Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think that, more than just locking people out, it incentivises people to acquire credentials they don't need.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
While I think copyright was a very relevant law when selling boxed products, it's less clear that copyright is the relevant law in the age of SaaS. I think trade secrets law is much more relevant these days. And in any case, many tech
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So far, life without a headphone jack has been fine. I don't charge my phone while I use my headphones, and I just keep the dongle attached to my wired headphones. Used some USB-C headphones that came in the box today, and they also wo
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by Eridrus 8y ago
One of the things I didn't understand about GPUs until I tried to program one is that they're not just chips with thousands of cores: they're chips with thousands of cores that (roughly) share an instruction pointer, so branc
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Oh, do you have a link to this threat to Zuck? Had not heard about that.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Am I the only one, or does it sound like someone tipped them off? How would one know that this guy had these documents, and be keeping a close enough eye on his travel?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
No. Most of them have had good things to say about their editors too. And again, they are not doing with a profit motive in mind, and self-publishing can conflict with other goals, e.g. prestige. Publishers also help your book stand out fro
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Google already let's people claim their maps listing via Google My Business. I would be shocked if they couldn't lock edits, or at the very least review them. I hope Google uses their Duplex tech to review phone number changes tho
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I have quite a few friends who have written technical books, universally they say that the money isn't worth the huge amount of time it takes. So you either do it for the prestige, or because you want to share your knowledge. There&#x2
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think part of the is ambiguity over what the "cloud" is; is hosted exchange/active directory cloud computing? Is hosted Oracle DBs cloud computing? I think analysts are estimating that 18% of commercial cloud revenue is Azu
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Because going to stores sucks? Beyond just the normal having to get to a store, it's below freezing in NYC atm, sometimes with rain, not exactly pleasant weather for a stroll. There are some things which are hard to evaluate online and
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I haven't been following Apples sales for as long or in much detail, but the last two years those predictions have basically come true, right? The thing saving AAPL is increased unit prices, which seems unlikely to be a good long term
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by Eridrus 8y ago
FWIW The CCNA books are pretty interesting, since they cover how the networking equipment decides to route packets, and not just what the host side does.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think everyone agrees that AWS is a clear leader, but both Microsoft and Google report bundled Office Suite/Cloud Computing revenue as a single number, so it's completely unclear who is actually in second place.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
At first brush, I was ready to discount this as an also-ran, but this actually seems like something that could take off in restaurants in the US IMO. Handing over a credit card and then signing a receipt isn't a particularly convenient
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Amazon wants gas stations and restaurants to start using Amazon Pay(theverge.com)
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by Eridrus 8y ago
For a more concrete widget example: self-driving cars will have negative externalities on professional drivers. I'm not sure what definition of externalities includes climate change, but not job losses. I also think it's a bit sim
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Here’s how I think about it: you may feel free to criticize, this is meant to get people thinking, not as an implementable policy. > Draw a control volume around your business or product. If, during the creation, use, or disposal of
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by Eridrus 8y ago
There are two separate problems here: making the MTA meet demand and making it efficient. You may not be able to achieve both goals at once. Tackling MTA efficiency will involve a lot of confrontations with the union. And you know they won&
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by Eridrus 8y ago
People who call might be less likely to shop around, since calling is a pain.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Does the watch vulnerability meaningfully increase the risk here? These people would know what a child's routine is already, and would not need smartwatch info. And we're talking about people to are also technically savvy enough t
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Could also be improvements necessary to the "Pixel Visual Core" that are necessary to make this run fast enough.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, what is the specific threat model here? Who is going to hack these children's phones, and what are they going to do with that access?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's common for people on HN to say "there's no such thing as a shortage, just pay people more", but that assumes that the amount of value people provide is infinite, and can just keep growing. To the extent that compani
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by Eridrus 8y ago
No regrets about being a CS major; still seems like a good choice.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Brooklyn isn't really great about this either tbh. Sure, there is a downtown with high rises, but it gets 3 stories high pretty quickly.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
If these grants are such a good idea, why don't states just do them? Why do they need federal funding? Sure, these are great for local communities when you take money from California and pass it to states with no income taxes. If remot
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You would be surprised how little you actually need to know for most software engineering roles. All of the things on the website you linked are generally dealt with by specialists in industry, rather than being a shared responsibility of a
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Consider applying to something like the Google AI Residency if you're interested in research roles; Facebook, Uber and Microsoft have equivalents, though I don't know the names off the top of my head. Also consider just applying t
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Get a dev environment set up so that I can try things. Read a quick tutorial Start writing code and googling the things I get stuck on You can often find X for Y Programmers, e.g. C++ for Python Programmers that might be a good fit, though

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