wingless
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9 years ago
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on: When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
The solution is actually quite simple. Being able to choose your child's sex. If women have happier and easier lives, parents will prefer having daughters which will in turn increase the female population and decrease their value, bringing the value of sexes to an equilibrium.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Sandstorm gets a security review
I wonder if you (core devs) could get full-time jobs to integrate Sandstorm with company infrastructures.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
Why would it? Imagine being a Google/Alphabet shareholder.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Software Engineering at Google
And on the other end of the spectrum we had Jobs era Apple, with One True God overseeing all demigods who oversee projects. IMO the things that made Apple products so successful was this structure which left no room for confusion and that the company was run by QA people. My impression of Jobs is that he was a QA guy himself.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Libfmsynth: a C library which implements an FM synthesizer
If LV2 plugins are anything like VSTs, you'll need to load the plugin in your audio application and route your MIDI input through that plugin. In most DAWs this is done by creating a track then assigning MIDI input and the VSTi to the track.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: GNU Parallel
Am I the only person who finds GNU parallel way too complicated? I tried to perform a very easy parallel task with it and spent hours reading the documentation and various tutorials. If a person with Unix command-line skills can't easily pick it up, what's the point of having it?
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: AMD's new Zen-based $499 CPU beats Intel's $999 CPU
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Brew commands send data to Google Analytics
Like how the PRISM program got whistleblown by Googlers? Oh wait, that never happened.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: ZType – typing game
Yes, I remember this as a demo for an HTML5 game engine.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Switching from macOS: The Basics
From what I've seen it's been getting much better. Linux has very powerful tools for media creation/editing now: Blender, Krita, Darktable, Natron are some quality apps that I'm aware of.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: WebAssembly Stack Machine
First there was NaCl which was a subset of x86 code leveraging x86 features to sandbox the execution. This x86 subset was produced by a special toolchain and could be verified before running.
Then PNaCl came along with a platform-independent bitcode format based on LLVM IR, which was translated to host's native code in the browser.
Then WASM (also platform-independent) came along striving to be a multi-vendor solution. Unlike the other two WASM directly targets the JavaScript engine. It started out as a serialization format for JavaScript AST.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: We Got Phished
I use Lastpass and I just realized that it prevents phishing since it autocompletes my login info based on the domain.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]
If VR technology doesn't advance fast enough to solve its current issues (nausea, lack of DoF and gravitation) in the near future, we will likely enter a period of stagnation like the AI Winter.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Using GPUs to Speed Through the 1.2B Record Taxi Dataset
If you find this too pricey, then build a cheaper or free competitor.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
You don't even have to give feedback in an interview. Just let them answer your question and if it's too detailed, write it down and look it up later. In fact, Google usually doesn't give back any feedback during or after their onsite interviews.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: IRC v3
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: If there's a tech skills shortage, why so many computer graduates unemployed?
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
On the contrary, I would say that enterprises should take the risk and use such projects. They likely have enough capital to hire the correct people (e.g. one of the core devs) when a problem shows up.
Startups can't afford that. Therefore they should use older technology until they grow big enough to tank the damage.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need a Guaranteed Basic Income
What else can they do? With the new wave of AI and automation there will be no jobs left for people with below average intelligence. You will need more and more researchers and programmers but not everyone can do those jobs.
wingless
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9 years ago
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on: Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer”
The lack of gender diversity in tech is NOT a problem. Women choose not to become software engineers for the same reason they avoid all STEM fields.
This recent push to make everyone a software engineer is such an obvious attempt by companies to push down wages. You will be wasting your spare time trying to reduce your salary.
