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by akuma73 12y ago
Yes, you're right, of course. Being more specific - there may be transition periods where you may become more valuable (through training or whatever) at which point you have the opportunity to seek higher compensation. If one does not
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by akuma73 12y ago
Employers pay their employees exactly what they're worth - by definition. If an employee is dissatisfied with their pay, they have the option to either negotiate a higher salary or find another job with higher pay.
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by akuma73 12y ago
You see this somewhat in mobile computers (phones). The power and thermal constraints limit performance, so developers limit features vs. their desktop counterparts.
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by akuma73 12y ago
Maybe this should be another Ask-HN question... How do you escape the rat race? What are the logistics? Cost of living? Taxes? Immigration? etc...
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by akuma73 12y ago
GNU grep was written my Mike Haertel, not Haerkal as written in the article. Super smart guy.
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by akuma73 12y ago
I'm working my way from the very start of my physics education with classical mechanics. What are the prereqs for QFT?
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Intel Owes You $15 If Your Computer 14 Years Ago Had a Pentium 4 Processor(slate.com)
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by akuma73 12y ago
Read about asset allocation and mean variance optimization. The rest will follow.
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by akuma73 12y ago
Software is going to have to pick up its game. Accelerators will help. However, even these will be one time gains. As Bob Colwell says, it's very difficult to replace an exponential. This will have profound effects not just on Silicon
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by akuma73 12y ago
ARM
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by akuma73 12y ago
I've started reading this one. So far, it's great. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about technical management?
5 points by akuma73 12y ago|5 comments
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by akuma73 12y ago
What about XOR? From Wikipedia: In 1969 in a famous monograph entitled Perceptrons, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert showed that it was impossible for a single-layer perceptron network to learn an XOR function.
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by akuma73 12y ago
Except Apple really doesn't do much to call out benchmark results. Maybe that will change going forward.
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by akuma73 12y ago
Performance is going to be pretty bad with all of those re-executions, logging of state and so on.
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by akuma73 12y ago
What do people usually do for income for this kind of lifestyle? How much income is typical? Excuse me if this is obvious, but I've been doing the whole 9-5 corporate thing for a while and I really have no idea.
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by akuma73 12y ago
The end of Moore's Law will have profound effects on the entire technology industry. What happens when computers stop getting faster? There's no obvious successor to CMOS on the foreseeable horizon, so it's good to see that I
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by akuma73 12y ago
I think a lot of the discussion here assumes that smart people are unable to make proper decisions under uncertainty. That has not been my experience. I've found that truly smart people are able to discern when there is uncertainty a
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by akuma73 12y ago
This happened on my Zenbook prime as well. You need to restart the synaptics driver, which was very annoying. I got rid of it and just went with a Macbook Air. It's just better in so many ways.
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by akuma73 12y ago
That's what your phone is for.
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by akuma73 12y ago
At what point does it make sense to have a separate crypto-core / offload-engine? You could provide all of the isolation and funky instructions that you want without affecting the general purpose CPU. It may also be more efficient as
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by akuma73 12y ago
The end of Dennard scaling is the root-cause. This is causing power density to stop scaling with smaller transistors and will ultimately be the end of Moore's law. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/f
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by akuma73 13y ago
There's already a commercial functional hardware description language called Bluespec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluespec,_Inc .
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by akuma73 13y ago
Intel - where startups go to die.
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by akuma73 13y ago
For computer architecture readings, I'd start here: http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Computer-Architecture-Morgan-... Then follow up with the excellent series here: http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/
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Mega Millions and Powerball odds: Can you ever expect a ticket to be profitable?(circlemud.org)
2 points by akuma73 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Said to Mull Designing Chips in Threat to Intel(bloomberg.com)
8 points by akuma73 13y ago|1 comments
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by akuma73 13y ago
These are also known as HENRYs. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/high-earners-not-yet-ric... Investment firms and luxury brands are well aware of this phenomena. Notice that they are not-yet-rich :)
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by akuma73 13y ago
Agreed. To be more specific, it's the end of Dennard scaling. Dark silicon is just a symptom of the problem.
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by akuma73 13y ago
The valuation is based on what I would call "defensive valuation". Instagram was bought for $1 billion, not because it had any billion dollar revenue generating potential. It, however, had the potential to erode Facebook. So Fac

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