Tristam MacDonald

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Software Engineer @ Oculus for Business. Ex-Amazonian. Talk to me about procedural generation, tropical permaculture, sustainable architecture, and life afloat.

Seattle, WA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2016.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    5. sij

    I put together a little utility crate to make sharing struct definitions between and the GPU less error-prone...

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  2. 2. velj

    Which is perhaps one of the most frustrating parts of software development. We’d all love to deliver perfect, bug free software. But often the process of fixing and deploying carries more risk than the bugs themselves...

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  3. 2. velj

    A good QA team can almost always identify bugs faster than engineering can (or is allowed to) fix them.

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  4. 1. velj

    Every team I worked on had their own corruption of the leadership principles. They are fairly obvious, and often sadly applicable: “Drink big” “Re-invent and complicate” “Commit to disagree” “Hire and develop the rest”

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    They are invariably interpreted in weird ways across the company. Frugality meant we were all stuck with outdated laptops, and had to fight to get a second monitor as standard issue for software engineers. But spending $10k/month on AWS capacity didn’t even raise any eyebrows.

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    Weirdly, one you work there, the leadership principles tend to act more as cautionary tales. It’s hard to recall a meeting at Amazon where someone didn’t randomly interject a leadership principle verbatim, to peals of laughter.

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  7. 28. sij

    The API docs have become basically unreadable over the last year - scrolling doesn’t really work, find-in-page doesn’t jump to the results reliably, and hyperlinks to specific anchors just dump you at the top of the page most of the time.

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  8. 25. sij

    This isn’t necessarily a negative. Continual crisis breeds excellence at incident response. And AWS is very, very good at that.

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  9. 25. sij

    AWS management tip: if you are always in crisis, no need to run drills!

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  10. 23. sij

    I assume it’s at least part of the reason “boomerang” clauses are so successful in big tech. 6 months at a new company, and a good subset of people will go “to hell with this, I’m going back to the weird and broken shit I already know how to work around”

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  11. 23. sij

    Moving between large companies kind of sucks in this regard. It takes a long time in a new company to make your peace with why everything is broken in weird and different ways, but nobody around you seems to notice or care...

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  12. 22. sij

    (The fundamentally flawed and probably not actually peer-reviewed paper, for the curious: )

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  13. 22. sij

    The conference accepted the paper, a passing grade was obtained by all involved. Happy ending. Except... A decade later, I’m still being contacted by recruiters about exciting opportunities in urban planning.

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  14. 22. sij

    One semester in grad school, my team missed the publication deadline for an IEEE Computer Science conference. To save the grade, one of my colleagues retooled the paper and submitted it to a Public Transit conference instead.

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  15. 14. sij

    My IDE is judging my meeting load now.

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    9. sij

    Let me talk for a moment about the narratives we tell around how game designers enter the industry. Its just a theory but maybe there is some truth in it.

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  17. 6. sij

    You know, I really should blog more often, so here's an overview of the crate (and why its useful):

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    31. pro 2019.

    If you are a C or C++ programmer somehow still on the fence about whether or not you should take seriously, consider this piece from Cliff Biffle an absolute must-read:

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  19. 2. pro 2019.

    The sanctions may have hurt Hauwei's bottom line in the short-term. But in the process they have ensured that Hauwei (and probably other foreign companies) will build full tech stacks that are entirely outside of US government control.

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  20. 2. pro 2019.

    Now that Hauwei has demonstrated they can build a smartphone without any US suppliers... Do you think the folks behind the sanctions realise that all they've accomplished is to force a foreign tech giant to break its dependency on US tech exports?

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