Comment by djmips
20 hours ago
The blog post did smell of inexperience. Glad to hear there is other approaches - is something like that open source?
20 hours ago
The blog post did smell of inexperience. Glad to hear there is other approaches - is something like that open source?
Yup. Go look into tigervnc if you want to see the source. But also you can just search for "tigervnc h.264" and you'll see extensive discussions between the devs on h.264 and integrating it into tiger. This is something that people spent a LOT of brainpower on.
I'm not sure; sometimes being an experienced dev gravitates you towards the lazy solutions that are "good enough". Senior engineers are often expected to work at a rate that precludes solving interesting problems, and so the dumber solution will often win; at least that's been my experience, and what I tell myself to go to sleep at night when I get told for the millionth time that the company can't justify formal verification.
I understand what you're saying and certainly I've come up against that myself. I didn't intend my comment to be super pejorative.