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by vjeux 5y ago
When I was working on a ray tracer, I found that interpolating the color from neighboring points instead of leaving it blank for in-progress elements was a huge improvement for quickly seeing what the scene is going to look like. In the vid
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by vjeux 6y ago
38.5% has at least one shot (as the title of the article says), not 61%. 61% is the result of a survey.
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by vjeux 6y ago
For what it’s worth, at Facebook the general hiring process is in two steps. There’s a centralized hire/no hire that most people are aware of and then a second phase where team selection happens. This is where all the “hire for weaknes
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by vjeux 6y ago
Btw, the way to get it to a clipboard is not exactly cmd-shift-ctrl 3. It’s cmd-shift 3 in order to enable screenshotting and when you end, if you have ctrl active then it puts it on your clipboard. Knowing this makes it less annoying to do
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by vjeux 6y ago
> Only got through one question, and even that required assistance from the interviewer. My understanding is that if you don't finish two problems, you're doomed. Different loops and interviewers conduct interviews in different
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by vjeux 6y ago
I would love to see an integration with excalidraw where you write text to seed the diagram and then do the touch ups with something like excalidraw. That would solve I think your workflow.
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by vjeux 6y ago
Working on excalidraw.com, a whiteboarding tool :)
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by vjeux 6y ago
One thing that I found to work well is to create an escalation process. By default people are trusted to make decisions but if they fail to do so, then there is a higher authority that will make it and has the trust in the organization to d
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by vjeux 6y ago
Maybe I’m missing something but the author mentioned using email instead of Facebook/Google login. Why come up with a complex crypto protocol instead of using email as the identity key?
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by vjeux 6y ago
It works on ipad. Feel free to donate $5 :)
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by vjeux 6y ago
This series of tweets from Alex Stamos has more specific information and tradeoffs being considered: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268061790954385408?s=...
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by vjeux 6y ago
It's ironic that he's wrapping the text of this email at 80 columns rather than letting the email reader do the wrapping based on the width.
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by vjeux 6y ago
Can you open an issue on github? It should work on both mobile and desktop Safari.
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by vjeux 7y ago
What’s the symptom? It should work
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by vjeux 7y ago
Nice to see excalidraw.com used for the illustrations!
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by vjeux 7y ago
I wrote a super short description of the overall architecture of prettier if people are interested: https://blog.vjeux.com/2017/javascript/anatomy-of-a-javascri...
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by vjeux 7y ago
Super excited to see that excalidraw made the front page! We published an article yesterday explaining how the end to end encryption works when sharing a link: https://blog.excalidraw.com/end-to-end-encryption/
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by vjeux 7y ago
Working on https://excalidraw.com/ a whiteboarding tool with hand-drawn like feel. We just added live collaboration support recently to help with architecture brainstorm and interviews while everyone is working remotely.
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Preventing Perf Regressions with Health Compass and Incident Tracker(engineering.fb.com)
5 points by vjeux 7y ago|0 comments
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by vjeux 7y ago
There’s usually a “ramp up” period where you get to learn that knowledge. As you get more senior, that period gets longer. You also have to develop your learning skills. How do you identify existing people with knowledge and be able to lear
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by vjeux 7y ago
I have no idea if my suggestion four years ago helped but am glad they finally implemented it :) https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/44
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by vjeux 7y ago
Fyi, lacker who commented is the co-founder of Parse which got sold to Facebook and likely is in touch with a lot of founders with similar experience.
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by vjeux 7y ago
I wrote a blog post talking about the journey and lessons learned: https://blog.vjeux.com/2020/uncategorized/reflections-on-exc...
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by vjeux 7y ago
Do you think it’s a bad idea? I figured that it would help people give it the motivation to try it out.
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Show HN: Excalidraw – Sketch Hand-Drawn Like Diagrams(github.com)
30 points by vjeux 7y ago|6 comments
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by vjeux 7y ago
> “ For example, my bot tracker focuses on bots that post on average 70 times a day or more. While a human being can certainly post to Twitter a hundred times in a day, it’s unlikely that a real human being would post a hundred times a d
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by vjeux 7y ago
Thanks for linking to the guidelines! I deleted my tweet about it. I'll wait to see if it goes to Hacker News by itself then :)
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by vjeux 7y ago
Sorry about that! I don't really know what's the etiquette about this. I've always asked people to upvote for the initial submission so that it has a chance to get to the front-page. I'm happy to stop if that's agai
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by vjeux 7y ago
I wrote a blog post with my thoughts on the project here if you’re interested: https://blog.vjeux.com/2020/uncategorized/reflections-on-exc...
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by vjeux 7y ago
If you are interested in going further down the pit, you may want to consider joining an infrastructure team at a bigger company. This way you are able to use your skills at the bottom of the pit to enable many more people to build the prod

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