The C++ jobs I've been approached about are in the music and gaming industries. Both jobs are audio-related. I have a strong background in audio signal analysis and processing, despite my minimal C++ chops.
Sounds cool.
I personally would take the C++ job because I have also some background in image and signal processing. Therefore the topic itself is more interesting than the tool, in this case C++, for implementation. Even if they use Rust I would take the job.
The authors of this book also offer an excellent free online course that covers some of the same material. I found it incredibly well presented and easy to follow, without being superficial.
There is no such thing as a sentence, or a phrase, or a part
of speech, or even a "word"---these are all pareidolic
fantasies occasioned by glints of sunlight we see reflected
on the surface of the ocean of language; fantasies that we
comfort ourselves with when faced with language's infinite
and unknowable variability.
This is a kind of tautology. Words and phrases exists not because of the whims of grammarians but because they are psychological realities for people. They are concepts represented in the mind and brain which exist whether or not people are explicitly aware of their existence--and this is demonstrated in a large psycho- and neurolinguistic literature. This is different from a man on the moon where we are talking about the anthropomorphism of bits of rock and dust--whether the ontology of such a thing is a human face or just bits of rock and dust.
I don't know, the moon face seems real enough at the moment of seeing it, too.
Linking this to signal theory and the Fourier transform, one point to consider is that solutions are only true in the infinite limit, so a word, a phrase is never enough to represent reality. A sense of continuity is real enough, but discontinuity, too, although I can't position that in a psychological frame. Or Neurological. But speaking with the y combinator in mind, I don't think words are the fixpoints of thought, but feelings are. Maybe onomatopoetic names are and familiar faces are close enough.
If using Chrome, right click on the "web" link and click "Open link in incognito window". Then find the story link on the google results page and click it. This usually has the best chance of working.
Yes. It use to be that sites would let you through the pay wall if you get there via the direct google link. Now that's still the case but with an added caveat that you don't have a cookie from their site too. Incognito ensures you don't have the sites "previous visitor" cookie.
The author's job title might have given this away. In Canada (assistant|associate|full) professors are tenured or tenure track, and hence higher status. Any other title could be assumed to mean non-tenure track and under-employed, hence lower status.
I enjoy my homogenous Facebook feed, full of people who share my views and my life circumstances, just as much as the next guy.
But I also sometimes enjoy reading posts I disagree with, and posts from people who aren't part of my "tribe". If Facebook had a knob that could amplify the stuff it thinks I won’t like (less Bernie Sanders, more conservative talk radio! less wedding pictures, more farmville invites!), I’d turn it once in a while, just to go on a little social vacation.
The Waldos interview (Lagunitas, 2014). There are lots of purported origins of 4:20 (usually about as well-explained as "oh, I heard that some people in some place..." or "I heard there was a police code.."
Not that I've put much research into it, but this seems like the most believable I've seen.
I'm working on one of the startups mentioned on the website (although one that's buried way deep in the list).
What I know as a dev : My company pays an outside firm specialized in getting R&D credits for companies. I don't really know how much it costs and how much it brings in. Every quarter, all the devs have to sit down and do a kind of interview with a guy from that firm. We're a pretty standard SaaS platform so it's hard to really know what can be considered R&D from my point of view. During the interview, we go over our work for the last quarter and dig into areas that could potentially be considered R&D. We'll explain in details what are the technical challenges, how what we're doing is different than what's already available out there, if we did prototyping, research, user testing, etc... Then they write up a nice report and try to get us as much R&D credit as they can!
The credits are for "innovation", and it used to be that more or less everything was considered "innovation", and it was a huge joke, and basically every tech company that applied got tax credits. However, in the past 3 years or so, the government has cracked down on this and now it's extremely difficult and/or not worth the work that is involved to even apply for the credits.
Pain in the ass for the employees and everybody really. You have to fill reports for weeks about some vague stuff. And then they come to inspect and it's more pain and more time not actually working.
You can get help from third parties, but they take a big chunk of the money and they just make the process a little bit easier.
