dman

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91.
by dman 6y ago
The fact that 7.6 billion people live in parallel seems odd to me. I imagine humanity could achieve a lot more if every aspect of human identity was put into one individual.
92.
by dman 6y ago
Am going to short this one once it is out- saying this as someone who has been a user.
93.
by dman 6y ago
Their subscription left me with a bad aftertaste as well. They "freeze" the account for a couple of days prior to and after the billing date and will not allow you to cancel in that period. So you then have to call again after the
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by dman 6y ago
So I will concede that it is time to bury all the XUL/XPCom misgivings. We now need to rededicate ourselves to the same extensible vision using the new stack.
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by dman 6y ago
Strongly disagree - I think the reason Firefox market share is in a tailspin is because once they "rationalized" the codebase by getting rid of power features - there was no moat around them to keep even simple upstarts like Edge
96.
by dman 6y ago
Sure - I can see that if we do arrive at a future where all of Firefox chrome is implemented via a HTML/CSS itself and it sits on top of a standardized core that exposes well documented APIs (which both end users and Firefox developers
97.
by dman 6y ago
I had written multiple XUL based addons that I used for personal productivity. When Firefox moved away from XUL/XPCom I think they removed not just an implementation (which I admit had many warts) but also the alternate vision of the B
98.
by dman 6y ago
I hope this goes all the way and phones get opened up to work with PCs - users have root, can install their own software, and run software written in the language of their choice.
99.
by dman 6y ago
One word of caution to those trying to improve on SQL - for the many users of SQL, technology is a secondary aspect of their jobs. Hence any replacement runs into the issue that many of its core users do not have the bandwidth to spend sign
100.
by dman 6y ago
Just want to say that this is an incredibly difficult job environment - so do not take any lack of progress personally. Persevere and follow up with people even more often than usual - interviewers / HR departments are stretched thin s
101.
by dman 6y ago
You have every right to be extremely proud of what you accomplished - writing your own compiler is extremely gratifying and you have my respect!
102.
by dman 6y ago
Unfortunately there is a clock penalty to using AVX-512 and it is only available on a small part of the chips that Intel ships (For the longest time it was only available on Xeons). AMD does not support AVX-512 yet. As a result no one reall
103.
by dman 6y ago
Lua runs the same risks as Scheme which is another small language - of multiple incompatible implementations cropping up because it is so easy to create an implementation. [Dont mean to downplay the difficulty of writing an implementation j
104.
by dman 6y ago
Depends on the company - in a company like Amazon where Jeff is constantly pushing the envelope - standing still is the best recipe for falling behind. And you can see a hint of this happening in the article itself - the person running Book
105.
by dman 6y ago
In the big tech companies it is much harder to make the case for incremental improvements to existing products than it is to take on new disruptive problems.
106.
by dman 6y ago
Excellent idea! See now you have filled me with optimism. Thank you kind stranger.
107.
by dman 6y ago
Perhaps the big winners from GPT-3 will be patent trolls? Easier than ever to mock an idea up and use the implementation to do a land grab in form of a patent? [Not saying I advocate this strategy, am just wondering if the low barrier to en
108.
by dman 6y ago
I like to think that the proliferation of different kind of editors reflects the incredible diversity that exists in what people want from an editor.
109.
by dman 6y ago
Thank you!
110.
by dman 6y ago
Otoh whenever I am on a 4k laptop the increased heat and decreased battery life are immediately noticeable.
111.
by dman 6y ago
Best of luck!
112.
by dman 6y ago
Is this an open source effort?
113.
by dman 6y ago
You are correct - I moved and thought the store in the new area was a ripoff before realizing that food prices are up everywhere. I buy a fair amount of Indian groceries and the prices of many staples is up ~25-30%.
114.
by dman 6y ago
Would openmp fit in with how you use TBB? In the past I have used them to solve similar problems.
115.
by dman 6y ago
I meant something like - if you have a hiring manager in a company who likes a product X, they can just go in and buy it from the store at pre-negotiated terms rather than getting lawyers and other purchasing teams involved.
116.
by dman 6y ago
Yes - it is incredibly frustrating. I keep wishing someone develops an app store that becomes a standard in enterprises.
117.
by dman 6y ago
Because from an enterprise point of view they want to negotiate and arm twist vendors. Large players can and do use their weight to get pretty hefty discounts.
118.
by dman 6y ago
Correct!
119.
by dman 6y ago
Let me just say that I have seen queries that are megabytes in size with joins all over the place :)
120.
by dman 6y ago
People do not realize just how far industry practitioners take joins :) So my take is that users will find a way to take joins to the point where they do not scale.

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