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https://3dverse.com https://thebakery.io
Obvious plug but my company[1] is building a multi-user real-time 3d engine. Think Figma meets Unity. There are lots of fun use cases around working collaboratively on subparts of a larger 3d system without having to break it apart: - architects working on different parts of a building - engineers working on different pieces of a CAD model - game designers working on different levels, etc
[1] 3dverse.com
3dverse | Montreal, CAN | Onsite/hybrid (within CAN)
About us: We are building a real-time cloud-based 3D engine-as-a-Service to reduce the pain in building, collaborating on, and deploying 3D content at scale. We are a team of 12, almost entirely technical. Our stack is a combination of C++, Typescript and sprinkle of Go.
Role: Full-stack or Front-end Engineer (Mid to Senior). We are looking for a web dev to help us release our first public product, a web-based collaborative 3D viewer, built on top of our engine.
Stack: Typescript/React/Postgres. 3D or game dev experience is a plus (Unity/Three.js). Need a solid grasp of networking and web performance tradeoffs.
What we're looking for: - An experienced builder with code and projects to show for it. You care about code quality and doing things well. - A product mindset. You have opinions about design, UX and how to build products people love to use. - A curious nature and a desire to tackle hard problems.
Tell us (or better yet, show us), what you've worked on and what your interests are. Contact me at mark at 3dverse.com
3dverse | Montreal, CAN | Onsite/hybrid (within CAN) | Visa
About us: We are building a real-time cloud-based 3D engine-as-a-Service to reduce the pain in building, collaborating on, and deploying 3D content at scale. We are a team of 11, almost entirely technical. Our stack is a combination of C++, Typescript and sprinkle of Go.
Role: Full Stack Engineer (Mid to Senior Level). We are looking for a web developer to help us release our first public product, a web-based collaborative 3D viewer, built on top of our engine.
Stack: Typescript/React/Postgres. 3D or game dev experience is a plus (Unity/three.js). Need a solid grasp of networking and web performance tradeoffs.
What we're looking for: - An experienced builder with code and projects to show for it. You care about code quality and doing things well. - A product mindset. You have opinions about design, UX and how to build products people love to use. - A curious nature and a desire to tackle hard problems.
Tell us (or better yet, show us), what you've worked on and what your interests are.
Contact me at mark at 3dverse.com
3dverse | Real-time Network Engineer | Montreal | Hybrid
We are building a cloud-base real-time 3D engine and are looking for an experienced and passionate network engineer to help us develop network protocols optimized for real-time multiplayer usage. You should have a strong background in high performance C++ and ideally have experience in real-time game networking, such as a networked shooter, RTS, or MMO.
We are currently a team of 10 with an office in Montreal but will consider remote for the right candidate.
Contact: mark at 3dverse.com
I'm going through this process right now and would love to find examples of a larger open-source codebases doing this, in case anybody has references.
There's a great Reply All podcast about local politics in the town where this plant is to be built. Beware, it's slightly infuriating.
Very cool. Genuine question: is using the URL as the encryption key considered secured enough for most usecases? I imagine most people share these links via email, and if you or your recipient use a non-secure email provider, we should expect it to be parsed.
Very nice. Any plans on open-sourcing this? I'm a newbie at blackjack and have been wanting to build a similarly minimalistic version adding a "strategy feedback" mode to help me memorize basic strategies.
One obvious step that seems to be missing is having governments acknowledge this as a top priority. Make carbon-based energy production expensive enough that these technological innovations are the only alternative.
It seems like a classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma[1]. We are so economically dependent on carbon fuels that the incentives to develop and adopt renewable energies are not yet strong enough. Shouldn't governments do more to speed up that adoption curve?
I didn't know that website but it seems to have lots of interesting content.
On a related note, Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows is one of my favorite books.
Could it be that Dan's personal threshold for "knowing" things is just higher than that of most of us? Surely there are things on that list which he could pick up effortlessly if need be (eg: flexbox, sass).
Thanks for sharing this! Quote from the article:
In the original Civilization, it was because of a bug. Each leader in the game had an “aggression” rating, and Gandhi - to best reflect his real-world persona - was given the lowest score possible, a 1, so low that he’d rarely if ever go out of his way to declare war on someone.
Only, there was a problem. When a player adopted democracy in Civilization, their aggression would be automatically reduced by 2. Code being code, if Gandhi went democratic his aggression wouldn’t go to -1, it looped back around to the ludicrously high figure of 255, making him as aggressive as a civilization could possibly be.
Agree. For one, BTC's decentralized nature makes the ponzi scheme highly resilient and scalable. On top of that, the coolness factor is undeniable.
As the Yale economist Robert J. Shiller puts it "You’re fast. You’re smart. You’ve figured out nobody else understands. You’re with it. And bitcoin has this anti-government, anti-regulation feel. It’s such a wonderful story. If it were only true."[1]
Therefore the bubble will most likely stretch a lot bigger (the current market cap of total crypto is 1-1.5% of US equity) before people get scared. But when they do, the fear will indeed be fueled by negative media coverage which might make the crash swift and brutal.
[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-30/so-it-loo...
Out of curiosity, what stage is your company at that your lawyer has an influence on your tech stack? Was this part of due diligence for fundraising?
I feel the same way. I think the article mostly describes the "travel porn" phenomenon which can also be found in a lot of "digital nomad" blogs: people making a living out of exhibiting a seemingly glamorous lifestyle.
To me, that lifestyle is only attractive if it can be combined with other fulfilling activities and relationships - which might be in their case, but isn't conveyed through their social media image.
I second that.
Funny that the article fails to mention Jony Ive as the obvious successor to Cook. Doesn't it look like Apple has its next "creative CEO" all prepped up?
Reminds me of a conversation I had as a teenager visiting Michigan while I was growing up in France. A friend asked: "What's France like? Don't you guys have less freedom?"
This was in the post-Iraq War context when Freedom fries became a thing. Still, I was baffled. And wondering why I wasn't allowed to buy a beer...
The product looks very appealing but I'm not willing to entrust any company with that level of personal data.
I'd be willing to pay to have a self-hosted version of Gyroscope. Curious if it's on the roadmap.
Thanks for this Max! We used it recently to migrate a Backbone/Marionette app[1] to React/Redux and it saved us a great deal of time. We hope to write a full writeup on the migration itself soon but meanwhile we've released the code here: https://github.com/thebakeryio/openmic
[1] https://openmic.io, a MediaRecorderAPI experiment
http://www.goodui.org/ is a good place to start.
I love that book and it was the first thing that came to my mind reading this story.
Looks amazing. Wonder how this would compare to Oculus Quill (although Quill is still an internal tool at the moment).
Nice job Mr Kirkland. When can we expect Cheapo guides for other cities?
Source code at https://github.com/thebakeryio/meteorday
I find the design and polish of Slack to be significantly superior to that of HipChat. Feature-wise though, I'm with you and couldn't pinpoint the differences.
My experience has been the exact opposite. I was reluctant to try yet another collaboration tool despite my teammates enthusiasm but after giving it a chance for a few days, I found the OSX and iOS apps extremely functional and well designed making Slack a real pleasure to use.
We released http://techberlin.com a few months ago. While we don't plan to turn it into a HN clone, we'd love to make it a hub for Berlin's tech community.
Would be great to hear Berliners' opinion on what'd they'd like to see there next.
Cool idea. Does it mean new startups will have access to my email? Or will you send weekly updates to all users with a list of new startups?