12 Media
When software engineers talk about media, they’re usually referring to multimedia, meaning audio and video. These technologies are very distinct from each other and both require deep domain expertise. So engineers usually work on one or the other, not both. Nevertheless, audio and video engineers are usually collected into the same “media” team. Maybe it’s because they both require such power and memory from the device—and such extreme optimizations in the software—in order to work reliably for the user.
Dave Sparks and Ringtones
Dave Sparks only took one programming course in his life, a Fortran class when he was a sophomore in high school. Writing programs in that class consisted of typing the code onto punch cards, which were ...
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