Thursday, December 12, 2019

  • Webcam arrived. No driver installation, just have to go into cheese (the gnome default webcam software) and change the device.
    • Recorded 1min on 1920x1080. Was 53MB. Resolution was nice, but framerate was too low and the video was not smooth.
    • Switched to 960x720. Still looks good, and is muuuuch less choppy.
    • Picture res is set to 2304x1536.
    • Autofocus is nice. Sound quality is good.
  • Ask specifics during the "do you have any questions for me?" round. If you have a new idea, what's the process for getting it approved for implementation? How many reorgs have happened in the last 5 years? How is software viewed by the other departments here?
  • NAFTA = north american free trade agreement (us, mexico, canada =  USMCA).
  • Placed whole foods order.
  • Made new batch (~5lbs) of protein bars, half pecan and half hazelnut. Added oats/sesameseed/cinnamon and a touch of water to make them less dry.
  • Joe Pesci has some albums on spotify. Some are rap, some are christmas. What.
  • 30m phone with netflix.
    • Culture doc is accurate. Will scale as company does. https://jobs.netflix.com/culture.
    • Instead of hiring in general then finding team fit (like google), they hire for a role specifically.
    • This allows questions to be more focused, rather than generic DS&A.
    • HR, then specific hiring manager, then take-home coding assessment, then onsites.
    • Onsites have a tech round first. Mostly real-world problems, design. Then second round mostly culture, work scenarios, etc.
    • Going to speak with the hiring manager for my role (CI) next wednesday the 18th.
  • Emailed Holly's friend Ben at GitLab.
    • lol checked linkedin after, turns out he works at GitHub, not GitLab.
  • Castle rock season finale. Loved the misery crossover.
  • Committed sbsc lines and submitted picks.
    • The new spreads failed for the first time. Just ssh in, make restart-prod, then try again from the admin interface.
  • Talked with Paul about the ncl groundstation.
    • Just a static template on aws right now, but want to be able to talk with the radio (bidirectionally) to show data and send commands. Went over flask, posting to endpoints, writing to db, etc.