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by jzwinck 10y ago
Given the nature of Palantir's business, isn't it sort of a big deal in itself that an internal report was leaked? What if the leak had been some other internal document, say one that contained customer secrets?
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by jzwinck 10y ago
In sailing you can usually pay crew whatever you like. Here's one example: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-sailors-salary-300-000-if-he-w... There probably aren't any $10MM/year sailors, but we can infer
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Go typically relies on garbage collection, which is a no-no. Same with Java. This can be worked around, but you may find that programming a GC language with the GC unavailable is not better than C++ (and it may rule out the use of most th
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by jzwinck 10y ago
I like Japan but I'm not sure you should hold it out here as an example of good corporate behavior: http://scmp.com/business/companies/article/1880094/partial-t...
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Of course there are equivalent programs for C. On GNU/Linux it's pstack aka gstack. Also gcore if you want an entire core dump you can analyze later with gdb. http://linux.die.net/man/1/pstack
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by jzwinck 10y ago
30% on 100k is 30k. You'd be better off getting a regular job unless you can sustain that for more than 10 years. Which you can't predict.
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Most likely yes. There are only about 50k public autonomous systems on the entire Internet. The problem of course is already mentioned by another commenter: some FB assets are in other ASes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by jzwinck 10y ago
I went to a major US university which was a recruitment center for a number of companies. I got a job at one rather by chance, as a good friend was applying there and told me I should too. But this happened several months before graduation
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by jzwinck 10y ago
The language sounds too slippery to me. Implementors won't be sued, they say, but who decides who is an implementor? What is an implementation and what is an undesirable hack? Who is a security researcher and who is persona non grata?
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by jzwinck 10y ago
The French "closet" for unwanted workers reminds me of the American "rubber room" for unwanted teachers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_centers An inhumane concept, to be sure. If you w
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Man vs. Marathon(nytimes.com)
2 points by jzwinck 10y ago|0 comments
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by jzwinck 10y ago
What would you have Krispy Kreme do? Pivot to Kimchi Kombucha?
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Their marketing is designed to sell cereal. People unfortunately are happiest (short term) to consume sugary cereal. They really are. I met a breakfast food operative in the supermarket once. I told him I thought his company should offer a
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Modern car doors are usually sheet metal with a large amount of forming to give a shape (close to) what the designer wanted. It's difficult, large, expensive, and the knowledge required already exists in outside suppliers. Maybe some
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Deadlines, delays, and departures dog Tesla Model 3(arstechnica.com)
46 points by jzwinck 10y ago|34 comments
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Actually they did: http://www.teslarati.com/depth-look-valet-mode-tesla-model-s... - 70 MPH limiter and also acceleration limiter.
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by jzwinck 10y ago
It doesn't matter if teenagers can get in trouble quickly--they have all day to do so.
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by jzwinck 10y ago
"Those anxieties come amid a wave of staff departures. A chart from Palantir’s internal wiki said the departures through mid-April amounted to 5.8% of all staff, or an annualized rate of 20%. That compares to a departure rate of 13.6%
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Given that they changed their name, I am surprised they left in the part which when romanized is the slang for penis (didi). Does that seem odd to you, given how much the Chinese enjoy those sorts of linguistic games?
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by jzwinck 10y ago
I upgraded three computers to Windows 10 a few months ago. One each from Vista, 7, and 8. All three had showstopper problems. One would never again resume from sleep and had to be downgraded (HP laptop). One encountered a permanent boot err
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by jzwinck 10y ago
Not a serious problem: Europeans already invented extra-narrow tractors for vineyards. You'd be amazed how much machinery they can drive between rows of plants that appear to be tightly packed. Or you can install the panels on tall sti
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by jzwinck 10y ago
I agree but find it bizarre that this tip comes in a list of best practices for the major language invented at Google, when the same company's "gflags" library, also heavily used, advertises right at the top that it allows de
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by jzwinck 10y ago
If there is no such thing as a forex exchange, what is this? http://www.hotspotfx.com/products/the_hotspot_ecn.jsp
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by jzwinck 10y ago
"encryption is to prevent eavesdropping and session hijacks by the third party [...] it is Really Important for stock exchanges" Stock (and other financial) exchanges are major users of UDP, but in general they do not encrypt it.
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by jzwinck 10y ago
That explicit tail recursion syntax is pretty gross. Is there a precedent in any other language?
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Good question. On OS X it seems the size of a directory is typically a multiple of 102 bytes (often 102 or 306). I ran my script again with "find / -type f" to select only regular files, and it showed file sizes ending in 2
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by jzwinck 11y ago
You're still giving up entropy because even-numbered file sizes are quite a bit more common: $ find / -ls | awk '{print $7}' >/tmp/filesizes $ rev /tmp/filesizes | cut -b1 | sort -n | uni
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by jzwinck 11y ago
The 128 bit checksum, because the real entropy of the file size is closer to 10-20 bits (most files aren't very large, and large files are sometimes multiples of common sizes like 1 KB). That's assuming a non-malicious, non-patho
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Meanwhile, cargo ship companies are looking toward automation and remote control to get humans off the water. Pirates aren't scared of humans being on board, and in some cases they prefer it, because a human crew is worth more ransom.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
The devil you know is better than the one you don't. You'll be joining a team either way.

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