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by harlanji 9y ago
My CS book (Bryant and O'Hallaron, 2003, p. 399) says Control Data 6600 in 1964 was the first processor w out of order executuon, considered exotic until RS/6000 by IBM in 1990/PowerPC 601 in 1993.
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by harlanji 9y ago
RasPi + Cloudflare should be a good solution. Even live streaming is possible with CDN as live streams are just conventions with playlists and metadata. I can't comment on costs at scale, but Twitter claims equal ingress and egress ban
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by harlanji 9y ago
Walmart/Target parking lot or Caribou Coffee here. Craigslist was (is) the best. People are still good, our "social" media just tells us otherwise. You have to be street smart to be able to do this stuff... if you go to meet
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by harlanji 9y ago
In around 2008 I co-wrote a set of maven javascript mojos (before NodeJS), incl QUnit test integration et all. I collaborated with another fellow on the other side of the world. Documentation was stellar. IIRC, to extend, even the upgrade
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by harlanji 9y ago
> A third example: Before it was paid very well, being a "computer science proramming nerd" had a very low status in general society. On the other hand being a good programmer/hacker could mean high status among nerds&#x2F
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by harlanji 9y ago
Lao Tzu sees a correlation. I'm 32, and my boundaries gradually increased from "the front yard, ask to go across the street" to "the street, ask to go around the block or park" etc. I lived in urban South Minneapoli
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by harlanji 9y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that focusing on lower level mechanics is the way to solutions and am at times frustrated by their dismissal in preference for some higher level debate across a seemingly arbitrary division. In my case health debate t
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by harlanji 9y ago
All your end advice is true, and I recognize the sentiment of "you can never know". Indeed, a date recently asked me if I could read her mind, as happens often, but this time I said I can read her body so basically yes, I can read
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by harlanji 9y ago
The one grayed down comment. I agree whole heartedly.
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by harlanji 9y ago
The main thing I'd want to know is which false incentives are in the system, eg. subsides, bribes. Those are things that can really be disrupted by the stroke of a pen. If this is the naturally optimal way to build things at scale, the
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by harlanji 9y ago
I've found a pretty hard salary cap. 15 years exp, Bs degree earned somewhere in the middle, increasing experience, good references... and then I get to SF and have experienced intense bullying when I ask for anything beyond the norm o
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by harlanji 9y ago
Nothing prevents you from creating more accounts, perhaps one per purpose. You're required to provide a phone number for verification, but can use the google voice # of a main account without issue. I'm sure you've thought of
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by harlanji 9y ago
It's ridiculous that mods can hide my comments but I can't delete them. If a post is removed, I should have the anility to revoke my license to tue copy and have it removed. Would DMCA cover that?
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by harlanji 9y ago
Agreed it could be done cheaper over long term, just wanted to share about an actual prod system. This also had 3x replication via Kafka to avoid stampedes etc if anything failed and keep going with an at-least-once guarantee. In my opinion
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by harlanji 9y ago
I did the math a while back, don't have the notes at the moment, but scaling an AWS system I built enough to collect 600m points of data each minute and compute on data within 100ms and retain it for a few minutes would run a bit over
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by harlanji 9y ago
Most of my major life breakthroughs have been supported by communities on Reddit. Career, health, hobbies, you name it. Lots of irrational hate on there, but the irrational love is why I keep going back.
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by harlanji 9y ago
Just getting back into Go (was Clojure), missing generics were annoying indeed. Though doing things with strings in source isn't fundamentally different from type erasure in the JVM (can wiki the term). Ie. Generics in Java are strings
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by harlanji 9y ago
It's true, the less money you have the more time you have to spend on the basics. As much as I love laundry and housekeeping services, if I'm not making income they're gone and there's 4 hours a week I now have to spend
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by harlanji 9y ago
> I think this change is unnecessary. Just the opposite, faster startup time and lower memory footprint for the JVM via modules would be great. Both via process start, storage read, container image transfer. It'd also be a boon to J
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by harlanji 9y ago
> In Java, private/protected functions/fields are mostly only a compile time check. Indeed, with reflection you can mutate member properties... I taught myself [this trick]( https://stackoverflow.com/questions&#x
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by harlanji 9y ago
If that's true, what occupies the space between Libertarian and Anarchist? There's an umbrella of libertarian thought camps, you're thinking of Anarcho-Capitalism which is a pretty small faction.
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by harlanji 9y ago
Can you talk about what software packages, perhaps data structures and algorithms you use? Any shortcomings / low hanging fruit? I see the domain as an invaluable tool for a few applications... any particularly strong ones you can see?
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by harlanji 9y ago
Given the $99 limitation has been lifted it seems reasonable to make general federated "App Store App" that downloads source and puts a build of an app on the phone, wrapped with a pretty UI and clever control channel to your &quo
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by harlanji 9y ago
I was feral and learned what I wanted and was economically very successful even with no template (2 parents with union labor jobs... responsibility and ethics but not saving), to where I quit going to high school because I was making good m
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by harlanji 9y ago
Indeed, although it takes two to tango. Impossible to know the relationship between said person and their management. I take my inklings to start new things while employed as an indicator that I need to talk to my manager. Help doing more w
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by harlanji 9y ago
I sure notice my tone getting agitated at times and take a breath and apologize. It is a horrible situation; people in my private life know me as an unmovable rock and yet support scripts can really get under my skin. If I have a serious co
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by harlanji 9y ago
> It's a really simple concept, and there are very few business ideas that can pull it off. The vast majority of businesses bootstrap themselves. Not on HN of course :)
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by harlanji 10y ago
I've heard the terms ref and attribution (system/engine) in a couple of big SF consumer and ad company offices. Views are tracked and great engineering efforts go into tying all of a person's sessions together. Those terms sh
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by harlanji 10y ago
Oracle started a project called avatar-js that aims to clone the Node runtime in Nashorn. I've only POC'd with it a while back, not run in prod.
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by harlanji 10y ago
Surprise! All for-profit companies exist with making money as the highest priority. As idealistic software engineers we're programmed to think of everything as a mission, but as soon as you look higher at most post-investment companies

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