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by jblow 8y ago
Being a publicly-traded company sucks. I wouldn’t want to take my company public either, unless I had given up wanting to do interesting things with it, and just wanted out.
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by jblow 8y ago
You have to work out a system, then, to figure out who pays to employ the people doing unprofitable work. Not as easy as it sounds.
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by jblow 8y ago
The character of San Francisco is currently homeless people everywhere, and poop and needles all over the sidewalks.
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by jblow 8y ago
I disagree. The slowness of these languages is mostly uncorrelated with increases in productivity. People only think there’s cause-and-effect here because they haven’t seen counterexamples, because the trend in language design for 25 years
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by jblow 8y ago
We all have these things in our pockets that are massive supercomputers by the standards of my college days. And we all use them just to rant at each other about political things that we in reality are totally misinformed about ... and othe
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by jblow 8y ago
Yes. This is all so obvious that I wonder why societally we have such a hard time seeing it ... i.e. what are we getting in return for the obvious willful ignorance we are engaging in.
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by jblow 8y ago
The Supreme Court is just interpreting the law. If you don’t like their interpretation, amend the law so that it’s clear. If you aren’t able to get that done, maybe it’s because a lot of people disagree with you about what the law should be
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by jblow 8y ago
You don’t have a debug allocator that just tells you what file and line made the allocation? Ouch.
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by jblow 8y ago
Can you explain why the decision is poor? Because it results in fewer jobs (but still the same number of jobs Tesla had in early 2018)? Is number of jobs the only metric that determines whether a decision is good or bad? If so that would le
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by jblow 8y ago
You are not going to count all the jobs he created in the first place, and the years of gainful employment those 3500 people had? It’s just all negative in your estimation?
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by jblow 8y ago
As a customer, I hate interacting with unionized industries. Try, for example, having a booth at a trade show. It is completely awful, and most of that is because of unions. > If you can only survive as a corporation that does the bare
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by jblow 8y ago
You will think it's less beautiful when you ship that game on several platforms and find that it has different bugs on each platform, on each hardware version, and on each driver version. And most of these bugs you can't fix or wo
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by jblow 8y ago
Maybe the games were not very complex? Professional game programmers building games with lots of shaders are very familiar with what I am talking about. See for example this thread: https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards
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by jblow 8y ago
Nope, glVertex3f was deprecated years ago by OpenGL itself. That is not the way the API works any more. [1] Look into what it takes to write the minimum viable OpenGL program, written using non-deprecated routines, that puts a textured tria
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by jblow 8y ago
Good riddance. OpenGL has been an awful API for many years now. The drivers are way too complicated, and applications don’t have enough control to deliver smooth performance. All OpenGL does now is let you kind of mediocrily put things on t
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by jblow 8y ago
I don’t get it either.
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by jblow 8y ago
Government massively subsidizes the oil industry all the time. If you have more EVs running, there is more incentive to upgrade the power generation structure, because it produces more environmental benefit. Also, come on, the minority of g
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by jblow 8y ago
Amen. I am so tired of trying to read these articles that spend so much time on random personal backstories because they don’t have faith that the core subject matter is interesting to read. The worst are the ones that jump back and forth b
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by jblow 8y ago
So is carbon offsetting really a thing, or not? If it is, well, these sites that tell you how much to give based on flight length say it is really cheap. So just make offsetting mandatory. The end.
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by jblow 8y ago
California has good weather and spends a ton of money every year on homeless support services. If you’re homeless, why wouldn’t you come to California?
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by jblow 9y ago
Wait what? Amazon often packs multiple products into the same shipment. I assume each individual product is considered a purchase. And where do you get the $5-8 figure from? I can ship things for that much, so you’d have to assume Amazon ge
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by jblow 9y ago
But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is that the legitimate schools have been able to raise their prices tremendously because the students have all this easy money given to them for just that purpose.
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by jblow 9y ago
When I watched the movie via a video player made from Redstone, I didn't realize it at first, but the inexact color reproduction really subtracted nuance from the mood, and the fact that I had to run away from monsters every night real
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by jblow 9y ago
The high student debt and unaffordable housing are almost entirely due to policies of the Democratic Party, a.k.a. the party that is supposedly trying to reduce income inequality. Interventions often don’t do what you wanted them to do.
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by jblow 9y ago
Because after octonions there isn't anything more.
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by jblow 9y ago
The tone of the first paragraph should tell you everything you need to know about this article.
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by jblow 9y ago
Why do you think that's a "typical baby boomer's idea of a vacation"? The people you were observing were 100% pre-selected to be the type of people who would go on a cruise. It's obviously not representative of the
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by jblow 9y ago
You named some random things that have been around for short periods of time and claimed that "they won". I don't get it.
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by jblow 9y ago
There are no sources listed anywhere in this article. The wording feels very intentionally vague. Not sure anyone should take it seriously.
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by jblow 9y ago
That would kill HoloLens and DX13.

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