jgable

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by jgable 12y ago
I'm assuming you're replying in good faith, but that's pretty silly. I'd prefer that every person gets to choose how to live (and end) their own life the way they damn well please, not starve to death in the woods becau
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by jgable 12y ago
This comment is asking for trouble, but I'm making it in the hope of getting some good discussion going, and hopefully not a flamewar. I've been thinking about this a lot lately since my own family is struggling with this issue.
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by jgable 12y ago
I was recently trying to write my own TCP stack to solidify my networking knowledge, similar to Julia Evans's efforts [1]. I got frustrated working with raw sockets on my mac, because they don't provide the same level of control
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by jgable 12y ago
I completely understand the author's point, but I always find myself annoyed at these kinds of posts. Maybe it's simply a matter of emphasis. Yes, we have backtracked in so many ways from the speed and functionality of native ap
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by jgable 12y ago
So what are some strategies to really solve this problem? Is it basically impossible to implement a GC for a C-like language that will not leak at least a little memory?
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by jgable 12y ago
I agree. Specific skills (e.g. working with a certain framework) will go in and out of style, but problem solving will always be in demand. Also, maybe I'm naive, but I just don't see the software-as-legos future as feasible. The
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by jgable 12y ago
Beautiful. I had seen Markov chains mentioned before, but had not looked them up. Skimming the wikipedia page made sense (it's a state machine with transitions determined by probabilities instead of defined events), but I would not h
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by jgable 12y ago
I understand small companies caving to the demands of patent trolls, because fighting is more costly than they can afford. I like to think I'd have the courage to act differently, but I understand the rationale. But a behemoth like M
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by jgable 12y ago
Can someone explain the motivations of the major players here? The posted article references another Reuters article that goes into a little more detail: "Several large tech companies previously invested in IV, which gave them low-cos
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by jgable 13y ago
For some projects, maybe, but not the majority. It's not a bad idea. If we invested in such a setup, it would help with unit testing and such.
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by jgable 13y ago
Fair enough. We are in Orange County (CA) so there is enough tech talent here to justify keeping our candidate search local. Thanks.
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by jgable 13y ago
No, for most of our projects, the test systems are small enough so that it's not cost-prohibitive to ship. I just know that every time we bring up a new system or board, there can be days of debugging stupid problems, and that's w
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by jgable 13y ago
Question for author and others on HN: How feasible is it to have remote employees when most of your work is on embedded systems? I recently started a software consulting group with a couple of partners, and we are starting to hire. I'
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by jgable 13y ago
You are correct that today, in the US, on average, electric vehicles do not provide a significant improvement in emissions over hybrids like the Prius. [1] However, something to consider is that an electric vehicle effectively decouples t
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by jgable 13y ago
Doh! You posted that link while I was writing up my response. Fantastic essay.
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by jgable 13y ago
In terms of getting a title of "Senior Engineer" at most companies, it is mostly a function of experience. It is highly unlikely you will be hired as a Senior Engineer straight out of college. Don't focus on getting the titl
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by jgable 13y ago
IANAL, but the justification for fair use seems tortured here. EFF made the case for fair use in this article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/beastie-boys-goldieblo... ... and I think the commercial e