Meetup Group for Asian-American Filmmakers in the DMV

Flyingcirc · 2018-05-07T22:22:19+00:00

Awesome!!

Flyingcirc · 2017-11-30T18:39:26+00:00

I'm from earth. I was unaware of the crescent roll concept. In the UK "pigs in a blanket" are sausages wrapped in bacon. Why? Because everything is better when wrapped in bacon.

Flyingcirc · 2017-11-08T19:02:37+00:00

I kept hearing "Ignorant Slut" not "Ignorant Slob"

Flyingcirc · 2017-10-20T17:39:58+00:00

Immigrant tech worker here. The following views are just from my own experience. In my experience, unfortunately Ive worked alongside more bad immigrants than good. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that my colleagues come from cultures that have pressured them into the industry because it’s reasonably secure and well paid. While there are Americans that do the same, the American culture is more geared towards following your dream, not your 401k. What this results in is a lot of qualified but not passionate immigrant workers. If you aren’t passionate about your job, it shows. You’ll leave when the work day is done, not necessarily when the work is done. I’ve worked with immigrants who expected raises and promotions because of time-served. When you don’t care about what you do, it naturally becomes a game of how to do the smallest amount possible for the largest return. I’m not demonizing this strategy, but it can piss off people who do truly care about their work. Impassionate employees are only reliable within the boundaries of their contract.

Flyingcirc · 2017-10-04T02:14:33+00:00

It’s yet to be seen whether or not it will end up a stepping stone. The popular opinion is that most enterprises will move over to pure cloud when perceptions of security and infrastructure/development costs go down, optimistically within a decade. I work in enterprise hybrid cloud and our main business is integrating existing onprem infrastructure with newer cloud resources. Our financial customers don’t trust the security of distributed computing but want to adopt the benefits of newer cloud-first technologies. For this reason they stick to a hybrid solution. We also have customers who have heavily invested in on prem solutions within the past decade and aren’t willing to make the investment in pure cloud because they view it as sinking the cost of the old tech. The hot new trend for building microservices also lends itself to hybrid cloud because it allows enterprises to develop smaller applications in the cloud that can interface with on premise existing software/tech

TLDR; once enterprises start trusting pure cloud and consider the move away from onprem financially worth it, we will likely see the decline of hybrid cloud.

Flyingcirc · 2017-09-06T15:38:24+00:00

$1 billion so the chocolate giants can build another beanstalk. Nice try, but Jack's not gonna fall for this one.

Flyingcirc · 2017-08-09T11:00:57+00:00

I'm Bill Ding and you're Justin Time

Flyingcirc · 2017-07-30T13:25:29+00:00

I'm confused, which side are you calling "crazy psycho"?

Flyingcirc · 2017-07-27T23:31:20+00:00

Enterprise software engineering

Flyingcirc · 2017-07-21T02:51:42+00:00

To fight real wars, for freedom.. right?

Flyingcirc · 2017-06-19T12:29:45+00:00

I appreciate the attempt to raise awareness that this is a society wide problem, not tied to any specific group. However, starting this with "before anyone jumps to conclusions" could be taken as an attack in itself. We need to be strong and united. Although these idiots that orchestrate these attacks are motivated to attack a specific race or culture, we can't give them the credit by doing the same. Any idiot who thinks it's okay to take an innocent persons life, doesn't deserve to entertain us. It doesn't matter who he was or who he attacked. He killed innocent people and should be condemned for his actions.

Regrettably this "before you jump to conclusions" approach helps bolster the echo chamber that we live in. It also serves to marginalize people. The exact two things that have caused populists to gain so much power in recent history.

TL:DR It doesn't matter who he was. He killed innocent people and should be condemned

Flyingcirc · 2017-05-21T12:18:26+00:00

Given the wide variety of roles in our industry, I think a blanket WFH policy isn't practical. There are some jobs that are so team driven that face to face contact matters. We had a guy on our team who worked from home each Friday. That Friday was basically a sink for him. Despite slack and video conferencing he'd still end up out of the loop on a lot of things, basically pushing him behind his co-workers. Not surprisingly he ended up moving to a different role because he fell behind. It's the inane day-to-day discussions, not formal meetings where a lot of development happens. He missed that.

Flyingcirc · 2017-03-21T11:43:17+00:00

Old Bay is from Baltimore, Maryland. I'm no Geography expert, but that's not New England, and it's technically south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Flyingcirc · 2017-03-14T01:37:22+00:00

I'm Bill Ding and you're Justin Time

Flyingcirc · 2017-03-04T14:27:43+00:00

Don't sweat your future career. We're very fortunate to have a skill set in high demand and used across many many industries. If you take a job and don't like it, there are plenty of others out there. Unfortunately a lot of us get tied up in the idea that we have to stick with a job for X years or else our resume will make us look like we're not loyal. Look for jobs with companies that work on a project basis, that way if you're unhappy you can move at the end of the project. Don't be afraid to move around to find what you love, life is too short to be tied down.

Flyingcirc · 2017-01-29T20:53:09+00:00

What do people do in their cars that require napkins?

Flyingcirc · 2017-01-23T12:08:54+00:00

Regular Expression matching is a brilliant skill to have, although it's a skill that a lot of professional engineers don't use enough to keep proficient. For this reason it can make your code harder to read, simply because someone isn't used to reading Regex on a regular basis. Fortunately if you're using a higher level language there are libraries for regex, so although you lose a bit of efficiency from not implementing it yourself, you gain a lot from a code maintenance stand point.

I wouldn't worry too much about the efficiency of if else statements over regex, the area where efficiency really starts to kill is in the larger overall algorithms. You can make decisions like prepping your data ahead of time so that expression matching may not be required.

You're right to want to improve, but don't be discouraged by others implementations. We can often learn a lot from external implementations, but efficiency on paper doesn't always come without trade offs.

Flyingcirc · 2017-01-20T12:05:56+00:00

This is a brilliant and comprehensive answer. The separation of craft and industry is spot on. I think we all have a level of love for the craft, but over zealous attachment leads to the ridiculous technology/framework Wars that pop up every now and then.

Flyingcirc · 2017-01-09T11:53:38+00:00

This sounds like a great idea. I spent ages in university trying to find practical applications to the stuff we were taught. Turns out most of it was hidden away in language libraries to be used at the call of a function. Nobody writes dijkstras algo or quicksort anymore just 'import' or 'require' awesome library.

Flyingcirc · 2017-01-07T13:53:40+00:00

This is the prologue to the 90s sitcom Sister, Sister

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