earhart

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   by earhart 7y ago

   I thought this was super interesting; it's great to see a solid writeup. The consumer-side mutex works pretty well, until you take an interrupt while holding it; then, you need to make sure you're using an unfair mutex, or you&#x2
2. 32.▲
   by earhart 7y ago

   Software has security bugs, and enough people are evil that you will get burned with that approach. I’m a professional in this space, and I really can’t tell whether some random app is going to be evil or not; how is a non-techie supposed
3. 33.▲
   by earhart 8y ago

   I don’t know how to trust an app. Like, how would I make that decision? When I used Android, I just didn’t install things unless I really, really wanted them, and they were popular enough that I figured security researchers would likely be
4. 34.▲
   by earhart 8y ago

   Causation isn’t correlation; zip code is easy to measure, but I’d bet it’s not what actually matters.
5. 35.▲
   by earhart 8y ago

   The startup was vertex.ai; I worked there for a little over two years. It was very educational (in a good way), despite the uncertainty around paychecks (just from the higher odds of going under at some point down the road). For people who’
6. 36.▲
   by earhart 8y ago

   I did ten years at Microsoft; loved it, but wanted a change, and Google desperately wanted people with VM experience to build GCE. I was at Google for six years; I had a lot of fun building various parts of cloud, but then at some point rea