Raytracing at Nvidia. Previously: Tech Lead for RenderMan at Pixar, Architect of Glimpse Renderer at Animal Logic 🇮🇹🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 Views are my own.
Oct 20, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
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A common question I get from people I have mentored is: “what is the quickest path to my dream job?”
That is a specific version of: what is the quickest way to fulfill my dream? Whether that may be an important life fulfillment or a quick fix, the concept applies. 1/N
To classify people across the two proverbial types, there are those who are young and eager to find their place in life, not knowing yet that life is ever changing and not something you can carve out a “place” from it. 2/N
Mar 12, 2018 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Implement first, optimize later they say... as years go by I am growing convinced that is actually a rather poor development practice.
The task of optimization is one of the most complex tasks a developer is given to perform. I’d argue that optimizing software is much harder than debugging it, which in turn it tends to be harder than writing the solution to begin with.
