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Dav3xor | 10 years ago

The day I got georeferenced, shaded, 3d terrain working for a synthetic vision system, singlehanded, in bare OpenGL ES 2.0.

Friend of mine at work took my picture seconds after I got it working, you can see the crazed look in my eye.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24025582@N03/4150935582/in/dat...

The worst day of my professional life was probably the day Derek Sivers canned me because, "I want to do your job myself."

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vonklaus|10 years ago

Stellar. Out of interest, how did Derek fare, Was it objectively a decent decision on his part or what? Also, looks good from the flickr img.

Dav3xor|10 years ago

Oh man... Derek is an interesting guy. He hired me to do encoding and distribution -- both the business and software sides. I did ok with the software (except for ~2006 Ruby GC unknowingly causing me problems), but my business/people skills weren't up to it at the time. The business side was very very difficult though -- it was really difficult to get the retailers to take more music after the initial load.