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by illumin8 8y ago
HN moderators, you should check the biases of the mod brigade. I'm out of this conversation. Immediate downvotes because I don't agree with the toxic alt-right views that seem to dominate conversations like these. I'm done w
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by illumin8 8y ago
I find this response, and the downvotes on the parent comment, incredibly sad. If you want to live in a libertarian fantasy world with no safety net, you are free to create one, and try to attract citizens to your country. Even in prehistor
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by illumin8 8y ago
Me too. These look incredible. Does anyone know if you could also turn them into Hackintosh or run Windows 10 on them for gaming? If so, I'd pick one up in a heartbeat. I'm a little concerned that the custom I/O daughterbo
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by illumin8 8y ago
I think it's coming very soon, perhaps in the next generation of Macbook Pros. The writing was on the wall when Apple released the new iPad Pros: https://bgr.com/2018/11/01/new-ipad-pros-speed-will-be-a-
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by illumin8 8y ago
Any cloud provider with sufficient security doesn't allow customers to share SMT cores anyway. For example, AWS hard partitions their physical servers, which is why you can get exactly 16 m4.xlarge instances, 8 m4.2xlarge, 4 m4.4xlarg
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by illumin8 8y ago
This is the right approach, IMHO. Let me run local apps like video rendering and transcoding using all cores, but let me mark anything that has Internet access as only executing on a dedicated core. Apple's new hardware approach might
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by illumin8 8y ago
Please keep in mind, the compensation numbers are from employees that have typically worked for a couple years, have stock grants that have appreciated significantly, and that is a significant portion of their total compensation. If you wan
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by illumin8 8y ago
Clearly, a talented engineer in the UK might be just as smart and experienced as a principal engineer at a big tech company in the US. But, this doesn't have to make sense for it to be true. It's simple supply and demand economic
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by illumin8 8y ago
How is your autonomous car going to navigate without GPS signals?
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by illumin8 8y ago
There is a reason Apple charges those prices. Components like 16GB dual channel DDR4 SO-DIMMs, Nvidia 1070GTX w/ 8GB RAM, 4K HiDPI/retina displays, and NVMe SSDs that can do 3500MB/sec. are not cheap. Here's an interest
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by illumin8 8y ago
Horrible analogy. If Ford had to approve every ignition/engine start request and they had a breathalyzer installed in every vehicle that would send the blood alcohol level to Ford's API and required a signed response before the e
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by illumin8 8y ago
You also need to be honest about what your criteria is for a job search. Are you expecting to find a 6 figure job for a rockstar 10x Python/JS engineer in Podunk, Iowa? Come to any of a dozen cities that have a decent tech representat
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by illumin8 8y ago
> At some point most large companies will play their hand and raise prices to more closely match the cost of switching off the platform. (i.e. the MO of Oracle/IBM) I don't see AWS doing this. They've continuously impleme
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by illumin8 8y ago
The problem is that all of these community chargers inevitably break down and there is zero incentive for them to be repaired. It seems like local businesses might get a tax break to install a charging station, but without any incentive to
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by illumin8 8y ago
I've worked in a dozen or so Fortune 500 companies IT departments and I've never seen any incompetent enough to connect a BMC/management network to any type of Internet connected firewall, router, or egress gateway. I've
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by illumin8 8y ago
Agreed, but UNIX remains relevant, or at least easily transferrable to Linux, while Vax remains a niche platform.
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by illumin8 8y ago
I'm not sure this is true. Medical professionals must keep updated on newer technologies, but it doesn't move anywhere near as fast as software does.
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by illumin8 8y ago
This is not true. I'm 44, a principal engineer at $BigTechCo, and I know people in mid 50s that are very in demand and will remain gainfully employed as long as they want to. The problem is that people start a career as a J2EE program
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by illumin8 8y ago
The big 3's dealership model will sink their chances at being leaders in electrification: "To that end, “an electric car has no engine and no transmission. It has no spark plugs, fan belts, air filters, timing belts, or cylinder h
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by illumin8 8y ago
Well said. Microsoft has been churning out shit like this and poisoning the entire technology industry for decades. I get a little bent out of shape when people think they're somehow altruistic now because they released Windows Subsy
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by illumin8 8y ago
You can run Classic Shell and get the Windows 7 experience back. I recommend it if you must run Windows; it's probably the only way to get rid of the god-awful Start menu/adware junk that M$ has now.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Great list, but you missed one (probably more): - some updates launch several CMD.exe windows that pop up for a second, steal focus, then disappear.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Yes, you're right, I think I described the one end of the spectrum where you have someone that chose to move into a management role because they never were that good at the hands on work, and on the other end of the spectrum, you have
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by illumin8 8y ago
Great points, and I see the same thing in myself, which is why I don't want to be a manager - I'm great with technology, but I don't have the people skills to be a successful leader.
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I think it's because most technology managers are too disconnected from the actual work, and don't understand what their employees actually do. Obviously, there are a few examples of tech leaders that remain hands on, but it seem
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by illumin8 8y ago
This. One thing I have noticed is that when you have $billions in short interest in a stock, the manipulation is incredibly subtle, but also incredibly blatant at times. For example, one can find many media articles that are almost certain
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by illumin8 8y ago
I'm a 44 year old senior engineer, and the one thing I've noticed is that bad managers are almost universal in technology. I've had about 20 managers in my career and I can count only 2-3 that I would consider great managers
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by illumin8 8y ago
Pretty telling how the money quote in the article is "And second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications.” In other words, they couldn't meet the re
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by illumin8 8y ago
Thanks, and sorry for letting my emotions get the better of me.
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by illumin8 8y ago
You can work on blockchain projects that might have the potential to bring financial services to the unbanked and poor in 3rd world countries, but, oh wait a minute, the technology will probably just be used to create predatory financial pr

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