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This Saturday, Feb 7, we’re hosting a free VR screening of Insidious at The Producers Club in NYC. Everyone watches together in the same theater, but using VR headsets instead of a traditional screen.

One interesting twist: you can choose whether you want the experience to be less scary, standard, or more intense.

It’s a very small event with limited seats, so please only RSVP if you’re pretty sure you can make it.

We’ll have snacks during the screening and pizza after. We’ll also ask attendees to fill out a short survey so we can learn what worked and what didn’t.

If you’re curious: https://partiful.com/e/ydTGBueYzwm19nv4XYrq

they changed it to match the year (2026), stupid i know

that would be hype. If you need any pointers lmk

Yeah we made a decision a while ago to lean into webGpu, after the next apple keynote it should come out of beta!

The text is planar, but its actually in a voxel grid you can see how the animations can rotated and move forward and backward. Technically these are made of little voxels, i'm working on implementing proper font support with extruding so you can make real 3d characters

I'm sorry for your loss and I appreciate the kind words.

ChatGPT does a great job organizing and simplifying the results. It handles nuance really well and knows when to say "You'd have to ask your doctor for that" We found out my mom's tumor was grade 4 from chatGPT. The doctors released the results on a Thursday, none of us could really understand what was being said it was full of medical jargon, and we weren't seeing the doctor until the next Tuesday

So we just dumped it into chatgpt and got the info.

While integrating with OpenAI is just an API call away I don't think it takes away from the user experience. Sure its less of a moat but plenty of products have won by having the best user experience and not many new features (Notion, Digital Ocean, etc.)

Not every experience is going to be best suited to fit in a chat box like ChatGPT which opens the door for startups like this one to build something new.

I'm excited when I see products like this, and I think we really need to retire the critique of "Its just an API call to OpenAI". While yes that is a core part of it, there is a lot of time and effort that goes into developing these experiences that has value

A+

I feel like senior engineers are doing more system design and managing communication among team members than anything else

Solid writeup. The infrastructure for system design practice is so crappy compared to traditional DSA questions.

I'm on the second page of google searches for a relevant search, but I doubt anyone is searching those terms since I kind of made the concept (Or I'm at least an early adopter).

The VTuber point is pretty awesome. TBH I'd be way more comfortable behind an avatar, I might invest in a rig. I have some experience in live videos (used to work on FB Live and Horizon Venues) so this might be something I can pull off

TIHI

Based on everyones input, posting consistency seems to be paramount. Time is super limited so I struggle a bit with posting too much but I'm starting to find a flow with recording, slight editing, and posting.

Would love to see your channel if you are open to sharing it.

Dam, this is awesome, concrete feedback. I'm only realizing right now how crappy the titles are, going to address this asap.

WRT the handwriting: I may end up switching to a typed format since its supported in workrooms and everything is remote nowadays anyway.

My thoughts with watching the failures: it helps to see what doesn't work during an interview.

Ex. So many people jump straight into coding before even thinking about the problem or asking clarifying questions. This is a big red flag during interviews. It might make the value prop clearer if I add some commentary over the failures to explain what went wrong and why.

I'm still trying to suss out whether it makes sense to post the failure vids, so thanks for pointing that out

Thanks for the encouragement and sharing your experience. Patience and iteration seems to be the key here. Congrats on 50k

I was trying to recreate the in person white boarding experience, but that probably isn't the move here since the candidates are having a ton of trouble writing legibly, making the coding portion almost useless for the video. I can't read it myself even when I'm in the environment.

I'm probably going to NIX the actual whiteboarding portion and lean more into a text based approach based off all the feedback here.

It's definitely not scripted, these are actual mock interviews I'm conducting in a VR setting.What I'm taking away from this is that trying to recreate an in person environment isn't the goal, the goal is to create an awesome video thats easy to consume. Makes complete sense, thanks for the feedback

My videos are definitely lacking personality, thanks for the tip this resonates.

I guess its time for a hair cut and a shave(About a month into trying to grow my hair out)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfotE5RL1pfhIZ0fv2kAN9Q

Would love some honest thoughts on whether it seems like there is something actually interesting here or not. (or tips on how to improve). My biggest "improvement" to date has been using canva to make half decent thumbnails haha

64.7% external

14.1% channel pages

11.7% direct

5.1% Browse Features

2.0% Youtube Search

2.4% Others

Not too sure what to make of it, but it looks like my search indexing isn't providing much value. Thanks for raising the point I need to investigate how youtube search works a bit more

I get a ton of questions on this topic, so I figured I'd write up my advice!

1. Read and do the problems for the first half of the book. Do not rush this part of the process.

2. Skip the second half of the book when the chapters switch to being real world examples

3. Having trouble on a particular section? Watch the youtube video to get a cleaner read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22hwcnXIGgk&list=PLOtl7M3yp-...

4. Don't spend too much time on NP/NP-Complete/NP-Hard topics

5. Over learn chapter 2. This is arguably the most important chapter having a deep understanding of runtime analysis helps you in every other chapter and on the interview

6. Don't spend too much time on writing proofs in Chapter 1. Understand them and be able to work through them and understand how the math comes together, but writing a specific proof isn't too valuable.

7. Sometimes the interview problems at the end of the chapter are silly. If it feels dumb, example: 1.36. How much does the ice in a hockey rink weigh? Skip it. These are older school programming interview questions and have been largely phased out

If the goal is to become a better developer, I 100% agree targeted project based learning is superior.

Sadly, different tactics should be employed when trying to land a job. I've conducted over 100 interviews with people studying for programming interviews over the last 2 months and its wild how many people are just going to leetcode and solving random problems. They think if they solve enough problems, they will get the job, and thats just not the best way to maximize your odds. You need to cement your fundamentals and actually understand the concepts. I usually recommend the algorithm design manual by steven skienna and a few other resources.

The goal of this article was to help those people who are aimlessly solving problems to add some structure to their studying. Hope that clears things up!

There really isn't a book that prepares you better than ADM.

CTCI has its place if you have limited time and are targeting mid-size companies, but for anything more serious ADM is the way to go

I personally like to go line by line in my solution and state the runtime of each line of code. Then I add them together, and write out the limit notation showing as N->inf and how I can cancel certain variables out. Its a little bit of overkill but I've found it helps me stand out a bit during interviews.

Hey all, my name is Dan.

I've been developing this 3D streaming pipeline that lets users livestream scenes out of the Unity Editor to WebXR. You can see a customized example here: https://hyperplane.live/tk/vods/097aef

## Why build this

I was an engineer at FB on FB Live & IG Live & I worked at Oculus on VR Media. A trend I started to notice was people using the Unity editor as a recording studio! The recent rise of Vtubers as an example. I wanted to give people a way to share these Unity experiences in WebXR!

## Why Post?

I'm looking for developers interested in partnering to build some cool products on top of the streaming platform! This will enable me to focus on improving the core streaming pipeline and adding features, which is where my passion is.

## How it works

The streaming pipeline is composed of 3 key pieces

1. Unity recording software. (An SDK + desktop application, Mac & Windows supported)

2. Custom file format spec, think DASH but for fully described 3D videos

3. A 3D video player that knows how to read the custom files and manages playback & overlays.

## Currently supported features

Meshes, Skinned Meshes, dynamic lighting, textures, materials, animations, audio

Setting up new users is still a manual process, so feel free to reach out if interested and I can set you up.