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by eecsninja 8y ago
It's easy to talk about training people. I spent a lot of time training people in my previous job only for them to come back to me with basic questions about what I taught them over a year later. What was missing was technical leadersh
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by eecsninja 8y ago
The bad news is that you can't do any of that on modern computer systems anymore. I started out learning how to program in Windows 95 to make games. I learned to use inline assembly to set the video mode, and then directly write to vid
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I can forgive CNN for writing this article but I can't get over the glaring grammatical error in the second paragraph: > and to his surprised it still turned on. Who the hell does proofreading at CNN??
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by eecsninja 8y ago
If any performance gains from Moore's Law get canceled out by inefficient software due to Wirth's Law, then what's the point of all the work that we technologists are doing? You can call it a business decision, but that basic
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I think he means the big disconnect between the progressive rhetoric that Californians talk about, versus the policies that are actually enacted. The anti-transit, anti-development mindset that makes urban California unaffordable for most p
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by eecsninja 8y ago
What under the hood image?
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I read the link but did not find any explanation of how the extension checks your login/password against the 4 billion known compromised credentials, without exposing your login/password to a third party.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Not only that, but even if you could create something in the traditional way (without having to go through all those extra hoops you described), how many of the younger generation know how to run an executable locally (either downloaded, co
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Not to defend Apple, but I wonder how many bug reports they get from tech-illiterate people who think something is broken or a bug when it's working as intended, or is the result of operator error. If there's a lot of those report
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by eecsninja 8y ago
If you think this is predatory, what about the even higher late fees imposed by landlords? 27 percent sounds like a lot but it is about 2 percent per month. On a $1000 rent, that's $20. Late fees are much higher than that.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
It does if you believe Apple was infiltrated by NSA agents.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Sounds like working with bad programmers. I worked with a lot of younger programmers who were lazy and less diligent than I expected from others at the same FAANG company. Bad experience too.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
But someone working on C++ prior to 2012 could still have encountered and experienced C++11.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Maybe the people complaining and the ones doing the hiring aren't the same.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Yeah. I've been with Google 8+ years. Got promoted once, 3 years ago. Then in two consecutive years, on two different teams, I had a manager leave me, and ended up reporting to a sub-optimal manager that I didn't choose to report
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by eecsninja 8y ago
How I would summarize the development of AlphaStar and Mana's strategy over the series: 1. AS studies games played by humans to learn what they do. 2. AS takes advantage of high-APM, high-precision blink stalker micro to defeat immorta
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Who says the company is all about disruption? According to Keith Rabois: https://www.quora.com/Why-have-so-few-successful-startups-co... "In addition, after Google became successful, the type of candidate who applied a
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Major factual error in the article that undermines the significance of these findings: > Like the Meadowcroft site, Monte Verde has been dated to as many as 19,000 years ago. Together the sites are important and do more than help us unde
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> I think this helps us hire mostly kids who are book smart but aren't necessarily great (or even "good") employees... I'll do some hand waving here and define good as some combination of being driven and motivated, b
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Wow I had no idea until now. And I've been using Linux at work for close to a decade.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Hah, tell that to all the HN people who downvoted me for arguing that the immorality of plagiarism is largely a construct we learned from the school system, rather than a global immorality on the same level as theft and murder: https:&#x2F
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Computers too. E.g. Remember the 3d landscape Unix interface in Jurassic Park?
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I've always been an optimistic and motivated person, so I can't speak for depression and laziness. But I can speak for burnout. For me, burnout is the result of a long period of intense work and effort that accomplishes little. I
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Being able to code and get degrees is quite different from actually thinking critically rigorously. I think the median rent also includes people sharing a 2/3/4 bedroom home. There aren't that many 1 bedroom apartments to go
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Ask HN: Is there an end to the dumbing down of user interfaces?
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Not exactly a valid comparison. Nippori to Kichijoji requires a change of systems (JR to Keio), and therefore multiple fares -- it would be like MTA+LIRR or MTA+PATH in NYC.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
We're also building transit at 5x the cost per unit of distance. Compare the costs of NYC second avenue versus recent Tokyo and Paris lines.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Can't blame American families for choosing suburbia. US cities are a mess -- too many crazies, needles and trash everywhere, traffic congestion and poor public transit, expensive housing, and so forth. And there's no political wil
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I love how life in Tokyo is so middle-class and family oriented compared to US cities like SF and NYC.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
A lot actually live outside of NYC (not just Manhattan): Westchester, New Jersey, Long Island, etc

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