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My last apartment complex, the manager boosted how 2 bedroom apartments (going for like 4K) were being shared by 3 engineers so it wasn't too bad. As an older tech person whose room-mate days are over, this seems exploitative.

I do okay financially .. I just don't like getting fleeced. Also, few jobs in tech are 100% secure (the point of this thread) so I have a problem with a land owner who is intent to pass most of their risk over to me.

The biggest issue right now is rents. I have 2-3 friends who just signed 1 year leases for north of 3K for 1 bedrooms. My own evil apartment complex (shitty place but Mountain View so what can you do) raised my rent and said I could go back to the lower one if I sign another lease. While your advice is sage, it isn't practical.

Your cohort point is particularly insightful. I had just started my career in 1999 .. I had a bad feeling about the situation and went to grad school right away (after a year). Was a good move at the time because a year or two after I started, good programs had a crazy number of applicants (which of course, raises the bar to get in). Other than the grad school crowd and people who braved unemployment, what did these professionals do? Get out of tech completely?

Btw ... love the hn handle :)

If it was iOS, I'd say the provisioning profile expired :-p

Loved that story. We can even dream of the ending (with bitcoin, ether and dao's .. haha!).

The first version of Glass was utter crap and felt like a waste of money (I'm surprised they didn't get sued by purchasers). I won't trust them again as a developer. Frankly, they should allow devs to exchange their hw for the new one for free or a significant discount. If they did that, I'd look at their platform. Else, I'm out.

Thank you. The OpenGL calls you refer to .. is there a C# binding that is easy to setup with Unity? I tried OpenGL in a computer graphics undergrad course (sadly, one I dropped) and it was a crazy amount of C/C++ libraries and header files (along with esoteric things like GLUT, etc.). I didn't realize I could do OpenGL within a Unity/C# context.

Do you still need a server for signaling or is it actually P2P at that point?

I looked into WebRTC for a few days and had the same issues with the docs you folks mentioned. What is up with that? My sense was that WebRTC is just a repackaging of many existing standards so it isn't a new tech by itself. The challenge some of us are having is that we are not familiar with each of the underlying technologies. I felt I should revise SIP, and NAT traversals before I have a hope of cracking WebRTC.

Is there a serious MOOC that gets into this? I'd like some academic rigour rather than some kid on YouTube. I tried the Unity route and had issues with shaders. Trying to get into GPU programming.

Disclaimer: this is a throwaway account, and I used to work for IBM.

I like Cloudant .. it is not too bad. In a recent project (after I left IBM), I needed to get a data tier up quickly and I actually used it for the initial POC. And yes, it was an acquisition by IBM. I was a bit worried that bluewashing would have made Cloudant crap but looks like they have managed to avoid it. The caveat I'd suggest is look closely at the pricing model. If you want QoS and scale, be careful of the pricing model. For small projects and projects that need fast completion (what project today doesn't?), it is actually very nice. You asked for caveats .. I think some of the language bindings were a bit out of date .. but since it uses REST calls, it wasn't too hard to bypass.

How many useful die per wafer? Is there a ballpark yield for 14nm?

I too suspect this was not a profit-in-the-now division. They were probably playing a long-term game. I think they ceded the game to someone else .. but who?

Yea .. I wondered that too. I only got 1-2 deliveries free.