danmaz74

55 ms·

751.
by danmaz74 8y ago
I wonder, though, what will happen with the demise of Moore's law... can we simply go with increased parallelism? How much can that scale?
752.
by danmaz74 8y ago
But Netflix advertises itself a lot. They still factor the "ads industry" costs in (which practically everybody does in competitive markets).
753.
by danmaz74 8y ago
> Advertisings entire purpose is to increase the volume sold, which lowers the price. Problem is, if everybody does advertising to compete for market share, the prices go up globally, because the entire ads industry consumes resources. B
754.
by danmaz74 8y ago
I got it later - I'm not used to the terminology, thanks for the explanation :)
755.
by danmaz74 8y ago
Ok, now I understand the confusion. The array is 1-D, but it is a representation of polar coordinates on the 2-D plane. So, the data is 2-D.
756.
by danmaz74 8y ago
What do you mean by "1-D"? If it doesn't measure height, then it would still be 2-D. EDIT: it's a 1-D array of distances, ie, an array of polar coordinates on the 2-D plane. So, it's 2-D data.
757.
by danmaz74 8y ago
Not the op, but their point is that it can't continue to fetch a premium on coffee for long, not it can't be sold for a profit.
758.
by danmaz74 8y ago
Verhovstad is just one mep, you can like him or not (i do on some issues, not other ones) but he isn't in any way "the eu" :)
759.
by danmaz74 8y ago
> Start a Show HF thread on the board! I will - when I'll have something to show :)
760.
by danmaz74 8y ago
I really miss a way to connect with other interesting people from HN. I'm afraid that a simple forum won't work, though, because of (social) scalability: there are good reasons why HN practically bans all banter, light exchanges,
761.
by danmaz74 8y ago
Yeah, commons sense and quite lousy parsing was my solution too. Only years later I learned how much easier the proper solution would have been - but my local library didn't have any coding book back then :)
762.
by danmaz74 8y ago
Oh my, the memories. I remember when I was fascinated with animated 3d plots of z = f(x,y) functions which I saw on TV, and when the only decently performant way I found to render those plots myself on my Amiga 500 was to build my own compi
763.
by danmaz74 8y ago
OTOH, having many of our most brilliant minds all working on putting more ads in front of more eyes to get more clicks isn't such a great thing.
764.
by danmaz74 8y ago
By the way, I'm getting increasingly worried about the sheer dominance that Disney is increasingly having in the children entertainment business. Looks like they're aiming at owning all the relevant franchises in that field...
765.
by danmaz74 8y ago
> If control of your blockchain is centralized, it's no better than an ordinary database Actually, it's much worse from an efficiency point of view. Which means that all those applications are fad-driven. I'm sure there c
766.
by danmaz74 8y ago
> And how exactly are politics preventing proper storage? Basically, NIMBY. Even if it's perfectly safe, some people will always worry about "but what if all physicists, seismologists etc. etc. are wrong (or lying)"?
767.
by danmaz74 8y ago
I too used to think that networking events were a waste of time - until I learned how to "use" them correctly. The best advice I got came from this book: http://www.contactscount.com/makeyourcontactscount.html It&
768.
by danmaz74 8y ago
It is their job, but, looking at what happens with SEO - the never ending cat-and-mouse game where "black hats" always adapt to the new countermeasures Google puts in place - I wouldn't say it's all that easy :)
769.
by danmaz74 8y ago
> Seems obvious and easy to fix Is it?
770.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Yes. Deploy at internet-scale while debugging a completely new approach. Which could work - or not.
771.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Quantum mechanics. I should have studied it better when I was at university and my math was fresher :)
772.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Yes, the cost is there, but it's much lower per treatment. Mainly because the medical/insurance complex makes less money off healthcare.
773.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Well, some advertisers for sure deserve that, but think about, eg, SomeGoodCompany.com which is organically and legitimately the top result if I search "SomeGoodCompany" in my url bar. If SomeBadCompany comes and starts bidding fo
774.
by danmaz74 9y ago
A long time ago, ads on google search were clearly distinct from organic results. Nowadays, they're mixed so well that only those who know they should check for the difference notice it. I particularly don't like when the first re
775.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Well, we got to the 40-hours week, didn't we? My point is that the fact that the 35 hours didn't work in France this time doesn't mean they can't work in general.
776.
by danmaz74 9y ago
I think that France did a pretty untimely move with their 35 hours right when international competition was becoming much stronger. But it would work if the same policy was adopted by most of your competitors.
777.
by danmaz74 9y ago
I managed (and currently manage) BE, FE and full-stack devs from the Philippines, Poland and India (and I sometimes work with a guy from Ukraine, but he's not part of one of my teams - more a collaborator and friend). I found good and
778.
by danmaz74 9y ago
More aware of dangers? More likely, more afraid of perceived dangers which are actually very small - and I admit that the same happens to me, even if rationally I know that I should be less worried.
779.
by danmaz74 9y ago
I'd like to try that... but everybody would need to have a very good connection. Not always an option.
780.
by danmaz74 9y ago
During the last 5 years I've been managing two fully remote small teams, across different time zones (one team CET+Philippines, the other one CET+India+Philippines). Some of my takeaways: * Doing a 15 minutes "daily standup"

More ›