ericseppanen

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by ericseppanen 10y ago
For little kids (4-5): Catan Junior, My First Stone Age, Patchwork, Hoot Owl Hoot. For slightly bigger kids: Quirkle, Takenoko, Tokaido, Sushi Go, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne. I generally find TableTop to be a well-curated source of games;
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
More pretty graphs here about the big outsourcing firms' H1B salary distributions: https://www.axios.com/h1-b-salaries-2228205505.html
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
Sorry, where? I'm not seeing it.
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
It's unfortunate that most of the people writing about the problems with H-1B visas can't distinguish between companies that hire the best they can get (and paying competitive salaries), and outsourcing companies that file a ton o
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
Assuming the press articles are correct, Theranos class B stock has 100x voting power. Investors may not have sufficient voting power to overrule the founder(s).
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
5-nines uptime means anticipating that the components (hardware and software) you bought from another company may fail in devious, correlated ways. Failure to do so is simply incompetence. Maybe the customer didn't read the fine print
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
- Fixes for compiler bugs; probably not that likely, but I'm used to knowing that on a free toolchain I can always try a newer version to see if it exhibits the same behavior. Being locked to an old version feels risky. - New language
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
The "add your own instructions" thing is a pretty cool, no doubt. I would be surprised if most ASIC designs really really need the low latency that provides, especially considering the other costs involved in adopting a minor-lea
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
From what I can tell, they have structured it in a way that it's a violation in spirit, but not in letter. They don't link to GCC code directly; instead they output the intermediate representation and execute a standalone binary t
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by ericseppanen 10y ago
For those who haven't had the pleasure: developing on Tensilica Xtensa cores generally means living within 128-256KB of directly-accessible memory; a windowed register file that makes writing your own exception handlers "interesti
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by ericseppanen 11y ago
A company at a disadvantage may find it in their own interest to act like good guys with respect to open source projects. Fast-forward a few years: if people become dependent on the new tool and there's money to be made differentiating