dman

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1. 181.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   If netflix replaced their UI with a single excel spreadsheet containing data about their content, I would consider it an improvement.
2. 182.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   This was the primary reason I cancelled my account. Secondary reason was the poor search / filtering options - they have continually gimped these features in favor of their own recommendation engine and homepage. Their recommendation e
3. 183.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   I think there was an opening for a fast safe alternative to C++ in HPC, but I think Rust has taken that spot now. Control over allocation, alignment and placement is important in HPC and imo Java took too long to address these issues.
4. 184.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   That ship has sailed.
5. 185.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   What is the etiquette about posting links that are behind paywalls?
6. 186.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   When can I buy something similar for a homelab?
7. 187.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   What is the question?
8. 188.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   Become a product manager?
9. 189.▲
   by dman 7y ago

   Am not sure if you were trying to make the case for simplicity or against it :)
10. 190.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Intel really botched the launch of AVX-512. By not making it available on client, and even on server having it be available on select chips meant that no one code coded / optimized for it. If you are proposing new instructions make sur
11. 191.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    No one in tech has a pension.
12. 192.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Seems pretty robust at the moment.
13. 193.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Its on the up and up, why do you ask?
14. 194.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Its not just you.
15. 195.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Do Mozilla execs understand this?
16. 196.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...
17. 197.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Perhaps Rust is delivering better than expected results.
18. 198.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Also weather. How can you be a viable business if you have no cashflow for 4-5 months in a year?
19. 199.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Fair enough - thanks for the pointers.
20. 200.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Any examples of how a retail investor would play this?
21. 201.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    #3 can also backfire badly. Personally I would avoid it.
22. 202.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Doesnt have to be perishable. Things like Biscuits, Cereals, Nuts, Dates, ground items of various kinds etc.
23. 203.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    I am surprised Amazon has not run into Food safety issues / lawsuits by now.
24. 204.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Does not mean anything because of commingling. If you have 500 merchants selling the same item you have no way to control whose inventory you get things from. No filtering by merchant doesnt help, I wish it did. As a result I have mostly st
25. 205.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Any pointers on why / how everything that was owned by Jack Ma is owned by CCP?
26. 206.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Plenty of examples in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874148
27. 207.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    Goes the other way too. Why do Mac fans descend on Linux threads and comment on the lack of fit and finish and that time they tried Linux in 2003 where it did not work for them?
28. 208.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    I think Scylla is a bit of an outlier in terms of software quality :) [I mean that as a compliment]
29. 209.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    One upside of code increasingly being written in languages that are predominantly single threaded like Python/JS is that these issues do not matter as much.
30. 210.▲
    by dman 7y ago

    This space will be interesting to watch! We live in extremely interesting times hardware wise.