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santaclaus commented on Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B techcrunch.com/2021/11/09... · Posted by u/myth_drannon

TxProgrammer · 4 years ago

Unity doesn't have to be an Unreal competitor -plenty of Unity folks in the Indie market (but I guess that's not where the money is) but I suppose you are right-for me, its easier to work with Unity than Unreal as a developer and I hope Unity can catch up technology wise.. not sure how acquiring WETA helps them in that.. its a cool Visual FX studio not a technology company..

santaclaus · 4 years ago

> its a cool Visual FX studio not a technology company..

Weta develops metric tones of tech internally, including employing some of the top graphics researchers at various points in their careers. There is tons of tech talent in VFX and animation shops. Hell, I work with libraries open sourced by Pixar as part of my day job at a FAANG.

santaclaus commented on Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-... · Posted by u/KaiserSanchez

steveklabnik · 5 years ago

I'm from Pittsburgh, my partner is from New Jersey. We argue about this (in a playful way) all the time; Pittsburgh is east coast, to me. Ohio is midwest. She counters with "a seven hour drive to the water is not on the coast."

santaclaus · 5 years ago

I used to follow your Rust work and had no idea you are yinzer! Mineo’s or Aiello’s? :)

santaclaus commented on Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-... · Posted by u/KaiserSanchez

DetroitThrow · 5 years ago

Yeah, I meant to say CMU is a private school unlike the other leading Midwestern schools which are generally public. Pittsburgh is pretty far from the east coast, so it being in Pennsylvania doesn't really make it a 'coastal school' in my eyes, so I'll continue to lump it in with its geographic neighbors, though perhaps 'Rust belt' region is more accurate than Midwest for what I'm trying to b describe.

What ranking puts CMU at 1 in CS? Just curious because I usually see it behind a couple coastal schools.

santaclaus · 5 years ago

It’s currently tied for 1 with their other usual suspects in US News [1]. Of course these rankings are all a bit arbitrary, game-able, and should be taken skeptically :)

[1] https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

santaclaus commented on Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-... · Posted by u/KaiserSanchez

dexwiz · 5 years ago

CMU is on the wrong side of the Appalachian mountains to best East Coast. Pittsburg has much more in common with neighboring Ohio than it does with Philadelphia. Its regularly included in the Rust Belt which is a subset of the Midwest.

santaclaus · 5 years ago

It’s certainly not East Coast, but it’s very North East - the rust belt spans well beyond the Midwest. Even culturally Pittsburgh feels like it has more in common with, say, Buffalo or other North Eastern rust belt cities than Wisconsin or Minnesota.

santaclaus commented on Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-... · Posted by u/KaiserSanchez

DetroitThrow · 5 years ago

There are plenty FAANG engineers minted from the top Midwestern schools - think CMU and other state schools - even if they rank behind the top schools on the coasts.

Top paying tech jobs tend to be found on the coasts though as well.

santaclaus · 5 years ago

> There are plenty FAANG engineers minted from the top Midwestern schools - think CMU and other state schools - even if they rank behind the top schools on the coasts.

CMU is a private school, ranked number 1 in CS, and is not in a Midwestern state! That said, there are lots of top CS programs in the Midwest.

santaclaus commented on Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-... · Posted by u/KaiserSanchez

shortandsweet · 5 years ago

What are the big schools? I always thought that what was holding the Midwest up, not enough high quality schools.

santaclaus · 5 years ago

University of Illinois Urbana Champagne, University of Michigan, university of Wisconsin Madison, and Purdue are all top 20 in CS.

santaclaus commented on Show HN: I made a computer vision addon for Blender github.com/Cartucho/visio... · Posted by u/morroida

santaclaus · 5 years ago

Very cool! Just the other day I was trying to set Blender’s camera based on a standard 3x4 computer vision KRT matrix, and it is surprisingly a pain in the ass —- I wish more of these graphics CAD packages (Blender, Houdini, Maya) made it easier to deal with vision data.

Posted by u/santaclaus 5 years ago

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santaclaus commented on Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender blender.org/user-stories/... · Posted by u/robin_reala

Chazprime · 6 years ago

You'll find it anywhere someone wants to use it. Some effects people still love doing quick simulations with nCloth, for example.

santaclaus · 6 years ago

Very cool! Glad to see Nucleus still getting some love, Jos would be happy — I was talking to a Pixar effects fellow at SIGGRAPH and was under the impression that Houdini’s constraint solver thing had spread like wildfire in that department.

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