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I think we do use this turbine but with thicker liquids and in reverse as a pump -- maybe it was in oil or some of the chemical industries?

Currently I’m a GTPM at Meta and this is the expectation we have for onboarding to a new team unless you’re early in career. I’ve seen this be the case for SWE and other roles in the technical domain. Typically you have an expertise area and at least on my team a starter project or 2 with a tangible deliverable to get you going on something while you ramp and meet others and figure things out. Meta is a big place though so could be other expectations in other organizations.

This should be the music rework. http://www.medievalfuture.com/precursors/music.php

For Japanese go server, I'd suggest IGS aka PandaNet.

It's hard to say how much larger it is than OGS. OGS has an enormous population of correspondence players but generally smaller for live play maybe by 3x?

If I recall correctly, these are actually used today but with more viscous fluids like oil and in reverse as a pump.

Most of the buildings I spent time in for the last 7 years didn't have private offices any longer. Studios A-D had hybrid models where leads and the most senior engineers often had very small glass offices and teams sat in bays (I think some of those might have reverted to all small glass offices). 16,17,18,40,41,42,43, some of the buildings in the 30s as well had all moved to open. Many of the newest buildings (which I forget the numbers of were open) and IIRC , the new campus when complete was to be open. There were still to be sure many many buildings with offices but as buildings were remodeled they were mostly converted to open offices.

Recalling my time there, one tweak-- EVP > CVP so those are backward. There are a hand full of EVPs but quite a lot of CVPs running around. TBH Past Partner (68) I'm not sure the levels really matter much and I forget the pure Software Eng equivalents to those higher levels (Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow).

I do agree on avoiding electron if possible as users do notice. I've seen folks who perhaps don't know the intricate details of software run into performance issues.

A public example: Dwyrin is a YouTube streamer playing Go/Baduk. After most streams he reviews the game and likes an app called Sabaki. About 8:10 minutes in, he remarks on the performance of the app (https://youtu.be/vrX4qlbpQfU?t=492). Sabaki is an electron based app.

I do however disagree with removing right click / highlighting. That makes copy paste difficult or impossible for the typical user. I spent years working on Silverlight and UWP and one of the things I recall the team looking back on particularly with Silverlight and regretting was that TextBlocks by default didn't have highlightable text. Its too useful for users sharing error messages with you as the developer or data with each other to get their jobs done.

I wondered the same thing. Apparently a Scheme to C translator. http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Getting%20started

Edge fails in the below code on TrimEnd with this message

Microsoft Edge 44.17763.1.0

Object doesn't support property or method 'trimEnd'

: function createTemplateArr(number) { return '1fr ' .repeat(number) .trimEnd() .split(' ') }

MDN's compat chart doesn't make clear if Edge supports this or not but manual experimentation suggests not although trimRight is supported so a possible polyfill. I filed a bug against Edge just now.

Did Netflix allow you to work remote? I was under the impression they are pretty strict about engineers being in Los Gatos or LA.

Can you shed more light on doing one thing at a time? Is this about removing distractions while you're trying to learn or is this as much about picking one topic to learn at a time? IE don't try to learn to play the piano and learn to speak Chinese in parallel? My assumption is that section 1 is about the small distractions but I was also wondering if the research indicates anything for multiple courses of study in parallel.

That's awesome. It just seems to need a todo app sprinkled in somewhere. Maybe somewhere around 1st job?

There were the below two items [0], [1] which are runtime and tooling pieces. I've used them years ago in side projects and they were helpful but haven't kept up with them recently. They both help find or handle argument validation issues as enumerated above.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-trac...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/pex-and-mol...

Two Projects

1st Problem: Went through a round of interviews a while back and was talking with friends about the feedback or lack thereof and thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could practice and get feedback from someone who actually does this and made . . .

Project: http://site-1146624-6257-8128.strikingly.com/

2nd Problem: Grew up playing Star Control 2 which was open-sourced as the urquan masters. However, the project seems to have lost some momentum and I feel like (on Windows at least) finding all of its exact dependencies is not easy.

Project: I've been porting a fork of UQM (http://sc2.sourceforge.net/) to Windows 10 and SDL 2 (still private) and playing with VCPKG at the same time.

I think he touched on this a little in a follow-up he did: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2016/01/04/64-bit-vis...

My interpretation of the shift from < 32 bits into 32 bits is: before we had do do crazy things to algorithms we used to fit in those address spaces. When we transitioned to 32 bits, we didn't have to do that anymore.

So the question might be are there any surprising workarounds in the code because you're only dealing with 32 bit code where if you had 64 bits you could write some more elegant solution.

Given the recent discussion on Apple's earnings, this bit seemed to be interesting new data point:

"historically a new MacBook Pro has usually helped improve Apple's Mac sales significantly. The late 2013 model boosted overall Mac sales in its debut quarter by 19 percent year-over-year, the mid 2014 variant pushed sales by 21 percent, and even the recent 13- and 15-inch 2015 models both saw increases of around 10 percent in Mac sales in the separate quarters they debuted in."

What inference should I draw from the comparison to Apple docs? Also aren't you comparing a blog post to docs? (Apples and Oranges)

It looks like they're a little different for now. See the note under here.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/ena...

Full Disclosure: I am a MSFT employee.

I'm not sure what that statement means. Do you mean they only added ANSI colors and not VT100 sequences?

Because of this post and these comments I'm now wondering if M:tG is Turing complete. <heads off to google>

Nice site. That seems like a surprisingly fast depreciation rate. I would have thought Teslas would hold their value longer compared to other cars.

Thanks for sharing. I've heard numbers like these quoted before with respect to other small or medium sized businesses like franchising a fast-food chain and a question just occurred to me. For the people you know, are the owners' salaries taken before the profits as part of the operating expenses or do the salaries come out of the 300-500k of profits?

Law of unintended consequences?

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/15/pbdes-and-neurodev...

edit I didn't notice but zerocrates had already pointed this out.

If a lot of top-notch indie devs are abandoning the appstore, where are they going? Back to the Web, Windows, or OS X? It seems there is a catch here that a large number of consumer eyes are pointed at the various app stores and not at more traditional and perhaps more sustainable platforms. So how does an indie pull those eyes back to their platform of choice?

I appreciate the details you put into this response and I particularly like the point above around portability and that all of this is just an interface. Sometimes those interfaces (abstractions) are a bit leaky.

Thanks for the well wishes, you're right there is a ton of complexity but that's what makes it fun. Just don't yell at me too much when there are some bumps along they way.

I don't think it's impossible to have a first class bash or zsh environment (or even necessarily a non-emulated POSIX environment) but like many things in software it may take time and a few iterations to get it right and as mmphosis says below how do you manage the complexity.

Thanks for giving me the feedback that you're using the environment for web-development.

I've often wondered as I look over feedback like yours if one of the reasons some web developers prefer NIX is because a good many tutorials are written assuming a NIX environment. Would love to know your thoughts.

Good feedback. When you work in Cygwin, are you doing admin type tasks, web dev, writing console utilities, something else related to app dev?

It will still send the interrupt signal to the running application when no text is selected.

Can you tell me more about the native or full featured bash or zsh environment you're interested in? Do you want inbox bash/zsh? Do you want native coreutils? Do you want the full POSIX API layer? something else? Also, can you tell me about your workflow or what you envision it to be in this environment?

I ask because I work in the console space at Microsoft and am keen on understanding the features you're looking for and what scenarios you're attempting to satisfy.

We also have a user voice going where we've been fortunate enough to gather a lot of passionate feedback.

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt/cat...