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I found this a couple months ago and it was an amazing resource (thanks dmitrygr)! I ended up using atc1441's base station firmware[0] because it's a bit of a pain to actually pop …

It's been a long while since I worked there, but IIRC one of the big issues at the time was that the symlink "support" couldn't actually work properly: - some users want symlinks t…

another former contributor to pb-jelly, though no longer at Dropbox. protoc plugins have an interesting bootstrapping problem as well: the protoc-gen-$LANG interface requires the a…

I’ve been playing with Rust on the ESP32 using these tools on and off over the last couple of months or so, relying more in linking to the existing FreeRTOS/C HAL for accessing the…

The compiler toolchain can cross compile to esp8266, but I think the pure Rust HAL is less developed there. If you use Rust to write components/code that link against the ESP-IDF, …

1. We thought about this at one point, IIRC, and various parts of Dropbox sync have been formally modeled. But CanopyCheck and Trinity are useful in part because they test the real…

I'm not Sujay, but I worked on this system once upon a time too! (not anymore) 1. It does redo the minimization phase, but the actual execution is extremely fast, so this cost is m…

I can't speak for Slack, but it's not unreasonable to believe that a single machine's available output bandwidth (~10-40Gbps) can be saturated during a deploy of ~GB to hundreds of…

It depends on what you mean by checking all the boxes: Go is tricky if you run on diverse platforms and want to do a lot of FFI, since cgo overhead is significant. The type system …

As I recall, this was investigated at one point on Sync Engine Classic and is definitely a thing that folks were thinking about for Nucleus, for pretty much exactly this reason. Th…

disclaimer: was on the team, but didn't write the article / don't work on this anymore Rust was adopted at Dropbox for some serving infrastructure use cases more than a year before…

If you're interested in graphics, animation, simulation, machine learning, or other topics, knowing the concepts in linear algebra will be worthwhile. Most higher-level math will b…