lol yikes. Some of the other illustrations quoted seemed OK esp if you already have a layman's understanding of the major concepts... but this just seems.... bad.
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As an engineering leader you’ve got to advocate for it against product/design all the time.
Even if apps transition well between aspect ratio / screen size breakpoints, there is a cognitive load to maintain 2+ UI configurations.
Preserving aspect ratios eliminates these issues. It'll make every app better.
I wish we'd stop ignoring Councilman Blatt's proposal to triple-dye the yak hair Imperial Blue, to minimize the color variation and therefore the effects of mass loss due to black body radation.
We are, after all, trying to be accurate here.
Pickups of Imperial Blue Yak Hair (or PIBYHs) is the clear road to the future and it's dismaying to see any other response from a fellow Unitsman.
Google hired Guido van Rossum around the same time. I worked down the hall from Rob Pike, they had already hired Peter Weinberger (the w from `awk`), and I shared a 4-person office with Gren Stein, who was then director of the Apache Software Foundation.
I eventually went full time at Google NYC in the early 2010s - I remember the internal uproar when Reader was sunsetted =)
Just know that my mentor was hand-holding the hiring process which basically prided itself on false negatives and still probably does.
And they were still in the era where's they'd just keep interviewing you until they "got enough signal" so people would be back 3 and 4 times.
Can we post jokes?? Everyone knows Al Gore didn't sit around in an SV garage inventing the internet.
It’s like two lifetimes in tech years. I remember that summer Google Earth was launched, we were a year removed from the Gmail launch, and I worked on shipping the first Summer of Code.
i.e. how will full duplex & delegation enable/enhance desktop flows w/o corresponding leaps in UI.
It was really nice walking into that space. Always been influenced by architecture in my engineering career and it was really nice to have that pedigree infused into my workspace just a little bit. It's just a little dose of delight every day.
But now 100% sure that actually happened. Also it was likely a professor and not a working engineer drinking the water which makes much more sense.