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by 0xbear 9y ago
If you’re not doing minimalist bare metal (which will not support exceptions), you’re burdening your users with greater power requirements, bugs, and required firmware updates (or security holes) for the life of the device. Don’t put Linux
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by 0xbear 9y ago
If your IoT platform is even _capable_ of exceptions, you’re doing it wrong and at too high a level.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You “understand” everything, it seems. You just choose not to see it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Those folks have been through the communist grinder too. It’s only the doe-eyed idealists here in the US who think they’ll do it right this time, just like their Russian counterparts 100 years ago. 100M deaths later we’re back to square one
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That reminds me of an old (and highly illegal at the time) Soviet joke: it’s 1917, the Russian revolution is getting into its full swing. An old man is lying on a couch reading a newspaper. His grandson runs into a room, and excitedly procl
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Umm, looks like all those remote interview coding notebook companies are about to go out of business.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Google is very “Chinese Revolution” on the inside. You can totally have negative career and social consequences for being public at work about your conservative viewpoints and voting preferences. At the same time you can have positive conse
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It’s only fair. Google goes after conservatives, conservatives go after Google. Don’t want your fortunes to depend on politics? Easy solution: stay out of politics. Be neutral and above the fray, declare political discourse (all of it, not
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by 0xbear 9y ago
One thing people don’t realize is those phones you’re carrying, strictly speaking contain more than one “computer”. There are 3 classical CPUs alone in an iPhone: main CPU, CPU that runs the Secure Enclave, and CPU that runs the motion copr
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It might be powerful, but if something goes wrong it’s impossible to debug. That alone negates all of its advantages to me. I don’t like magic I can’t debug or see source code for.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I looked at OpenCV and while OpenCV itself has a pretty decent license, its dependencies would give your lawyer PTSD if you were working on a commercial product. I’m not sure, therefore, how ARKit in particular could include it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
WinForms is essentially “inspired” by VCL, through Anders Hejlsberg I guess. As are some parts of C#. WPF otoh is inspired by corporate brain damage.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
People have just drunk so much “cheap commodity hardware” kool aid by now, they don’t realize there are cheaper and easier ways of doing things now, assuming you have devs who can code and tune for performance. Same with “big data”. Most pe
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That’s 1700 images per second. Doable on one (beefy) box. 3 to account for the diurnal cycle. Am I supposed to be impressed?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
But in the case of ARM, you _do_ know, if you manufacture it yourself. ARM licenses intellectual property, not sells chips. Once you buy a license, you can inspect it and make sure it doesn’t have the bits you don’t like.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
ARM can’t be killed at this s point. Positioning themselves as ARM killer would not be the wisest move on anyone’s part.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Hillary wasn't worthy of her nomination, and yet here we are. Jeb Bush attempted the same thing, but failed very early on. You're failing to recognize that GOP establishment hates Trump just as much as Democratic establishment doe
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Where did I suggest that? And you try to beat Cruz or Rubio (let alone “arrogant” Clinton and the entirety of mainstream press), and then come here and tell us if it’s a noteworthy accomplishment.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I think it’s everybody else that’s “easily distracted”. He uses his Twitter as a laser pointer with a cat, and he has been doing so for years. You don’t win an election against the Clinton political dynasty if you’re “easily distracted”.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I like how he then proceeds to enumerate all the things which, if they weren’t doable, no one would really care. Cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high off your own stash.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
People you’re negotiating with want you to buy their line that their equity is worth something so they could pay you less. What would you get as eg employee #10? Half a percent or less. Most startups exit under $100M, and your 0.5% turns in
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It’s also one third the speed of iPhone 8 or X. Apple’s chips are ridiculously good, and worth the expense.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Unless you are employee #1-5, the correct approach to valuing equity is to not consider it to be worth anything. For employees 1-5, divide the numbers the CEO gives you by at least 10 to account for risk, and then demand a competitive base
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Would be good to know who financed the study.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Depends on which 5. If I live to be 60 where otherwise I’d live to be 65, that’s a bigger deal vs 90/95 with dementia thrown in for good measure.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
As someone who actually ended up in ER with a badly broken ankle once, I beg to differ. After surgery, Percocet was the only reason I could sleep for the first few days. I got off it as soon as I could, though. Edit: I just wanted to point
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by 0xbear 9y ago
If they are playing this smart, there should be a bench of people, nearly as experienced, and willing to bust their ass twice as hard for half as much.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Well, he wouldn’t go there if Intel wouldn’t give him what he wanted, whatever that might be.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I don’t think so. Intel has world leading fab capabilities. Once they shrink the process, perf per watt ratio should improve quite a bit. It will be a really hard slog for everybody else to roll out 7nm and beyond.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That’s because Google uses Python 2.7 internally. They have a ton of code for it, and any migration is harder than they might seem.

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