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by 0xbear 9y ago
As a former Googler: dude is _so_ getting fired and blacklisted. I've seen people driven out just for saying someone else looks good in a bathing suit. Not a direct or indirect report, mind you, a person completely outside the chain of
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Could be. Linux has a very efficient mutex implementation, and as a result concurrent programs tend to spent a lot less time idling, and thus potentially load the cores more.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Nail on the head. Cut H1b admission in half and older software engineers will be in demand again.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
What sets successful CEOs apart is that everyone quickly forgets about unsuccessful ones.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Not why he was prosecuted. Why he was even considered for prosecution in the first place. Some of the investors "harmed" by Shkreli admitted on the stand that their investments with him were the best they've ever made. Dude i
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Did I say otherwise? Is there any doubt in your mind as to why they went after him though? How many other hedge fund managers do you know of that have ever seen the inside of a jail cell?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I think it's fair to say that Shkreli would be left to his own devices had he not shown the audacity to charge what the market will bear. Meanwhile another person who similarly jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug beyond what many
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I bet it's a brown-out of some sort which will be fixed by bumping up the voltage a bit. Or using the Intel trick of slowing the CPU down when it needs to execute heavy vectorized workloads. I wonder why this only seems to happen under
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's like generative adversarial samples for biological neural nets. I wonder is someone could weaponize this so if would cause lasting dizziness and disorientation after a prolonged exposure.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I like Monsanto and use roundup to spray weeds behind the house so I don't have to trim them. I would be very disappointed if I could not do this, because those weeds grow on a rather steep grade and trimming there is a nightmare. For
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Taxes are much lower in the US too, even if you factor in the cost of health insurance. And if you are expecting "pensions", there's a bridge I'd like to sell.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Yeah, I do get contacted by Japanese recruiters, and their comp in my field is pretty laughable by US standards. That said, the same applies to all of Europe as well. People literally seem to be making one third of what they'd be makin
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That's just the initial bill. I bet insurance gets this down to no more than a few hundred bucks, same as with MRI.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Three words: rest and vest.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Microsoft had this 15 years ago. AD is accessible through COM. Anything that's accessible through COM is scriptable in JS and VBScript (if it still exists, it's been a while).
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Because it's not socially acceptable to take a hiatus _instead_ of the mom and not economically viable for both parents to take a few months (or ideally a year or more) to take care of the newborn. Because men can't breastfeed. Be
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by 0xbear 9y ago
"Overpriced" is a subjective term. 50% growth in sales suggests very competitive pricing. Think of it this way: Apple Watch isn't really competing with "wearable computers" everyone else is making. It plays a comple
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's been years and people still don't understand what Watch is. Meanwhile, it says what it is directly in the name. It's a watch first, and everything else distant second. By the standards of wristwatches $300 is not that mu
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And last I checked their jobs aren't, in fact, automated. They just moved to the various cloud providers and were renamed to "SRE", with a major boost in pay.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Most bloggers are not experts. Most experts are not bloggers. I wouldn't sweat it. If you have something to say, say it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The crucial difference is that CD postulates that if a change passes your automated test suite, it's good enough to immediately go live. I've dealt with many complex systems, some with pretty exhaustive test coverage, and this was
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'm not sure how you got that out of what I wrote. If anything, it's a recognition that unit tests alone are never sufficient, and _drastic increase_ of testing effort, _in addition_ to CI. Humans are in the loop. Testing is near
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Shitty tests? Lack of integration tests? Lack of test coverage for a particular scenario? Test environment that does not represent the config that's deployed in production? There are literally hundreds of reasons why things like that c
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That'd be very bad for business. The government is particularly hypocritical in this regard. Our BFFs in the Middle East _execute gays_, oppress women, and finance terrorism, and we pretend not to notice.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's called continuous delivery, man. Merge to master and it goes out the door automatically, even if it's busted to hell. All the cool kids are doing it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Gmail is several orders of magnitude larger than Github will ever be, and in recent memory I can only recall it being down once, and for a very small subset of users.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'm not "missing" anything. I worked at Google for 7 years much of which was spent working on, you guessed it, distributed systems infrastructure. You guard against this by carefully canarying things and putting robust testin
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's a nearly weekly occurrence. Avoidable one, I might add. When was the last time a major Google service had a major outage?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
How many more can we expect before they develop appreciation for testing _before_ they push to prod?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I don't disagree. And for 90% of them worrying about cache locality or branch mispredictions on a daily basis would be a waste of time. It's fine to deliberately ignore such concerns. It's somewhat less fine to know absolutel

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