jwatte

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by jwatte 10y ago
Time to sell and leave. And if that is really the equity structure, make sure you re-negotiate that with the board before talking about leaving, as part of being a C officer.
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by jwatte 10y ago
The managers are also looking for the easiest way through the day. Hence, butts in seat managing. Actually reviewing long term contribution and giving constructive (or even bad) news is hard work. Looking for butts in seats leaves more time
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by jwatte 10y ago
Intel is next. They're making billions on big, complex, expansive CPUs. Someone like ARM /will/ replace them, at a much smaller dollar volume.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Car factory workers used to identify as "middle class;" probably still do at least of they are Union.
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by jwatte 10y ago
The first problem is that the "match" function is considered in the first place. It's too general. It should only be used in higher order constructs where its flexibility is actually needed. Second: The enum based refractor i
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by jwatte 10y ago
Honestly, most products are becoming so integrated, and so delicate, that "repair" means "replace the one expensive bit." Couple that with every lighter, ever thinner, ever flimsier, glue based laminated construction, ne
547.
by jwatte 10y ago
Everybody would see the arbitrage within the next trading cycle. So, rather than try to eliminate the arbitrage opportunity, put reaction times into a human time scale and let every actor share. Tie breaks can be fair split with cryptograph
548.
by jwatte 10y ago
Microseconds are not enough, because the arbitrage works by the HFT setting the order in one place, and then rushing the arbitrage to the other place. As long as you're more coordinated than speed of light between the two locations, yo
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by jwatte 10y ago
An exchange could work just as well and provide just as much liquidity if it accepted sealed bids into a queue for one minute, then settled and showed the full queue, while accepting sealed bids for the next minute. HFT would no longer be a
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by jwatte 10y ago
You may have that opinion, but 9,999 other users don't. Who counts more to a creator trying to generate a paycheck? If you really want to make it as an entrepreneur, dogma has to go out the window, and data based decisions have to be f
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by jwatte 10y ago
Prediction: Dark matter is the emissions/pollution from the EM-drives of previous and remote civilizations. Two questions solved in one answer ;-)
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by jwatte 10y ago
You know what's cool? If they can reach better prediction, faster, with that approach, it will strengthen. If they can't, they will be a footnote. At least, if the scientific method is alive and well.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Goal oriented programming is alive and well in SQL. Visual programming comes around every ten years, and fails each time, because it can't deal with large complexity like text can. There is a reason people write books, not comics, espe
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by jwatte 10y ago
Maybe they even put "security through obscurity" in the endpoints. Certainly, their comment makes it seem like they assume their own client code is needed and they don't want to provide and document a stable API for third par
555.
by jwatte 10y ago
Comcast to world: "We can't be bothered to implement an API to comply with regulations, so we well fight the regulation. Meanwhile, we will fight tooth and nail against anyone else getting access to public rights of way in our ser
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by jwatte 10y ago
Machines can, ultimately, make for a "two hour work week" (or more like "two year career") But with our current system, someone owns the machines, and the sources of minerals to make then, and make a profit. In the end,
557.
by jwatte 10y ago
In this case: Because it's more fun and personally rewarding to do new stuff, than fight the hard compatibility fight. In startup API cases: Because it takes 10x longer to build a solid foundation, and you don't yet know whether t
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by jwatte 10y ago
XPCOM is one particular ABI.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Having maintained a C++ API and ABI based on implementation inheritance with virtual functions, I have deep respect for both kinds of compatibility. Someone even used placement new to put objects with vtable pointers in shared memory, expec
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by jwatte 10y ago
Most of the time of building is not spent shaping the parts, but in assembly, integration, and qualification. I see no improvement in those areas, so the article doesn't really being any real light.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Not buying clutter is great, and will generally improve life and the environment. (And I'm a gen X, so no millennial connection there :-) Not having to buy things because your relations are rich is something else. Taking a feminist ang
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by jwatte 10y ago
And when there is a bug in a string function, your program sends data to the wrong IP because OOPS! No protected memory! And when your user space process crashes, nobody is there to close your TCP connections for you. That's a reasonab
563.
by jwatte 10y ago
The difference is the action, right? Suppose there were drapes on the outside, operable from the outside -- could the police operate them to make the window viewable?
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by jwatte 10y ago
And I presume no telephone connected to the public telephone network is private, because someone might tap into the wires? I actually think privacy is dead anyway for all practical purposes, but twisted logic reasoning always irks me...
565.
by jwatte 10y ago
I think there's nothing wrong with mechanical rights for the digitization. Each person shooting their own picture gets their own mechanical copyright. (This is the same as difference between the specific recording, and the written song
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by jwatte 10y ago
Sqlite is fine for small scale systems. It is not a "web scale" database, but not every web site is "web scale." SQLite does have performance limits, and will break at certain load, but until that, it's okay. For si
567.
by jwatte 10y ago
No, it's saying "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
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by jwatte 10y ago
By the way, I have some openings for Blub3.0 developers, if you're interested! Two years experience minimum required.
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by jwatte 10y ago
You will be happy to know that we now removed profiling from production builds, age our Haskell is now 12x faster than the PHP instead of "only" 6x faster :-) I agree that any new technology introduced into an enterprise requires
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by jwatte 10y ago
My take is that, at certain scale, the biggest problem is getting all the people to pull in the same direction. Technical leadership can define /how/ to pull, which can have a 10x multiplier if correctly implemented in the organiz

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