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by int0x2e 4y ago
A rumor I heard somewhere - MS supposedly built x86 emulation for ARM a few years back, and created a demo on top of some vendor's ARM servers for transparent Azure x86 on ARM (in addition to regular ARM VM SKUs of course). But rather
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by int0x2e 4y ago
"we'll never run out of lithium" is the new "640k ought to be enough for anybody". As we make lithium battery capacity more affordable, it gets applied more broadly, and the rate of use goes up. There is a very fini
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by int0x2e 4y ago
In my experience, this only works if you have a small team of great engineers. Once you have 50+ people of various skill levels making contributions to the codebase, you'll start seeing your git history littered with variants of "
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I often feel the same way. I've seen cases where trying to add functionality to an existing but "very clean and correct" codebase ended up being extremely difficult and the result felt far too complex in my mind. I've co
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by int0x2e 4y ago
One thing I think can really help is to have two different modes within the same team. You move fast and cut all corners and rapidly iterate when you have an idea by building a prototype, with the only goal being maximizing the speed at whi
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by int0x2e 4y ago
You hit the nail on the head - at many places, the hiring process seems to be great at blocking people who are great at solving real world problems that aren't as good at whiteboard leet-coding. If you truly enjoy this part of the job,
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by int0x2e 4y ago
In a document store, what does it even mean to create a container without a partition key? The document store has to partition the data somehow, and doing so implicitly sounds dangerous to me since all you're doing is creating a hotspo
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Cosmos != CosmosDB. The two have nothing in common (and trust me, it sure is fun having to constantly make sure which of the two someone is actually referring to every time...).
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I absolutely want to work in a diverse team. I want to be challenged by different perspectives and ideas. I want to have the best team members out there, regardless of their backgrounds. I however, think many D&I ideas fail to work when
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I actually think pixel density is one of the easier battle to win. Getting a cheap, lightweight, strain-free device to users is the real requirement. For now, I can't handle more than ~30 mins with any VR/MR/AR device, but if
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by int0x2e 4y ago
If you treat the homeless as lepers and stick them at the edge of town - you will get exactly what you said. If however, you create one home for the homeless on every street/block/floor - you'll find out that they are people,
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by int0x2e 4y ago
You might be interested in listening/reading a recent Planet Money episode ( https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124477182/federal-judges-eco... ), which explains how for ~20 years or so, many US federal
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by int0x2e 4y ago
A former boss taught me of the "law of conservation of bullshit" :-)
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I feel the same way, but to play devil's advocate - the vast majority of startups do fail, and leave you with no meaningful legacy. You could grow as a person, you could be very passionate and driven, etc. - but you could also end up q
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Google is known for launching and then soon killing its projects, and game platforms are built on long term trust and momentum. That's why Stadia never got the momentum it needed.
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Feature flags or another way to release bleeding edge features to only some of your users can sometimes be the best way to iterate over new features quickly when your most user base is risk-averse
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Adding my own personal story as an anecdote - I never completed my bachelor's (double major in physics and CS). I did okay on my physics classes, great on my CS classes (often in the top 2%), yet failed badly on a couple of advanced ca
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I suspect it will never happen, but I would love to work at a company that has front-line managers and recognized "thought leaders", and nothing else at all, most of all - no middle managers, little to no concept of "promo wo
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Lots of great insight. Thank you for sharing! Your comment about being too early is on point, though I'm not entirely sure it's a bad thing. If you're a big company with scale and cash to support it, exploring new frontiers i
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by int0x2e 4y ago
If I was designing this, I would only have a small set of "SKUs" with minimal customization, and then go all out on economies of scale. If 10% of houses switched to a single "system" with a small set of SKUs, such that e
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I would argue moving would require moving the VC industry as well, but if anyone can do it, YC would be the one to get it done. Having said that, it's going to be a real challenge - SV's prominence is quite massive and long-held.
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Just curious - why do assume a correlation (one way or the other) between these two metrics?
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Apple is super popular in the US, but in the rest of the world, and especially in non western countries, Google (Android) and Samsung have a much larger network...
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by int0x2e 4y ago
The issue is that domains are cheap and plentiful, and a spammer can easily claim to be sending mailflow on behalf of let's say, 1000 users, each sending 5-10 emails a day, and thus, a single IP "forwarding" (sending) mailflo
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by int0x2e 4y ago
While I agree with you generally, one could make the argument that if your aim is to drastically disrupt some domain, you may wish to adopt a riskier but faster path even if you're working in a safety-critical field, because the "
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I suspect you haven't met too many people in these programs. I had a student in one of my university programs who was handicapped and could barely see 3ft in front of him. Guy had to ride in a motorized chair, get guided around campus,
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I totally agree with you from a usability standpoint, and while it is possible to make this work well, for larger-scale services it is rarely without costs, and for the most part - people don't seem to care as much as you'd think.
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by int0x2e 4y ago
Bryan Cantrill's talks are some the best I've ever seen. I've always tried sharing them around with colleagues (with limited success, but still worth it in my view...)
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by int0x2e 4y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. A FAANG-tier company with which I'm closely familiar pretty much did the worst thing every time during the past 2 years - they tried to tighten the belt when COVID first hit (missing a ton of great
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by int0x2e 4y ago
For Starsky's engineering / demo purposes - they could limit themselves to a few safe routes with good connectivity. Just use a couple of cell modems from different networks, maybe add a satellite backup to be extra safe and you s

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