jcdavis

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by jcdavis 6y ago
Without trying to sound too harsh, 50k monthly listeners really isn't all that much. You can argue that spotify's discoverability (or lack thereof) has a large influence on those numbers, but there are no shortage artists with man
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by jcdavis 6y ago
> The actual nerdy economics joke there is in the second paragraph, which takes the form: Two economists are walking down the street. One of them sees a $20 bill on the ground. As she bends to pick it up, her colleague says “don’t bother
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by jcdavis 6y ago
Only slighly related to the topic at hand, but the author (Mor Harchol-Balter) is an amazing teacher, she was undoubtedly my favorite professor I had the opportunity to take a class with at CMU
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by jcdavis 6y ago
As more companies are WFH friendly, the potential employee pool expands massively
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by jcdavis 6y ago
Ancedotally (I don't have a ton of concrete details here): 1. From what I understand restaurants doing delivery largely were breaking even on it considering the costs - there was no third party looking to take 20-30% of the gross. 2. A
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JEP 370: Foreign-Memory Access API(openjdk.java.net)
3 points by jcdavis 7y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 7y ago
that is definitely true
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by jcdavis 7y ago
Its closer than you might think - Fitbit did $1.5B in rev last year. Haven't check their filings but presumably thats almost all from their devices. Garmin did $858m in rev last year from their "fitness" segment. Plus some fr
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by jcdavis 7y ago
But that IPO stock-comp expense is largely attributable to R&D, so if you want to subtract that from the losses to look at a more cash-focused analysis you have to substract that cost from the R&D side as well. Of the $3.95B total s
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by jcdavis 7y ago
You can break that question into 2 parts. First, the 3.9B figure appears to represents all RSUs vested up to this point, aka many years worth ("(2) Q2 2019 includes $3.9 billion of stock-based compensation expenses, primarily due to
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by jcdavis 7y ago
No doubt they are struggling to show a path to profitability, but $3.9B of that is a one-time recognition of all their stock comp which makes look much worse than it should (Assuming that a 1.3B loss is more "normal")
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Cockroach Labs Stands Up to Amazon’s Open Source Offensive(theinformation.com)
4 points by jcdavis 7y ago|2 comments
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by jcdavis 7y ago
Matt Levine is a national treasure
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by jcdavis 8y ago
PSA: If the new sidebar is a little too aggressively purple for you (it was for me), the "Aubergine classic" sidebar is the old style
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by jcdavis 8y ago
It is in the first example (the sal instruction)
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by jcdavis 8y ago
As the devils advocate: Why not? The competition for that employee is largely local offers, remote is a small part of the overall market. Plus many other companies hiring for remote do local adjustments too, they just aren't public abo
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by jcdavis 8y ago
> That said, in my view as an employee, the value I create for the company isn't based on my physical location, so why should my salary be Because your salary is much more influenced by market supply and demand than the value you cr
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by jcdavis 8y ago
If you look at the llvm IR, it is using ashr (arithmetic shift), so you can probably assume this isn't targeting unsigned types
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by jcdavis 8y ago
> I don't know about you, but I can't run a 2:15 marathon or a 4 minute mile, and I don't think fancy shoes would make the difference. But for those that can, fancy shoes make a massive difference.
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by jcdavis 8y ago
Not really familiar with v8 internals, aren't there ways to do deopts without relying on guards? The JVM deopts methods by hotpatching the start of them to be a jump to runtime handlers.
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by jcdavis 8y ago
Because the economy has picked up and they have retention issues
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by jcdavis 8y ago
That course (15-251) is somewhat controversial among CS students (at least it certainly was when I was there) in that its primary goal in the curriculum seemed to be to act as the weedout course, since as you observed it covers a ton of mat
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by jcdavis 9y ago
Vanguard charges no fees for buying/selling their owns ETFs. I believe Schwab and others do as well.
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by jcdavis 9y ago
That was my first thought as well. Accurate navigation from footpod data that could eliminate or at least drastically reduce gps usage would be a gamechanger for watch battery life.
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by jcdavis 9y ago
So interestingly, they are storing extra metadata in the object pointers, which means no more compressed oops (ie 32 bit pointers). Curious what the effect of that on heap sizes is considering most JVMs run with <32gb heaps
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by jcdavis 9y ago
I'm assuming you're looking from another browser, in which case if you are logged out you cannot. However I, a random logged in strava user, can see at least some of your activities (Last Sept 3) That is easy to change, but again
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by jcdavis 9y ago
Not a strava employee, but under https://www.strava.com/settings/privacy There is a setting to disable your activity data from being incorporated into the heatmaps, which I would assume (hopefully) is retroactive at so
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by jcdavis 9y ago
FWIW, graal has partial escape analysis, which can avoid a lot of those pitfalls by allowing allocations to escape through just some of the branches. For instance, if you have X thing = new ...; if (slowpath) { unlikely_fu
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JEP 325: Switch Expressions(openjdk.java.net)
111 points by jcdavis 9y ago|75 comments
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by jcdavis 9y ago
I assume you are referring to the java.lang.Integer box caching situation, which is indeed shitty. However as you've written it, that will always evaluate to true, as it unboxes, adds 1 to each side, and compares the int values, not t

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