Maro

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by Maro 10y ago
Things change when you're working on a 1-10M LOC codebase , with 1-10K other engineers, like big companies do. Eg. Flow was written at Facebook (where I work).
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Doom: A Classic Game Post-Mortem(youtube.com)
2 points by Maro 10y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 11y ago
This is already happening for SV startups founded by foreigners/1st gen. It's much cheaper to keep engineering in India or E.Europe, save about 50-75%. I worked at Prezi, founded by Hungarians, and 2/3 of the company is in Bu
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by Maro 11y ago
According to wikipedia they have ~2,000 employees, that's like ~$200M just for payroll, overall costs are probably around ~$3-400M. (I didn't look up other numbers, I just gut estimated.)
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Einstein's amazing theory(bytepawn.com)
1 points by Maro 11y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 11y ago
Agree, in business it's enough to be right some of the time: http://bytepawn.com/heisengames-business.html
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Luigi vs. Airflow vs. Pinball(bytepawn.com)
49 points by Maro 11y ago|12 comments
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill(technologyreview.com)
2 points by Maro 11y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 11y ago
I'm shocked. How does AC find time to 1) read a 10 page paper everyday 2) understand it 3) write it up?
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Cargo Cult Data(mtrencseni.github.io)
2 points by Maro 11y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation Neutrino oscillation is a quantum mechanical phenomenon whereby a neutrino created with a specific lepton flavor (electron, muon or tau) can later be measured to have
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Balance in game design(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by Maro 11y ago|0 comments
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Balance in game design(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Maro 11y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 11y ago
http://simplenote.com/ It's like Evernote used to be. Just text, not even formatting. It just works for me. There's clients for mobile, mac, web. For Windows there's a client called ResophNotes: http:/&
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by Maro 11y ago
It says: - they want to hire more senior managers - they want to open offices outside the US (and maybe sales ppl) - they want to hire more engineers to work on the product I don't specifically know why they raised, but often it's
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by Maro 11y ago
I heard about Kuhn at school when I was doing my physics degree. His famous work 'The structure of Scientific Revolutions' is worth the read: http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-50th-...
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by Maro 11y ago
1. Our selling point was: "there's a bunch of others like MongoDB out there, but they're eventually consistent; if you really care about your data, use ScalienDB, it uses Paxos and there's no consistency issues". Bu
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by Maro 11y ago
Scalien was my startup, its purpose was to sell ScalienDB and make money :)
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by Maro 11y ago
Here's a Paxos implementation in C++ that I wrote for my old startup's distributed database product: https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo... If you just want to agr
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by Maro 11y ago
There's a great book called 'The HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers', about 200 pages: https://hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-finance-basics-for-mana... It doesn't specifically address the terms
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by Maro 11y ago
In my world this is mostly irrelevant. I use GDocs for word processing and spreadsheets. For presentations it's Prezi. (Disclaimer: I work for Prezi.)
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The Russian Sukhoi T-50 is going to be a tough adversary for the F-35(theaviationist.com)
2 points by Maro 11y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 11y ago
Or, it could be a coincidence :)
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by Maro 11y ago
Would be great at airports!
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by Maro 11y ago
I've done the engineer -> manager transition successfully about two years ago. The biggest help for me (=somebody who likes to read) was the Hardard Business Review's 'Guide to X' series: https://hbr.org&#x
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by Maro 11y ago
Yes. You can combine charge density and current to form a 4-vector in SR like (charge density, current vector). Other 4-vectors are (energy, momentum vector). There are also a bunch of others, the most famous/basic one being (time, pos
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by Maro 11y ago
Maybe this helps: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/190259/%CE%97ow-d...
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by Maro 11y ago
I've never played a Zynga game so I'm just guessing. I think this is about (probability of getting an item) = (probability of getting the item for free in a drop) * (1 + (probability of a user gifting an item to a friend) * (avera
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by Maro 11y ago
I had a Nexus 6 for about 6 months, it's pretty terrible, as you describe. I just bought an LG G4, it's great. No lag, it just works.
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by Maro 11y ago
I'm Hungarian, I live in Budapest.

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