Right now, billions of people are watching videos.
Most of them are being processed by code one man wrote alone in 2000. 🤯
You’ve probably never heard his name.
>Meet Fabrice Bellard.
>A French programmer working solo
>In 2000, built FFmpeg alone ~ the engine behind YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Chrome, Firefox, VLC, and Discord
>NASA even runs FFmpeg on the Perseverance rover on Mars 🚀
>In 2003, built QEMU alone ~ the foundation of every Android emulator and most cloud virtualization on Earth
>Wrote the Tiny C Compiler. Self-hosting. >One of the fastest C compilers ever built.
>In 2009, broke the world record for calculating Pi ~ 2.7 trillion digits on a single desktop PC
>Won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest 3 times
>Discovered a new mathematical formula to calculate digits of Pi at age 25
>Co-founded Amarisoft in 2012 ~ runs full 4G/5G base stations entirely in software on a normal PC 🔥
>Won the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award
>Never worked at Google. Never worked at Meta. Never worked at any Big Tech company.
One man. The hidden backbone of modern computing.
Absolute Legend 🐐
Le jour où la France apprendra à bien payer ses ingénieurs ! Les grands groupes et les ESN de merde sont incapables de bien payer leurs ingénieurs. J’ai eu une proposition à 2,8k pour chef de projet IA chez Safran 😂. Si vous en avez l’occasion, quittez la France rapidement !
Speaking with French people in a business setting is so funny
They be 48yo and they’re still asking peers what uni they went to
98% of them peaked in college so they feel obligated to tell you within the first 10 minutes of meeting them that they went to Polytechnique, ENS ULM or HEC
What you accomplished since literally doesn’t matter because you attended a top school so you’re part of the « elite »
I find it so pathetic
Perhaps your country would be doing better if you were proud of your accomplishments the same way you’re proud that daddy paid for HEC
Anyways
Sorry I am done venting I just had the most cringe call of my life I had to let it out
@libremax_off C’est le rêve de bosser pour une boîte américaine mais le rythme est loin de celui en Europe. Ton niveau d’anglais il ne faut pas rougir.
Je sais pas quel niveau tech tu as mais pour mes entretiens à Palantir j’ai passé 3 entretiens ( 2 entretiens de dev en live ).
Bon courage !
@Frederic_Molas C’est une technologie sympathique dans les faits, même si elle n'est pas encore aboutie. Le risque est que les développeurs utilisent cette excuse pour faire des jeux moches par défaut, les rendant agréables seulement avec le DLSS activé.