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by fleitz 12y ago
The key with ageism in tech is to move into mgmt. You're not supposed to be a code monkey at 30. And especially not having 10 years of experience in a technology 10 years old. Also as you said, young people put up with shit no one over
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by fleitz 12y ago
ML would be a huge step forward, this just matches a couple keywords.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yes, if only this existed for turing, we could have thrown him in jail for not wanting to live in our bigoted society. You hit the nail on the head, most people want a tool like this so every now and then they can stop being a shitty person
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by fleitz 12y ago
This isn't a PR case, it's a court case, fuck what anyone who is not the judge thinks, lawyer up and go get some money. Do you think the execs at Google/Apple care what Joe the plumber thinks about how much money they make. N
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yep, it's poverty morality, as soon as you make 50 cents an hour more than the next guy you're rich, and have no right to complain about anything. Even when I was making $15 an hour answering phones, I'd hear no end about how
966.
by fleitz 12y ago
That's the nature of all crime. Unless you're an idiot you either stop doing it, or get better at it. That's why when you commit a crime they send you to criminal school, so you can swap notes about all the other ways guys go
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by fleitz 12y ago
The only real effect of bankruptcy would be that guys like Page and Brin would be worth $13 billion instead of $26. Assuming that it would actually bankrupt them, how does bankruptcy cost jobs? The cash goes to employees who will likely spe
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by fleitz 12y ago
Fully agree, the bootstrap / vc funding metric is commoditization. People pay a lot more for 'ancient grains' than 'hard winter red'.
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by fleitz 12y ago
More than they're willing to pay. This is far more about negotiation than market rates. Who cares how much VC funded companies get, start by asking for 3 to 5 times what they are getting. Flip the conversation, being bootstrapped, and
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by fleitz 12y ago
You could, but once you're not allocating things, why not write it in a language without a GC?
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by fleitz 12y ago
Fully agree. I thought the GC only paused for 10 ms, which would be bad enough, if it's a full second... that's insane.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Yeah if you want to hit 60 fps, 2/3rds of your processing time just evaporated.
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by fleitz 12y ago
What wasn't said is that Obama considers all the programs Snowden brought to light to be ethical.
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by fleitz 12y ago
I think Schneier is seriously discounting the magic document theory as it pertains to the 2nd and possibly 3rd leakers.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Good point, I forgot for a second that the CPU turns assembler into microcode before executing it.
976.
by fleitz 12y ago
'What I'm talking about is focused on web applications, and from empirical data, it seems that most web servers handle very few concurrent requests, therefore it would be silly to go all async to avoid threads.' It might be a
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by fleitz 12y ago
Given the Universal Turning Machine and the Church-Turing thesis in actuality all of programming except for assembler is pretty much some API or language trick.
978.
by fleitz 12y ago
Umm... it doesn't compile because it's the wrong type... But yeah multithreading is easy.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Because concurrency in imperative languages is generally a euphemism for non-determinism. Now the problem can be correctly rephrased as: Why is it hard to get non-deterministic programs to do deterministic things.
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by fleitz 12y ago
I don't think you've seen truly great async support, it's virtually indistinguishable from sync code. Sync: let file = File.Open("foo.txt") let data = file.Read(8192) // Do some compute stuff with
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by fleitz 12y ago
Async computation is not the fad, it's poor syntax is. C#, F# and coffeescript have excellent syntax that remove the line noise caused by writing async code. Actors and channels also nicely remove line noise from async programming. If
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by fleitz 12y ago
People with a poor understanding of crypto, generally the types of people who have NIH syndrome will reinvent cryptography. I've personally worked with NIH SSL systems based on the idea of XOR'ing the messages with the 3rd byte of
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by fleitz 12y ago
Crypto systems generally don't fail gracefully, by even slightly changing the algorithm, or choosing special init values the results are not really applicable to an unmodified version. There are however known issues with real SHA1 wh
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by fleitz 12y ago
Rural india is much different than urban india. Even in wester nations, many rural areas don't have sewer systems, they have septic tanks.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It sounds like the statistical basis for this: http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
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by fleitz 12y ago
No, don't challenge the patent, minimize infringement, amass cash. Challenge it after being sued hopefully with enough cash to defend yourself.
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by fleitz 12y ago
Just go ahead and do yourself a favor right now and delete this comment. 'knowingly violating' is not a phrase you want attributed to you in court.
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by fleitz 12y ago
I'm pretty sure virtually every country in the world has court ordered subpoenas / warrants. Nor do they accept "I'm sorry I can't provide the e friend's murder weapon as it is at my Irish country house" a
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by fleitz 12y ago
It's almost as if the US uses juries for exactly this purpose.
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by fleitz 12y ago
It's not so much a matter of can as will.

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