on Windows XP once Vista shipped and I loathe the abandonment of gingerbread phones like my late
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by varelse 15y ago
Did it 12 years ago after a tiny windfall from stock options... During that time I launched one of the first distributed computing projects and almost finished porting a console game to Java. At that point, I made the decision that getting
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by varelse 15y ago
My allocation seemingly had 3 options: one was completely unsuitable, one was desirable, and the third was where I ended up. I obviously chose the desirable allocation. Unfortunately, two days into working at google, I was informed that my
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by varelse 15y ago
A snarky reply about me having previously rolled my own divide and square root functions on videogame consoles in assembler, happy?
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by varelse 15y ago
Scarily close to the actual conversation!
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by varelse 15y ago
I worked at google for four months. That wasn't my experience at all. I ended up on a team that despite working in the same office, barely spoke with each other, rarely ate lunch together, lost 1 member for each month I was there, and I
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by varelse 15y ago
Google only hires 1 in 1000 applicants or so (at least that's what they tell you on day 1). Try not to take it personally that you failed buzzword bingo with their recruiters. Perhaps someone should take a look at your resume to find out w
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by varelse 15y ago
Well, here's what I learned interviewing at google: Be very good at off-the-cuff 80% solutions to topcoder problems on a whiteboard, which I am. So much so, that when they told me to use whatever sort algorithm I wanted to, I used bubbleso
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by varelse 15y ago
Agree 100%! I made a grand total of $18,000 in stock from failed startups I joined over the years. And that was with 2% of the one company that earned anything in my pocket. OTOH I did a lot better joining growing post-IPO companies wher
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by varelse 15y ago
Long-winded reply, but 3 years in the valley during the dotcom boom working at a variety of ultimately failed startups taught me: 1) The expected return of a startup does not compensate for the loss in compensation because 0.1% ownership as
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by varelse 15y ago
Indeed: rents and real estate prices have zero impact on the CPI. That explains why places like Hong Kong and Shanghai seem so reasonable (which they're not)...
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by varelse 15y ago
Minor nitpick #2: if the guy's unencumbered, then he also has the choice to eat better and walk a couple miles a day to resolve that whole out-of-shape and overweight dilemma. To quote Tuco from _The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: "If you wor
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by varelse 15y ago
This answers the #1 objection to using CUDA instead of OpenCL: vendor lock. What it doesn't answer is who's going to write the compilers and if they will ever happen. But it does prove NVIDIA is still a player in the many-core game and that
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by varelse 15y ago
I can't see a future where the majority of people (knowingly) opt in to having their personally identifiable web histories stored and analyzed by anonymous nerds. Sure, that's happening already if one has a facebook account, and the battle
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by varelse 15y ago
It's certainly not a controlled experiment, but at the same time, I can report apocryphal success with daily doses of 500 mg of Tyrosine, a teaspoon of flaxseed and fish oil, 200 mg of CoQ10, 240 mg of Gingko biloba, and 10 mg of vinpocetin
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by varelse 15y ago
Doesn't sound apocryphal at all. A well-written piece of custom code for a single multi-core CPU can easily run circles around an algorithm shoehorned into a useful but somewhat generic multiprocessor framework where the interconnect betwe
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by varelse 15y ago
I worked at google for a couple months this year. My experience of their so-called open corporate culture was a bizarre mix of elements from William Gibson's _The Belonging Kind_ and Robot Chicken's _Our Newest Member, Calvin_. It was one