RT @SeaRyanC@twitter.com
Anyone who thinks coding is a brutal 24/7 job and parenting isn't is doing both of them wrong
RT @DocOnDev@twitter.com
"A company that rewards firefights breeds arsonists." - Erik Weber
Not sure when it happened (probably a while ago), but Twitch FINALLY added a "Software & Game Development" category for streams. Amazing! (previously devs would use the "Science" category which made no sense)
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Software%20and%20Game%20Development
The number "300" was probably just the middle manager person trying to sound powerful and impressive, but my own impression was that this guy was an idiot, or the company was extremely dysfunctional, or their engineers were really really bad, or all of the above.
Takeaways for me are, yes, we were very efficient/lean; some people just want to throw bodies at problems because they don't know any better (>10 people was overkill); and who has 300 engineers twiddling their thumbs?!
We didn't get the project (we absolutely did not want it).
I have a vivid image of a meeting I had with a Big Financial Services Company while I was at @workandco@twitter.com. We were debating team composition for a potential project they wanted from us. We said, we'll use about 5 engineers. Their response, "5? We have 300 engineers ready to start".
RT @MarceloPLima@twitter.com
Citi has over 30,000 software engineers. Nuts.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarceloPLima/status/1526562846787633152
RT @c_pruett@twitter.com
ICYMI, we released a port of Epic’s classic Showdown demo for Quest 2. It’s on App Lab and @Pro__Zac@twitter.com wrote a bunch of technical docs about what porting a high-end PC demo to Quest 2 takes. Leverages ASW for a pretty impressive result at 90 fps. https://developer.oculus.com/blog/showdown-on-quest-part-1-how-app-spacewarp-improves-performance-/
(FWIW I think VRChat should be celebrated, warts and all. The whole part about "the old Internet" really rings true)
The Metaverse is basically saying "Ralph pls go", forever, until you turn into Ralph
RT @GergelyOrosz@twitter.com
A side effect of working for long at most Big Tech is how you can get out of touch with "normal" software tooling.
Most of these companies use so much custom internal tools & frameworks.
At Uber, we used to joke how you're not a mobile engineer anymore, but a RIBs engineer.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1526484403752427521
Oh wait, the web is NOT going to hell after all?!
RT @AaronToponce@twitter.com
Apple will now allow Blink and Gecko based browsers in iOS after lastest EU ruling.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AaronToponce/status/1522227711741104128
This hits all my funny bones
RT @iquilezles@twitter.com
A catalog of different smoothstep functions, their inverses, and first and second derivatives.
Top row is polynomial smoothsteps, middle is rationals, bottom is piecewise polynomials and trigonometric.
Each one has a different strength. Article: https://iquilezles.org/articles/smoothsteps/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iquilezles/status/1526364401258835969
And I'm not exaggerating, that was 100% my impression. They introduced tab pausing/restoration that seemed to depend heavily on drive speed. It would take 10s+ to switch to a tab I hadn't used for a few minutes.
The problem went away with a new computer that had SSD.
It was very obvious to me when Google moved from hard drives to SSDs for its developers' machines: I was still on a HD machine and Chrome became almost unusable nearly overnight.
RT @SwiftOnSecurity@twitter.com
If I was President all developers would have to use 5400RPM hard drives
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1525584456773472259
Programmer of visual things. Interpolation enthusiast. Professional amateur. Brazilian. AR at Reality Labs. All views my own, but feel free to have them too!