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> Sometimes he says wrong things, and then I have to explain why those things are wrong

>please sit tight while I take a moment to roll my eyes

>You failed fast and broke my heart.

>Maybe I will change

It's hard to learn if you never accept that you're wrong. Admitting defeat is not accepting you're wrong.

The most surprising thing to me is that Tinder has 200 employees (and plans to double it).

> perhaps it's because it's less important to those of us who live really far from Greece

I'd argue this isn't true. Greek yogurt has distinct style and ingredients which, when I buy Greek yogurt, I expect in my yogurt. Anything else is not what I want to spend my money on. It's like feta cheese. Real feta cheese is made from sheep's milk and not cow. It's completely different if made from cow's milk (not the same taste nor texture).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feta#Certification

It's an HLS video, which comes in the form of a text manifest file (.m3u8). The manifest file can define subtitle segments (.vtt, 608, 708) in addition to video segments (.ts) - it's the job of the video player to stitch these together to play at the same time. Safari & Edge have their own HLS implementations but every other browser uses a third party library. Server-side transcoding is responsible for making these manifest files from video & subtitle files.

Also, this video is in Flash

The Instapainting guys already do! https://www.instapainting.com/blog/research/2015/08/23/ai-pa...

I can't corroborate this with a link but I saw the founder talk at a meetup and he said they were using it in production.

Great thanks. But throughout this project I've been wondering: why can't I buffer a damn oscillator (or gain) node?

Thanks for the advice! What node would be a mixer in WebAudio?

> if (!this.recording) return;

This is the key I was missing in my implementation. Another challenge is wiring this up to multiple OscillatorNodes - the docs say a ScriptProcessorNode can only have one input. In my implementation I create a new OscillatorNode whenever you press a key.

Twitch's 24/7 food stream (twitch.tv/food) runs a lot of vintage Jacques (Jacques and Julia, Fast Food My Way). As someone whose been cooking for about a decade now I've learned a lot, even from listening to him in the background.

I tried this but using ScriptProcessorNodes is a pain in practice because of how the events work:

>An event, implementing the AudioProcessingEvent interface, is sent to the object each time the input buffer contains new data, and the event handler terminates when it has filled the output buffer with data.

Events just fire like mad until you put stuff in the output buffer. Couldn't get it to work like I needed it to.

That would be great, here's my code: https://github.com/johnBartos/buffer-oscillator-node/blob/ma...

I wonder if instead of encoding as ogg/opus I could switch the string to WAV instead?

Wow this is awesome! I'm building something similar with WebMIDI and WebAudio and I've been blocked trying to get recording to work. My current solution is sampling my OscillatorNodes with a MediaRecorder and turning the resulting blob into an .ogg file but it only works in Firefox (Chrome has a bug with decoding ogg with WebAudio). Do you mind elaborating on how you do your wav recording?

Like NPR's car talk?

Here it is: https://github.com/mozilla/vtt.js/pull/355

Excellent, thanks a lot! If I find a fix I'll PR it

Any firefox devs here? You guys broke your own VTT polyfill with this update: https://github.com/mozilla/vtt.js/issues/354

Only reason I'm mentioning it here is that it looks like the repo is dead.

> But I know from experience that trying to read a text with long run-on sentences or with obnoxious grammatical features (like an overuse of subordinate clauses) can feel like pure suffering

David Foster Wallace certainly pulls this off in Infinite Jest

> Why would anyone need a desktop in this day and age?

This is what I was responding to.

I'm not sure if you're being facetious but for those of us who enjoy playing video games a desktop is the best choice. If you don't care about portability, why not get something that is by far more powerful, cheaper, customizable, and future-proof?

As a younger engineer (about 2 years of experience), trying to break from my post-college job into a "real" software job in NYC, it took me almost a year. You're not worth a lot until you're proven with a big name on the resume.

Last Friday I couldn't even get a page to load on my iPhone with "full bars" on Verizon. Where does all the money go towards? Not fios, that's for sure (Verizon defaulted on a deal with the city to roll out fiber to all households[0]).

[0]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/nyc-threatens-to-...

>why not just drop Flash

The reason Flash is still around is because of ads. Most (video) ads are served through Flash still and publishers still don't know how to switch, or don't want to.

Source: I work for a video player company

Midtown Manhattan is a sinfully ugly tourist trap, especially around Penn. I'd argue it's the worst neighborhood by far. It's a twinkle in tourist's eyes but I avoid it like the plague.

The thing about Penn too is that it's extremely difficult to calculate your bearings. There's no significant landmarks to orient yourself by - every corridor looks the same. I use Penn regularly and I occasionally get lost if I happen to use a different entrance.

I made a tiny website that implements the 20-20-20 rule via Notifications API.

Another thing that has helped a lot: get a better monitor.

https://johnbartos.github.io/eyebreak/

Abandoning unit tests was a thing many companies were proud to tell me while I was interviewing earlier this year. I always thought that was ridiculous - but i suppose their products didn't have so many users, or thought they could tolerate some bad behavior. I'm happy I ended up at a place where we're big on tests and even have SDETs embedded in within our team. Besides being useful, I often use a unit test as my main method of completing a feature. I also believe it's a code smell when it's hard to write a test. Maybe it's a regional thing - I've heard it said that here in nyc were much more strict with testing (a carryover from financial roots).

Don't sweat if it takes a while, and don't compare yourself. Not everyone is good at interviewing at first. Just try not to burn out - when I first started, I would go crazy studying for a month, then burn for a month. Rinse and repeat. In the past months it's been a slow, steady, and consistent effort to improve. I don't have a CS degree (ECE) and went to a state school (but it has a good rep) and my previous job was at a tiny no-name company. Oh, and you get used to the bullshit. My advice: network. I got a lot of interviews (and my current job, and another offer) due to networking. I went to a lot of meetups at my scene (NJ/NYC).

America. It's a bit hyperbolic, but is it really discrimination to want to hire a person who meets all your requirements?

Oh, single person. Ha, it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of civil status. They meant it as "one person".

It took me a year to find a new job. I got rejected from on-sites 8 or 9 times, a few other rejections before that. I've been through everything the OP has and more. I was once forgotten in an interview room while my interviewer played foosball and then went home. I've managed to pass all rounds with "positive feedback" only to get rejected three days later. I've swam through rivers of aerated bullshit to find a new job and it sucked - but I never once believed that I was a bad engineer. Hate the game all you want (and I really do hate it), but you have no choice other than to play it or have an extremely strong network.

I didn't even want to go to the interview which landed me my new job. In my previous phone screen they were looking to hire a single person.The perfect fit. Probably not me - what the hell do I know about video players? And it's one of those interviews where they'll boot you to the curb if you do poorly in the first half. Whatever, I'll go anyway. And as luck would have it, I didn't get booted. I did damn well. And in my final phone screen with the CTO, I got asked how to find the Nth last spot from the end of a linked list.

I really wasn't good at interviewing for a long time. And from the outset, I didn't know everything I needed to get the job I wanted. It was consistent studying and a buy-in to the bullshit that interviewing is that landed me a new job.

I tried a bunch of different images and I got 'two giraffes near a tree' a bunch of times. They were drawn images though.

Yeah, re-embracing is correct. Lack of physical buttons on my paperwhite is a pain because the OS starts to severely lag after a few weeks of usage and turning the page can sometimes take 2-5 seconds. I've actually been looking around for a smaller kindle that's easier to keep in my pocket for traveling.