ahomescu1

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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> A great idea, powerful work ethic and good design are rarely sufficient on their own. This seems too pessimistic about Silicon Valley. Plenty of well-executed great ideas succeed, and plenty of bad ones fail.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Title should probably mention that this is about rump kernels for NetBSD/xen.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
GP: compared to most other large (>25M) countries. Scandinavian countries aren't >25M, neither are they "most [...] countries". EDIT: I started thinking there's more to this argument. Scandinavian countries are m
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> They'll get funding, but the models will change and adapt. Ie. Spotify and Netflix are early carnations of what what could come. Minor nitpick: "carnation" is a flower; I think you mean "incarnation".
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> McDonald’s CEO, James Skinner, is interesting. I like their chicken mcNuggets, but I am always aware that their CEO is US-Navy trained, and maintains a good relation with armed forces. I think that's a different discussion. I can
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Huge 24 fan here (watched all seasons), I loved the show but that doesn't mean I support torture. I always found the following things ridiculous (and pretty unrealistic): 1) The ridiculous urgency of it, where they're running agai
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> ... or you can skip talking about your favorite framework and point to theory like logic, computational complexity, data structures, lambda calculus, relational algebra, and other stuff that actually matters. He already took the first
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
An alternative is to offer it, but mark it clearly as "incomplete" or "alpha" (which is what one of the original complaints was about). Versioning it would be even better (say, call this "emoji 0.1").
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University , about Harvard (known then as New College ): Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> A few of us would be fantastically wealthy and powerful, but even they would be limited by living in a violent world populated by uneducated and over-exploited masses incapable of doing things like getting an education and finding thei
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Only downside: more memory needed, but nobody except the embedded guys care anymore. As an Android user, I care. Android needs 2GB of memory to run the apps that iOS only needs 1GB for (running Android on a tablet with 1GB has been pai
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> I have seen many PhD students, including myself, arrive with half-baked ideas that go nowhere. Another way to look at it is that failure is a part of learning, and chasing those half-baked ideas can build experience (by finding out wha
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> In America we deplore things like [...], rule of law, [...] Is that supposed to be in there, or did you mean something else?
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
That's an idealistic view of education. In today's "industrial education system", where each teacher/professor teaches classes of 30-100, I don't think each student gets the attention/discussion time they
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
My own practical experience (from looking both at myself and many others) is almost the opposite. I think one of the great fallacies of modern education is the idea that you can take an idiot (for lack of a more appropriate/PC word), p
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Life is so much more and education benefits much of it. I could not write nearly as well, use mathematics, understand science, understand art, understand humanity, be as creative, etc. etc. without the years I spent studying those thin
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Question already came up a few days ago in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8672761 > Can someone TL;DR the problem with systemd?
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> It seems she couldn't pay it back, because later she says "my credit is wrecked". Earlier in the article she says "I cashed in on my excellent credit, took out cards, and used them to pay rent and buy food because i
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> systemd replaces a large number of startup and utility programs (specifically: sysvinit, pm-utils, inetd, acpid, syslog, watchdog, cron and atd). It also adds new daemons for logs, logins, locales, hostnames and a few other services.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
In short: it's taking over Linux userspace. It's slowly leading us to a point where systemd will be "the Linux middleware", and all apps (above it) and the kernel itself (under it) will not work without systemd.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669913
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Mailing list announcement: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141127.212941.f55acc...
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> They haven't had one successful product in hardware yet. Nexus 4 user here, have had it for 2 years and am pretty happy with it (I hear N5 is also pretty good).
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Battery Saver mode is a new feature in Lollipop that does exactly what the name says. It turns on when battery life reaches 15%, or you can turn it on manually. Not sure if what they advertise is just the vanilla Battery Saver from Lollipop
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Linshof i8 smartphone(linshof.com)
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Others consider programmers underpaid, even at these salaries. This makes some sense when considering that Google has a revenue of around $500k/employee (saw this number a while ago in a comment, don't remember exactly which one).
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
The title is ambiguous, I read it as "Google search is king of the US" and started wondering "huh?".
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
I think he/she means that companies like Google, Apple and Tesla are all US-based, not to mention crazy/niche stuff like Oculus. Europe-based high-profile tech companies (like Nokia and Skype) seem more like outliers than the norm
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> However, the big fun is coming on Thursday, when the EU is due to rule over Google and politely requesting that Google splits off search from the rest of its business. This doesn't seem to me the same as "splitting up Google&
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
What would that achieve? Most of the Google engineering is done in the US, and its main offices in Europe are Zurich and Dublin (I think). Worst case, Google will also move their datacenters out of EU countries.

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