aswanson

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   by aswanson 8y ago

   At what point will GPUs befall a similar fate?
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   Mental problem solving paradigms.
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   Right. He literally watched his imagination become as true as it possibly could.
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   For me personally, Iron Man. As a kid, that comic had me amazed at the power of technology.
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   Which? Jim Jones' racial messages or the Jim crow era?
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   One thing jones promised was an idealistic prejudice free vision of society. Keep in mind many of his victims were poor black elderly people who had likely seen the harshest era of jim crow racism. They were old in the 1970s meaning that so
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   If there is one aspect of populism I agree with, it's this. Existing small businesses get nowhere near the level of policy protection and corporate welfare multinationals do.
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   In software, a year off might mean you get better. If you have more time to work on your own ideas and explore new paradigms instead of cranking out fizzbuzz all day in between commutes, you can become better.
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   by aswanson 8y ago

   Altera has the cyclone iv & v chips sold by terasic. Id start with one of those boards.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    I have on the order of 400 unread kindle books and probably 3x the number of pdfs downloaded I have intended to read along with an f ton of physical books. I'd love some tips on making headway as well.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Nice work. Most of us, even those in technical fields, usually graduate financially illiterate and 30 seems 1000 years away. We usually catch up, just later.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Yeah, sorry. That was badly worded; it was meant as a retort to your initial assertion that 20 years of experience matters only with the right experience with tools. The tools have such a short half-life that none of them matter over that t
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Live below your means and put as much as possible into index funds and maybe a few stocks you think will outperform. You'll be set before you know it at that income level.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Damned straight.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Hadoop was released in 2011. No one has more than 8 years of experience in it but the initial developers. So even if the older devs had the median level of experience with that particular tool, there's likely a much more inexperienced
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Think of it as a "heads up", and prepare accordingly.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    I've seen it firsthand, and I'm far outside the valley. Experienced, well educated older applicants dismissed by far younger managers giving vague reasoning e.g. "I just didnt see the passion...the energy wasnt there....&quot
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Good call. I've given it serious thought also.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Save/invest your $. Tech is Logan's Run....age is red flag. If you dont have your own profitable startup in the next 5-10 years, you may want to start investing in another career path that values older people more.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    They're a reflection of the financial state of journalism in the digital age.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Far too many intelligent programmers swear by lisp for there to be no "there" there. I'm trying to learn it in my nonexistent spare time.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Off the top of my head without checking, the intel guys, marc pincus & reed hastings.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Your sample size is low. How many tech startups can you rattle off in total, period?. I assure you it's insignificant compared to the complete sum.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    I got a chuckle out of that. Thanks.
25. 475.▲
    by aswanson 8y ago

    Thanks. I need something I can slip in before a commuted and sedentary day at a desk.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    I hope that is the case; the pessimist in me says the price/performance is too good to be true.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    I wonder if China is making all these cheap wifi chips (esp8266, esp32) etc as backdoors into US infrastructure.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Minecraft.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Templates make for the most abusively ugly code, at a glance. The syntax interpetaion to translate to natural problem-domain thought is so brutal.
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    by aswanson 8y ago

    Hilariously, the update mechanism likely opens an attack vector.