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by _yosefk 11y ago
I dunno, Adapteva taped out at 28nm with 5 people. Do you mean that full custom design is particularly hard at 28nm or that it's hard for EDA vendors? 28nm is also a bulk node, I think it ought to have been easier to understand for eve
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by _yosefk 11y ago
How about operating in the US, which on average kills 3-4 civilians per 1 enemy combatant (Israel kills 1) and starts wars for no apparent reason (what did Iraq have to do with 9/11 - that's more than 100,000 people killed, do you
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I sincerely envy people who're happy working their asses off to buy fancy cars and even houses, as it's a relatively affordable ideal. Those of us whose ideal it is to do what we please with our time are desiring something that se
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by _yosefk 11y ago
If you work somewhere and everyone else gets a raise because there's a new company-wide minimum wage, but you don't get a raise because you were already compensated above that level and you got there through hard work (or so you t
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by _yosefk 11y ago
VLIW DSPs are in every phone. VLIW CPUs are almost certainly a bad idea and as to GPUs, AFAIK VLIW needs to coexist with barrel threading there which might create problems. But VLIW certainly has its place.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Advice presented along the lines of "there are no reasons to do anything but that which I recommend" is usually somewhat flawed... just because there are so many reasons to do different things in different situations. Regarding ca
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by _yosefk 11y ago
You said it, man! Nothing is more fun than smashing imperialism. I think I'll close the tab and go smash me some right now.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Why the quotation marks? If you were working on Google Translate, then dealing with this sort of thing would be on your TODO list as an exploit, not an "exploit." As a user of Google Translate it's not helpful, either (that a
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by _yosefk 11y ago
They show bugs in cfront, trying to sell their product to C++ developers. They'll likely call cfront high quality. That said, Roskind's experience is more telling than the output of a static analyzer because generally and certainl
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Perhaps someone sent a request to Magic+ along the lines of "I want Magic+ to become the number one item on HN"? It's legal, it's possible - and they're on it. It'd make a decent demo!
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by _yosefk 11y ago
If I were sure that this was written seriously I should have replied along the lines of there being few chances for such an amazing resource as the best programmers in the world by a large margin to be untapped by greedy capitalists who&#x2
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by _yosefk 11y ago
CO2 emission is different from things like NOx emission though, not? Poisonous gas and gas causing greenhouse effect create different problems and I think might also call for different solutions.
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Answering a personality questionnaire is always a great opportunity for me to appreciate my talents. Take the question "Do you have a rich, complex inner life?" Well, I certainly do, and thanks for reminding me to dwell on this fa
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I dunno. There are two kinds of such books - those published before the ascension to power and those published afterwards (the Little Red Book is one example of the latter.) Only books of the first kind might have contributed to the author&
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The author is lurking in this thread and says thanks :-)
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The Russian novel comparison is indeed completely unfair. If Crime and Punishment was served by today's web publisher, the contextual ads for money lenders, lawyers, adult services and what-not would of course inflate the size of the p
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by _yosefk 11y ago
C# is memory-safe by default. C++ will forever let you (and your coworkers, and library code you use/misuse) access memory outside array bounds and dereference pointers to already-freed objects. This extends to C++'s advanced feat
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I love neither Windows nor MS Office, but I paid handsomely for these. Also, I don't know people who particularly love to integrate an ARM core into their chip, and I doubt that Apple, Qualcomm, NVIDIA etc. etc. love to pay $30M for an
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Trouble is, I know a lot of people who used this extreme approximation to their detriment. In general, there's a huge difference between "worthless" and "cheap". If it's cheap, you might want to get more of it
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by _yosefk 11y ago
One big question I didn't discuss is how to evaluate the prospects of the employing company, and I didn't discuss it because I didn't come up with good advice. Companies differ tremendously. In particular, I personally was sp
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Actually I compared working for Google or for a startup in the US to working for Google or for a startup in Israel. Regarding your point, the difference in prices is not nearly large enough to wipe out the difference in the amount saved wor
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Lisp is infix though so it's (- some-name other-name), not $some-name-$other-name. I think the former is slightly more readable than (- some_name other_name), while the latter is slightly less readable than $some_name-$other_name.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
That might make sense, but why the difference between Europe and the US, if in fact it exists as the grandparent claimed? It's true that it's costly and hard to test one's skills. The trouble with grades though is some people
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Wow, here's a ton of possibilities! The neural net powered bank computer stole your money and used it to pay the CEO a bonus - move the liability to the computer! The possibilities are endless.
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AFAIK Lasseter wasn't that senior when Disney fired him.
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Could the difference be due to education being cheaper and thus there being fewer reasons to forego it?
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TIL that github used to merge files differently than git because it used its own merge implementation based on git's code, to make it work on bare repos. Showcases a benefit of open formats and open source, showcases a downside as well
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Apple: Helping one track his cervical mucus quality(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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Actually, wouldn't you expect drinking to correlate negatively with a programmer's output? Whatever bullshit people say about drugs enhancing their output, I've never heard similar bullshit about alcohol/hangover being a
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> extremely cheap drones that approach the victim's face very quickly and pierce a bolt into their brain It's not much more of a threat to society than a handgun. A WMD it is not, unless you make a lot of these and launch them

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