petermcd

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by petermcd 9mo ago
Thank you for introducing me to Terry Davis. I'm going to read more about him. I am definitely not talking about art. When I refer to 100x engineer, I'm referring to the impact that QEMU and FFmpeg have had on the world. I would
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by petermcd 9mo ago
Staff SWE at a FAANG here. Fabrice Bellard is not a 10x engineer, he is a 100x engineer. You could attach him to a good people manager and either build a team around him or allow him to work independently on a project that he finds exciting
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by petermcd 6y ago
I'm down in Waikiki, Oahu. If someone wants to do a meetup on a weekend, I'll try to make it.
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by petermcd 8y ago
These articles would be of interest to anyone developing flight avionics systems for spacecraft, airplanes, or, I can imagine, drones.
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by petermcd 10y ago
Researchers traced the phishing link back to a bitly account that wasn't password protected. When they saw the other links in the account, they were able to decode the email address each link corresponded to. This unveiled that gaining
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by petermcd 10y ago
Some great approaches here! I like the medium-like bar on the left to browse blocks. Checking the boxes next to the blocks you want to show is a neat way to make a view of just the functions you want to look at. Putting it in a browser, lik
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by petermcd 10y ago
I've been to India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre for work. They do a lot with the resources they have been given. The on-base museum exhibits show how their weather and communications satellites help India with its national devel
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by petermcd 11y ago
A few points to ponder: - Money spent counts toward GDP, even if the money comes from a bank loan that will never be repaid (Example: big real estate project in a third-tier city that will never sell for its listed price) - China's for
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by petermcd 12y ago
When I lived in Beijing several years ago, I interviewed a guy for a software development position. He worked for a network equipment provider (not Huawei). When I asked him about his work, he told me that his company based their router sof
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by petermcd 13y ago
You could do this quickly if you just ran Android with a desktop skin.
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by petermcd 13y ago
I met a local Chinese guy in Beijing several years ago who knew the Red Flag people. Based on what he told me, it sounded like Red Flag positioned themselves as the official Linux of China, which meant they would be specified and required b
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by petermcd 13y ago
Yes, I guess 'barbecue pit' isn't a good choice of words. I was referring to the street vendors who sell barbecue meat, etc. The ones near my home seem to be shut down. http://inhabitat.com/chinese-government-
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by petermcd 13y ago
No problem. We're all friends here ;)
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by petermcd 13y ago
Fair question. My impression here in Beijing is that people are highly dissatisfied with the pollution situation. They don't want lung cancer and they don't want their kids breathing this crap. That being said, the government is t
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by petermcd 13y ago
I think "Communist" is a bit of a loaded word that in the my American mind is more linked to Stalin and Lenin than Mao and Deng, so I try to stay away from it. It's probably much more accurate to say the Chinese government is
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by petermcd 13y ago
Does he mean the probability is lower or the impact is lower? Because I'm okay with a bank failing, so long as it doesn't need a government bail-out to keep it from bringing down the entire economy.
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by petermcd 13y ago
Two assumptions: 1. An encryption system is only as secure as its weakest link 2. The NSA can get the source whether its open or closed. I imagine the NSA would task a team of researchers to analyze the source code, find a vulnerability
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by petermcd 13y ago
Xiaomi's founder, Lei Jun, is an experienced Internet entrepreneur, and Xiaomi's management has a number of ex-Google China and ex-Motorola China folks. So, as a tech entrepreneur in Beijing, I see Xiaomi as more international tha
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by petermcd 13y ago
I recall reading that back in the good old days at HP, they would split a group into two groups once it grew to over 100 people. This discussion of Dunbar's number gives some useful background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_numbe
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by petermcd 14y ago
The numbers I've heard here in China are three weeks from the factory door to a warehouse on the West Coast of the USA (don't forget loading/unloading and time clearing customs). Typically, factories require you to complete payment and tak
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by petermcd 14y ago
I love the phrase, "Better done than done better." It's suitable for many situations in life. In the last few months, I've been running my life off a weekly task list that includes both my personal and business tasks and objectives. I buil
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by petermcd 14y ago
Here's the follow-up article on TechCrunch talking with the guy who tweeted this explaining why the fact Jobs threw away the UI isn't such a big deal: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/jobs-apple-tv-margolis/
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by petermcd 15y ago
Great that Rovio makes the fact that Angry Birds was their 52nd game part of their mythology. Every time I read a glossy write-up, I find myself wishing they'd dig a bit deeper into the trial-and-error and near failure that went on before c
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by petermcd 15y ago
In my best Commander Tigh voice: "Looks like exactly the kind of code a Cylon would write, to me."
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by petermcd 15y ago
Here is how we are trying to fix TV with HTML5 video support, so any video web site can get on TVs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBZ1xdcC1Q The folks at PandoDaily ran a nice article about us, too: http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/23/nth
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NthCode Wants To Bring The Internet To Everything Plugged Into Your TV(pandodaily.com)
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by petermcd 15y ago
Evan Osnos also has a good write-up in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/01/the-...
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by petermcd 15y ago
I've been working in tech in Beijing for 9 years. Many multinational companies will give you a bit of a bump (perhaps in the form of a higher working grade) since you're from overseas, but it's not huge. To earn that, the company might expe