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EDIT: in a man/years sense, we don't run pre-historic software. Although some of our clients are still on Win2008 and CentOS6...
Fighter WSO. Adventure, comradery, great group of colleagues with a diverse initial background, and shared recent background. My desk job responsibilities are limited, so I usually go home after debrief and do/learn whatever I want, and work on projects. Liberal leave policy. Just hoping I don't end up with a chronic neck/back injury, or die in a crash.
Fighter WSO. Adventure, comradery, great group of colleagues with a diverse initial background, and shared recent background. My desk job responsibilities are limited, so I usually go home after debrief and do/learn whatever I want, and work on projects. Liberal leave policy. Just hoping I don't end up with a chronic neck/back injury, or die in a crash.
That's awesome! What do you fly in? I'd love to know more about your day :D
Unfortunately, the computers used for the desk jobs are horrendously broken. Ie, takes ~30 mins to go from log-on to getting email up; everything has a long response time. Opening a PDF to sign or fill out takes 1-3 minutes or so each.
I'm learning unreal engine 5 to make vr games. I try to make stuff or find stuff online and then I put it in VR and I can look at it up close, or eventually fight it or team up with it. It's pretty hard but it's just nonstop fun. VR is a new medium. We're in that stage now where people are sort of putting stuff from the old medium in without much consideration of what new concepts or ideas might be possible. Every UI…
I agree, talent needs to catch up, and new UI concepts are needed (the current VR web browsers feel very awkward). One app that was built very thoughtfully for VR and nailed it imho is Hyper Dash. Making teleporting the preferred form of movement vs. walking was brilliant.
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please tell me more, this is something I have dreamed about doing and may have an opportunity in the very near future (unfortunately) of doing. do you have a blog?
We don't have a blog. That's a good idea! We'd planned to make videos for youtube, but so far it's been too much additional work to film ourselves while we work, and we haven't made it happen. I'd be happy to go on about the project in as much detail as you please! Email me? Tried the address hinted at in your profile, but it bounced.
I actually look forward to work/don't dread Sundays at all.
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That's awesome! What do you fly in? I'd love to know more about your day :D
Strike Eagle. Days vary significantly based on the sched. Generally: Show up, prep as required, brief, put on gear, fly, debrief, go home, or have a drink in the squadron bar. Sometimes it's a desk duty instead, like briefing the crews who fly and doing coord with maintenance, or sitting in the ATC tower and coording emergencies, weather contingencies etc. Sometimes it's a sim (realistic video game with full mockup c…
At work, we have a .Net 6 codebase that had some odd design decisions made in the past couple years. Roughly ~115 classes using Unity for dependency injection instead of ASP.NET Core DI, and this horrible Unity-based service locator pattern used all over the place. Since nothing was using constructor injection and instead just grabbed deps from calls to a global static locator willy-nilly, it was very difficult to te…
(if it were me, i'd be hoping it was one giant monolithic application in one single repo, to make it easier to track & perform this kind of sweeping surgery)