jeffbush

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by jeffbush 11y ago
"Edit: why all these downvotes?"
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by jeffbush 11y ago
Someone I know built a working Memex: http://trevor.smith.name/memex/
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by jeffbush 11y ago
I've heard a similar argument about bike helmets. It seems like there should be a fancier name for this effect.
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by jeffbush 11y ago
Sure, for example, HTML app performance is often constrained more by layout and DOM manipulation than straight line code execution. On the other hand, a lot of these systems aren't that old. I don't think Android is a Rube Goldber
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by jeffbush 11y ago
https://source.android.com/source/index.html ?
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by jeffbush 11y ago
"For most computing environments, performance is the problem of two decades ago." I've been hearing that performance isn't a problem for the last 20 years, yet it seems like I still spend a lot of time waiting for comput
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by jeffbush 11y ago
The main thing it is missing is delays (it does have non-synthesizable constructs like $display). However, if you're developing a processor, most of your testing is executing programs. For that, you don't need a complex testbench
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by jeffbush 11y ago
You know, I've personally never needed to use the floor-planning tools. It seems like a pretty advanced option. Of course, using open source simulators/command line flow doesn't preclude opening the floor planning tool in the
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by jeffbush 11y ago
I use Verilog, so I'm not as familiar with the state of VHDL tools. I've found Verilator to be much faster (although it cuts some corners) than the free versions of Modelsim. It's fairly stable and supports most of the core s
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by jeffbush 11y ago
My recommendation for anyone starting CPU design is to not use the vendor FPGA tools for simulation. The simulators they bundle are often crippleware, and the vendor IDEs are painful. You're going to spend the majority of your time deb
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by jeffbush 11y ago
This may seem like a minor point, but I've noticed that in many of these videos the cops are screaming profanities. If you subscribe to the broken windows theory, as many police departments do, you could argue that allows the situation
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Virginia cop uses pepper-spray, Taser on unresisting black man having stroke(rawstory.com)
4 points by jeffbush 11y ago|1 comments
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by jeffbush 11y ago
Individual developers are easier to intimidate. I suspect they don't have a strong legal argument. It's relatively cheap to have your lawyer draft a letter.
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by jeffbush 11y ago
I think the point of feminism is that women should have upward mobility through their own merit, sorta like men... The pool of female founders is already incredibly tiny. Asking VCs not to proposition women who are pitching them won't
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by jeffbush 11y ago
Many set top boxes and TVs use MIPS. I don't think it's accurate to call it a failure, although ARM certainly has more volume.
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by jeffbush 11y ago
Joel Spolsky gives a good summary here: http://www.brightjourney.com/q/working-company-intellectual-... The key phrase seems to be this one: "These state legislatures usually passed laws that said something like t
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Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis(jasnh.com)
2 points by jeffbush 11y ago|0 comments
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by jeffbush 11y ago
I don't really agree with that. Some people are naturally more outgoing and comfortable in interview situations than others. It doesn't mean they're bad people.
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by jeffbush 11y ago
Yeah, exactly. I feel like the author is missing the point of the optimizer. It's not something that attempts to fix bad code, it just expresses the programmers intent efficiently. For example, if I have a common subexpression, I wou
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by jeffbush 12y ago
The tabs look different than I remember, but yeah, that's it.
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by jeffbush 12y ago
My understanding from the article is that he posted a comic strip that contained the image and people cut that image out of it. This was not how he intended for it to be used. Furthermore, the article implies the people he's going afte
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by jeffbush 12y ago
I liked the part where he talks about gumption traps. Very relevant if you've worked on a big project.
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by jeffbush 12y ago
I probably should have defined that more narrowly to foreign policy. The military is generally fairly effective with battlefield intelligence in times of war. Congress and the president seem to be a different story.
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by jeffbush 12y ago
I agree about selection bias, although the magnitude of the screwups have been pretty enormous, so it's kinda hard not to.
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by jeffbush 12y ago
Haha. Fair enough. :)
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by jeffbush 12y ago
I'm not willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt anymore. I can't recall any instance historically where they have turned out to have been right based on some secret information, even though they often intimate that
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by jeffbush 12y ago
Yeah, I've seen it, although I haven't used it or looked too closely at it recently. When Be did the focus shift, we were in the midst of the next major revision of the desktop OS (which consequently was never released). Part of t
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by jeffbush 12y ago
Oops, yeah, 1998. I became very comfortable with multithreaded synchronization, since BeOS was "pervasively" multithreaded to try to scale to multiprocessor machines. Multithreaded programming is more common now. All synchronizati
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by jeffbush 12y ago
In early 2008, having graduated from college the year before, I was living in the midwest working at a company making warehouse management software. I decided I really wanted to work at Be. I sent them my resume for a position that was po
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by jeffbush 12y ago
Yes, I certainly agree. However, the thing that bothers me about the article is that it insinuates that the problems they talk about are the norm . That is a strong indictment and, I believe requires more evidence than they've given.

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