Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 16y ago
My experience was similar. We tended to receive implementation directives that frequently contradicted the functional requirements, and when we requested clarification got no response. The government tended to make exceedingly expensive pur
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
When I think of the Pariot Act I think of what V said in V for Vendetta: The government should fear its people, never the other way around.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I wonder how long it will be until someone designs a multi-core ARM processor with lockstep processing. One application for this is in mission-critical transaction processing where computing power is not the active limitation. Instead, the
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Don't forget all of the other technology that makes the computers work, like the busses (e.g. PCI Express, USB, SATA/eSata), the host of technology behind the graphics processors, Immersion Lithography (immersing the lasers in fluid allows
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Do a little bit of research into Superdome. HP doesn't make main processors any longer, since they transitioned to Itanium, PA-RISC is gone, and HP sold off its CPU design and fabrication to Intel.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
" the freedom that comes with tenure to pursue whatever interests you is the only reason to stay and work the ridiculous hours required of post doc researchers." In other words, in return for being an indentured servant for a number years,
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Transmeta failed because they tried to compete with Intel on Intel's turf. By the time they got their 2nd version ready for tapeout, Intel had already learned that TransMeta was right about the fact that the low-power market was a growth op
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If the employer can't find a way to offer any incentive other than money to earn an employee's loyalty, then they're going to lose talent that way. The vesting cliff isn't a probationary period, it's deferred compensation. Leaving after ves
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I don't, because I remember what happened to TransMeta when they tried it, and I would like nVidia to stick around.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I'd actually go a step farther and FIRE anyone who regularly works a lot of overtime -- for exactly the same reason. As far as I'm concerned, sillycone valley can have the rockstars. It will keep them out of my hair so that I can get things
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"So basically if a good programmer is spending his time with family and kids or doing something other than programming in his non-work time, then you will not hire him?" That person would in many cases be the better choice, too -- especiall
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If you focus on body builder type workouts, then you won't be training your aerobic power, which means less endurance. That's really just a case of if you don't practice, you don't get better -- you can work around that by combining body bu
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"I found it surprising that Rails needs this level of hand-holding to keep it running though. Rails devs, is this really the experience you have deploying your applications?" That WAS my experience with Rails, but I'm pretty sure that the p
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"They know they'll be leaving, whereas employees can count on being around." I don't agree with that. A lot of employees don't expect to be around that long, because they know that they can get better raises by leaving than by staying. Also
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I worked for one, but rather than constantly cutting, they have high turnover and rely on golden handcuffs to keep people -- that they treat like slaves. Their average turnover was 18 months, though in the seniors it was more like a year (l
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If not, then you're not managing expectations well, or the organization your working for is just a sweatshop anyway.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Nintendo is specifically targeting the mainstream consumer. Apple likes being a premium brand. Not supporting 1080p doesn't fit with being a premium product.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You could say the same about most government contractors. I suspect that there are a lot of kickbacks involved, because none of the projects I was ever involved in at government contracting firms ever went well -- ALL of them had a lot more
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"a post for programmers and startup folks that are looking for a way to learn some healthy eating habits while doing their necessary 12+ hours per day on the computer thing:" That would be the FIRST thing that I would fix -- if you're doing
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If the police can't handle being photographed or recorded in public places, then they can't be trusted.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Naturally, he neglects the other side of the coin, which is that our authority figures need to EARN that trust and faith -- he just assumes that if someone becomes a cop, they deserve it. Some of the things that went on in DC and Baltimore
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"It seems to me that the US spends 46.5% of all money spend world wide collectively by all nations on military spending." Which is probably the real reason that we're in such debt -- it should be blindingly obvious to the entire world that
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
At least now Apple isn't operating with a massive performance deficit by using a processor designed for an ATM switch in its PC's. And the price premium for example between MacBook Pro vs a comparably equipped competitor, excluding a factor
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Is it possible OSX just has more overhead?" Most likely, it's because Apple hasn't cared much about 3D performance in the past -- and even if they did, they'd be behind, because nVidia and ATI can dedicate entire teams of people specifical
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Devices within it would probably be safe.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Throughout the whole catastrophe, the white house has been suppressing scientists' statements, impeding 3rd parties from examining the results, and permitting BP to basically hide the evidence. As Carl Safina said in his TED talk about the
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It's his 3rd, actually -- his second was a dismal failure in spite being a promising idea, mainly because the execution stank (NeXT -- with a black and white display, and even slower than the aging contemporary 68K-based mac with a color di
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It's actually worse -- MSFT has the skunkworks, but they keep ignoring the nifty new toys that come out of them. It reminds me of IBM -- there was an amazing amount of very cool new stuff appearing out of the TJ Watson lab (when my parents
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
No, it isn't -- it's by design not capable of running enough applications to be a standalone computer. In terms of niches, it's more like the XTerms of yesteryear. The terminals weren't much for horsepower; they were basically UI's that all
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I'm not so sure about that. For starters, technical ability probably isn't a problem. The tablet didn't fail for technical reasons, it failed for business reasons -- mostly driven my Microsoft's insistence on not supporting it intelligently

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