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Ask HN: Ideas about AI to Consume at Burning Man
1 points by ambertch 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What companies have/had good engineering blogs?
29 points by ambertch 11y ago|19 comments
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by ambertch 14y ago
I'd guess for purity reasons. Volcanic eruptions don't always come from the mantle - in fact think convection cells, the rising material actually comes from deep down
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by ambertch 14y ago
Max Levchin put his money into Slide, Elon Musk put it all into Tesla/SpaceX, and I could name a lot of other entrepreneurs who did similarly but you get my point. Investing in your own project isn't "commonsense," it's just an individual's
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by ambertch 14y ago
At Burning Man I met a couple of people who work on the Tor project. They were brilliant. Honestly it's going to be hard for a govt agency to recruit people like this - people who are incredibly passionate about security and cryptography ma
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by ambertch 14y ago
check out copycopter and bcms as well. Honestly I'd say this depends on your goals - are you trying to learn? Or just make something (either answer is fine)? If the former, build. The latter, plug something in.
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by ambertch 14y ago
Yeah I was thinking about that too. Though if the limiting factor for switching speed is the impedance of the interconnects (I'm guessing it is), makes sense.
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by ambertch 14y ago
How come not many people are talking about this article in the context of entrepreneurship? Pretty astute advice for people doing startups. "1) it fits the classic definition of a disruptive company and 2) is an innovative company playing i
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by ambertch 14y ago
You cannot level such a stark criticism against a man who dared to be great - when you do so you embarrass only yourself. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds c
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by ambertch 14y ago
RPX is defensive aggregation only - they don't go out and sue people. There's also value add whenever you have centralized expertise: think PGExperts, Percona, and EnterpriseDB (mysql and postgres consultants) - if I'm running a company who
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by ambertch 15y ago
huh. I guess hacking hours have a non parametric distribution
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by ambertch 15y ago
Paul, how does C fits into the picture? I don't see anything in the source for compiling native extensions, and the implementations src/recommendify.c calls look incomplete? I am guessing you still working on the gem?
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by ambertch 15y ago
Valid conjecture, but I think Ryan's always had that about him ("Camelcase... how cute")
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by ambertch 15y ago
Of course :) You stepping in and writing NPM was HUGE! Along with Ryan, you and guys like Tim, Guillermo, TJ, Felix, now Bert and others really got the ship pointed in the right direction
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by ambertch 15y ago
I think your question is more intended to ask about seed round - $500k-$1mm ish Rule of thumb for first round of engineer hires is $85k as of late - they get substantial stock in return, about as much as managers hired after the A round. Se
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by ambertch 15y ago
AND... around and around the carousel we go. The threads vs. event loop thing doesn't always pan out to either one being 'better' - who do you think is doing the work when your browser, or Node.js does an async call? They use threads too, a
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by ambertch 15y ago
About time! I would actually accept a much lower wage than in industry (as long as I could live off it - which I doubt would be very low in NYC haha) to teach at such a school
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by ambertch 15y ago
xcode compiles C++ too - you can write your iOS app in barebones obj-c and then link to a bunch of C++ libraries ;)
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by ambertch 15y ago
Dude, Laconian - iOS 5 already enables GC (a generational one at that), which already came out for regular Cocoa in in obj-c 2.0 You can bet your socks a lot of devs for typical iOS apps will be using GC. I dunno what GC algorithm is used f
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by ambertch 15y ago
Depends where. You probably can't live in Manhattan working as an oDesker, but you could easily make enough to make a good living if you're in the midwest. Your strategy though would be to build up a resume with oDesk. You're probably going
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by ambertch 15y ago
so, this is speaking from personal experience, I presume?
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by ambertch 15y ago
It's quite clear not a lot of the posters in this thread have actually used these illegal substances. Which is understandable, as those who have would be reticent to come out. I'll come out and say that although I haven't used amphetamines
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by ambertch 15y ago
that's why I just don't turn off my devices
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by ambertch 15y ago
You know something interesting? I went around linking friends to this article due to Bill possessing a lot of the traits typically lionized in entrepreneurs. My psych major friend reads it and goes "yup that's a checklist for psychopathic b
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by ambertch 15y ago
You're assuming all the record labels do it distribution. But they also do management. Without a startup that tackles the management side of things (which is pretty complex relationship wise, this includes relationships with venues and betw
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by ambertch 15y ago
you don't need to pay a dollar a song. You could also go to their concerts, buy their gear, go to their appearances, etc. This is how music industry works in Korea, where most all music is given away for free
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by ambertch 15y ago
These comments are so fascinating because they illustrate with a fair degree of uniformity, the personality profile of the HN crowd. Two kinds of people we're all aware of: logical/rational vs. emotional/creative. That whole left vs. right
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by ambertch 15y ago
Well 3d processors have always been out there as a research subject. The issue is heat when you crank it up. The stream processors (your GPU) gets around it by doing less work per core. And so the heat dissipation seems to be the major poin
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by ambertch 15y ago
lol! I saw the same at another recent meetup. Damn, Katz really doesn't like Backbone...
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by ambertch 15y ago
'#4 Do Things The Hard Way' I think this is so important for our young generation b/c everybody is trying to "hack" or "game" the system. The problem is that you don't actually internalize things by hacking your way through So it depends on

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