DawsonBruce

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by DawsonBruce 1y ago
The balance of rest is an important factor that I’ve understood the value of only later in my career. Pausing on a difficult engineering task at the end of the workday in favor of exercise or cooking dinner (or both) gives my mind and body
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by DawsonBruce 1y ago
Huge fan of this tool for working on GUI implementations, ensuring the color choices and contrasts make sense for users that see GUIs differently than I do.
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by DawsonBruce 2y ago
I use an M3 air for my personal machine which is used for c++ development and music production — it’s an excellent machine and I have yet to encounter a task that would require a MPB (at least for the type of work I am involved with).
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by DawsonBruce 2y ago
IIRC, the US shot down some weather balloons in Jan-Feb 2023. Why not the same expediency with these drones?
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by DawsonBruce 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I recently built something similar for a closed source project and am curious how I didn’t run across this library in my research. Briefly: my implementation uses a templated RAII-style wrapper that persists objects
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by DawsonBruce 3y ago
I lost my father to Huntington’s Disease at a young age, and have had to live the 50% inheritance chance reality my entire life. I’ve never been tested for the disease, but I probably should be eventually. I really hope I don’t have it, and
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
“Elastique” time stretch algorithm by zplane (0) seems to be a common choice by plug-in companies. Their C++ library is pretty straightforward to use, and most importantly it sounds good. Generally speaking, phase vocoder (1) algorithms are
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
The good documentation I’m envisioning refers to standardized comments throughout the codebase (we’re working with cpp, so doxygen in this case), with code examples within the header showing how the code should be used. I’ve found there’s s
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
I’ve recently joined a team where the vast majority of the code used across different projects has been written by a lone developer. The code quality is quite good, however, nothing is documented thoroughly and it’s mostly understood by a s
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
I watched the MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms course (0) while studying leetcode a couple years ago. I’d watch the lecture, take notes, and then find some related leetcode questions and solve them. I found it considerably beneficial to
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
After being laid off from my previous employer of 7 years, I found a company to join in my domain that has weathered the storm for many decades and is well-established in the industry I’m in AND also has income via federal contracts from an
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
Agreed. Currently I am on a 3-month sabbatical after being laid off from my previous position of 7 years. While I could have opted for a longer duration, I’ve been happy with the time off thus far, and my efforts of saving and investing ove
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
It’s not that the funding changed people, rather those that built the company were either replaced, left, or laid off.
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
> Culture plays an important role in keeping the people, it's not always about the money. Absolutely. I was at my previous employer for seven years, mainly due to the fantastic culture. In 2020 that company took a $45M series A inve
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
The UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) was passed in November of 2006, as part of the SAFE Port Act [0], which placed online poker into a legal grey area for most U.S. citizens. A lot of major poker sites withdrew from the U
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Voxengo Plug-in Developer “proves that the universe has a ‘creator.’”(musicradar.com)
5 points by DawsonBruce 4y ago|2 comments
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
I did this at my previous employer for seven years. My peers loved me, but I could tell the executives weren’t a fan of the outspokenness. Last week I was laid off, and while the company will never admit to it, I have a feeling that my will
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
I like making flashcards for myself for new topics that I study, in addition to notes. Of course bash as a whole will not fit on a flashcard, but breaking it into high-level topics. looking through the cards I’ve made helps when I feel the
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
While I have found using kanban with personal projects to be pretty beneficial for quantifying progress, there’s something that feels wrong about agile seven days a week between work and personal projects.
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
Dithering modulates the least significant bit of the audio signal, so at normal listening levels it should be inaudible. Of course, one can amplify the silence by 120dB or so and hear the noise. Sources: http://www.dspguide.com&#
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
While its true that dithering changes the original signal, dithering is a necessarily evil that prevents quantization errors as a result of downsampling 24-bit+ source material due to CDs being 16-bit. It’s a choice between some barely audi
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
Agreed, sharing a tech spec / architecture decision record outlining the system design and it’s benefits and consequences with the team you’re seeking feedback from is quite effective. Not only does this remove another meeting from the
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
QBasic was my first programming language, which I was introduced to at about 13 years old. Today I am a senior engineer and the passion for programming all started back in that ugly blue screen around the turn of the century. I was introduc
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
> Their investigations reveal that the last certain evidence that Sheila was alive was in August 2019, when she paid her rent by debit card to Peabody for the last time. How in the world did this individual remain deceased in their flat
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
As someone that spends a lot of my work week reviewing code and documentation, here are some initial thoughts that come to mind: 1. break large feature branches into smaller PRs so they are more easily digestible by reviewers. If this is no
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
Over the past year I’ve disabled all Slack notifications and the result is increased focus while I’m writing some code or an email. All the messages will be queued up regardless if I’m being notified (and disrupted) often. Perhaps give it a
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
Reader View on my phone usually does the trick, however, sites seem to be catching onto that.
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
> And, possibly just as importantly, you'll have time for gaming! Facts. One of the main motivators for me to NEVER become a game devs is simply my love for gaming. Anything I’ve ever worked on professionally has become so demystifi
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
Same. I thought he was named, “Nice Linus,” or something.
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by DawsonBruce 4y ago
I was promoted to senior engineer this year at my organization… And what you’ve said is 100% true.

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