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Probably my favorite short story by Chiang.
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If you haven't listened to it, check out the "Startup" podcast (specifically the first season and all subsequent episodes that focus on Gimlet). The synopsis is that the host (Alex Blumberg) quits his successful job at NPR to
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A fascinating article was posted a few years ago outlining the possibility of scrambling the Atlantis orbiter while Columbia was in orbit and performing a rescue of her crew. It was a fascinating "what-if", well worth your tim
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Here's a video of the incident, from 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1gGGDG580E
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Wouldn't the benefit of path compression mean reducing the memory footprint of the data structure? And regarding fixed-length: "This lets us optimize the lookup code." More detail here would be cool but it wasn't really
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This was really well-written and fascinating. For something that I have used all the time and think of as relatively simple, there is a tremendous amount of complexity going on behind the scenes. I suppose that's true for nearly any te
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Given that automobile accidents are currently one of the most likely ways that you will meet your demise, would you agree that decreasing the likelihood of accidents is a worthwhile pursuit? As I understand it, increased safety is one of th
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Presumably the last thief never disposed of the package and was therefore the only one to discover the cameras. I wonder what they were thinking, and if they'll come across the video. Wouldn't be surprised if so, it was on the fro
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Interesting. One of the cool parts about Fi has been the seamless switching between different cell networks, which as I understood it was reliant on hardware that was only available on certain phones (e.g. Nexus, Pixel). Apparently if you u
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use ReX.js." Now they have three problems.
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I agree with you. They can certainly be abused, like anything else ("now you have two problems!"). But crafting a beautiful regex when it's exactly the right tool for the job is extremely satisfying. I think if more people to
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Unrelated to OP, but did Google ever release a postmortem for the YouTube outage a few weeks back? Was interested to hear the cause of that one.
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VS is a pain point? It remains one of the best IDEs out there IMO. What are your specific issues with it, aside from needing to run it on Windows?
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Barely hanging onto the top 50 at #49 according to the TIOBE index (Java is still #1). Make of that what you will. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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Remember their "Secret Master Plan?" This was published 12 years ago: >In keeping with a fast growing technology company, all free cash flow is plowed back into R&D to drive down the costs and bring the follow on products t
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Or maybe that "expert analysis" is really difficult, with a lot of complicated factors that are hard to reason about effectively?
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This is a really, really big deal. They've still got a long way to go (as I'm sure Musk would be the first person to admit), but turning a profit is no small feat and should be applauded as such.
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Compare this Jepsen analysis with that of MongoDB 2.4.3 from 2013[1] and you'll see that MongoDB has come a long, long way in the last few years. Note that the linked report on 3.6.4 was actually funded by MongoDB. I think a lot of the
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Cancellation of the "Rift 2" seems like a pretty big deal, is this confirmed anywhere else?
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On the subject of fundamental misunderstandings, you do realize that Jeff Atwood wrote this post and not Joel Spolsky, right?
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It's pretty bad.
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Highly recommend you check out more of Scott's blog posts, they are almost always thought-provoking and insightful.
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Don't forget the Supercharger network; seems like that's another big part of Tesla's first-mover advantage that any serious competitor will need to address at some point if they want to "catch up".
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Didn't he actually smoke weed live as part of that broadcast?
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Some pictures of this thing on the runway available here: https://www.space.com/39155-stratolaunch-wprlds-largest-plan... Can't wait to see videos of it in action.
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37 minutes * 4300 cars = 2,651 hours of work.
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> all of that just influences manufacturing rate and cost per vehicle. It seems like you answered your own question? These are really important for a company that's trying to make money.
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Manufacturing rate is one measure of success. First Pass Yield (FPY - % of cars that don't require rework) is another. It seems like Tesla is sacrificing the latter in service of the former, or at least they were towards the end of Q2.
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It's not that it affected the time to make each car, it's that a large majority of the cars needed to have some issue addressed after they were manufactured (86% according to the article).
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This blog post is pushing 10 years old and it's about StackOverflow, but it's still extremely relevant: https://bitquabit.com/post/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/ The whole thing is worth reading, but

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