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What Went Wrong? : Hacker News
Culturally the result is coverups and lies. Engineers lie, managers lie, test people lie, directors lie, senior directors lie, vice president lie, external interesting teams are negotiated into minimizing certain critical failures, and so on. Read more
Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG
I can be quite passionate about image codecs. A codec battle is brewing, and Im not the only one to have opinions about that. Obviously, as the chair of the JPEG XL ad hoc group in the JPEG Committee, Im firmly in the camp of the codec Ive been working on for years. Read more
Game developers break silence around salaries
I think more developers need to get better at negotiating. One 10 minute conversation can beat years of 2-4% raises. It’s all about setting expectations and being willing to walk away. People go into it thinking they’re in love with video games and get chewed out of the machine after a few years. Read more
A teenager’s guide to avoiding actual work
When I was first getting into IT I started sending out CVs. Mine was terrible. I had been working in call centres for years at this point and all my “experience” was basically self-taught, so not really experience at all. Read more
Wikimedia Foundation salaries
This table is a compilation of Wikimedia Foundation salaries from the public 990s, for easy comparison over the years. The amounts reported are for calendar year, not fiscal year.[1] Salaries in United States dollars. Read more
Linux Foundation starts landmark open source agtech project AgStack
I’m not a big fan of improving pesticide application techniques (one of the examples given in the article) as at the end of the day it is still pumping poison no matter how efficient but if it means less chemicals leeching into our food and environment, I suppose it’s better than doing nothing. Read more
Internet Search Tips · Gwern.net
Over time, I developed a certain google-fu and expertise in finding references, papers, and books online. Some of these tricks are not well-known, like checking the Internet Archive (IA) for books. Read more
Uber’s Crazy YOLO App Rewrite
The mobile platform team has been working on the project for a few months, coming up with RIBs, a new architecture we’re using for the project. For the program teams – the ones building features -, the work started a few weeks ago. Read more
Neural networks in the photogrammetry
Photogrammetry — this is discipline with wich technologies usage you can make 3d-models from photos. You just need several (but better more) captures of object, interior or exterior, then pass them into software and got 3d-model. Read more