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Jobs looked bored. I'm bored. This guy wasn't a God. This is just a rudimentary PR-enforced interview capture. The way people hang on every mundane word that comes out of certain people's mouths is tribalistic to a disturbing monkey degree.

Do you have any idea how much bloat Spotify has that it can cut? Have you ever seen the NYC office? It's padded with hundreds of overpaid "creatives" poached from every NY agency who do nothing more than create unnecessary traditional marketing campaigns, all of which serve no one, while spending 80% of the day snacking on premium goods and watching insider music acts in their gigantic, swanky, luxury office space.

Source: Been there, seen it, a long time. Spotify needs to be nothing more than a functioning music utility. Instead their US offices are structured like a massive, bloated, 90's style agency party zone.

Trust me.

There is room to cut costs.

CSS animations are a pain-inducing non-starter for thousands of recurring use cases.

Example: Using Javascript to SHOW a modal, but then relying applying addClass('animate') using CSS animations to transition that modal (eg: bottom of screen to center, while fading in) are nearly impossible without tons of hackery. The animations do not render.

Hence jQuery animation calls.

It's sad reading comments like this from bandwagoners who haven't read a single academic or technical whitepaper on the technology, let alone the hundreds of them that have emerged which prove / annotate / express / clarify, in exhausting detail, all of the "fundamental problems" that Bitcoin's PoW protocol have, as well as far superior approaches that are in the process of being implemented.

But it's cute. You like Bitcoin. You're a good cheerleader.

You're a neckbearded gender troll. The sooner you can admit it to yourself, the sooner you can start healing yourself.

It's weird how hard you go against literally anything except Bitcoin because of your rabid obsession with whatever paltry sum of money you've made over this one dated technologically is. You're literally like a cancer-ridden coal miner coughing his last lung to keep the mines open. Good riddance.

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Can I ask what value Cinder has in a world of Unreal/Unity? I'm guessing you don't use Houdini either since it's not realtime.

But take Unreal for example: you have this absolutely massive world of presets/plugins/etc made by the community. You have Niagara particle systems. You have incredible post-processing / color correction / cinematic grading / etc. You have Blueprints, the ability to write code, etc. You have the entirety of Quixel's megascans, etc. It's almost completely effortless to make unbelievably gorgeous/immersive things, whether it's near-photorealistic environments/landscapes, abstract audio visualizations, full on games, etc.

I'm genuinely trying to understand why anyone who works in interactive/realtime 2D or 3D visualization would ever use Cinder or Processing these days. Thoughts?

Deep breaths. Deep, slow breaths. You're going to be just fine.

Coming from a game networking side, why wouldn't you want to embrace a WebSockets world for everything? The upsides seem so incredibly intuitive for someone looking at it from the outside of traditional web development.

It's weird to me how the designers/developers behind this homepage globe basically copied dozens of other startups who already "conceived" (from their own respective vantage points) and implemented this visual storytelling device as some unique expression of their own "brand story". You can find spinning globes with pings and arcs like this on at least 10+ different websites that have been around for 5+ years. You can even license it from places like https://globekit.co. Hell, even Stripe has one on their homepage, and they were late to the game on cashing in on this visualization. At least they're not self-aggrandizing it.

Sure, talk about your data pipelines or whatever else seems technically engaging, but let's not pretend what you're doing was the result of some stroke of artistic genius in manifesting the spirit of some slideshow presentation your colleagues.