Tistel

11 ms·

61.
by Tistel 8y ago
thats is a great interview. the right level of detail. The interview starts ~10 minutes in. Thanks for the recommend!
62.
by Tistel 8y ago
I would love to hear a long form podcast with all three (and a CS knowledgeable interviewer)
63.
by Tistel 8y ago
I am fairly mentally exhausted at the moment. When I first read the message, and noted the author, I thought it said: "every minute I spent thinking about computers was a minute wasted." I was like, wow, that's a big chan
64.
by Tistel 8y ago
also, from a selfish programmer standpoint, programming in elixir is really such a joy.
65.
by Tistel 8y ago
great post. I would also add that you staying at a struggling company for 7 years shows a great deal of tenacity (very desirable feature in a human!). Most people jump ship much sooner. You will be fine. as tomhoward said, don't bea
66.
by Tistel 8y ago
I fly coach for work. One time I got upgraded (by one of the C-Level people with a ton of frequent flyer points card) be to business class. Oh my god! So much room. I kind of wish it had not happened. Now coach feels worse than before.
67.
by Tistel 8y ago
They are very young, nice kids, who have started from a pure aws standpoint. They started with AWS tutorials. These tutorials did not teach the full unix environment. The gaps in their knowledge is like the grande canyon. If they just re
68.
by Tistel 8y ago
I have worked at a startup that was paying > 20k per month for AWS. I am certain the whole system could run on one dedicated blade. There was just this culture (made easy with docker containers) of "spin up another box" for
69.
by Tistel 8y ago
The Gimli Glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider the pilots were initially punished (which is outrageous), then lauded, for their skills.
70.
by Tistel 8y ago
Yeah, he just sounds like an angry "get off my lawn!" guy. Even if he has good points, he losses you because its all so rude. I don't understand why he has so much anger. He made a huge impact on the tech world, has a fami
71.
by Tistel 8y ago
Whats app is made with Erlang: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi... the article (and others) have crazy stories about scale in WhatsApp (70 million messages a second (from a fe
72.
by Tistel 8y ago
If I understood correctly. In the first 10 matches AlphaStar can see the whole map in detail (not just the mini map) at the same time. The humans can only see their camera's view. In the 11th match the AlphaStar can only see via a c
73.
by Tistel 8y ago
this. When I was a little kid I wanted to make games. Worked in the industry for 13 years. It's pretty brutal. 10AM to 10PM for months on end (this was when games were deployed on disks so there was a hard deadline, hence brutal cr
74.
by Tistel 8y ago
People in Canada's larger cities feel the exact same. I suspect its a worldwide phenomenon. Its a small world after all. (edit: I am only referring to the income gap, not the environmental conditions or censorship)
75.
by Tistel 8y ago
You should check out tramp-mode too. Its a killer feature that lets you edit files remotely (AWS, Azure, even docker containers!) as if they are local. All the stuff work, so you can do diffs between a local file and an a AWS file and it
76.
by Tistel 8y ago
its not everyones cup of tea, but, emacs can connect to notebooks: https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook If I am just poking around I use a Jupiter notebook. If I have to do a lot of prototyping, I use t
77.
by Tistel 8y ago
Its amazing that this was just 43 years ago. Thats nothing in the grande scheme of things.
78.
by Tistel 8y ago
Oh, so sad. Its looks like so much work went into the piece's computer. I wonder if anyone has done a blender (or whatever) animation of what the goal was. I would love to see it. Why on earth would they cement the wire in? bizarr
79.
by Tistel 8y ago
I had heard about prolog for years, but, it was not taught at the university I went to. But, as other have mentioned, I have always wondered about it, hearing whispers here and there. The recent resurgance of interest came from working wi
80.
by Tistel 8y ago
yeah, dude is beast.
81.
by Tistel 8y ago
Peter Norvig (of google fame) describes how to write a prolog like language in Common Lisp: https://www.amazon.ca/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Prog...
82.
by Tistel 8y ago
Don't read the marketing department's descriptions of the product. "Its an AI driven, machines learning tuned, blockchain, smart contract jamboree!" (ok, I added the jamboree part). News to me. Also, don't go on
83.
by Tistel 8y ago
sorry, I was not clear. I am also not knocking owning an island. Thats a great situation to be in. If I am successful full enough in life, I will buy one! I am just saying don't mess with the dude. He tends to win.
84.
by Tistel 8y ago
You are right. I was just writing a flippant joke. The author of the post wrote a great article. I am also not insulting Larry Ellison. He (Larry E) is an interesting, very successful, guy. I am just saying he tends to win in competiti
85.
by Tistel 8y ago
Sorry, thats not what I meant. I was half joking/flippant. I meant to imply that Larry Ellison is very good at his job. His job is getting people locked into expensive proprietary languages (embrace and extend java) and DBs. Once y
86.
by Tistel 8y ago
My hat is off to Larry E. with respect to his business prowess. But. ding ding ding. alarm bells. Run away. Don't mess with that guy. The dude owns an island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai https:/
87.
by Tistel 8y ago
I am trying to learn how to do this! Teach me!
88.
by Tistel 8y ago
Toronto, Canada. 1) salaries are low compared to the US. 2) on a per capita basis, we don't seem to start/host great startups (lots of lame knockoffs of US ones, but, targeting Canada). 3) Public transit is terrible. 4) if
89.
by Tistel 8y ago
power corrupts, absolute ... yada yada ... cliches etc. I am trying to stick to duck duck go and a safari/firefox combo. The browsers are fine. But, its hard to give up that !g search. I worked in the ad-tech space in the past. Goo
90.
by Tistel 8y ago
I feel the same way. One workaround is that some editors have a plugin. Emacs has a mode called ein that is fantastic. As you poke around getting the snippets to work, you can cut/paste into a different file/buffer. After you

More ›